Regarding your brick-wall strategy to search for abbreviated names (October 2004): Also watch for abbreviations that indexers turned into other names. I had trouble finding my great-grandparents' marriage records. There was no Samuel Peters in the grooms book for the parish I knew they had to be in. But there was a Saul Peters, and finally the clerk pulled that original record for me. We discovered that the papers all had Saml for Samuel, and the indexer had read it wrong. It didn't help that his bride, Eliza Jane Cole, was listed as Lizer Jane Cole.
I looked to your 101 Best Web Sites article (August 2004) with great interest and anticipation. But I would suggest that you contact whoever is in charge of Genealogy Helplist <helplist.org> and notify them that they need to update their volunteer e-mail addresses. Every time I tried to contact a Helplist volunteer, my message bounced back because none of the addresses were known/recognized. This problem was furthered by the fact that they pulled their list of individuals responsible for specific pages.
Editor's note: The Genealogy Helplist is a network of genealogists who do free lookups. The site reports that it removed its list of "maintainers" — volunteers who coordinate the lookup lists for each geographic area — because the page was "excessively abused." We contacted the Helplist administrators to find out the procedure for reporting "bounce backs," but hadn't received a response as of press time. Although the site's status isn't clear, remember that grassroots genealogy efforts depend on volunteers' time and resources. For example, some Helplist pages might not have coordinators; others list the maintainer's name and e-mail. If you don't have luck with Helplist, we encourage you to try the other collaboration resources in our article – or volunteer to lend a hand!
I have enjoyed many of your articles, but I was disappointed in your recent "Strongest Links" article (August 2004). You referred to Census Online <www.census-online.com> as a great place to get free census information. How can it be free if it automatically sends you toAncestry.com <Ancestry.com >? Maybe I just don't have the right info to get to it? I'm tired of constantly being referred toAncestry.com — I feel they have really become a monopoly on the Web. It seems you can't get anyone to share anything anymore withoutAncestry.com butting in and taking over. So if you really know how to get free info on the censuses, I'd sure like to know. I refuse to get on theAncestry.com bandwagon.
Editor's note: As our article stated, Census Online links to free census transcriptions: Drill down through the Census Links section by state and county, and you'll find numerous links to no-cost data at volunteer networks, and genealogy-society and state-archives sites. Census Online does contain many links to paid-access census images atAncestry.com — and sister subscription site Genealogy.com <www.genealogy.com> — which it clearly identifies beneath the free sites. That's one reason we like Census Online: You know before you click if you'll go to a paid site.
But why the oodles ofAncestry.com links — at Census Online and so many other genealogy Web sites?Ancestry.com runs a far-reaching "affiliate" program, which offers Web sites incentives for referring surfers back to its own pages. When visitors to affiliate sites follow the links toAncestry.com and purchase a subscription or product as a result of that referral,Ancestry.com pays the sites a commission. Many independent genealogy Web sites use those funds to defray the costs of hosting their Web sites, including server space and domain names — which in turn allows them to offer their own online material for free. You can learn more about Ancestry.com's affiliate program at <www.ancestry.com/ home/partner/affiliate.asp>.
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Milwaukee Co. recount set to end Friday after 65 ballots were found in voting machine
Late Wednesday afternoon it sounded like Milwaukee County's recount was on track to finish, but just before 6 p.m. City of Milwaukee's top election official said they came up 65 ballots short for Ward 254.
By: Mary Jo Ola
Posted at 10:15 PM, Nov 25, 2020
MILWAUKEE COUNTY — Late Wednesday afternoon it sounded like Milwaukee County's recount was on track to finish, but just before 6 p.m. City of Milwaukee's top election official said they came up 65 ballots short for Ward 254.
Claire Woodall-Vogg, Executive Director for Milwaukee Election Commission, said they had 23 out of 88 ballots for the ward. After searching, her predecessor Neil Albrecht found the ballots inside a voting machine at the election commission's warehouse.
Woodall-Vogg added later they were found between two stacks of blank ballots and they were immediately brought to the Wisconsin Center where the recount is taking place.
Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson said he is not too concerned, adding these ballots were cast in-person and counted on Election Day.
A reporter asked if this made him concerned about the chain of custody when it comes to ballots.
"Those are still at the City of Milwaukee Election Commission warehouse. They were, according to her, still in one of the machines and that does happen and again that's the value of a recount. No concerns about custody as far as I'm concerned," said Christenson.
Those 65 ballots will be counted on Friday. Both the Biden and Trump campaigns were advised to have a small contingency of observers there.
Meanwhile, sheriff's deputies will work through Thanksgiving to keep ballots at the Wisconsin Center secure.
Christenson said early Wednesday that the recount was back on schedule to wrap up by the weekend after a slow start due to several lengthy objections.
"Anything is possible. I won't make any predictions at what other objections may arise but we are basically wrapped up for tonight," Christenson said.
The Milwaukee County Clerk anticipated the counting and remaining procedural work will be done by midday Friday. County officials will report the recount results then.

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Posted: June 1, 2012 | Author: scoronel | Filed under: Corruption, Courts, Investigative techniques | Tags: Carlinhos Cachoeira, corruption, courts, Demostenes Torres, Renato Corona, Tun Eussof Chin |2 Comments
Damning photo: Tun Eussof Chin, then chief justice of the Malaysian Supreme Court (second from left), and his wife were photographed vacationing in a New Zealand ski resort with a prominent lawyer who had a case pending in his court. (From Malaysiakini)
This week, scandals involving high court judges in the Philipppines and Brazil were in the international spotlight. On Tuesday, Renato Corona, the chief justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, was removed from office after having been found guilty by the Senate of failure to disclose millions of dollars in his bank accounts.
On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that high court judges in Brazil were alleged to have taken overseas trips on private planes arranged by opposition senator Demostenes Torres. The senator is said to be a "gopher" for Carlinhos Cachoeira, a powerful businessman and illegal gambling operator who is known as Brazil's Michael Corleone.
As anyone who has dealt with Philippine – or for that matter, Brazilian – courts knows, these charges are just the tip of the iceberg. Corruption has weakened the foundations of the judiciary in many countries, and the investigation of a few high-ranking judges will not necessarily clean up the courts. But scandals provide an opportunity to focus the public's gaze on the justice system and to give it far more scrutiny than it's getting now.
In many countries, lawyers and litigants talk openly about corruption in the courts. Proving it, however, is difficult. Piercing the veil of secrecy in the courts and finding evidence of wrongdoing are real challenges. Here are some ways in which corruption, malfeasance and other forms of wrongdoing in the judiciary have been investigated.
✔ Linking court decisions to the judges' families, friends, and in many states in the U.S., campaign contributors. The same techniques used for probing political corruption work for the courts as well. In U.S. states where judges are elected, journalists have linked campaign contributions to judges' decisions. In a 1987 Pulitzer-Prize-winning investigation, the Philadelphia Inquirer built a database that showed that defense lawyers who funded the campaigns of judges in municipal courts won 71 percent of their cases in those judges' courts. In contrast, only 35 percent of all defendants in municipal courts won their cases. Since then, a number of news articles and academic studies have linked campaign contributions to judges' decisions. A recent Yale study, for example, found that the larger a party's contribution to a judge, the more likely the judge would vote in that party's favor.
In countries where judges are not elected, journalists have made the connection between favorable decisions and judges' links to winning litigants in a lawsuit. These can be family, business, political or professional ties. Judges are supposed to recuse themselves whenever a potential conflict of interest arises, but that doesn't always happen. For example, among the charges against the recently removed Philippine chief justice was that his decisions had unduly favored the former president, who had not only appointed him presidential legal counsel and then chief justice but also made his wife chair of a government-owned company, for which she got paid millions.
In 1994, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism investigated a trial court judge who had issued several rulings in favor of Hoechst, a German multinational; these rulings overturned a government ban on harmful pesticides. The investigation found that the judge was once a lawyer for a Hoehcst affiliate while his wife owned substantial shares in another Hoechst subsidiary. [Disclosure: I was director of the Center at that time.]
In Kenya, an appeals court judge was found to have been a legal consultant to a litigant in his court. The judge didn't recuse himself and decided in the litigant's favor. There are many similar examples in other countries.
✔ Getting evidence of bribery from losing litigants and lawyers. In a lawsuit, one party wins and another loses. Where corruption in the courts is rife, there is no shortage of losing lawyers and litigants who will claim that they had been cheated because their opponent bribed, pressured or somehow influenced the judge. Losers are a mine of information. For sure, what they say may be baseless or exaggerated, but some of it can also be verified and corroborated.
Complaints or cases against supposedly erring judges filed by litigants or lawyers are a great resource, not just for getting information on actual instances of bribery, but also for finding patterns in the manner in which judges are approached, the bribes and inducements that are offered, and the ways in which the course of justice is perverted.
For example, a recent case in Pennsylvania showed how two judges received $2.6 million in bribes not from the parties in a lawsuit but from two privately run youth detention centers. In what eventually became known as the "kids for cash" scandal, the judges pleaded guilty to making arrangements to get kickbacks from those facilities for the youth offenders they sentenced to detention.
In Ghana, cases filed against judges showed payments of bribes through intermediaries. In Italy, 16 tax judges were arrested in Naples in March, for allegedly receiving bribes and gifts for issuing favorable tax rulings to businesses owned by the Camorra clan network. One of the judges allegedly worked as an accountant for the crime family.
✔ Finding out whom judges are meeting, playing golf and going on vacations with. Most courts have rules against meeting with just one, instead of both, parties in a lawsuit. This is known as ex-parte communication and it happens with frightening frequency in many countries. The circumstances of some of those meetings can be scandalous, such as a that of a Malaysian chief justice and his wife who were found vacationing in a swanky New Zealand ski resort with a prominent lawyer who had lawsuits pending in the judge's court, a clear violation of judicial ethics. Evidence of the vacation – including air tickets and photographs – were obtained by a private investigative firm and published by the independent news site Malaysiakini in 1994. At that time, the lawyer was representing a Malaysian tycoon who had filed a libel suit against a journalist. That case was being heard by a panel headed by the chief justice.
In the late 1990s, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism got photographs of the chief justice in a golf course with lawyers who had pending suits in the high court. They also obtained travel records that showed the chief justice and a lawyer-friend took several trips together to Hong Kong, where they (again)played golf. That lawyer was then litigating cases in the Supreme Court and was widely known in the legal community as someone who had the chief justice's ear. As that story reported, inappropriate approaches to jurists are often made indirectly, through well-connected intermediaries like the chief justice's golfing buddy.
Ex-parte meetings happen in the U.S. as well, though not in the Supreme Court. The Philadelphia Inquirer story mentioned above examined court records and found numerous cases in which crucial decisions on cases in municipal courts were made after private conversations with lawyers of just one party.
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Is there anyone with guts enough to investigate the sabine parish court judge? Its not about the law in Many La. Its about who knows who and who has the most power to get you reelected. Example. A man on probation goes into a bar on saturday night in sabine parish almost kills a 60 year old crippled man for no reason. About 25 days ago. The old man is in ICU at LSU Hospital in Shreveport La today. The 38?? Year old man goes to work ever day like nothing. Example.. A former doctor of sabine parish gets a dwi. Has a wreck. Kills someone. Gets into trouble for writing illegal prescriptions. Nothing is done. Just moved his practice 45 minutes down the road to Leesville La.. still practicing. Nothing has been dont as of today…. Example.. a 68 year old man accused of neglect of animals does 5 months in jail works on his 200 hours of community service at the sabine humain society. Ask a question about why the humain society gets the food and supplies from Alexandria La instead of keeping the money in sabine parish. Is told that very evening the lady over the humain society does not want him back out there. So today the judge orders him to do 44 hours in jail to complete his community service. Instead of letting the man finish the 44 hours some where else. The woman over the humain society said she wanted him back in jail and thats just what she got… example.. a man beats his wife more then once knows the judge and does not go to jail until the wife keeps calling and working to be sure the husband goes to jail months later… so many cases In Sabine Parish need to be looked into. Is there you can do this? Thanks for taking the time to read my letter and I truly hope you are willing and able to help.
I have my feet in two worlds. For many years, I was the director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism in Manila. In 2006, I moved to New York to teach at Columbia University, where I am director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. I've taught journalists in Asia, Eastern Europe and elsewhere and am an avid watcher of investigative reporting. This blog draws from my work, both past and present. It looks at how watchdog reporting is being done around the world; it also contains reflections on what I think is a golden moment for investigative reporting, but also a moment fraught with challenges and threats. -- Sheila S. Coronel
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Sarlo Award-winner Dr. Munir Jiwa reflects on art and Muslim identity, interreligious dialogue, and the growth of the GTU's Center for Islamic Studies From the Fall 2015 issue of Currents What does it mean to be Muslim, and how does Islamic tradition find expression in contemporary life? Some might expect to find the answer to such questions by visiting a mosque or speaking with an imam. But throughout his academic career, Dr. Munir Jiwa has sought to address these questions more expansively. "Being Muslim is not just a theological commitment," says Jiwa, "it can also be a cultural or...
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Fired Google workers plan a labor complaint, alleging retaliation
Google said it fired the four workers for violating its data security policy. The workers say they didn't violate policy.
(Michael Liedtke / Associated Press)
Four workers fired from Google last week are planning to file a federal labor complaint against the company, alleging that it unfairly retaliated against them for organizing workers around social causes.
The former employees said Tuesday that they are preparing to file unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board this week. All four were fired Nov. 25 for what Google said were violations of its data security policy.
Company officials wrote in a memo — without confirming the employees' names — that the four were "searching for, accessing, and distributing business information outside the scope of their jobs."
But the four workers — Laurence Berland, Sophie Waldman, Rebecca Rivers and Paul Duke — say they believe they did not violate company policies and claim that Google is using the alleged violations as an excuse to terminate them for labor activity.
"This is an expression of Google's management power," Duke said. "They are scared of worker power."
Google denies that it fired the employees for organizing activity.
"No one has been dismissed for raising concerns or debating the company's activities," the company said in a statement.
Google employees are known for being among the most outspoken in the tech industry. Thousands of them held a walkout last year to protest the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims. Since then, employees have petitioned for better benefits for contract workers, successfully argued for the end of mandatory arbitration and have opposed Google's involvement in some government projects.
The company has also been known for an open, collaborative work culture since its early days. Employee activists say that culture is now getting closed off.
Chief Executive Sundar Pichai's weekly question-and-answer sessions with employees recently turned into monthly meetings. Google also updated its community guidelines to tell employees to avoid "disrupting the workday" to debate politics or other topics. Some workers complain that both moves were meant to discourage open speech and crack down on employee pushback.
Waldman and Duke helped create a petition this year that called for Google to refrain from bidding on a cloud computing contract with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. Nearly 1,500 employees signed the petition, which said that the agency had "engaged in human rights abuses" at the southern border and that Google should not work with it.
Rivers and Berland also helped spread the petition, and Berland has been involved in organizing other campaigns at the company, including those involving LGBTQ rights.
All four say Google officials questioned them in the past few months for sharing or accessing internal documents. Two say they were placed on administrative leave last month.
The company said it found one worker set up notifications to be alerted about other employees' calendar changes, which made those employees feel unsafe. It said screenshots of their calendars with their names were shared externally.
"We have always taken information security very seriously, and will not tolerate efforts to intimidate Googlers or undermine their work, nor actions that lead to the leak of sensitive business or customer information," read the memo sent by Chris Rackow, Royal Hansen and Heather Adkins from the company's security and investigations team.
The employees said that any documents they viewed and shared were already accessible by Google workers and that they only shared them internally. They said others later shared them outside the company.
The four fired workers said they received no severance payments. They are working with lawyers and have not yet determined the details of the NLRB complaint but said it will address retaliation concerns and will likely take issue broadly with Google's recent policy changes and alleged crackdowns against employee organizing.
Google reached a separate settlement with the NLRB in September over employees' ability to speak out about workplace issues. The company, owned by Alphabet Inc., agreed to post notices to remind employees of their rights, including the ability to talk to one another about workplace conditions and push for changes such as raises.
The four workers' situation has led to additional protest. A few hundred people attended a rally at Google's San Francisco office in November to call for Rivers' and Berland's reinstatement.
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Canberra's Pacific pivot is bereft of vision
Edward Cavanough
The government's motivations appear sincere but are riddled with anxiety about the risks of investing in the region.
Australian Navy ship in Fairfax Harbour, Port Moresby (Photo: Shane McLeod)
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Australia and the Pacific
A refreshing wave of Pacific-mania is sweeping Canberra.
There's new postings, a new Office of the Pacific, a high profile visit from the prime minister to the region, and two major announcements on Pacific infrastructure: the creation of the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP) and reforms to EFIC, Australia's export finance agency.
Given its negligible cost, the EFIC reform will be seen as an empty gesture in a region used to big announcements and poor follow-through.
There's been little detailed divergence between the Coalition's renewed vision for Australia in the Pacific and Labor's own.
Foreign policy agreement is generally preferable. A strong US alliance, a commitment to a rules-based global order, deep engagement in the Indo-Pacific – the cornerstones of Australian foreign policy – are supported by all. There's little need for point scoring on the basics.
Sometimes, however, mature debate is healthy: the battle of ideas can foster new ways of thinking as Australia navigates an increasingly disruptive world.
There are few theatres of Australian foreign policy where creative ideas are in higher demand than the Pacific. But so far, Canberra's Pacific pivot seems bereft of vision.
The House of Representatives recently passed the EFIC reform. It seeks to change EFIC's mandate so the export financing agency can facilitate more Australian-led infrastructure projects in the Pacific, and provide it with more "callable capital". The Bill now waits for Senate approval.
It all sounds reasonable, and the government's motivations appear sincere.
The opposition also have the Pacific's best interests at heart. Impassioned Pacific-philes (shadow defence minister Richard Marles even had his honeymoon in Kiribati), Labor's foreign policy team have long pushed for a bolder Pacific vision.
Bill Shorten was the first to commit to a regional infrastructure financing facility.
But reforming EFIC is no panacea for Pacific infrastructure development. Indeed, the Bill making its way through parliament carries some risks that weren't flagged in parliamentary debates.
First, the EFIC reforms will cost the government no money. That's not my assessment: this is what the Bill's explanatory memorandum says, and EFIC staff have all but confirmed in Senate estimates. Professor Stephen Howes of the ANU has reiterated these concerns.
The "callable capital" is, essentially, a phantom investment unlikely to ever be deployed.
The worst case scenario is that, given its negligible cost, the EFIC reform will be seen as an empty gesture in a region used to big announcements and poor follow-through.
While the government has also announced the creation of the AIFFP, it too seems modest when considering the scale of the Pacific's infrastructure investment shortfall (US $3 billion per annum) and how the AIFFP is being broken down.
The AIFFP is slated to consist of $1.5 billion in recoverable loans and $500 million in grants. When considering the $1 billion slated for EFIC is unlikely to ever be called upon, Australia's Pacific Pivot quickly shrinks from a $3 billion headline to a $500 million expense.
To put that in context, China committed US $3.9 billion to PNG alone in 2017.
The AIFFP has also been let down by an abysmal public consultation process: in requesting submissions, the government has restricted comments to just three pages.
The second issue with EFIC reform is the focus on the new "Australian benefits test". The argument is that, by loosening EFIC's remit, it will be able to finance more infrastructure projects in the Pacific, so long as they are deemed to be in Australia's interests.
Immediately, you can see the problem: EFIC's mandate is putting Australia first, not the Pacific. The reforms require Australian needs to be met before investment in the Pacific can occur.
A fundamental issue with Pacific infrastructure development is the saturation of "supply-side" infrastructure projects in the region – projects that benefit the development partner more than the Pacific recipient. The EFIC reforms may just entrench this.
Third, the reform is being argued as central to Australia's pledge to "step up" its Pacific engagement. Arguing that such a reform can help position Australia as the infrastructure partner of choice for the 14 sovereign Pacific states and Timor Leste – a region of more than 11 million people speaking 1300 languages over thousands of islands – is heroic.
There are more than 60 entities – multilateral bodies and other nations – engaging in development finance in the Pacific. Reforming EFIC doesn't shift the needle, and does little to differentiate Australia's approach in a contested development landscape.
The lack of investment in infrastructure in the Pacific can be boiled down to one word: risk.
Few investors take the gamble in the Pacific due to the high levels of investment risk – environmental, political, and economic – that define the region.
The big projects that do occur tend to be in lower risk environments in urban areas, compounding the lack of progress in heavily populated rural areas across much of the region.
Granting loans, offering grants, and permitting EFIC to expand its mandate are part of the mix but are hardly a game changer.
Incentives need to be altered to truly unleash private investment, and the risks of doing so need to be identified and offset by development partners, including Australia. EFIC can offset some risk on a project-by-project basis, but not enough.
There are real economic investment opportunities in vital infrastructure in the region – especially in energy. 7 million Pacific islanders, including PNG, have no power, and the whole region is desperate to clean up its electricity grids. Australia is well placed to help achieve these goals. But Canberra's new suite of measures don't appear geared towards the type of risk insurance and microfinancing that will get the job done.
The EFIC reforms will likely pass into law with bipartisan support.
It is beholden on both the government and opposition to ensure the reform doesn't come at the expense of bigger, more imaginative solutions to overcoming the determinants of the infrastructure deficit in the Pacific.
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Book Review – Raven House (Otherworld Academy #1)
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Levi Walker was just a regular college student until a hilariously uncomfortable encounter with his roommate led him to storm out of his dorm—straight into the path of a delivery truck.
And well, all anime fans know what happens when you meet Truck-kun.
Now he's been reincarnated with magical powers at Otherworld Academy in the land of Taryl, where he and other magic-wielding students from other dimensions must harness their abilities to fight off the monstrous Horrors that threaten all their worlds. It's a jarring transition to make …
But then, all the sexy girls at his new school make it a whole lot easier.
I knew I was going to like Deacon Frost's Raven House (Otherworld Academy #1) the moment I saw Truck-kun named in the blurb. Truck-kun is not an actual character in the book, beyond its pivotal appearance in the first scene, but any author who can name one of the most iconic trucks in all of anime obviously knows their isekai tropes.
That said, if you like isekai adventures, you're in for a fun ride.
Otherworld Academy reads like the glorious product of a drunken late-night con chat between authors where one asked "What if Harry Potter got isekai'd off to a sexy steampunk college and also discovered he was really into Pokemon and also collecting girls?" It's more Harry Potter than Pokemon, given its magic boarding school setting and cross-dimensional high stakes, but when it's revealed that reincarnated Levi has a talent for monster taming and gets a set of magic items that are basically steampunk Pokeballs, the monster collecting nerd in me squealed a little bit. (Okay, a lot.)
It's a harem book, so naturally Levi collects ladies as enthusiastically as he does monsters, but it stands out from other harem books in that its women contribute something other than sexiness to the plot. Each helps Levi learn to master his powers and place in this world in their own (not even necessarily sexy) ways, and eventually he discovers a legitimate reason why he should pair up with multiple women (relating to the mechanics of his magic).
On the spicy end, there's plenty of spice, and it's hot—but the characters and world are so well-defined that honestly it could stand on its own without the spicy scenes. (And they are mostly skippable for people who want story over sex.)
To be honest, while the spice is great, the world and characters are where Raven House excels. Its approach to magic is interesting and twofold; mana in this setting can be processed into vapor and burned in a way that effectively turns it into fuel, and the magitek nerd in me enjoyed reading about the intricacies of this process. People, of course, have access to magic, too, and since everyone at this school is from a different dimension with different magical practices, there are a wide variety of ways for students to harness their magic, which makes for cool, eclectic battle scenes, especially toward the end.
In terms of the world itself, we don't get much of a look into the other dimensions in this book—this volume is largely the story of Levi getting used to his new world—but some details here and there, and especially the climactic conflict of the book, hint at a complex array of interdimensional politics and problems just waiting to spill onto Academy grounds in future books.
Levi himself is a likable and relatable protagonist, fascinated by his new abilities and body while being reasonably frustrated by the practical things he now has to get used to. (He had good eyesight in his old body, for example, whereas his new body needs glasses.) Also, while he has his headstrong moments, he's never audacious enough to be outright stupid, and mostly uses his power to stick up for his motley band of friends when bullies from other houses come to pick at them. (Otherworld Academy divides its students into magically-themed houses, Hogwarts-style.) He's also noble enough to stick up for redeemable enemies once he learns more about their situations, though the absolute baddies get knocked on their asses when they deserve it. Cupcake-obsessed elf Nox Willowbrook makes for a fun companion, both in magic and … other things, and dark elf house mistress Tawny Goldenrod makes for a ferocious presence, both on the battlefield and … elsewhere. Another notable character is Glint Scrim, a swamp imp and vapor engineer who's such a nerd for his subject matter that his enthusiasm is absolutely infectious (and one of the reasons why the magic systems come across so well).
Of all the characters, though, Zuzan is best girl.
Overall, if you're looking for a fun, magical academy adventure with a steampunk vibe and steamier sex, Raven House (Otherworld Academy #1) is a great place to start.
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What's the point in making fan made chapters?
Is there any point at all? I spend awhile trying to make my own fan made chapters, they always receive little to no attention and I don't see how they benefit the community. It feels like a real time waster to me. Any answers?
It's a waste of time all right. I don't know why people keep coming up with suggestions. Some of the devs occasionally read the forum and may pick up tiny fragments from some of the more creative ideas, but a completely worked out, detailed killer/survivor/perk/map concept, etc... it's just idle fancies.
I feel like some recent chapters took inspiration on some of the fan mades ones, i remember seeing someone making a killer that would vault pallets and windows like Legion does, but maybe it's a coincidence idk.
Eitherway no, there's no "point", i believe it's just for fun and shouldn't be anything else.
Well anyone can come up with ideas. It has no value. If you can do either the coding or the artistic part of it, that's something. But then you should be making your own game.
Everything is waste of time... or not. If you enjoy it.
We had calls for a fat survivor that had a chance to break hooks. Not long after? Jeff appears with a perk to break hooks.
Granted he isn't fat, he looks huge compared to other survivors.
He does have a sizable stomach on him. But he looks awesome.
2. Interesting - Throwing two pieces of mud together is boring, so you're trying to come up with a concept and a mechanic that would fit the game: sorting and filtering ideas.
3. Mental exercise - not everyone is doing it, but balancing your power\perk idea is not easy and you need to be sure you're not overpowering or underpowering them. And then you must remember about 59 Survivor perks and 54 Killer perks already existing in-game and think of how your powers and perks could synergize: would they compliment each other, would they break the game?
Of course, devs will not take any of fan ideas, mostly due to legal issues: the idea needs to be purchased to be used in the actual game, unless the devs want a court suit in their face. I don't even think anyone from the designer or dev team is reading these. BUT it's not for them - it's for you.
Reading other people's ideas is interesting as well, provided they are good, original and thought-through. Admittedly most of the fan killers/survivors/chapters are horrible: pieced together, not optimised and not well-thought at all - many of them are just power fantasies about pwning and being the king of the hill.
I mean, show me your proudest chapter and I could give it a read. I hope someone could give mine a read, though I did get like... One or two actual feedback to it? I'm too lazy to check.
My proudest would probably be "A study in victimology"
I've took this very popular idea of a killer disguising as a survivor and stood it on it's head, trying to make it into a viable mechanic, that doesn't break the game and is not so easily counterable as most of similar ideas are.
It has it's issues (the surv perk is OP), but I think it's the best one I have.
I read it, and will give it a full review once (eventually, maybe) I'm not so tired.
Its like others have said...bits and pieces of other people's ideas (from here and steam forums) have made it in to the game so I do think some of the devs do peruse the site here occasionally. Also sometimes trying to do a creative chapter idea is just that...a mental exercise in creativity and just fun in general. I've done 2 chapters so far myself (Wendigo and Hatred) just messing around.
I just like to come up with killer ideas, I already posted one and have a couple more in store. Even if there is no point I like to think of new possibilities.
I do them because they are fun to write, but really nobody notices them.
I like reading what people make up. Even got a favorite killer concept, one that's also pretty old.
Some prisoner killer with shock collars, kinda like a mix between Pig and Doctor.


There's no better way to show your love for Christmas in Wyoming than an ornament representing your state. If that's your life philosophy, here are some Wyoming ornaments you might want to consider adding to your tree.
If a bird were Godzilla, it would be this one. It's a very attractive Wyoming mountain range that features a mammoth finch. To be fair, there's also a buffalo and cowboy on the other side who are also larger than life.
You can actually see Casper on this ornament if you are Ant Man.
This is a versatile Wyoming ornament where you can move the snowman's arms in the up position when we win or the other way if they don't.
This is a Wyoming Christmas ornament you are guaranteed to love especially if you're Richard Dreyfuss.


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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation will present a free, family-focussed event, at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, on Sunday 1 March 2009.
In the aftermath of the bushfires, the ABC Community Concert is a thank you to all Victorian's for the tremendous support they have shown towards those affected by the fires. It also recognises the many emergency service providers who responded and are now helping people recover. The ABC concert day will be a celebration of our strength as a community.
The concert starts at 10.30am and will showcase many of the ABC's much loved kids entertainers including the Bananas in Pyjamas, Dorothy the Dinosaur, The Fairies and Playschool friends Georgie Parker and Jay Laga'aia.
Then from 2pm, a line up of local musicians, comedians and entertainers come together for an afternoon celebrating community spirit. Performers include the Choir of Hard Knocks, Mark Seymour, Red Gum's John Schumann, Rebecca Barnard, The Melbourne Chamber Orchestra. Plus, the stars of Spicks and Specks joining forces with the stars of Rockwiz to perform a song with the Rockwiz Orchestra.
So pack a picnic, bring along family and friends and join the ABC, your emergency services broadcaster, on Sunday March 1, at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, for this special free event.


It's 3 a.m. You are in bed sleeping, but someone out there is hard at work at destroying your website. Are you protected against their attempts?
Unfortunately most webmasters are not protected.
After this website went live, within the first 10 days there were 14 different attempts to hack the site. No one is exempt from the hackers, so the best way to protect yourself is by putting some preventative measures in place from the start.
Your objective in this chapter is to better understand the malicious attempts of hackers and discover a few basic tactics to increase the security of your site.
They don't like you or your content and want to destroy your website.
They want to create a reputation as the best hacker (typically these people are hacking government or large corporation sites).
They are curious about what is within their abilities.
They are using "Black Hat" SEO techniques.
They aim to steal information.
Other motives for hackers exist, but these are the most common. Everyone is subject to them, even people who simply use social media.
A hacker's intentions will typically determine whether or not you know you've been hacked.
If a hacker's intention is to steal information, they will probably purposely cover their tracks so you don't find out. "Black Hat" SEO's simply add a link somewhere on your site directing traffic back to them, but otherwise leave your site as it is so you don't ever notice or fix it.
If a hacker's intention is to deface your website, they may add a graphic or music to your home page with a message similar to "Hacked By…" so that they can be "credited" with the damage. If you've been hacked this way, the hacker has probably already hidden code all over source files and the database, making it virtually impossible to discover everything they altered.
For victims of this hacking, there only two methods of recourse: a) restore a backup from prior to the hack (hopefully you have a reliable one) or b) deleting everything and restarting your website. Unfortunately, both will probably result in some amount of lost data.
Restoring a website can be a huge hassle (in addition to restoring the possible damage it has done to your brand)! Therefore, we advocate that the best action is to be proactive and protect yourself from an attack.
Step 1: Make sure that your website is automatically backing up content whenever it is added. This is very important with or without hackers.
Step 2: Make sure your website is difficult to target.
Imagine two cars in a parking lot. One is locked with the windows up and the second is unlocked with the windows down and cash on the front seat. Which one do you think a thief will target first?
Is your WordPress login the default "admin" and your password "password"? If so, you've got your windows rolled down.
While having the most extensive security possible for a small business website does not always make sense financially, it is important to make it more difficult to hack than the average website. If it looks like a pain to hack, most hackers will just move along to the next website.
Unfortunately, there is no perfect, 100% guarantee that your website will not be hacked. However, you're already doing better than most if you follow the steps below.
Note: If you are collecting personal data such as credit cards or social security numbers, etc., we recommend that you visit with a security expert in lieu of this post.
Fix 1: Create custom and secure username and password.
The easiest fix is to have a custom username and a secure password. This can be done when the site is being installed. If you already have a site setup that is using a username other than "Admin" you can choose to just change your password to be more secure (minimum recommended).
On the left hand side of your WordPress dashboard highlight "Users" and click "Your Profile".
Scroll down to "New Password" and enter a new password there. Hints: ideally the password will be over 12 characters long, containing at least one of each upper-case, lower-case, number, and special character (don't start the password with a special character). Click save and you're done with this step.
If your username is "Admin," we recommend updating it.
With WordPress you cannot change your username. Instead, create a new user and then delete the old "Admin" user. To do that look on the left hand side highlight "Users" and click "Add New." On this page simply enter the new user data. Make sure to set the role to "Administrator" and use a complex password.
You want to have a plugin or combination of plugins to manage security from other angles.
Wordfence Security and BulletProof Security are two popular choices that cover a variety of security issues. (With both of these plugins you want to make sure they are fully setup, not just installed.) Simply follow the tutorials offered by the plugins.
Remember, none of these updates or fixes are 100% guaranteed to protect your site. These are simply basic setting alterations to put in place. However, by utilizing these tips, you will significantly reduce your risk of being hacked, at least more so than the average WordPress site.
Huzzah! You've met your objective of better understanding the malicious attempts of hackers and discovering a few basic tactics to increase the security of your site.
There's only one more chapter left in this series. You're almost there. Keep up the good work!


Motor vehicle collisions are often devastating for victims and their families. Compassionate Raleigh car accident lawyer Carl Nagle and the staff at Nagle & Associates understand the potentially life-threatening injuries and financial hardships that often follow serious motor vehicle accidents. Before founding this firm, Mr. Nagle worked as an insurance defense attorney and also as an insurance claims adjuster. His experience defending against personal injury claims now serves to strengthen his strategic grasp of how to advocate on behalf of victims.
With seven offices across the state, Nagle & Associates represents injured individuals throughout North Carolina, including people in Wilmington, Asheville, and Winston-Salem. We have successfully recovered over $290 million on behalf of accident victims, and we are committed to maximizing compensation for every one of our clients.
Speeding accidents take place when a driver disobeys the posted speed limit and drives too fast, resulting in a loss of control of their vehicle and ultimately causing a collision. Often, these accidents take place on the highway, although they can be just as devastating on a quiet neighborhood street. Collisions resulting from a speeding vehicle may cause severe injuries and substantial property damage. A victim involved in this type of crash may pursue compensation from the speeding driver in a personal injury lawsuit.
Generally, a speeding driver may be held liable for this behavior because disobeying traffic rules like posted speed limits shows carelessness or recklessness. If the speeding or other behavior is extreme, additional damages known as punitive damages may be available in some situations. However, as in any car accident case, there are possible defenses that may present challenges to a plaintiff. For example, the defendant driver may allege that the plaintiff was partly responsible for the crash. North Carolina is among a few states that bar a plaintiff from recovering damages under a doctrine called contributory negligence if the defendant can show that the plaintiff was at all responsible. This harsh rule contrasts with the more prevalent system of comparative negligence, which allows for proportionate recovery by the plaintiff.
Depending on the circumstances, some victims of speeding accidents may turn to the "last clear chance" doctrine in order to prevent the defense of contributory negligence from forestalling their recovery. Even if a plaintiff is deemed to have partly caused the accident, if the defendant still had the last clear chance to avoid the collision but failed to do so, the plaintiff may be able to recover damages.
For all accident victims pursuing personal injury lawsuits against the drivers who struck them, it is important to abide by the statute of limitations. This is a time period within which a plaintiff must file their lawsuit. Under North Carolina law, a claim for compensation after a speeding accident must be brought within three years from the date of the crash. It is also wise to promptly consult an attorney after an accident so that vital evidence remains fresh and available, since you will want to substantiate the compensation that you are claiming as thoroughly as possible.
Victims injured in a speeding accident can pursue a wide range of compensation, related not only to the costs and harms that they have already sustained but also to future damages like medical bills and lost earning capacity. Raleigh car accident lawyer Carl Nagle provides dedicated legal representation to victims. We use a reduced fee schedule that helps alleviate the financial burdens on our clients, charging 25% of the settlement secured and accepted by our client, rather than the 33% that most other firms charge. We stand ready to assist collision victims throughout NC including residents of Asheville, Winston-Salem, Wilmington, Hickory, Greensboro, Charlotte, and other communities throughout Wake, Mecklenburg, Forsyth, Guilford, Durham, New Hanover, and Catawba Counties. Call us at 800-411-1583 or use our online form to set up a free consultation with a motor vehicle collision lawyer.


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Q: Why does it look like react is importing other files? So I have the directory with 2 files and an index.js:
Directory
-> FileA.js
-> FileB.js
-> Index.js

My index.js there looks like this:
import FileA from './FileA';
import FileB from './FileB';

export {
  FileA,
  FileB
};

Now in a Component I import FileA like so:
import { FileA } from '@/Directory';
However in FileB there is an issue as I removed a package. But I am not importing FileB. So how come I get an error complaining about a missing package in FileB when its not even being imported?

A: You are already importing it in your index.js therefore its used. you can directly export it like:
export {default as FileA} from './FileA';
export {default as FileB} from './FileB';

and it should help and work the same

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import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { ButtonToggleComponent, ButtonToggleGroupDirective } from './button-toggle';

@NgModule({
    imports: [
        CommonModule,
    ],
    declarations: [
        ButtonToggleGroupDirective,
        ButtonToggleComponent,
    ],
    exports: [
        ButtonToggleGroupDirective,
        ButtonToggleComponent,
    ],
})
export class ButtonToggleModule {
}