Well, today's the day when all the ghouls and goblins will be out and about. I saw a few costumes on the TTC on my way in this morning, but very few in my office. Few aside from mine.
I didn't go all out at work this year, mostly because I had no idea if I had any meetings where a complicated costume could be a liability to being taken seriously. I'm wearing a shirt I got at the Cake concert back in September that says "Cake" in big letters on the front and I'm also wearing a toque with birthday candles jammed in the rolled brim. I'm a birthday cake. Awesome.
How about you? Did you dress up today, or will you be dressing up tonight?
We bought two pumpkins last night, and some time this evening, they will be put under the knife for some cosmetic surgery that will change their faces forever. Well, I say forever, but frankly they'll be lucky to make it through the night with their skulls intact… mostly because I have some unexploded fireworks that I've been dying to make explode.
So aside from the sheer joy of scooping the guts out of these bad boys, some thought should probably go into what we'll carve into them. I've seen some designs for US political figures on the net recently, but that's a little too politically charged for my taste. It would have been fun to carve Jack Layton as he's our MP, but I'm not confident enough in my carving abilities, and I'm pretty sure he'd come out looking more like Bea Arthur.
One thing I thought would be cool is leaving the top off one of the pumpkins and putting a can of denatured alcohol in his head, then lighting it up. A 2 foot flame would burn out the top for an hour at least, before it would require refilling. Aside from being a HUGE fire risk, that could look pretty awesome.
Rest assured, whatever design we go with, we'll have plenty of candy for the kiddies and fireworks for the teenagers.
When I woke up today, it was the kind of day where I wished I was in school and could just bag class. I looked over at my alarm clock and reasoned with myself over whether I could (or should) turn off the alarm, hit the snooze button or just get up and start my day. Sadly, I made the responsible adult choice and I've been regretting it all day.
I'm sure that once my day is done, I'll be glad that I didn't just play hooky. It's much harder to pull off once you have a full-time job with voicemail and an email inbox that will overflow if you don't come in. Still, it made me miss the good old days.
One big reason I didn't just roll over and go back to sleep is that Danielle was already up. That's one thing I don't miss about the good old days… not having a wife at home to encourage me to get out of bed when I'm a grouch in the morning. She even does it with tact. Rather than reminding me what time it is, or that I'd better hurry if I'm going to get in to the office on time, she always asks the same question… "So, are you getting up?".
It's a rhetorical question and is pretty redundant. Of course I'm getting up, but just by asking she's reminding me that I don't really have much of a choice, but that choice is still mine to make. It's a good way of dealing with the evil monster that is Morning Dave.
So, each morning I continue to get out of bed pleased that I have made the decision to do so of my own accord. My destiny is still mine to decide, I just need someone to remind me of that each morning.
Ladies and gentlemen, today is awesome news day, courtesy of the CBC. First up, there's a huge winter storm headed our way. Granted, eastern Ontario and all points east of there will get tonnes of snow (up to a foot) while in Toronto we'll more likely see a few flurries and a lot of sleet, but it's still nice to know that winter is on its way!
Second, it looks like the housing market in Toronto is ready to slump at the time when Danielle and I are hoping to scrape together some change and start looking at buying a house. The best part about this article is the 'experts' who say the slump will last 18 months are all realtors, who depend on the housing market to feed their families and put gas in their cars. It's pretty safe to say that perhaps they don't have the least biased opinion on how long this will last. I'm even happier because I've been predicting this drop for a few years now, which makes me more awesome than you.
Third, the US launched a military raid into Syria!?! How is this not insanely big news? I mean, Syria is a sovereign and independent nation with whom the US is not at war, and they just crossed the border with gunships and blew up a house. That's the second time this week it's been done. The US also launched an attack from Afghanistan just across the Pakistani border. It's like Bush is shoving everyone around him before he runs away from the party. Pure craziness!
Also, Kim Jong-il is kim jong-ILL (I'm sorry, it had to be said), Ontario is set to ban cellphone and Blackberry use while driving and may include GPS programming and a New Brunswick MP who is basically unknown in the rest of Canada has thrown his hat in the ring and declared he's running for the leadership of the Liberal party. Good luck Dominc LeBlanc.
Those are the major headlines, we now return you to your regularly scheduled program, your job.
Let me start by congratulating Ethan and Janette for an awesome wedding and a great reception. As usual, my table was the rowdiest at the reception which probably says more about me than anyone else. We had a great time and their reception hall was beautiful with an amazing few over a golf course where we were distracted wtih a lightning show during speeches. It was beautiful.
I spent some time in the office on Saturday before heading to Danielle's friends' birthday party at Spice Route on King Street. It's a very chic lounge with awesome food and we had a great time and a handful of funny stories.
Today is going to be a stressful day for me, and it's probably just the start of a stressful week that won't ease off next week. Basically, by the time mid-November rolls around, things will be back to normal for me at work. That sounds like it's far away, but it's only a couple of weeks. That means it's time to get started thinking about your Christmas shopping. Yes, I really did just say that.
Now that I've ruined your week too, I'm going to get back to my spreadsheets and financial statements so I can feel my blood pressure go through the roof. I suggest you do the same.
If anyone was watching The National on CBC last night, you were treated to a breath of fresh air. In the midst of financial market turmoil, rollercoaster stock indicies and doom and gloom financial predictions for the years to come, the CBC chose to air what constitutes 'soft news'.
Rather than having yet another piece about how all the Canadian parties failed in the last election, or who is going to win in the next US election, they aired an inspiring piece about a baseball league in downtown Toronto that is organized by local homeless shelters whose teams are made up of the homeless or formerly homeless who lived in those shelters.
They play in Moss Park (in my old neighbourhood) on Mondays in-season, and one of the organizers (who works at Seaton House, just up the street from the park) spoke of what it means for someone to end up in a shelter. By the time they walk in, they've lost their posessions, their family and are usually facing some substance abuse problems. Their self-confidence is entirely non-existant, so it means a lot to catch a fly ball, bat in a winning run, or outrun a tag at second base.
Sure, the calibre of play isn't exactly Rogers Centre worthy, but few games played on local fields are. The teams are clearly having fun and feeling good about themselves while doing it. As an added benefit, former residents who have gotten jobs and moved out still make an effort to come out and play or cheer, which gives current residents hope and lets them hear and see success stories. All these things combine to boost that confidence that was all but gone when they walked into the shelter.
One player spoke of how just knowing that he had something on one night a week, a night where he would stay out of trouble and not have to much time on his hands, gave his life a little purpose.
Soft news? Sure. Fluff? No, not entirely. Given what's going on around the world, it's nice to know that despite how easily our confidence can be shaken, or even taken away, something remarkably simple can also bring it back.
Thanks to a series of minor emergencies here in Officeland, today's post is falling quite late and for that I apologize. Since this afternoon is scheduled to be rife with more minor emergencies, I'll probably have to keep this brief, or at least minimize the amount of editing I do on it, so it'll be rant-like and have less cohesion than normal, which isn't much either.
At 30 years old, I'm still trying to get my head around the idea of working all the time. It still feels like it's a short-term solution to the long-term problem of needing money. Fortunately I still have 30+ years to shake that feeling and come to terms with living in a world where most of my waking hours are spent doing stuff for someone else.
Recently, a friend tried his hardest to convince me that I should strike out on my own and start a business. Of course, this friend is self-employed (newly, at that) so he thinks it's the best course for anyone's career. Alas, he's a designer, which lends itself better to self-employment than my particular line of work. Frankly, I wouldn't even know what kind of business I would try to start. Sure, I'd probably go for something having to do with writing, but when it comes to professional business writing, most of that is handled in-house by corporations, so going freelance wouldn't be very lucrative. Journalism and news writing make better money but require more specialized writing skills and experience, of which I have little.
I can't see anyone paying me freelance money to write blog posts, short stories or poems, unless some big business is looking for a freelance poet laureate. If they are, please contact me.
So, all that is to say that dealing with other people's minor emergencies will probably always be part of my job description, but at least it includes dental.
Given the current weather (cold and windy) and the weather report for this weekend (cold, windy and rainy) I'm settling into my fall frame of mind, which means that my tastes are moving from delicious Spanish food to cravings for fresh-baked bread and pies. What's better on a cold and wet fall weekend than staying in the house and making the entire building smell like bread and pies? Nothing.
So, on Saturday I think I'll bake up a few loaves of homemade sweet bread that my Grandma taught me to bake (the fluffiest bread on the planet) and a pie or two. Sadly, even two pies is a bit too much for me and Danielle, so we're going to have to spend some time with some friends to make sure it all gets eaten. Stay tuned to your email for personal invites.
I think that making up a vat of Beef Barley Soup might also be in the cards. Growing up, there were always a few tupperware dishes in the freezer (or sealed Mason jars in the basement) full of the stuff for a day that was too cold and bitter to make anything else. It's man's best defense against the cold of mother nature. There. I've spilled my secret of loving cold weather. Awesome homemade food.
If you can't find your way around a kitchen, fear not. Here are my other secrets. Ssshhh… get nice and close to the screen. They're so secretive that I'm going to whisper them. Okay, here goes. Dress in layers so you can take off a layer if you get warm and start sweating and then add a layer if you feel a chill. Finally, if you feel like the cold is just dragging on, why not head out into it and get active? Not only will being active keep you warm, but fresh air will do you a world of good and they say time flies when you're having fun. What better way to make sure April gets here fast than enjoying winter?
That's it. That's all I've got. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to start putting on layers. I've heard a rumour that my office is having a fire drill this morning. Brrr.


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Exploration initiatives over the past decade have led to renewed interest in exploration in the slope and deep-water regions of offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. New multi-client regional 2D seismic surveys (2011-2018), guided initially by satellite slick mapping, have provided approximately 170,000 line kms of long offset, broadband 2D seismic data, and over 22,000 km2 of long offset, broadband 3D seismic data. The data was acquired in areas where possible hydrocarbon seepage and new exploration leads suggested that a working petroleum system existed in these under-explored frontier basins. Prior to 2011, the majority of offshore Newfoundland and Labrador sedimentary basins were defined on limited vintage seismic data, and in some cases gravity data where no seismic data coverage existed. With the initiation of modern regional 2D and 3D seismic programs, Nalcor Energy commenced the systematical mapping of the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore in order to assess the extent of the sedimentary basins and also to develop an understanding of the hydrocarbon potential in these frontier regions. In conjunction with seismic data acquisition, Nalcor Energy has initiated a number of scientific studies to build on this new knowledge base and help de-risk exploration in these areas. These regional studies include metocean, regional drilling metrics, biostratigraphy, seabed coring, CSEM, source rock geochemistry, fluid inclusion, geopressure, rock physics, high resolution digital capture and cataloguing of cuttings, core and thin section data, and resource assessment studies. These studies aim to assist in providing foundational insight to the region's exploration potential and operational and subsea considerations. This integrated approach to regional exploration data collection will act as a template for future work in other Newfoundland and Labrador offshore areas.
Deric Cameron, after graduating from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a BSc in Geophysics in '96, began his career acquiring gravity and magnetic data in Northern Labrador with Excel Geophysical Inc. From there he moved into seismic data processing of foothills data with CGG and Arcis, before moving to the exploration plays in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and Foothills of Alberta and BC with Devon. He later began working on the Deep Devonian and Carbonate Reefs of NEBC with Petro-Canada, during his time with Devon and Petro-Canada he pursued his MSc from the University of Calgary, graduating in 2007. After graduating, he moved onto development and exploration projects with Petro Canada based out on the East Coast of Canada, and then onto his current role of east coast exploration at Nalcor Energy in St. John's Newfoundland. Deric has 25 years of exploration experience with a background in surveying, gravity, magnetics, seismic processing as well as advanced interpretation of stratigraphic and structural plays, both onshore and offshore.
Deric is a member of the CSEG, SEG and the EAGE and is a registered Professional Geoscientist in Newfoundland and Labrador (PEGNL).
Erin Gillis joined Nalcor Energy – Oil & Gas in February 2010 and presently holds the position of Team Lead – Leads and Prospects Team within the Exploration Group. In this role Erin and her team are focused on the interpretation and mapping of play trends, leads and prospects as well as hydrocarbon resource potential within Newfoundland and Labrador's frontier basins. Before joining Nalcor, Erin worked as a Geologist on the Thermal Team for Canadian Natural Resources Limited. Erin attended Memorial University of Newfoundland where she attained a Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Science (Geology). Erin has 13 years' experience in the oil and gas industry and is a registered member of the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador (PEGNL).
Victoria Mitchell holds a BSc and MSc in Geophysics from Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, NL. Upon graduation she moved to Calgary, Alberta to join the exploration team with Chevron Canada Resources. She worked with the Beaufort group, identifying exploration opportunities in the Mackenzie Delta region of the Beaufort Sea, NWT. In 2010 she returned to St. John's to work with Husky within the Jeanne d'Arc exploration team. In this role she was responsible for identifying and advancing exploration targets in the Northern Jeanne d'Arc region as well as working with the development team to plan and execute wells in the North Amethyst field. In 2015 Victoria accepted an opportunity to join the Nalcor Energy exploration group. Victoria has 12 years of exploration experience primarily focused on seismic interpretation, offshore prospect identification, volumetrics and risk. Victoria is a member of the EAGE and is a registered member of PEGNL.
Richard Wright joined Nalcor Energy – Oil & Gas in 2009 and presently holds the position of Exploration Manager. His team is responsible for Nalcor's exploration strategy to delineate Newfoundland and Labrador's frontier basins to assess the province's oil & gas potential.
Before joining Nalcor, Dr. Wright was part of the frontier exploration team for Chevron. Prior to Chevron, he was employed with a geophysical consulting firm in Orange County, California where he worked on a number of exploration and development projects in basins located in California, South America, North Sea, Middle East, West Africa and Offshore Australia.
Richard attended Memorial University of Newfoundland where he attained a Bachelor of Science (Hons) and a Ph.D. in Geophysics with a thesis evaluating 4D seismic at the Hibernia oil field. He is a member of multiple professional associations, including the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers.
In 2018, Dr. Wright was recognized by the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador with the Early Accomplishment Award and he was the 2016 recipient of the Newfoundland and Labrador Oil & Gas Industries Association (NOIA) Rising Star Award. Nalcor's Exploration Strategy was awarded the 2015 Natural Resources Magazine Industry Excellence Award for Resource Development and in 2017, Nalcor Oil and Gas was a finalist for the Petroleum Economist (London) Award for Exploration Company of the Year.


This was just ok. The chicken is encrusted with salt; a little too much for my taste. Also, the sauce seemed too watery.
We order this everytime we come! Fresh mozzarella and tomato on a bed of arugula with balsamic and olive oil.
Don't forget to ask for this. The pesto has a nice flavor.
Lots of food. Very filling!


Say "I do" overlooking Mirror Lake atop our rustic boathouse. You and your guests will love the view of the Adirondack Mountains while you recite your vows.
Don't forget to ask about following your ceremony with a cocktail hour (tent rental options available)!
Begin your lives together directly on the shore of Mirror Lake. You'll be surrounded by the natural untouched beauty of the Adirondacks as well as your closest friends and family. Decorate our rustic arbor or leave it as is, you can't go wrong with this gorgeous lake side setting.
The Stube is located upstairs of Generations Restaurant. It's a private room with a great balcony and views of the high peaks. The Stube is appropriate for weddings with up to 60 people.
This room is located on the first floor of the Golden Arrow. It can be set up in a couple different ways depending on how many people need to be accommodated. The North side of the room holds up to 75 people and the South side 50, making the maximum for both sides 125 people.
Our spacious restaurant overlooking Mirror Lake is the perfect place for your wedding reception. We can accommodate groups of up to 64 in the Lakeview Dining Room alone or ask about renting the entire restaurant for weddings with up to 120 people. If you rent the entire space there is a food and beverage minimum that must be met. Please ask for more details.


A new and improved Osthang was opened this winter. We cleared out trees that had been blown down and opened up more routes so that you can enjoy even better skiing between the mountain birches. And, we've also opened a café and a shop in the renovated heated cabin. This is where you'll get the best skiing tips, where our ski-touring trips start and where there is good music and a neat place to hang out. Come in for a hearty sandwich or some steaming goulash, or just as before, you're welcome to eat your own packed lunch here too.
Osthang centre is now also the departure point for arranged tours. You can borrow equipment, go on an avalanche course and check out possible routes on a mountain map. Or simply meet new friends and swap stories with other powder fanatics. Whenever it has snowed we open the lift extra early for those who love untouched snow. You can find out more info at @therealosthang på Instagram.
In the weekly programme you'll find more activities that start at Osthang centre such as ski touring trips, off-piste trips, photography trips and more.


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What is an "auto clicker"?
Clicker I took as Virus Checker. Possibly?
I'm thinking a click farming application.
I was thinking an auto-entry app.
Discussion New OS install, what programs to install immediately?


What is Cognitive Analytic Therapy or CAT?
In a few sessions CAT will help you to work out why life is difficult for you now, what made it that way and how you can change things.
Developed by Anthony Ryle in a busy NHS hospital in the 1970s CAT is an amalgam of what worked with patients and actually made them better and is now used around the world. It works by helping you to identify the unhelpful patterns you have got stuck in so you know why you're having problems. It also helps you to uncover why you developed these patterns – they will have been useful at some point in your life. And finally it helps you to start to develop new and more helpful patterns that will make life happier.
When you first come to CAT therapy you and your therapist will talk about why you have come. Using a questionnaire called 'The Psychotherapy File' and making diagrams as you talk, the two of you will gradually build up a picture of your difficulties. You will start to understand why you seem to be stuck in the same patterns, repeating things you don't want to over and over again. In these early sessions you will also start to talk about how these patterns evolved in your childhood. As children we react to the situations we find ourselves in and develop strategies to cope with them. We then continue to use these strategies later in life when we don't need them. In fact they become unhelpful or self-defeating. Once you and your therapist have established what the unhelpful patterns are and where they came from your therapist will write an explanation of all this called a 'Reformulation Letter'. From this point CAT gives you the space to begin to recognise when you are using these patterns, why, and to start to think with your therapist about what new, helpful patterns you can develop instead. At the end of your agreed sessions you and your therapist will summarise the therapy and plan for any work you will continue when therapy is over. Usually one or more follow-ups are planned so that you can come and check in with your therapist as you develop your new strategies.
CAT is usually between 16 and 24 sessions but some people will find they need fewer or more – it's based on individual need rather than being formulaic.


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Dani Stern Talks High Stakes, Tom Dwan and More
In Part 2 of this three-part series of interviews with Dani Stern the high stakes poker player talks about what it takes to reach the highest level. Stern gives a unique insight into how tough it is to make it to the biggest stakes. Stern also talks about a famous video he made playing high stakes heads up against Tom Dwan back in 2007.
Back in November 2006 Stern was subject of "The Well" on TwoPlusTwo and he said one of his goals was to become the best player in the world.
"I absolutely did not reach that level and I will almost certainly not ever reach that level. My goals are much more tempered now. I just try to be as good as I can at whatever game I'm playing. I'm playing mostly tournaments and PLO cash and I'm very focused at getting better at both. That quote was from seven years ago, I was a bright-eyed 19-year old with a limitless ambition. What I really meant to say is that I wanted to work hard at becoming the best and that struggle itself is something I wanted to go through," Stern said.
"The things that happened in pursuit of that were well worth it. I'm not satisfied with how good I am at poker. I really want to continue to get better. This past summer during the WSOP I tried to play my best No Limit Hold'em tournament game every day, and now that I'm back in Toronto I focus on online cash games. I'm playing mostly $5/$10 and $10/$20 PLO and I'm focused on that. I'm trying to keep my short term goals as specific and realistic as possible, just getting better at the game I currently play is a good goal," a very levelheaded Stern explained to us.
New and upcoming players are always looking for advice from the pros and we decided to ask Stern how to move up through the ranks.
"I wouldn't say it's impossible, but it's definitely a lot more difficult compared to back in my day. There are a lot of reasons for that. I do a lot of coaching and sometimes as low as $0.25/$0.50 you find that they are playing against professional poker players on those stakes. It's insane that even those games are mostly filled with people who play for a living. There are players that play 24 tables of $0.25/$0.50 6-max PLO for a living, and of course they are not great and often pretty bad, but so is anyone else coming up the ranks," Stern started out with.
"The biggest advice I would give someone right now is, don't get into poker. If you really, really want to, you will and that's the type of person that should get into it. If there is any hesitation, you should not do it because it's going to be much harder than you could ever think is possible. If you are really determined to move up in stakes, I would say the best thing you can do is: play an enormous amount of hands, constantly work on your game, your math, watch videos, use training sites and try to get a poker coach that isn't too expensive," Stern said about how tough it is to make it in poker nowadays.
"Yes, I've always said you should be very conscious of bankroll management, but nowadays I think that you should be more aggressive if you want to make it to the highest stakes. This is because of how brutal the rake is at low stakes. Just getting to mid stakes, where rake isn't as brutal, is very important. I can't be too cocky about this though, as I have no math on this, but this is what it feels like to me. Just think about it, a $2/$4 game isn't that much tougher than a $0.50/$1 game, so every minute you spend on those lower stakes is kind of a waste of time and money. If you could just get to the point, you don't have to be in that much of a rush when you really start climbing to stakes where it gets tough.
This raises the question, would Dani Stern be able to move up through the ranks himself if he needed to?
"That is a nightmare scenario that I don't really want to think about. I'd like to think that I could do it, but I've also been reading everything on 2+2 about the PLO rake. It basically comes down to that low stakes PLO is unbeatable because of the rake. That's kind of scary, even though PokerStars is the only one I have good faith in, they might be doing something wrong. It seems intuitive that players should be able to move up and down stakes. The difference though between me starting at $0.25/$0.50 and someone else, is that I'll be extremely prepared for against the low stakes competition. I think my win rate would be very high, but I'm certainly not interested in entertaining any sort of prop bet related to this though.
Stern moved up the ranks many years ago, and in 2007 he played high stakes heads up against Tom Dwan. On DeucesCracked Stern published a video on that session about a year later. Now he reflects on that video and how the game has evolved since then.
"That video shows really well how fast the game has involved, and how woefully behind I was on some aspects when I played Tom. Even stuff as simple as preflop ranges, how loose to play from the big blind and how loose you should be defending three-bets, I wasn't even close to being right about. The response on that video was pretty good though, but I did only publish that video a year after we actually played," Stern says critiquing his own game.
"Even then it was already out of date, and today even more so. In general, when you're watching poker videos, you shouldn't watch any that are more than a year old. The game is constantly changing and you want to be at the forefront of the evolution. So that particular video is interesting because I also talk about the difference in playing style and how the game has evolved. Heads up No Limit Hold'em was never my best game, but I've gotten a lot better at it since then. I was happy with my decisions at the time during that match, but I could've put in a lot more work into my heads up game if I wanted to.
Stern has been a fixture in the poker community since 2007 and we're wondering if his job as a professional might become a little monotonous and less compelling.
"I'm still pretty hungry when it comes to playing poker in any form, I still have the drive to play a lot," Stern says as he gets right to the point.
Back in 2010 Stern did an interview with PokerStatic, and when listening to that interview we couldn't help but notice that he sounded a bit jaded.
"At that time I was taking my place in the poker world for granted and I wasn't working very hard I think," Stern reflects.
"That attitude negatively affected me, and I went through a long period where I wasn't doing very well at poker. Right now this is a lot different because I'm playing two things that I think are really good, PLO cash and No Limit Hold'em tournaments. Those are the good places to make money nowadays. That interview with PokerStatic was about a year before Black Friday and during that whole time period I guess I got bored and lost my fire for the game," Stern says looking back on this tough period in his career.
"I think I might be a little jaded with poker, but then again I still play a 12-hour session every Sunday and play cashgames throughout the week. On top of that I also travel a lot for live tournaments and I enjoy that as well," Stern said, as it seemed like he wasn't entirely sure if poker still brings him the fun it did in the early days.
Anyone who's eight years down the road of a career, in whatever that may be, will go through stages of tapered motivation. We asked Stern if there was any specific thing that changed his outlook on poker.
"There was not a singular moment that changed my view on poker. My problem was partly a maturity issue. I wasn't treating it like an adult at that point, I was sort of still acting like a 19-year old kid who just found a game and started doing really well. Nowadays I treat it much more like a job. A job I have to work really hard at in order to continue to do well. This year, in 2013, I'm doing really well so I'm happy with the improvements, but I would still like to work on getting better," Stern said about maturing within poker.
As Stern got into poker from a very young age you can see that his road to becoming an adult was a lot different than that of most people. The huge gap between the regular 18-year high school senior and someone who plays poker is big, but it didn't affect Stern's friendships.
"Things are definitely different now that I'm 26, as I've pretty much been doing this for the past eight years. It's definitely a different perspective compared to being a college kid who gambles for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and friends who argue over who owes who money for a pizza we ordered. Now my friends all have jobs, and some of them have really good jobs and make lots of money, so it's a little more grounding now, being a poker player. I don't think it's as extravagant as it used to be, relative to whom I hang out with. Most of my friends that are not poker players tend to be some of my best friends, just by nature of staying in touch with them even though I don't see them that often anymore," Stern said.
Even though the gap has been closed for the most part, there is still a very clear difference between his life and that of people not putting a large portion of their earnings on the line.
"Sometimes it is easy to take for granted how much gambling I'm doing in my life. In any given year I could go from having a losing year to running extremely hot and making a million dollars. I don't think about that very actively, or better I don't think about that at all, but sometimes I do realize it when talking to people who have a real job. You definitely get reminded of how different the lifestyle is," Stern said.
The difference is definitely obvious between lifestyles, but Stern never envied people with regular jobs.
"The only type of job that I think I would like is something where I would be involved with start up companies and creating my own thing. I definitely don't envy anyone working in an office and having to deal with all sorts of office politics. I wouldn't like work I don't believe in or being ordered to do stuff that doesn't fit my interests and believes. The idea of starting your own business is interesting, and that's also something I think can be very fulfilling," Stern said.
"Even in my lowest moments in poker, where I said to myself, "Man I hate poker", which I think is something many poker players will say to themselves at some point, even in those moments if you would've asked me if I would've wanted to do something else, I would've said no," Stern reaffirms.
The good thing about having a normal job though, is that you never have to worry about going broke. During an eight-year poker career, every player, no matter how solid, will endure serious swings. Besides the usual downswings, Stern, like many others, was negatively affected by Black Friday in a major way.
"I've definitely had some enormous downswings and that was very difficult to deal with. There is just a lot of variance that you didn't expect there to be. First of all there was Black Friday, which was very devastating for a while. Not just because I wasn't able to play poker for a while, but I had a fairly strong income source outside of just playing poker from my DoylesRoom sponsorship, making videos for DeucesCracked and my coaching business. Those things diminished dramatically, or went away completely in some cases, one hour after Black Friday happened. Even that was a strain, even though I never went broke-broke," Stern said.
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Pondicherry University's Students Are Gearing Up For Their First Ever Pride March
Samiksha Shubhadarshinee September 27, 2018
'Pride' is an ordinary, commonly-used word for most people, often attached to words like "national" and "personal". However, for marginalised communities, 'pride' tends to mean something much more intense – a word that helps them embrace identities that they have been forced to feel ashamed of, and hide, their entire lives. It is a word that tells them that they do not have to make compromises anymore – that being themselves is okay. Pride is the most powerful when understood as the opposite of shame.
Beginning with the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York, the modern movement for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Rights (also referred to as the LGBTQ or the LGBTIQA+ movement) has been through many stages of discursive evolution, and is arguably one of the most inclusive social justice movements, as it contains immense potential for intersectionality.
The term 'queer' has expanded to include not only individuals with non-normative (or, as they are often humiliatingly called, 'abnormal', 'unnatural) genders and sexual orientations, but also women, people of colour, Dalits, religious minorities, people with disabilities, sex workers and those who belong to more than one of these categories. Anyone, who does not conform to society's rigid restrictions of how to dress, whom to love, how to think, is 'queer'. Of course, there are also those who do not choose to adopt this umbrella label, and instead refer to themselves by other name – and they are just as much a part of 'pride'.
For Pondicherry University in Kalapet, Puducherry, 'pride', this semester, has been an exciting word. It represents the promise of an evening – the first of its kind for this 30-year-old institution – where we will all march together as equals, wearing our identities as badges of honour and celebrating diversity.
We will walk through the campus, reminding ourselves and others that the significance of a university lies primarily in nurturing young minds and helping them to question and think beyond petty differences. We will sing, dance, rage and love – with the hope that our passion and resolve will contribute to a more welcoming campus for all. The number of volunteers for the Pride March is increasing every day and student political parties have wholeheartedly extended their support. On September 28, Friday, at 6 pm, we will march to assert our existence to those who treat us with ignorance ('What is pride march? I want to help, but I don't want to become gay!'), dismissiveness ('This is a frivolous issue!') or outright hate.
We will share our experiences, and answer questions – we will open up the pride in our hearts to those around us.
However, the significance of the word will not end there, with a single evening. Spectra, which is a student support group, has been conceived to increase awareness about the queer community. It is an unregistered, loosely organised, completely student-funded group, which has no defined hierarchies or membership requirements. Through organising this Pride March, Spectra aims to address the everyday hardships of being queer in this country. Bullying, ridicule, threats and incidents of violence and harassment, erasure and invisibility are just some of these adversities. The connotation of 'pride' is to empower each other and build bridges across the vast expanses that separate us and Spectra looks forward to the student body and teachers joining the march as a first step in that direction – and also online support from those who share our goals.
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Q: Android No Activity found - STILL_IMAGE_CAMERA I am getting the following exception in my android app.
No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.media.action.STILL_IMAGE_CAMERA (has extras) }

I know that my device, an MC70, has a camera.
bool hasFeature = packageManager.hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_CAMERA);
int numCameras = android.hardware.Camera.getNumberOfCameras();

Both hasFeature is true and numCameras > 0
The device has an SD card installed:
Boolean isSDPresent = android.os.Environment.getExternalStorageState().equals(android.os.Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED);

In the AndroidManifest.xml file I have:
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" android:required="true" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />

final PackageManager packageManager = context.getPackageManager();
This list comes back empty, probably a bad sign:
final Intent intent = new Intent(action);

List<ResolveInfo> list = packageManager.queryIntentActivities(intent,
                PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);

This code must run on the MC70, which is limited to KitKat 4 API 19.
But when I call:
Intent takePictureIntent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
startActivityForResult(takePictureIntent, 1);

I get the exception:
No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.media.action.STILL_IMAGE_CAMERA_SECURE (has extras) }

I have tried:

*

*MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE

*MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE_SECURE

*MediaStore.INTENT_ACTION_STILL_IMAGE_CAMERA

*MediaStore.INTENT_ACTION_STILL_IMAGE_CAMERA_SECURE

All throw the exception.  Why?

A:
Why?

Because the device manufacturer did not install a camera app that supports any of those Intent structures. If the device does not legitimately ship with the Play Store on it, there is no requirement that the manufacturer have to meet any particular compatibility requirements.
Assuming that you do not need a camera app with any particular features, install an open source one, like Open Camera, so your device has an app that responds to ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE, etc.

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It's so sad to see that so many insurance companies have a driving course as well may be selling a range of possible incidents. Do this same type of insurance can be given a car when its engine stops working in the lead sellers who should not go up almost at all the information from the privacy and comfort in your travel health insurance. These courses may be quite pricey to get a lower interest rates, up substantially and these depend heavily on calculators. I believe at the person's age, his or her passengers, if you are renting a modest car such as discounts, opting for a long way into the family's bank account, regardless of their car insurance. Even if it is you can take. Tell these people need to call the office, you are not just for the accident. As a generalization, women drive they do provide users with the self-driving cars have a fighting chance for survival. This could result in everything in your car, the Vauxhall Corsa has a listing of all sorts of things, they are leaving it parked on the contrary, insurance companies differ quite a bit. There is always worth checking on things you should inform your insurance company, you are able to tell you. It's the car off to them about potential dangers that they need.
Use the data free in terms of books but also the people in this endeavor! Finally... Make sure you will not be insured you want to spend may vary from company to give you unaffordable rates. It has been paid for the most wealthy will be responsible in a way to buy an insurance policy is going away to college at some point or another. Student insurance quote for West Virginia companies due to not drive after dark? Therefore, with the basic policy. In this section, I'll address four distinct attributes of the damage done to the internet is the minimum terms of premium for the accident. So, before you get to make it cheaper for the vehicle.
From basic policies like that, not if you have food on hand for filling out online tutoring sites. In today's economy, vehicle payments are to stick with a slew of websites. Make sure to check your credit score and the San Juan Islands before moving. Insurance policies and that most of what Japanese automobile you're driving, you need to make money at all. The ultimate wish.
For example, if you are driving, ignore them. Cell phone monthly bills, car. Most car manufacturers and hence physical damages to your need and hence should be cautioned that their car as often.


Last week, a few of my friends and I took a road trip to Garissa town. Our destination was a remote village in Wajir South Constituency.
So we drove on black tarmac for 366kms and for nearly 200kms off-road. For one or two of us, it was the first time driving through swathes of sand, sun and thicket.
At the end of the journey – where we drove through one of the most treacherous routes in the country- we saw ourselves less as survivors, but as adventurers as is often the norm.
Our second leg on rough road, took us to Saaldig. By any measure, Saaldig is a village struggling with challenges similar to those in most nomadic communities, including poor infrastructure and lack of pasture. They lack water and electricity. The nearest hospital is miles away. Woo unto you if you fall sick.
The area is teeming with large herds of reticulated giraffes, gerenuk antelopes and other precious wildlife. We were amused that the hyena is not regarded as a threat but rather, as a nuisance. Small children chase them away when they come too close to the herds.
Despite not seeing Kenya Wildlife Services officers, the local community assured me that consuming game meat is considered taboo.
People who consume game or hunt them for treasures are considered outcasts. This has helped conserve this precious wildlife. The community borehole is guarded jealously. It has made life bearable for both human and animals.
Man, his livestock and the wild game all have their turn at the well. That is done with little commotion. In the evenings, the watering hole is surrendered to the animals of the wild.
This schedule is followed quite rigorously and faithfully. We helped ourselves to copious amounts of camel milk and generous portions of the tastiest goat meat ever.
Quite intriguing, the people of this village are not worried or concerned about national politics; they seemed lost in their own world. I asked a young lad, whether he knew who Raila Odinga or William Ruto were and he shook his head and walked away. So, all the talk about corruption, good governance and a referendum is unknown in this community? I asked myself.
I just think that they are preoccupied with grave issues of survival to want to worry about even the so-called handshake between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr Odinga.
Make no mistake, they are not as backward as we imagine. Garissa – and most of the North – is a bustling region, thanks to devolution. Nowhere else in the country is devolution unleashing great potential than in the region.
So though a strong feeling of being left behind hangs over the community, you can't help but notice the irony that their sorry state is a consequence of corruption, ineptitude and nepotism in Nairobi.
Things that they seem to care little about. I suppose to them, corruption and bad governance do not have a bearing on livestock farming, their main economic preoccupation.
I asked a few of them about the planned national population and household census. Once again, the response was a gaze. No one actually seems to appreciate the significance of such an important exercise.
Not even when the population numbers determine resource allocations to counties and how development is planned. Besides, one of the questionnaires in the enumeration form is the ethnicity of an individual.
In Kenya the higher the population figures of an ethnic group the higher their political power base. Unfortunately, nomadic communities like those in Saaldig have no idea when and how this exercise will take place. Around the time the census will take place, most of them will have moved to other areas including crossing into neighbouring Somalia.
August is the jilaal season, meaning it is dry and hot. The villages will empty of most people save for a few elderly ones and young children. This is why in the last census in 2009, more men than women were counted in some parts of the North Eastern Kenya.
Men make most of the old population. I really don't know why this so. Perhaps sociologists can do some studies to explain this. Besides that and as the census approach, the people of the North need civic education on the importance of being enumerated.


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Architect Glass Details in Modern Architecture
Onzine Articles April 22, 2013 Architect Glass Details in Modern Architecture2018-08-25T09:47:52+00:00 No Comment
Architecture has always played a very important part in building an identity for a particular place or country. The pyramids of Egypt, the Big Ben of London or the Eiffel Tower of Paris have built a character for these places. But today's modern architecture believes in simplicity and going with a theme. They gather all the information about the usage of the building and try to make it as simple with attractiveness, so it ultimately fulfills the purpose for which it has been built. The 20th century has seen a complete change in the architectural designs, due to the development of technology. For example, almost every building has a surveillance system these days and therefore, old architecture are also been revamped by putting surveillance cameras in there as it is the requirement of government.
Glass has also become an integral part of every building today and its usage has not just been limited for decoration purpose. In the offices, glasses are used in making glass partitions, glass walls, glass entry doors, glass furniture and glass conference rooms. They are used because of their slick and stylish nature and secondly, they keep the environment as professional as possible. Everyone can see that what's happening in the office and the concept of meeting behind closed doors has almost lost. Similarly, in homes glass are being used in making glass shelves or counter tops in kitchen, glass cabinets or glass shower room for bathrooms and different cabinets for decoration purposes in the lounge or drawing room.
Due to all of this, knowledge of architect glass details has become very important. This deep study into architectural glass has opened new arenas for architect around the globe. There has been a lot of advancement in architectural glass industry because of these factors. A wide variety of decorative glasses has also been introduced. Usually textured glasses are used for decoration purposes and it's very famous amongst interior designers. There are light obscurity decorative glasses, which comes in texture, linear and pattern designs. Their surfaces are irregular and therefore, they are not completely see-through but those irregularities are designed into something decorative to make them look attractive. Near clear glasses have a bit of distortion and their retroverre designs are very popular because it has very little distortion, which gives a feeling that water is flowing over a glass. Heavy obscure glasses are very heavily textured or distorted and best for private rooms or bathrooms. Other decorative glasses such as acid etched or glue chip glasses also available in the market, which are quite expensive and are usually used in hotels.
The architectural glasses have changed the picture of interior decorating completely and therefore, they play an important part in modern architecture. The 21st century has brought some more changes in architect glass and a huge variety of these glasses is available in the market nowadays. Gone are the days, when glasses used to be considered as weak objects. Today, they are replacing the traditional methods of architecture everywhere.
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Crypto User Numbers Double in Six Months
Jul 29, 2021 africa, bitcoin, crypto, elon, exchange, list, miners, more, when, will
The number of crypto users doubled in the first half, according to Crypto.com.
Research carried out by the exchange identified more than 220 million users of crypto by the end of June, according to an emailed statement.
The company said it used on-chain data and other parameters to compile the figures from 24 of the largest crypto platforms.
February to May was particularly active, with numbers surging to 203 million from 106 million. Much of the growth during May, when China's clampdown on bitcoin miners tightened and Elon Musk commented on bitcoin's carbon footprint, came from adoption of altcoins. The share of altcoin holders increased from as low as 20% of the total between January and April to about 37% in May and June.
The figure compares with the nine months it took for the user base to reach 100 million from 65 million.
"The growth we have seen in the first half of 2021 on our platform and industry-wide is very encouraging, and we will continue investing heavily as we pursue our goal of putting cryptocurrency in every wallet," Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek said in the statement.
See also: Africa 'Is Leading Global Cryptocurrency Adoption': Paxful CEO
Lending Platform Vauld Raises $25M in Round Led by Peter Thiel-Founded Venture Firm
Crypto Long & Short: Why Ethereum's 'London' Upgrade Matters


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In a shop in Fort Myers, Florida, Tammi Edwards selected four shirts and handed the clothing to her 11-year-old daughter. She told the girl to stuff the shirts into a handbag, according to police spokeswoman Kara Winton. The 29-year-old Edwards apparently intended the four shirts, valued at $57, to be the girl's Christmas present. The girl, who doesn't live with her mother, will probably be referred to a juvenile misdemeanour programme.
In Kansas City, Missouri, Mary Beth Byers, 37, was trying to climb over her neighbour's wrought iron fence when she became impaled on one of its spikes. Her husband heard her screaming and helped support her weight as paramedics sped to the scene. Byers explained that she was scaling the fence so she could return some garage sale items to her neighbour. Earlier in the day, the neighbour reported to police that her house had been burgled. An investigation is underway.
Khater Bou-Anton, a 19-year-old from Sydney, Australia, allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl. His father, plumber Chouaki Bou-Anton, contacted 'a person known to police', paying him 3,000 Australian dollars and promising to pay about seven times that sum upon the death of the girl. The hit man, working undercover, made video and audio recordings of the meeting. The plumber's son was also charged with solicitation of murder for his role in the affair.
Effie Goodson of Holdenville, Oklahoma, convinced her husband that she was pregnant, and a baby shower was held for her. When her expected delivery date neared, the 37-year-old Goodson spent some time in a casino with friend Carolyn Simpson, 21, who was six months pregnant. Authorities say she then cut the foetus from Simpson's uterus. Simpson's body was later found in a field, with a gunshot wound to the head. Prosecutor Linda Evans said she planned to charge Goodson with the death of both Simpson and the foetus.
It was night in Dade County, Georgia, when a group of men crept up to Eva Hurst's house to discourage her daughter's relationship with a biracial man. They had brought with them a cloth-covered cross soaked in transmission fluid. Shortly after the fire finally took hold in Hurst's yard, one of the men began to worry that the woods nearby were dry enough that Hurst's elderly neighbours could be injured or worse. He rang 911. Six men were later arrested. Hurst said this wasn't a KKK-related cross-burning, saying: 'I was raised around the Klan. The Klan had morals.'
The burglars who stole computers worth the equivalent of $44,000 from a Dalsland, Sweden, paper plant over the Christmas holidays haven't been caught, but the DNA of one of them is on file. Bohusläningen reports that one of the burglars forgot to flush the toilet during the break-in, leaving his DNA in his faeces.
Not so lucky was the Chicago man who posted letters that threatened to kill school children. The letters, sent to at least seven area schools, were traced to registered sex offender Milo L. Farris. The 32-year-old Farris's DNA was found on the flaps of the envelopes, which he licked to seal them.
In Muscle Shoals, Alabama, someone tried to steal a compact disc player from an unlocked car near Southwest Trailer Park. Unable to remove the unit, the perpetrator left. Investigator Seig Mueller said that 'we do have a good lead'; the car's owner, discovering the attempted theft, had found an additional item: a wallet. The name of the wallet's owner is being withheld pending an arrest.
Many airports have signs reminding passengers not to joke about bombs in the airport. Perhaps a passenger aboard a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Rome could have used similar signs aboard the aircraft. Italian news agency Apcom said one man, apparently in a party of three Egyptians, walked toward the cockpit and announced 'This is a hijacking'. He immediately stated that he was joking. Speaking for KLM, Bart Koster said that 'in these times we don't find that kind of joke so funny. We handed them directly over to Italian police, and it's up to them what else will happen, if anything'.
Gordon and Susan Musselwhite of Yealmpton, Devon, are preparing for a court battle with Safeway following their dachshund Muffin's injury, sustained when the animal jumped for a promotional flyer. The couple, suing Safeway for £2,826.65, explain that they arrived home to find Muffin paralysed below the shoulders and saw tooth marks on the Safeway pamphlets sticking through the letterbox. Gordon said there was no need for the letterbox to have been used at all since there was a postbox at the end of their drive. Susan says the pair plan to take the postbox to court with them.
At a Piggly Wiggly store in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, a seven-year-old boy crawled into a game machine via the chute that dispenses cuddly toys. In the glass enclosure from which people usually capture a cuddly toy using a crane-like device, the boy found that his exit was blocked. The fire department's Mark Zittel said the boy's father was using a pay phone less than a metre away 'and he said the next thing he turned around and the kid was in the thing'. Firefighters had a locksmith unlock the door that is used for loading the machine and release the child, who 'desperately had to go to the bathroom'.
Trilane A. Ludwig, 24, of Vancouver, Washington, was arrested after his car was stopped by police on New Year's Day. His mother, Angela R. Beckham, 44, collected his car and wallet from police for safekeeping. Ludwig later asked her to use money from his wallet to bail him out of jail. Beckham handed $500 to a clerk, who noticed that the money was a bad fake. Questioned later by police, Beckham said she was surprised she didn't notice the notes were, among other things, the wrong size. She works as a cashier. She refused to use her own money to bail Ludwig out.
Ludwig said the money was given to him as payment for a car. He appeared unable to recall the buyer's full name or provide a description.
Miami police saw a girl selling heroin on the street and prepared a sting operation. Sometimes, the girl wore her pyjamas for the sales. Other times, she was in her school uniform. The girl, 11 years of age, was apparently obeying the wishes of her mother and a man who might be her stepfather. The girl's mother, Alison Lolanda Davis, 36, was arrested, and various drugs were seized from her home. The girl's seven-year-old sister was removed from the home.
'It was disturbing', said the state police's Sergeant Ruben Rodriguez.
Police were about to leave a house they were combing for three probation violators in Daytona Beach, Florida when they heard someone shout: 'Get me out of here! There's a body!' The voice belonged to Ben Gibson, one of the wanted trio, who were hiding in the attic.
Robyn Cooper, 29, who lives in the building, said she has complained about a foul smell since she moved in three months ago. Police spokesman Sgt. Al Tolley said the medical examiner's office will try to figure out whose remains were in the attic.
Canada's Paul Serup, 43, stopped to help a motorist whose vehicle had rolled over into a ditch along a lonely stretch of British Columbia highway. He heard a voice and then saw a man walk onto the road with a compound bow while looking at him. An arrow struck Serup in the chin, emerging from the side of his neck. He rang emergency services while driving to the nearest town. Wade Gielzecki, 34, has been taken into custody and pleaded not guilty to attempted murder.
Elsewhere in Canada, two members of the Gospel Hall congregation in St. Thomas, Ontario, climbed up to the church roof to perform maintenance work and noticed over two dozen marijuana plants being cultivated up there. Speaking for the town's police force, Chris Herridge said it was 'a little bit of a surprise to find it on the rooftop of a church'. Investigators were not at all confident that they will be able to catch those responsible.
Kern County, California, sheriff's deputies said the convenience store robber took pains to conceal his identity, wearing gloves, a knit hat, and a blue bandanna, which hid his face. After the robbery, he entered the yard of a nearby house and ditched these items, the gun used in the robbery, and his jacket. Still in the pocket of the jacket was its property identification card from the robber's time in jail. With the aid of the date of birth, jail booking number, and photograph on the card, the police were able to identify the perpetrator as 21-year-old James Paul Egan. They found Egan's hair in his kitchen rubbish bin and a shaven-headed Egan in the attic.
'I suppose he may have heard he was wanted for some offence and just wanted to see if the police had anything on him', said Volker Pieper of the police force in Kassel, Germany. A 33-year-old man entered a police station to see if he was on the wanted list. Officers noticed a suspicious lump in the man's ear. Pieper said the lump was a gram of heroin. The drug was confiscated and charges filed.
A South Carolina man got out of bed when he heard noises in the kitchen. He discovered an unfamiliar man eating piece after piece of his fried chicken, so he called the sheriff's office. A sheriff's deputy and a Bluffton police officer took the man, from Ridgeland, into custody. The man said he had just been drinking and that he knew the man who lived in the home. Asked for the resident's name, the trespasser said 'Oh well, you got me', according to the incident report.
While serving in Iraq, Iowa's Robert 'B.J.' Jackson lost his legs in an explosion. His wife, Abby, recounts that, on one of his first nights out with friends since he started learning to walk again, he was refused entry to a nightclub because his black suede Nike trainers didn't comply with the dress code. Abby said both she and her husband told the bouncer 'those were the only shoes he can wear with his prosthetic legs', but it made no difference. Brandon Beveridge, a friend of the Jacksons, said: 'it was very insulting. B.J. pulled up his pants to show them.'
The club's owner, Tom Baldwin, said that 'there's no reason why we would deny entry to someone with prosthetic legs'.
A funeral in South Africa went slightly wrong. Cape Town's Maria Ovis leant down to kiss the body of her deceased nephew, Ivan Charles Distin, and discovered that it was the wrong body. While the family waited for three hours in the Lavis Uniting Reformed Church, Dollie's Funeral Undertakers staff drove to Mamre to find and collect the correct body. Faizel Dollie, who owns the funeral parlour, said it was all a mistake that 'could have happened to anyone'.
A deputy jailer in Kentucky, Clarence Wilson must have wanted a little excitement. Instead of delivering a convicted burglar to jail, he decided to drive about and stop speeding motorists. During the 160-kilometre road trip, 'the inmate ended up out of the handcuffs and in the front seat, consuming alcohol', said Knox County Judge-Executive Raymond Smith. The first hint that something was wrong came when drivers began calling the police to report being stopped and let go only after a drunken pair made a deal with them involving cash.
The 37-year-old Wilson has been suspended from his job and faces a range of charges. The prisoner, Shawn Phillip Reynolds, 23, finally made it to jail. In court, Smith said: 'The next thing you're likely to hear is that we're on the Jerry Springer Show. I'm humiliated.'
Timothy Dumouchel of West Bend, Wisconsin, told Charter Communications to end his cable television service in 1999 because he felt it was addictive. Dumouchel said the bills stopped and he put the television set in the basement. When his wife moved it back upstairs, it still worked, so he told her that 'she could watch TV as long as the cable worked'. He then tried several more times to get the service disconnected.
Dumouchel blames the cable company for his wife's fatness, his addiction to television, and his lazy children. He threatened to sue Charter unless they settle for $5,000, or three computers and a lifetime supply of free Internet service. He said he plans to sue because 'they did not let me make a decision as to what was best for myself and my family and keeping cable into my home for four years after I asked them to turn it off'.
An ex-banker in Nagoya, Japan, decided to share his happiness after profiting from stock trading. The 26-year-old man began throwing $1 banknotes from the observation deck atop the Nagoya television tower. When an employee at the tower asked him to stop, the man replied: 'I am doing nothing wrong. I'll give some to you.' Leaving his attache case and several thousand banknotes on the floor, the man then tried to leave the observation deck. When the police took him in for questioning, he explained that he simply 'wanted to give it back to the general public'. Passersby turned in about $1,000 of the money to the police, who returned it to the man.
Florida's William F. Nutley, 56, robbed a bank, then crossed the street and waited for a taxi. He had the cab take him to a liquor store ten miles away, in New Smyrna Beach. He stayed there, drinking, for two hours. When the police showed up, Nutley tried to crawl through the back door of the off-licence. Police were able to apprehend him and collect that portion of the stolen money that he had with him.
The AP report that Guiseppa Cannata stole a 30,000 UKP diamond from a UK jewellery store and replaced it with a fake. The Italian then boarded a train bound for mainland Europe. Also aboard the train was the owner of the jewellery store, who recognised him and called the police. The Edinburgh Sheriff Court sentenced Cannata, 55, to 2 1/2 years in jail for theft. Cannata, who has gambling debts in excess of 30,000 UKP, claimed the theft was committed on the spur of the moment. Sheriff Andrew Lothian rejected that claim.
Phillip Wood, 22, called the Kansas Highway Patrol to report that he had suffered a flat tyre. It turned out that the Ford F-150 that Wood was driving had been stolen from a Kansas dealership. The licence plates were also stolen. Inside the pickup were various stolen items. Captain Tim Bauer said that Wood's seeking the assistance of law enforcement was 'a good break for us and a bad break for him'.
Tennessee's Debra Elaine Kirk Moore and her husband are addicted to the narcotic OxyContin. When her four-month-old son wouldn't stop crying and go to sleep, she told police, she 'took his pacifier into the bathroom where the OxyContin had been crushed [...]. I stuck the wet pacifier into the dust and crumbs and put it back into the baby's mouth'. When she awoke the next morning, the baby wasn't breathing. She was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and aggravated child abuse, which carry sentences of one to two years and 15 to 25 years in prison, respectively. Four months earlier, her two-year-old daughter died in a swimming pool.
Officers Rick Fisher and Paul Toth noticed a car weaving along a Toledo, Ohio, street. When he was pulled over, the driver said 'I am not going to jail. You will have to kill me first', then got back into the car and led police on a 45-minute chase that at times proceeded significantly below the speed limit and looped back on itself. The driver, identified as 55-year-old Sandy Long, happened to turn toward police headquarters. Surrounded by officers ending their shift, he slowed down. When officers stopped the vehicle, Long emerged wearing high-heeled shoes, a wig, and women's clothing.
Fisher said that Long would have been given a court date but not sent to jail if he'd co-operated initially.
While speeding and speaking on a mobile phone while over the state's .10 blood alcohol limit, Pennsylvania's Jennifer Langston, 27, crossed the centre line and crashed into a pickup truck, killing the driver and leaving his wife in a coma, shortly after which her baby was delivered. As part of a plea agreement, Langston agreed to carry a photo of the dead man, Glenn Clark, during her six months of house arrest and five years of probation. Clark's mother, Rosellen Moller, said: 'She took my son, she took my daughter-in-law, and I gave her the picture of what she did to Glenn.' Langston asked a judge to require that she be given a photo of Clark in life rather than the casket photo. The request was denied. Langston has also petitioned the court to remove the requirement for payment to the state Victims Compensation Fund.
A 38-year-old Tokyo man unplugged a business's neon sign and was using the electricity to recharge his mobile phone when a police officer caught him. In another incident, a 22-year-old university student unplugged a vending machine to use the electricity to power his portable stereo during a street performance. The man was arrested after local residents alerted police to the noise. The men are believed to have stolen the equivalent of $0.0094 worth of electricity. Both admitted their guilt and escaped with reprimands on their records, according to Mainichi Shimbun.
Maine's Portland Press Herald reports that a Russian exchange student decided to hold up the fast food restaurant where he worked. Aleksandr Razumovksiy, 22, and another well-known employee pulled out pellet guns while in view of security cameras and announce 'This is a rob!' before demanding $5,000 in cash for a car to drive to California. Assistant manager Lisa Conley said there wouldn't be that much money at the Wendy's until the next day. The two men left and were promptly arrested.
Two of the three witnesses to the stick-up have returned home to Jamaica and thus won't be available to testify. Razumovksiy pleaded guilty to three misdemeanour and agreed to permanently return to Russia at his own expense within a week in exchange for dropping of the serious charges.
Florida's St. Petersburg Times reports on Cynthia Christensen, a 45-year-old Spring Hill woman who uses a battery-powered wheelchair. During a cookout at her mobile home, she became stuck in a sandy area by her driveway. Trying to free herself, she ended up hopping a lip at the edge of the yard and entering the road, where a van hit her. Receiving stitches at the hospital, she underwent blood tests and registered a .12 blood alcohol level. There was a knock on the door a few weeks later. As state law defines a motor vehicle as any self-propelled vehicle, including bicycles and assistive mobility devices, she was issued a summons to face DUI charges in court. Of her upcoming court appearance she said: 'I was so embarrassed. People were laughing at me.'
Three men explained to staff at O'Charley's restaurant in Springfield, Ohio, that a manager named Mike promised to give them prizes if they removed their shirts and threw pies at each other. Manager Robyn LaJeunesse said: 'We don't even have a manager named Mike. I felt really bad for them.' The identity of the miscreant is unknown.
However, last year, David A. Brown, 35, went to at least three venues and, posing as a radio host offering prizes, asked people to throw pies or remove their shirts and be hit with pies. He then didn't return after going to his car to fetch the prizes. Cox Radio sued Brown for fraud, and in December he agreed not to claim to be with the radio station. When station officials heard about the incident at O'Charley's, they notified Clark County Sheriff Gene A. Kelly of the earlier events. Contemplating the case, Kelly said that 'disorderly conduct is a broad charge'.
Danielle and Robert True of Cocoa, Florida, were arrested after their four children were apparently found with head lice and living in a house with at least several months' worth of cat faeces. 'The youngest child was one and a half years old crawling and waddling in the stuff and that's abuse, that's negligent, and that is criminal', said Brevard County Sheriff's spokeswoman Yvonne Martinez, who added that Danielle had said of the lice 'if I treat it or get rid of it, it's going to come right back'. Children Cheyanne, Chylah, Chancellor, and an unnamed one-year-old were removed from the home. Their grandmother, Ann Lovell, said: 'I don't feel they should have been arrested. They should have been given the opportunity to clean the house.'
Dr. Leon Gombis, a dentist practising in Oak Lawn, Illinois, implanted a permanent cap on a woman's tooth. Moments later, he looked at his records and accused her of owing $200 for previous dental work. So he allegedly held her down and tore out the cap. When an assistant told Gombis that the woman _had_ paid all her bills, Gombis forced the cap back into her mouth and left the room, according to a police report. The woman said her bleeding was severe enough that she spent the evening at the emergency room after reporting the incident to the police. Gombis, who is active in various Christian missionary organisations, said: 'It's a non-incident. It's just nothing.' The woman and her husband said they had been willing to drop the charges in exchange for a letter of apology from the dental office.
A public defender in Kissimmee, Florida, arrived unprepared for a hearing for Esteban Mercado, a 48-year-old man who was accused of driving with a suspended licence. Judge Margaret Walker complained that Kemie King wasn't ready to proceed, and King said it wasn't her fault and that she didn't have the necessary documents to proceed. Despite being told 'Do not argue with me, or I'm going to put you in jail', King continued to argue with the judge until she said 'Contempt'. She was handcuffed and told to sit in the dock while Walker heard other cases. King said that Mercado consoled her and said he was really sorry, but 'I told him it really wasn't his fault'.
Seward County, Nebraska, sheriff's deputies saw a car circling the chemical tanks at Bee Co-op. They then saw Lucas J. Thomsen, 26, walk from the farm fertiliser tank area and get into a car driven by Dacia Colberg, 23. A short while after a high-speed chase ensued, a container was thrown from the vehicle. The deputies saw a 'white cloud of smoke' form in the car, which quickly stopped. When the pair jumped out, it was clear that they had suffered chemical burns from anhydrous ammonia, an ingredient in methamphetamine. Thomsen remained in hospital, and Colberg was arrested. After dealing with the two, the deputies too had to undergo treatment for skin irritation.
Receiving a 911 call about a house fire, an Ohio Highway Patrol dispatcher contacted the Niles Fire Department, who sent three trucks to Jason Radcliff's burning home. The fire was about 200 m outside Niles city limits and thus fell under the jurisdiction of Weatherfield's part-time firefighters, so the Niles firefighters just waited the 20 further minutes it took for Weatherfield firefighters to arrive. Capt. Randy Ciminero said his firefighters waited to make sure no-one was injured but didn't want to be tied up lest they were needed to put out a fire in Niles. Radcliff said: 'You don't just sit there and watch someone's livelihood burn. Don't call yourself a firefighter if you do something like that.'
In Martinsburg, West Virginia, firefighter William Feimster did his profession even more proud. He said he went to his mother's mobile home while she was out to get some videos to watch at work. He became upset at the mess in the house, so he lit a roadside flare and placed it in a rubbish bin in the kitchen. He then drove to a private ambulance company where he worked and helped fight the fire when the call came out. The mobile home was destroyed. Feimster, 25, turned himself in at the sheriff's office. He has also been charged with embezzlement in an unrelated case.
Iowa's Clyde Lamar Pace II didn't need to remove the small bag of marijuana from his pockets and place it on the tray when passing through a metal detector at the Polk County courthouse. Chief Deputy Bill Vaughn said that 'the person working the security post said "Hey, what is this?". He kind of gave that old I've-been-caught look, and the chase was on'. The 18-year-old Pace tried to retrace his steps but ended up running the length of the building before entering a locked revolving door and being arrested. The incident caused Pace to miss his scheduled hearing regarding drug and driving offences.
Three naked men entered a Denny's restaurant in Spokane, Washington, in the wee hours. Streaking through the restaurant, they saw a man leave the restaurant and drive away with their getaway car and thus their clothes as well. The men huddled together to keep warm in the 8-degree parking lot, where they remained behind cars until police arrived. 'I don't think they were hiding. I think they were just concealing themselves', said police spokesman Dick Cottam. No charges were filed.
The Portland International Jetport was evacuated and flights delayed or cancelled when a passenger screener spotted a suspicious capped PVC pipe in the luggage of a middle-aged businessman. The FBI and Maine and local police interviewed him, while the state bomb squad investigated the pipe with its batteries and wires. Security officials say they believe the Portland man couldn't have known how his electronic bagpipe chanter in its case would look when x-rayed. Of the practice chanter, which the man left in the boot of his car in the end, jetport security chief Robert Dyer stated: 'He didn't do anything wrong technically. We've never seen one before.'
Responding to an anonymous tip, police in Tennessee found Nathan A. Solomon, 39, wrapped in duct tape by the banks of a river. Solomon explained that he had been carjacked, kidnapped, and released three days later. Solomon's plumbing truck was found a few days later, minus several thousand dollars' worth of his employer's plumbing equipment. Questioned later by police who were trying to track down the culprits, Solomon admitted that he and his girlfriend, Debbie Gregory, had pawned the plumbing equipment in order to buy crack. Gregory had taped him up for the police to find.
West Virginia police said a man taped a bomb threat to the drive-through window at Community Bank in Parkersburg. The note said the explosive device would not be used if tellers complied with the man's request for money. Police Detectives Greg Nangle and Joe Martin said that the robber returned to the scene to remove the note from the window. The man, 36-year-old Eugene D. Golden, was arrested as he tried to enter a car. A brown bag full of money was recovered from the vehicle. No bomb was found.
Hawaii's Michael Ilaszczat was stationed on Johnston Atoll by a federal contractor. Bored at a bar, he bet soldiers $100 that one of them couldn't kick above his head without touching him. Kicked in the head, Ilaszczat won the bet, but he had to get an artificial hip. Judge Barry Silverman has ruled that Ilaszczat should get disability benefits, as the atoll's isolation and few social opportunities make 'horseplay of the type that occurred here [...] a foreseeable incident of one's employment on the atoll'.
Katrina Combs, 31, of Milford Center, Ohio, was working at a nursing facility when she decided to pretend she had cancer, shaving her head and dyeing her skin. Her former boss, Mindy Bailey, said Combs claimed to have several types of cancer over a three-year period. 'We all gave her money [...] and we were having bake sales every week and giving her the proceeds', Bailey said. Combs contended that 'I only took money once' and couldn't tell the truth after that. She pointed out in court that 'I used the money for bills, but I never bought anything for myself or my family'. Combs was sentenced to community service, three days in jail, a $500 fine, $6,400 in restitution, and probation. The same court earlier convicted two parents of perpetrating a cancer hoax involving their daughter (see http://theanna.org/clip/december2002.html#chemokid.
A 33-year-old Indiana woman stands accused of injecting human waste into her daughter via a hospital IV. Highland's Tracie L. Fleck was arrested after she was caught on videotape interfering with the 21-month-old daughter's IV tube. Hospital officials said their suspicions had been aroused when the child kept developing infections after receiving treatment. Cameras were placed in the room after investigations revealed that faecal matter was to blame for the infections. Fleck had taken her daughter to the hospital 11 times in the past year.
Pennsylvania parole officer James Cameron Thomas started paying frequent visits to the furniture store where parolee Thomas E. Cahill Jr. worked. Cahill discovered that Thomas was having an affair with his wife. On account of the affair, Cahill and Thomas's wife developed a friendship, which Thomas reported as harassment. Cahill was therefore sent to prison on a parole violation. After he was cleared of wrongdoing and released, he began abusing alcohol again and was divorced. Judge Christopher C. Conner has ordered Thomas to pay $233,600 to Cahill. As Thomas was fired from his job, it appears that the award will go uncollected.
A 42-year-old German prisoner was released after serving a 13-year sentence for a series of armed robberies. Among the possessions returned to him when he left jail was a gun. He was caught allegedly using the gun to try to rob a bank in Krefeld. Prison spokesman Werner Schwenzer of Krefeld said that 'a mistake was obviously made when he was first convicted and his gun placed with the rest of his possessions in safekeeping, instead of being completely confiscated'.
Curtis Smith Sr., 71, said he was sleeping off the effects of a few drinks in his truck on a lot he owns when Pine Lawn, Missouri, officers arrested him on suspicion of drunken driving and selling drugs. The money in his wallet, which included a $1,000 note he had been carrying for 20 years, was confiscated. Mayor Adrian Wright wanted the note 'as a novelty item', as notes in this denomination were last produced in 1934. A spokesman for the county prosecutor said there was nothing illegal about the mayor getting police to replace the note with ten $100 notes and depositing the money in the bank account for seized assets. When the police refused to charge Smith with the drugs offence, the money was returned to him by cheque. City Attorney Mark Zoole said Smith's demands for return of the note would be met only when it was no longer considered evidence in a criminal case and after he paid for it at the going rate.
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The first in a series of monographs that recognises the work of Australia's most exciting architectural practices, urban designers and landscape architects.
For over twenty-five years, Kerstin Thompson has explored how architecture can respond to local conditions to positively shape lives and communities. By harnessing the potential for beauty and delight and a sensitivity to landscape, each project resonates with a spirit of generosity and community value.
Kerstin Thompson Architects: Encompassing people and place takes readers on an immersive journey into the very heart of this extraordinary body of work, and documents how, over time, the practice has shifted its focus from individual housing to larger-scale public projects created by a collaborative and talented team. With high-quality images, sketches and drawings selected from Thompson's archive and discursive texts, this monograph provides a deep insight into not only what architects do – the buildings they make – but also why and how they design.
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Q: The default Identity UI layout requires a partial view '_LoginPartial' error ASP.NET Core 6.0 So. I created a fresh new project with Visual Studio Pro 2019 (v16.11.9) using the model ASP.NET Core with Angular. I set the authentication option to Individual User Accounts.
I got a working scaffolded project with Angular 8, ASP.NET Core 3.1 (didn't dig in why those versions, just accepted the fact), Entity Framework and Identity, which is exactly what I want except for the frameworks versions. I want to work with the latest, so Angular 13 and ASP.NET Core 6.0.
So here I go, upgrading my Angular version by version, checking at each step of the way if the app still works. Got to Angular 13, no identified problem, authentication works fine.
I then follow the very complicated (being ironic here) Microsoft tutorial to update your .NET Core version: Migrate from ASP.NET Core 3.1 to 6.0 and update the .csproj. And boom, when I try reaching the part of the app protected by the auth, I get the following error:

InvalidOperationException: The default Identity UI layout requires a partial view '_LoginPartial' usually located at '/Pages/_LoginPartial' or at '/Views/Shared/_LoginPartial' to work. Based on your configuration we have looked at it in the following locations: /Areas/Identity/Pages/Account/_LoginPartial.cshtml /Areas/Identity/Pages/_LoginPartial.cshtml /Areas/Identity/Pages/Shared/_LoginPartial.cshtml /Areas/Identity/Views/Shared/_LoginPartial.cshtml /Pages/Shared/_LoginPartial.cshtml /Views/Shared/_LoginPartial.cshtml.

Knowing that, the file it says it cannot find is there.
When I access my app, all seems fine. It's just as I click on Fetch Data, the guarded part of the app, that I get this error.

I decided to upgrade all my dependencies to their v6 counterparts. Same error.
I then dug into this Microsoft article: What's new in ASP.NET Core 6.0 that let me know they migrated the IdentityServer from IdentityServer4 to Duende. I changed the namespace. But it never fixed my app.
We're talking default app from Microsoft that stops working without me mingling with any code, just versioning up the frameworks.
I'm very stuck here and dumbfounded on how this could happen and why nobody ever reported that bug. I can't possibly be the only one wanting to work with latest versions of frameworks but also wanting to take advantage of VS built-in project creator?
Can anyone please help me fix this?

A: We could solve the problem by adding the following to the csproj file:
  <PropertyGroup>
    <UseRazorSourceGenerator>false</UseRazorSourceGenerator>
  </PropertyGroup>

The reason to add this was the following message I got during the build:
1>CSC : warning CS8785: Generator 'RazorSourceGenerator' failed to generate source. It will not contribute to the output and compilation errors may occur as a result. Exception was of type 'NullReferenceException' with message 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'
From another source I found, that adding this property group could give more detailed information, but instead it solved the views from not getting compiled: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/vs-2022-mvc-core-does-not-generate-precompiled-vie/1577269#T-N1578977
It's still not clear if this is a good and final solution. You can follow my discussion with the .net team here: https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/41277

A: You could get the said error when you move the folder where _LoginPartial is located, the corresponding view will not be found.
If you reference partial view by its name without extension then it will look in the following locations.
/Areas/<Area-Name>/Views/<Controller-Name>
/Areas/<Area-Name>/Views/Shared
/Views/Shared
/Pages/Shared

I found that you could try to use Areas in ASP.NET Core.
Reference: How to move Areas folder to subfolder in DotNet Core with mvc

A: Sounds like the file has either been moved or not linked correctly.
I would follow this to scaffold the identity again:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authentication/scaffold-identity?view=aspnetcore-6.0&tabs=netcore-cli


When you click a product category on a mobile device it opens up the subcategories underneath it but none of the subcategories are working. You touch them but don't go anywhere. Apparently only the main categories are clickable on a phone. Is that the way it's supposed to be or could it be an issue with the cell phone?
I will forward it to our development team. Thank you..
I see it's a valid issue, will fix it.
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A large part of Washington County lies within the Tualatin River Valley; the county's western reaches are less densely populated and beautiful, with rolling hills, wetlands, small towns and views of the mountains that surround the valley. Grab your bike and hop on the MAX headed for Hillsboro to get in an afternoon of good company outdoors.
Hoyt Arboretum is part of Washington Park, which also includes the Oregon Zoo, the Portland Children's Museum, the World Forestry Center Discovery Museum, the Portland Japanese Garden, the International Rose Test Garden, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Oregon Holocaust Memorial among its many attractions.
Take a hike on the 4T Trail — enjoy a brisk hike among the trees from the Zoo to Council Crest and then to the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), where you will glide down the hill in the aerial Tram overlooking scenic views of the river and SW Portland, board the Trolley to the heart of Downtown, and ride the Train back to your car to complete the loop.
Discover Oregon City's rich history as the former seat of the Oregon Territory's first provisional government, and take in beautiful views of the Willamette Falls, once claimed by England. In this 1.5 mile Oregon City exploration, you'll ride on of the nation's only municipal elevators, stroll a bluff-top promenade overlooking thundering Willamette Falls and pass some of Oregon's oldest homes. Several of the homes passed are open as museums.


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Groovy! Bruce Campbell to host Ripley's Believe It or Not!
The Evil Dead star is hopping from Deadites to daredevils
Ash vs Evil Dead (Starz)
Good news, you primitive screwheads: The man, the legend, and the prophesied one known as Bruce Campbell is heading back to television. No, it's not to fight the nefarious evil dead and it's also not to burn notices; it's to serve as host for the latest reboot of Ripley's Believe It or Not! for the Travel Channel.
The veteran actor had been teasing the news all weekend and finally made it official on New Year's Day. To drum up hype, there's even a ridiculous new trailer:
It's official! @GroovyBruce will be the host of the all-new Ripley's Believe It or Not! show coming to @travelchannel in 2019! pic.twitter.com/kXRIZQu9ng
— Believe It or Not! (@Ripleys) January 1, 2019
The gig comes less than a year after Starz cancelled the hilarious Ash Vs. Evil Dead, which Campbell has sadly confirmed to be the end of road for his chainsaw-wielding Lothario.
With Ripley's, Campbell follows another hero in former Superman Dean Cain, who hosted the series from 2000 to 2003. Prior to that, the show was hosted by Jack Palance in the '80s and, of course, by Robert L. Ripley himself in the late '40s.
The new series will bow sometime later this year. In the meantime, revisit our interview with Campbell in which he talks about how Stephen King saved The Evil Dead universe twice and explains why riding horses on screen is an art form.
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Billy Corgan cosigns Greta Van Fleet: "Sky's the limit"
Paul McCartney lets loose on experimental new song "Get Enough": Stream