Simply gorgeous two story in a great neighborhood! Stunning new kitchen features white shaker cabinets, granite counters, chic porcelain back-splash and stainless appliance. Beautiful plank flooring throughout main floor. Bright and open family room with sharp brick front fireplace. New sliding doors to wonderful maintenance free deck and fenced yard. Pretty living room and dining room - stylish and trending fixtures and wall color throughout. Three updated baths including an elegant master bath with walk-in closet and "his & her" vanities. Basement includes a bright and spacious family room with projector and sound system -also an adjacent playroom/rec-room. Lower level fourth bedroom currently an office. Over 2900 sf of finished living space. Two car attached garage. Walk to Park district, park, lake, trails and more. Downers North High School!
Beautiful split-level home in Skokie, ONLY 10 minutes from the LAKE! This home includes two bathrooms and three bedrooms along with a separate laundry room. Has a Lovely living room and dining room with a galley-style kitchen and eating area. Comes freshly painted with new carpet in all upstairs rooms and family room. NEW windows installed upstairs and in living area, along with NEW appliances, Newer AC and furnace, one car detached garage. Property is priced to sell, and Move-in-Ready. Schedule a viewing today!
Looking for a historic charmer near downtown and highways? This home has all the vintage looks - wood burning fireplace, hardwood floors, french doors, built ins, as well as being located on an outstanding block just steps to downtown Elmhurst. Property boasts huge yard with mature landscaping. Recent improvements include new roof, heating system, AC, and chimney/liner. Don't miss out!
WHAT A GREAT HOME! From the beautifully landscaped yard, to the well maintained house boasting gleaming hardwood flrs throughout the main level! Living Rm features a bay window with seating and storage, vaulted ceiling. Meals can be enjoyed in the bright sunlit eat-in Kit with breakfast bar, granite countertops, backsplash and all new stainless steel appliances. Dinette has skylight and sliding glass dr to a spacious deck great for cookouts. Kit also has a walk in pantry. 1st Fl. laundry rm. On those rainy days you can use the screened in porch. The full basement offers additional living space in the Family Rm, with new carpet '17, bonus rm and full bth updated in '18. This home also has a heated & air cond mechanics 3 car garage! Walking dist to train, school and CDH! Roof on house & garage New 6/2015. Gutter, gutter guards and oversized downspouts '16. Energy efficient w/ L.E.D. lights throughout, updated electric. panel '16. Pool new in 2018, but Seller willing to remove pool.
410 E Washington Street, Villa Park, IL new listing!
Spectacular home in sought after South Villa Park location offers nuclear bang for your buck! The main level features a large and bright living room opening to spacious formal dining area, updated custom kitchen with granite counter tops, handsome backsplash, pantry, and high end appliances featuring massive side-by-side freezer/refrigerator. 17' x 14' master bedroom, 2nd bedroom and updated full bath - awesome hardwood flooring throughout 1st level. 30' x 14' 3rd bedroom on the second level. Terrific finished basement with 32' x 15' family room and gigantic 15' x 11' second full bath. Concrete driveway, 2 car garage, wonderful rear yard. Home has been cared for with extreme pride! Newer roof. Hurry, will not last!!!
Master suite. Three full bathrooms. Attached two car garage. 2,000 square feet. This home has everything you are looking for in Woodridge! 8332 Mending Wall offers a fully fenced backyard with excellent landscaping and room to expand the garden. Woodridge offers great DuPage county schools, but still has easy access to interstates 88 and 355 for commuters heading North, South, East or West. A home warranty is being offered free of charge to the buyers for your peace of mind! See it today.
Deluxe four unit building in awesome location offers nuclear bang for your buck! Wonderful owner occupied or investment opportunity. Building has been cared for with extreme pride. Featuring 4 2-bedroom units with spacious open floor plan and attached garage with each unit. 2nd level units with cathedral ceilings and walk-out decks. All units with spacious laundry rooms and updated appliances. Newer roof. Quality sound proof construction. The market dictates that rents should be increased to approximately 900/mo. Great money maker! See additional info for breakdown of expenses. Building next door for sale also at 4901 Pine Meadows Parkway.
Deluxe four unit building in awesome location offers nuclear bang for your buck! Wonderful owner occupied or investment opportunity. Building has been cared for with extreme pride. Featuring 4 2-bedroom units with spacious open floor plan and attached garage with each unit. 2nd level units with cathedral ceilings and walk-out decks. All units with spacious laundry rooms and updated appliances. Newer roof. Quality sound proof construction. The market dictates that rents should be increased to approximately 900/mo. Great money maker! See additional info for breakdown of expenses. Building next door for sale also at 4923 Pine Meadows Parkway.
224 W Sunset Avenue, Lombard, IL new listing!
BACK ON MARKET...Complete rehab from top to bottom. Beautiful grey shaker kitchen with white quartz counters, SS Appliances and glass mosaic backplash. Main floor bath features new toilet, vanity and tile, original tub has been refinished. 3 nice sized bedrooms on main floor, two of which feature double closets. Main level has hardwood floors refinished as well as new hardwood in kitchen to match. Finished basement includes all new full bath with walk-in shower. Huge open room with new carpet, two large closets, and nook setup for flat screen tv. A legal egress window was installed, so creating a legal 4th bedroom would be very easy. New windows throughout, new tear off roof. New HE Furnace and AC, new power vented H2O heater, all new plumbing and electrical. New driveway and new 2 car garage. Broker owned.
Lovely three bedroom south Villa Park cape cod! Beautiful living room with coved entry ways, anchored by the delightful brick and pine front fireplace. Stunning woodwork throughout. Bright dining room features two striking built-in cabinets. Pretty updated kitchen (2009) with can lighting, honey maple cabinets, Corian counter tops and built-in pantry. Spacious master bedroom with sitting area. Hardwood flooring throughout. Full and dry unfinished basement. New concrete drive and front and back steps 2016. Roof 2014, AC 2014, Furnace 2011, Windows 2003-2019, Gutters 2014, Chimney liner 2014. Near shopping and expressways. Highly rated schools and fabulous neighborhood - a wonderful place to call home!
Move right in to this lovely updated brick split-level. Entire home has been professionally painted in neutral colors. New hardwood flooring on main level - refinished hardwood on second level. Sunny living room opens to the eating area and then the beautiful kitchen with Maple cabinets and new Silestone counters. Gorgeous all new main bath, and a pretty new half bath. The Master bedroom and full bath are on the main floor. Charming lower level family room. Paver brick driveway to a fabulous insulated garage. Entertain on the sprawling paver brick patio with a firepit. All new windows 2018, Six panel doors 2019, Furnace and H2Oheatr 2019. New sewer line 2018. Roof 2008. Crawlspace sealed by Permaseal. Willowbrook high school. A wonderful place to call home!
This cute move-in ready! Ranch boasts 3 bd 1 bath w/ full basement, 2 car detached garage on a Boulevard location with nice sized yard w/mature landscape. Freshly painted with newly refinished hardwood floors. Eat-in kitchen. HE Washer and Dryer, tear off roof and sump pump new 2018. Lifetime transferable guarantee on Mastershield Gutter Covers - never clean gutters again! Buried downspouts. One year guarantee on basement drain cleaning as of Jan 2019. Overhead sewers with ejector pump new 2016. Easy access to Rt. 83 and other major highways. Close to the Prairie Path/Salt Creek Trail and Villa Park Metra Station.


Armas Bella Sun is a welcoming family hotel located on the outskirts of Side, close to Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Its facilities include four swimming pools, waterslides, spa services and entertainment for all ages. With the heart of the resort just a short ride away in a taxi, this hotel is perfectly positioned for a fun-filled holiday in Turkey.
The hotel is 300m from the private beach.
It is 62km from Antalya Airport to the hotel.
A choice of Standard Rooms, Bunkbed Rooms and Large Rooms is available at this hotel. All accommodation offers a bathroom with a shower, a minibar, a hairdryer, an LCD TV, split air conditioning, a hairdryer and a balcony or French balcony. Safety deposit boxes can also be hired for a local fee.
Armas Bella Sun offers a buffet restaurant for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There's also a snack bar for when you're feeling peckish. By the beach you'll find a bar for cocktails and other refreshing drinks, and you can also visit the lobby, pool and disco bars.
Swimming pools at this hotel include the main pool, a kids' splash pool, a waterslide pool and a relax pool. There's also a pretty stretch of private beach just a short walk away from the hotel. Little ones will love the kids club (ages 4-12), playground and mini disco, and there's also an entertainment programme for all ages that includes shows, games and sports. The spa offers a Turkish bath, as well as other relaxing facilities for a local fee. Internet access and watersports are available for a local fee, too.


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The Guardian - UK
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
Tracy-Ann Oberman pays 'substantial damages' for antisemitism claims
TracyAnn Oberman Jeremy Corbyn NIP
Tracy-Ann Oberman: 'I made a mistake and appreciate that my comments were hurtful.' Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
The actor Tracy-Ann Oberman has apologised and paid "substantial damages" to a politician and academic who she falsely accused of antisemitism.
Oberman, whose credits include EastEnders, Friday Night Dinner, It's A Sin and Ridley Road and who appeared on Celebrity Bake-Off last week, tweeted that Dr Philip Proudfoot, the founder of the Northern Independence party (NIP), had a "Jew block list".
Proudfoot, an anthropologist and Middle East specialist, had used Twitter block chain, a tool that blocks all Twitter users following a blocked account, in response to being targeted by anonymous troll accounts attacking him for his pro-Palestinian views.
Oberman posted an apology on Twitter on Tuesday morning. She said Proudfoot had contacted her the day after she posted the offending tweet to explain that he had blocked all followers of an account she followed because he believed it was trolling and harassing him.
She told her more than 100,000 followers: "I accept that Dr Proudfoot has at no time had a Jew block list and apologise for stating otherwise. I made a mistake and appreciate that my comments were hurtful. I have therefore deleted my tweet, agreed to pay substantial damages and legal costs."
The level of damages has not been disclosed. Proudfoot, a research fellow at the Institute for Development Studies at Sussex University, founded the leftwing NIP in October 2020.
On 4 April last year, Oberman, a critic of Jeremy Corbyn's handling of antisemitism complaints while he was Labour leader, tweeted: "So a man called @PhilipProudfoot of @FreeNorthNow has a Jew block list. I've been out of the twitter politics loop for a few months but is this party continuation Corbyn? Seems like it. And will it end up the same way? Seems like it. Good luck all."
Responding to the settlement of his libel claim, Proudfoot said: "I am a humanitarian researcher. I've seen the horrors of war in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. It is for this reason I am a supporter of the struggle for human rights in Palestine. And it is for this reason I am appalled and disgusted by antisemitism, and all forms of prejudice."
His solicitor, Zillur Rahman, said: "Antisemitism is a serious problem in our society and it is unfortunate that some people like Philip, who show solidarity with the Palestinians in their struggle for freedom from Israel's oppression, have been falsely accused of antisemitism, which can have a chilling effect on free speech against injustices and human rights violations."
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That is when Coldon, a starter on last season's Class 3A state championship team, went to work.
First, Coldon hit the back end of a two-shot foul, cutting the deficit to three with 1:34 remaining.
Then, after Mater Dei missed consecutive front ends of the one-and-one, the senior hit a basket pulling the Crusaders within 52-51 with 28.1 seconds left.
Mater Dei then attempted a long inbound pass out of a timeout, only to have Cordell Beckmann miss a defended layup. Toennies grabbed the rebound and was fouled while attempting the putback.
He also missed his front-end free throw, giving Althoff possession with 18.5 seconds left.
That set the stage for Colden's game-winner, as he cashed in off a missed shot by Edwyn Brown with 3.6 seconds to go.
Mater Dei did get off a desperation 3-pointer, and Theising's shots appeared on line, but it rimmed off.
"That shot (at the end) was in and out," said Althoff coach Greg Leib. "Great ballgame. CJ got a nice tip in.
The victory was their second in a row for the Crusaders (16-9) following a four-game losing streak. Althoff is 3-4 since losing All-State senior Jordan Goodwin for the season following shoulder surgery.
"We know that even without Jordan, we've got the guys and enough heart to win," said Colden. "We just needed to get out of that slump.
Mater Dei coach Ron Schadegg was pleased with how his team rallied. Down by nine at halftime, the Knights still trailed by eight entering the final quarter. Toennies led their comeback scoring 13 of his game-high 22 points in the second half.
"There is a lot of good things we can take from this," said Schadegg, whose team dropped to 16-10. "Mason really kind of had his way inside at times, and we really made a nice comeback against a team that had maybe four Division I athletes on the floor.
Dante Ray topped Althoff with 15 points. Marvin Bateman had all 10 of his points in the first half, as the Crusaders took a 35-26 lead into the break.
Cordell Beckman scored eight points for Mater Dei.


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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
)

type Page struct {
	Title string
	Body  []byte
}

func (p *Page) save() error {
	filename := p.Title + ".txt"
	return os.WriteFile(filename, p.Body, 0600)
}

func loadPage(title string) (*Page, error) {
	filename := title + ".txt"
	body, err := os.ReadFile(filename)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return &Page{Title: title, Body: body}, nil
}

func main() {
	p1 := &Page{Title: "TestPage", Body: []byte("This is a sample Page.")}
	p1.save()
	p2, _ := loadPage("TestPage")
	fmt.Println(string(p2.Body))
}

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Dexter asks Devil if she's still a pretty girl and he responds "Oh, she's alright" this really moves Dexter because he has always seen her as a beautiful girl. Question #6 C] Describe Judo's personality Answer #6 Judy is she ca men's out WI that met D could shows Question #6 b 0 According to Devil's description, how does Judo's personality change following her marriage?? Answer #6 b According to Devil, Judo's personality changes in many ways . He says she doesn't run around "No, stays at home with the kids. … Meaning she is now devoted to her family and she's responsible. She does not have the carefree attitude anymore, even though her husband treats her badly , she's still there , this seems as she's insecure now. Question #7 a C] What does Judy represent to Dexter?? Answer #7 a Judy represents a winter dream to Dexter because she came into his life and gave him some of his happiest days. "Even the grief he could have erne of ill of life, flourish place O Why her even after he has lost her?? Peps on loving Judy because his love was real and he had grown really deep feelings for her and it is hard to let go. "A sort of dullness settled down upon Dexter and for the first time in his life he felt like getting very drunk", this demonstrates the pain he's going through because he loves her so much. Question #8 a are Tester's winter dreams? C] Dexter winter dreams are his desire for status , wealth and ability. "He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people – he wanted the glittering thing homeless" this shows how materialistic he was.
Question b makes dream Win IS a to De with h raised to a start of ecstatic triumph, and in this mood the fleeting brilliant impressions of the summer at Sherry Island were ready grist to his mill" Question # 8 c How does Judy fit into these dreams?? Answer # 8 c 0 Judy fits into Tester's dreams in many ways, he is first attracted to her years before in a golf course and this blooms into his love for her " It did not take him many hours to decide that he wanted Judy Jones ever since he was a proud, desirous little boy'.


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Poppies, Poppies, Poppies…
"Come back tomorrow; the light will be better then." A voice floats across the field. "Stand here in the morning. The poppies glow with the light under them!"
I turn towards the voice and see a figure dressed in full beekeeping gear, only head and shoulders visible over the hawthorn hedge. I pick my way across the furrowed ground, skirting the knee-deep ocean of scarlet flowers.
"Do your bees like poppies?" I ask, peering over the hedge. A gentle buzzing pervades the air, but the hives are hidden from view. The beekeeper removes his hood; his protective suit gleaming white against the pastoral landscape.
"Hard to tell," a stray bee brushes his ear. "I haven't had these long. Storm Katie did for the last lot. The roof blew off the hive and the queen flew away. The bees got soaked and they all perished of cold!"
"That's awful."
"Blessing in disguise – they were vicious little devils. I've got these ginger ones now. They're more easy-going."
The bees hum contently around him. I watch as one takes flight over the field. It skims the swathe of swaying blooms, before settling on the perfect specimen. This is papaver rhoeas, the common or corn poppy, not to be confused with its opium-producing cousin, papaver somniferum, grown in Afghanistan. This beautiful, blowsy wildflower, with petals like crinkled crepe paper, black centre and sturdy, hairy stem has brightened Britain since the Bronze Age. It prefers light, gravelly soil, but seems to be doing just fine here on cloddy Hampshire clay.
A field of blazing poppies used to be commonplace until intensive farming and herbicides changed the face of the countryside. Fortunately, some farmers are embracing more conservation-friendly methods, setting aside margins of land where wild flowers and wildlife can flourish. And sometimes Nature interferes. This field had been planted with winter rape seed, but after it was decimated by pigeons, mild spring weather encouraged a crop of poppies to take over. Poppy seeds can lie dormant for up to eighty years, and won't germinate without sunshine and soil which has been disturbed in some way, such as digging, ploughing or even warfare.
For many, the sight of a field of poppies stirs thoughts of the First World War, and the flower has been a symbol of remembrance since Canadian serviceman, John McCrae, wrote after the battle of Ypres:
Between the crosses, row on row.
That mark our place and in the sky
Scarce heard among the guns below.
Yet this association with death dates from much earlier. The Ancient Greeks decorated gravestones and tombs with bunches of poppies and were familiar with the plant's narcotic and sedative properties. They knew that an overdose would lead to eternal sleep – as did the Wicked Witch of the West in 'The Wizard of Oz':
"Poppies, poppies, poppies will put them to sleep", she croaks over the steaming cauldron, as Toto, Dorothy and Cowardly Lion collapse into a Technicolour field of flowers. Mercifully, our heroes are saved by the counter-spell of Glinda, Good Witch of the North.
Over the following week, it seems every time I drive up the narrow lane, someone's leaning on the five-bar gate or sneaking through that gap in the hedge. A young couple grin as they take a 'selfie' with poppies as a backdrop, a serious photographer arrives with tripod and wide-angle lens, hikers stop and stare. My sympathy to the farmer who's lost his crop of rape-seed, but these glorious, iconic poppies have brought unexpected pleasure to many.


Preheat oven to 190 degrees °C. Lightly grease a loaf tin.
In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugar, beat in eggs and salt.
Sift together cake flour, Ace Super maize meal and baking powder, add to creamy mixture, add milk and beat until mixture is smooth.
Fold in corn kernels and spoon into prepared loaf tin. Sprinkle top with grated cheese. Bake in oven for 20 – 25 minutes, or until skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
Serve warm or cold with butter and marmalade.


Click on image above and next on the settings button in the upper right corner, to change the slide show parameters.
Example of a combination of the Jusitfied-Gallery plugin (Relative Row height: 15% of the screenheight, Margins: 4, Thumbnail border width: 1 px, Last row: center, Gallery background: transparent) and the fancyBox lightbox. The Image bounds settings are Images: 1920x1920, Thumbnails: 800x160 and responsive Theme image with display width 96%.
The menu is made by html code in include file page-header_1.inc with links and css code in include file file page-header_0.inc The special footer is made by html code in the footer tab, where the last two check-marks on that page have been set.
Next check-marks are checked: "Hide the buttons while the slide show is playing" and "Stop after the last slide". To stop the slide show, click outside the image or use the space bar on a PC keyboard.
Checkmark 'Show info window if you open the album' is set, that is why you see this window if you open the album.
The watermark is made on the jAlbum Effects panel. Notice too that the check-mark "Disable Right Click and Long Tap context menu, to prevent 'Save as..'" has been set.


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Fred VanVleet trade rumors
Do the Fred VanVleet rumors actually make sense for the Suns?
By Gerald Bourguet January 18, 2023
Welcome to the wonderful time of year where actual basketball conversation takes a backseat to rampant speculation! The Phoenix Suns weren't immune to it last year as the NBA's top team, and now sporting a disappointing 21-24 record in an injury-riddled season, they certainly aren't this year either. The latest spicy name to surface, of course, is Toronto Raptors guard…


Corporate Law Red Deer - In a full range of financing alternatives, our teams of Banking & Project Finance Group assists borrowers and lenders alike. We act upon and advice various loan and other commercial credit facilities varying from simple letters of credit to complex multi-jurisdictional credit facilities (unsecured and secured, syndicated and non-syndicated). Some transactions have involved public sector credit facilities.
As lender and borrower counsel, we have acted so as to facilitate numerous syndicated credit facilities which have raised operating capital totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Our clients have comprised an auto parts manufacturers, manufacturing companies, restaurant franchisees, and huge forestry and mining companies. We have assisted borrowers, within businesses as diverse as home appliances and restaurant franchising, to secure a wide range of acquisition financing by making use of sale-leaseback transactions, senior debt, and subordinated and mezzanine lending. Our Banking & Project Finance Team has particular strength in four transactional fields: project finance, asset finance, subordinated debt and mezzanine financing as well as real estate finance.
Our team which looks after Banking & Project Finance act for borrowers and lenders within asset-based loans which require making use of receivables, inventory, leased equipment, bond obligations, and various other assets as collateral. Amongst our clients are a video game distributor, a technology company, and various other businesses with difficult needs for cross-border assurance and security. We serve borrower clients who have sales and manufacturing operations in the U.S., Canada and abroad.
Our team of litigators has accumulated many years of skill documenting the required covenants for cash management, reserves and reporting. We even represent many borrowers on asset-based loans that are made by the majority of major market lenders.
Our lawyers have the expertise to handle the financing of huge projects, navigating the complexities of financial, regulatory and legal problems. These projects consist of the construction of pulp mills, power plants, mines, industrial facilities, other capital-intensive building projects and real estate developments. For such difficult structures, we offer project finance support to both lenders and borrowers. On the lender side, our experience encompasses advising about subsequent sale of a hydroelectric facility and construction financing. We even act for pension fund managers as lenders in first mortgage project financing for the construction of commercial real estate projects.
Because of the good working relationships our lawyers enjoy together with all major financial institutions, we have numerous years of success assisting with construction finance and commercial mortgage involving real estate acquisition and development. We advise clients about loan structures. We can negotiate and settle financing documents from both the lender's and borrower's perspectives. The handling of environmental due diligence is part of closing and documenting these financing transactions. In circumstances of default or foreclosure, our objective is to be able to help lenders maximize debt recovery by recommending about mortgage solutions and security enforcement options.
Our lawyers in Banking & Project Finance have the knowledge in order to assist the many entrepreneurial and mid-market businesses in their pursuit of financing options which occupy the market range between common equity and senior debt. Often such transactions enable our clients to bridge the gap between equity and senior debt financing to seek out acquisitions and various possibilities. With our assistance, lenders can secure the return and control they need while borrowers are allowed to obtain the funds they need for growth. As we negotiate the priorities and subordination agreements among the different classes of creditors, we can structure the financing package for the debentures or notes to involve convertible preferred shares, equity shares, and sale-leaseback arrangements.


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Q: Invoking PSCmdlet in unit test case in C# I am using XUnit test framework and have below Test case created to test my powershell cmndlets and there is no error on build.
My PowerShell project is also built in same solution and has been referenced correctly in my test project.
below PowerShell command works locally and give me desired result(as shown below)
$rec = Get-Recording -Project 'Demo'
$rec.Count
64

I am trying to test the same in my unit test case and here is my code. I am not getting any result here, one message which I get in Invoke() line is "Cmdlets derived from PSCmdlet cannot be invoked directly.". can anyone help me in completing this test case and get me the result as I am getting in above Powershell window.
[Fact]
    public void TestGetRecordings()
        {
        // Arrange.

        var cmdlet = new GetRecordingsCmd()
        {
            Project = "Demo"
        };

        // Act.
        var result = cmdlet.Invoke().OfType<List<string>>();
       // Assert.True( result, 64 );

My Powershell cmndlet is defined like this. I am just mentioning the class here and how my actual class is inherited:
public class TorgCmd : PSCmdlet
public abstract class GetDocumentsBaseCmd : TorgCmd {}
public class GetRecordingsCmd
        : GetDocumentsBaseCmd
    {}

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Q: Add '-' to a numeric input field I am developing a website that is a responsive website, but i got stuck a little with a mobile issue.
When there is an input field that is a 'number' on mobile devices it will pop up the numeric keyboard, but it appears that the 'native' Samsung numeric keyboards doesn't have the minus sign ('-') which is needed in the website, so I've added a button that will appear in mobile browsers and will add the minus sign, but now there is a new problem:
Because the input field is a 'number' i can't add the minus sign programmatically, here is what I've tried to do but it fails:
<input type="number" ng-model="myNumber">
<button type="button" ng-click="myNumber = myNumber + '-'">Add Minus</button>

When the button is being pressed i am getting the error:
Expected '-' to be a number
It kinda make sense because it probably checks if it is a type of number (which is not) and throw this error, but if i will use a PC keyboard or a mobile numeric keyboard that has the minus sign it does accept it.
Is there a way to avoid this error somehow and do insert the minus sign into the input field?
Edit
What i wanted is that it will be the same effect that you get when you have a pc keyboard it means that -5645-56 is possible (because it does possible in an input field 'number') but i guess that even if it is possible it will be much harder to do, and there is not such a good reason for that so the approaches you suggested can work as well.
Thank you!

A: I think you should just do
<input type="number" ng-model="myNumber">
<button type="button" ng-click="myNumber = (myNumber > 0) ? -myNumber : myNumber">Add Minus</button>


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#include "slib/geo/geo_rectangle.h"

#include "slib/core/macro.h"

namespace slib
{

	SLIB_DEFINE_CLASS_DEFAULT_MEMBERS(GeoRectangle)

	GeoRectangle::GeoRectangle() = default;

	GeoRectangle::GeoRectangle(const LatLon& pt1, const LatLon& pt2)
	{
		bottomLeft.latitude = SLIB_MIN(pt1.latitude, pt2.latitude);
		bottomLeft.longitude = SLIB_MIN(pt1.longitude, pt2.longitude);
		topRight.latitude = SLIB_MAX(pt1.latitude, pt2.latitude);
		topRight.longitude = SLIB_MAX(pt1.longitude, pt2.longitude);
	}

	sl_bool GeoRectangle::contains(const LatLon& pt) const
	{
		return (bottomLeft.latitude <= pt.latitude && bottomLeft.longitude <= pt.longitude
				&& pt.latitude <= topRight.latitude && pt.longitude <= topRight.longitude);
	}

	sl_bool GeoRectangle::isValid() const
	{
		if (bottomLeft.longitude > topRight.longitude || bottomLeft.latitude > topRight.latitude) {
			return sl_false;
		}
		return sl_true;
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Using his Barrier Field, Reinhardt can protect Bastion's vulnerabilities while he in Sentry Configuration.
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ABKCO Music and Fender reveal Beggars Banquet guitar pack
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300 Rolling Stones telecasters released
Get your Keef on with this limited edition Tele
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Even the box that the package ships in has had the full Stones treatment. We're fairly sure Mick and Keith are delighted with the package, but neither of them have had much to say about it... yet.
For more information, visit the official Fender website.
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Beggars can be choosers this holiday season, thanks to the Limited Edition Fender Beggars Banquet Telecaster® guitar package sold exclusively through Amazon.com. The Beggars Banquet Telecaster is the result of a strategic marketing venture between ABKCO Music & Records and Fender in celebration of ABKCO's recent release of the 'Clearly Classic' edition of the landmark album on clear vinyl.
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CES 2014: Sigma Revamps 50mm F/1.4 and 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM Lenses
Two familiar Sigma lenses get a fancy new makeover
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Sigma 50mm F/1.4 CES 2014
For this year's CES show, Sigma has revamped two of its already-popular lenses in the form of the 50mm F/1.4 DG HSM prime and the 18-200mm F/3.5-6.3 DC OS HSM zoom.
The 50mm F/1.4 has been redesigned to match the excellent 35mm F/1.4. It now has the same matte black finish and look. It's also now part of the Art series. They've given it SLD glass and the wider elements have been moved to the front groups, which they claim will improve wide-open performance. A floating focus system and a new algorithm also promise better focusing performance. It has a total of 13 elements in six groups, up from 8 elements in the previous version.
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The Good Parent Guilt: Why I Was Ashamed To Live In A Two Parent Household [Opinion] Jada Gomez
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Imagine growing up the epitome of the American Dream, but never seeing yourself that way. I was a twin, I had two loving parents who supported everything we did, and I grew up in a small multi-ethnic suburban town outside of Philadelphia. There was no baby mama drama in our household. My father came home pretty much every night (except when he was out of town for business), and he also coached all our sports teams. My mother played team mom at all of our games and was the first to serve up orange slices at halftime. More than just leading by example, my parents were very vocal in helping us understand life and the trials and tribulations in which would have to endure in order to be successful. I was truly blessed to grow up with such amazing guidance and it has helped shape the type of person I am today. But as a child, I didn't see the value in having two parents who lived together. The only thing I could see is how it made me different from all my friends. My brother and I were the only kids in our circle growing up who had their mother and their father together and happily married, but for me as a child it was a curse. I felt trapped in a life of good parent guilt.
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Belch Please: What Is Hogaak?
August 6, 2019 – by David Ernenwein 1
In terms of data, it seems Modern is at a crossroads. This is the problem I found myself with last week. Half the data said that Hogaak was a busted, dominate deck. The other said that it was successful, but only as a function of its popularity. The narrative coming out of last weekend is that Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis needs to be banned, which suggests the former interpretation is correct. However, there's data and experience supporting the opposite side.
Sometimes this discrepancy is the result of differing perspectives. Once more data comes in or additional research is done, the source of error is found and corrected. For others, the contradiction was the real answer. I suspect this is the case with Hogaak. It is a very powerful deck, but not necessarily a good one.
No Eldrazi Winter
So what if Hogaak… is actually a bad deck? I realize that this flies in the face of a lot of testimony and evidence, but Hogaak simply doesn't seem on par with what we've come to understand as busted strategies. I've played Modern a long time, and Hogaak isn't in the same ballpark as Eye of Ugin Eldrazi. During Eldrazi Winter, that deck proved itself to be unbeatable for anything that wasn't Eldrazi. They weren't just the majority of the metagame; they also won almost everything. Hogaak didn't win a single event last week. Hyperbole aside, we've seen a lot worse.
Hogaak's best starts are at best equivalent to Eldrazi's. Hogaak has some permutations to make 18+ power on turn 2 (if it hits well with Stitcher's Supplier), some of which will have haste; probably, though not necessarily, enough to earn a concession. The most busted Eldrazi start called for Eye into four Eldrazi Mimics, then using Eldrazi Temple and Simian Spirit Guide to play Reality Smasher and actually win on turn 2. The problem for Hogaak is that it lacks the same consistency that Eldrazi had.
When that busted start didn't come together, Eldrazi was harder to disrupt than Hogaak. Graveyard hate coupled with removal cleans up non-lethal Hogaak boards. There was little hate that hurt Eldrazi effectively, especially when what answers existed would get stripped away by accelerated Thought-Knot Seers. Eldrazi was a pile of individual good threats where Hogaak has a couple key ones and a lot of chaff.
Empirical Data
My experience observing and playing against Hogaak has closely mirrored this video of Gabriel Nassif going 2-3 with the deck. He won a lot of blowouts and a couple squeakers, but more often he dug through most of his deck without accomplishing anything. Hogaak was incredibly powerful when everything came together, but when it didn't, the deck was anemic.
Over the past week, I haven't dropped a match in paper or online to Hogaak. It's not because I've successfully shut them out with normal hate cards, always hit Leyline of the Void, or found other answers. Instead, it's simply been Hogaak stumbling over itself. My game losses have all been utter blowouts on turn 2 or 3. However, I won the matches because that only happened in one game. In all the other games, Hogaak did a lot of stuff, but it didn't amount to much. One game my opponent had all the enablers and dug through 2/3's of their deck without finding Hogaak or Vengevine and lost when I Pathed his only real threat, Carrion Feeder. Hogaak doesn't inspire the same terror as Eldrazi.
Flawed Combo
The problem with Eldrazi was consistency and power. It did something too-good every game. Hogaak can do something utterly absurd some of the time, but other times it just flails around. Hogaak is a critical-piece and a critical-mass deck. It needs to have the right combination of enablers in hand and the right pieces in the top of its deck to flip into its graveyard to have those really busted starts. That's a lot of random chance at play.
If Hogaak doesn't actually hit those busted starts, it can still play a decent secondary game as a medium Zombie aggro deck. Carrion Feeder gets quite big alongside Bloodghast and Gravecrawler, and even if it takes a long time to find Hogaak, an 8/8 with trample is a respectable threat. It's just not game-ending, unlike going infinite with Drowner of Hope and Eldrazi Displacer.
Hogaak is a deck with really busted starts, but struggles if instead it has average starts, and struggles to pull out longer games. It needs specific combinations of enablers and payoff cards. That sounds a lot like Legacy Belcher, but with a viable backup plan.
The Underrated Combo
So what if Legacy Belcher… is… not exactly a good deck, but better than its lack of metagame share or impact indicates. Belcher almost never sees serious Legacy play. This is largely because the deck has a reputation for just losing to Force of Will, one of the most played cards in Legacy. However, that's not entirely accurate.
Yes, failing to resolve a payoff card is generally lethal for Belcher. However, Belcher is also able to win turn one, either by actually comboing the opponent out or functionally kill with 14+ Goblin tokens. Given that the odds of having Force and the ability to cast it turn 1 are less than 40%, that's a huge plus in Belcher's favor. The reality is that Belcher has a higher likelihood of going-off turn 1-2 than just losing to Force.
While a fear of Force is certainly a huge factor keeping out Belcher, the bigger problem is that Belcher is very high-variance. The deck needs to have a mana source to start comboing, but only plays one land. It also needs a critical mass of mana to do anything. It also needs to hit Burning Wish, Empty the Warrens, or its namesake to win; that means it needs to draw one of eleven cards plus the right six mana sources to go off. If it opens the right hand, that's easy.
However, if any part of the chain is disrupted, Belcher may never have the resouces to go off again. And it has to go off, and the quicker the better. Belcher and similar decks are all-in on their fragile, resource intensive combos. If they fizzle or get disrupted, they're out so many resources that victory is improbable. At least Modern Storm can beat down with Goblin Electromancer. Thus, Belcher strategies is very high-risk and high-reward, and players aren't willing to gamble every round.
Comparative Metrics
Perhaps the reason that Hogaak's data is contradictory is that it is actually a good Belcher deck. It is high variance, high risk (vulnerability to graveyard hate), and high reward (fast kills), but it doesn't need to win fast. If the game goes on long enough, it can still win, even if the opponent has disrupted it a few times.
To evaluate this idea, I ran an experiment. I goldfished Hogaak against Belcher and Neoform (Modern's Belcher equivalent) to see how it stacked up. I played 30 games apiece, and each deck was given six turns to functionally or actually win the game. Functional wins are subjective, so I counted any board state that would make me concede if I didn't have an answer in hand. For example, few decks can beat 14 goblins turn 1, so that counts as a turn 1 win for Belcher.
Also, for simplicity's sake, I only mulliganed truly unkeepable hands. Rather than going for the most busted hands, I went for acceptable ones.
Win Turn
Belcher
Neoform
Hogaak
4+ 0 1 9
I'm told that Hogaak is able to win turn 1. That never happened for me, I've never seen it before, and I'm skeptical that it ever could in real conditions. However, despite being slower, Hogaak won a lot more than Neoform or Belcher. Hogaak only failed to win in the time frame four times compared to Belcher's 11 and Neoform's 16.
Hogaak's gameplay also felt very similar to the other decks, but better. There were a lot of feel-bad hands for the other decks that needed one piece, but couldn't find it, where Hogaak at least played some creatures each game even if it couldn't combo or fizzled.
A Follow-Up
Out of curiosity, I re-ran that experiment and mulliganed more aggressively, playing 10 games with each deck.
Hogaak mulliganed into oblivion and failed to kill once, while the other two failed three times.
Each deck improved its early game win percentage, with Belcher and Neoform getting more turn 1 wins in this sample than in the first one. Whether the overall win percentage would have been higher is impossible to say, but with early win percentages going up across the board, I argue that the factors impacting the true Belcher deck's early wins plays into Hogaak's too, which I argue makes Hogaak another form of Belcher deck.
Hogaak is Good Belcher
However, unlike its cousin decks, Hogaak doesn't need to Belch you out. It definitely wants to, and based on my experience doing so is Hogaak's best way to win. However, if that doesn't come together right away it's not the end of the world. It can just hard-cast threats.
Belcher and Neoform cannot. If they don't win quickly, disruption will just kill them. As a result, they need to mulligan very aggressively, which often leads to losing to said mulligans. Since Hogaak doesn't need to be broken to win, it avoids this weakness. Thus, Hogaak may not be a good busted deck like Eldrazi was, but it is a better type of Belcher deck.
Therefore, the discrepancy in the data is the result of Hogaak's Belcher variance. As mentioned, Hogaak is a notoriously swingy deck. It's looking to do kill very quickly, but even with a nearly ideal opening hand it can't guarantee that it will come together. Unlike its cousin decks, this isn't a death sentence. It will just play the game out and hope things work out for the backup plan. Thus, I hypothesize that where a normal deck's variance graph would look like a sine wave, Hogaak's is more like sin(x³).
Thus, given a high starting population, it was certain that Hogaak would hit its best draws far more often that any other deck. That's just the law of large numbers in action. It also makes sense that it had high win percentage since at any given point it was more likely to have that high positive variance than the more normal deck.
As the field starts to dwindle, it becomes harder for the deck to avoid its bad draws and it begins to drop out. Therefore, under this theory, Hogaak dominated Day 2 standings but failed to turn that into Top 8 presence because you can't beat probability forever. Hogaak avoided the bad longer in the MC and Open, and so had a deck in the Top 8. It failed to do so in the GP and Classic, and so didn't appear.
Confounding Factors
The question that I can't really answer is: who's the big offender? I know that many are calling for Hogaak itself to be banned (and Hogaak is A Very Stupid Card that Should Not Be), but I'm not certain that's the real problem with the deck. Hogaak decks aren't actually powerful because of the namesake. Hogaak is a big beater, notable only because it can be played on turn 2. The problem is that the deck is very good at getting Hogaak out alongside lots of other threats and ensuring they recur. Hogaak is a joke against Path to Exile, but Carrion Feeder makes Path a joke. A free 8/8 is powerful, but a swarm of free Vengevines is lethal. Hogaak is the face of the archetype, but I don't think it's the deck's lynchpin.
Hogaak and similar set-up-heavy cards sink or swim on the strength of their enablers. Faithless Looting is a fantastic card, but it's not the best enabler in Hogaak. That honor goes to Stitcher's Supplier and Carrion Feeder. The former represents 4-6 mana for Hogaak and finds the other payoff cards. The later protects everything from exile effects, digs with Supplier, and becomes an overwhelming threat as the game goes on. Wizards tends to ban enablers rather than payoffs, but there are so many enablers that I have to ask if they're willing to sacrifice multiple cards to save Hogaak.
That Elephant Again
There's also a question of whether the problem is the deck or the London mulligan. As is well-established, decks like Hogaak benefit most from the rules change. Neoform wasn't viable without London, and neither was Bridgevine until Modern Horizons and the new mulligan. If Hogaak really is a combo deck, then reducing its consistency would functionally ban the deck. This suggests that the real problem is the London mulligan rule.
I don't know if this is true. My first test didn't allow for power-level mulligans, which London is apparently designed for, and Hogaak did pretty well. The second doesn't have enough data to draw conclusions other than as comparison between the three decks. I hypothesize that the mulligan is boosting Hogaak, but not as much as the deck's inherent swingy power. Actual testing is necessary.
This begs the question of what's to be done about Hogaak. The data that I have right now is inconclusive, and I'm not willing to speculate on any potential bans. Belcher-style gameplay isn't fun or healthy for Magic, so I think Wizards will take action, but there's too much uncertainty for me to make predictions right now. There are a number of Modern events between now and August 26, including GP Las Vegas, and the data from there will ultimately determine Hogaak's fate.
How players should prepare is a difficult question. The odds of seeing any 4-of in an opening hand is only ~40%, so trying to beat Hogaak with Leyline of the Void and/or Surgical Extraction is questionable. Hogaak is equally as likely to have an answer to hate as opponents are to actually have the hate, and the deck's alternate angles of attack further complicate hating it out.
I'm beginning to think that players shouldn't necessarily bother to hate out Hogaak. Leyline is very powerful against Hogaak, but Legacy players don't specifically try to beat Belcher-style decks. They rely on generic answers and Belcher's inherent variance. Given that Hogaak is as likely to have an answer to Leyline as opponents are to having one, and are at least as likely to flame out as win turn two, is it even worth it to try beating Hogaak with hate? Should I care about the best starts or focus on beating the more average ones? A riddle for the ages.
Data Incoming
August will be an interesting month. If I'm right about what Hogaak actually is, we should see it continue to put up enormous populations and win rates but fail to convert into Top 8 slots. You can't dodge the variance forever. If Hogaak is the huge threat that players claim, the data should prove it true. Now we wait.
David Ernenwein
David began playing Magic during Odyssey block, quit playing Magic when Caw Blade ruled the world, and returned to Modern shortly before Deathrite was banned. He's made an appearance at the Pro Tour, made money at GP Denver, and is constantly grinding and brewing in Modern.
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Steven Givens says:
I agree with most everything you've said here. A lot of your observations reflect the experiences I've had playing against the deck. I do think that a "good belcher" deck, as you called Hogaak, is fundamentally problematic. Just from people I've talked to, the problem seems to be the mental perception of the Hogaak deck as opposed to something like Grishoalbrand. Sometimes you get rolled 2-0 by Grishoalbrand on turn 2 both games, then the next time you have a turn 1 thoughtseize both games and the deck falls apart and you win 2-0 easily. Live by the free win, die by the free win, in a matter of speaking. Hogaak however, flips that script by winning a non-insignificant number of games when you do disrupt it, and thus feels much more broken, even though it may not ACTUALLY be that broken.


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The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, February 28th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, February 14th were paid a dividend of $2.05 per share. This is a boost from Simon Property Group's previous quarterly dividend of $2.00. This represents a $8.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.71%. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, February 13th. Simon Property Group's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 67.60%.
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"I'm your huckleberry, that's just my game."
For reasons that will be apparent in a minute, that movie and that phrase has been on my mind over last week. So I did a little research into what the it was actually supposed to mean. I found THIS PAGE of research done by a fellow who advises for the Oxford English Dictionary. Basically back in the mid to late 19th Century the phrase "I'm your huckleberry" meant "I'm the right person for the job." So I wasn't too far off in my usage, and "the right person for the job" fits so much better to the way I'm thinking about it now.
I handsaw all of my dovetail joints. I have tried all kinds of saws in my search for the right "huckleberry," and I have always found something I didn't like or had to modify to get a saw to perform up to my standards. When it comes to dovetailing there are two things I have come to appreciate in a good saw.
2) I like a open handle western style design to the grip because I like the way it fits my hand, the control I get, and, sometimes most importantly, - it looks good. Seriously, an open handle on a dovetail saw just looks right. More than any other joint, dovetails have a drama about them, a theatrical soul that screams "look here…look at me!" It seems natural to me that the saw that helps create them should reflect that same spirit.
Open style handle made in poplar to replace the handle that came on a Japanese style pull saw.
One evening, while having a few beers with a neighbor and fellow saw-degenerate Mark Harrell of Bad Axe Tool Works, and he let slip that he was in the process of designing some open handle dovetail saws. Now, if you talk saws with Mark for even five minutes you will find that there is likely nobody on this earth more knowledgeable about the factors that go into what makes a saw work and work well, and if you've ever had the opportunity to use or own a Bad Axe Saw then you know that knowledge and obsessive attention to detail result in a saw that is an experience to use. When Mark said he was working on open handles, I knew I this might be the best chance I could ever have to find my dovetailing huckleberry.
Now if I had my way, I'd own one of everything than Mark makes, yes I consider him a friend and we swill some beer together on occasion, but I really do believe in his products and process, where else can you go to have one craftsman, just one guy working out of his shop, build you a saw to your specifications. Focused 100% on your order as he puts the pieces together, hand sharpens and sets the teeth, then takes it for a quick test drive to make sure it lives up to his high standards before he ships it to your door. Mark is creating a product that hasn't been available in a "new" out of the box form probably since the hand tool haydays of the early 1800's. Where else can you go and get that these days? Unfortunately, as a family man raising three kids in this day and age I cannot afford to indulge myself the way I would like and I am forced to strive to get the most bang for my hard earned buck. Here's where the saw Mark has nicknamed Wyatt Earp comes in.
Mark calls "Wyatt" a hybrid dovetail / small tenon saw. This just screamed versatility from the get go, and versatility is exactly what I look for when I'm making an addition to my shop. The more jobs a tool can do, the more valuable it is to me. The other day I got the opportunity to give that versatility a test drive. I have an old Disston backsaw with a bend in the saw plate I picked up at a flea market. I know how to remove rust and I can sharpen it myself but straightening the saw plate needed the touch of someone like Mark. I sent him an email and asked if I could just drop the saw off at his shop. "No problem," he said, "Come on by."
When I got there he said, "Hey come on down to the shop...I've got something I want to show you." Well how do you turn down that? I followed him down the stairs into what I've come to call his "Saw Dungeon," he clamped a chunk of 6/4 white oak into the leg vice of his bench and put the prototype of "Wyatt" into my eager hand. I went to work cutting dovetail cuts and immediately knew I made the right choice when I had placed the order weeks before.
A while back I made a flip statement on Twitter that I was having a good time cutting dovetails in the shop that day. Shannon Rodgers of The Renaissance Woodworker Hand Tool School answered and teased that I should try cutting them in white oak and then decide if I was having fun. Right away I felt compelled to check over my entire shop to see where the spy cameras had been installed, because I was cutting them in white oak that day, and I was having a tougher time of it than usual. Now I stood at the workbench at Bad Axe Headquarters and that exchange came back to me as I was plowing thorough 6/4 white oak to an inch or more depth in 5 to 6 strokes. When I was done cutting four or five cuts I absentmindedly rubbed my fingers over the backside of the cuts, certainly expecting there to be tear out. After feeling for it I had to hang my head over the board to look and see, There was some small amount of tear out but hardly enough to think abouut much less mention.
Down in Mark's Saw Dungeon Giving "Wyatt Earp" a workout.
Even though the saw was filed rip for the tails mark gave me the bench hook and another piece of oak and asked me to try crosscutting with it. I gave him the eye like "really" but went to it. If Mark wanted someone to saw then I'd be his huckleberry. The cut was smooth and regular, there was minimal tear out on the backside of the wood. In fact if I hadn't already known the saw was filed rip, I wouldn't have guessed it. As I said before versatility is so important to me and this saw fills that ticket fully, When I want to travel light to an installation/repair, woodworking class, or demonstration, I'll be able to pack one back saw for most of my needs.
But Mark was not through grabbing my attention. He pulled out a shorter 10" dovetail saw, also with an open handle, and put it in my hand. I looked closely at what he'd given me.
"That's a very fine toothline." I said.
Mark nodded "Yup, 16 ppi." He answered.
I started on some 4/4 cherry, and eventually went to some 5/4 white oak, again I put the saw through all the paces Mark and I could come up with. including crosscutting with the rip filed teeth. The experience was totally different than all my other experiences with a high ppi saw. I started working with it biased to dislike it and in no time it won me over. Mark said he was thinking about nicknaming it "Doc Holiday" as a complement to the larger "Wyatt Earp." I didn't really make the connection right at that moment but later on, as I spent the rest of the day working in the shop, and even later on at the dinner table with my family, I was still thinking about "Doc." I still feel that my order of the larger "Wyatt" was the right place for me to start, but I can think of so many instances, especially recently, where I would have reached for the "Doc Holiday" instead. I started to revise my opinion that I could live with only one dovetail saw.
Either by accident or by sheer evil genius, Mark has really had found something here with the balance between these two saws. Even though they are great saws individually, paired together they can accomplish so much more. The 12" "Wyatt" is a fast cutting saw whose longer plate makes it perfect for cutting thicker stock, say 3/4 or 4/4 and up. But there are times your designs call for cutting small dovetails and joinery in thinner stock, say 1/4 up to 3/4, and here's where the 10" "Doc Holiday" can make sweet. I can see myself reaching for Doc when I need to cut dowels for drawboring or smaller square ebony stock for Greene & Greene reproductions.
A good read and yes it most definitely sparked my interest. Thanks for the history lesson and feedback on the line of saws.
Those do look nice. I have gone through a saw conversion myself. I have pretty much sworn off of Japanese style teeth and have reverted to western style saws. I have a few Japanese blades remaining but as they give out, I won't replace them.
I found the Japanese style saws very easy to learn with as a beginner. I especially liked using the no set / flush cut saws with a shop made plywood guide to help learn repetition when I was teaching myself to cut dovetails. Later on deciding to "experiment" by adding some western style handles to my Japanese saw blades was an epiphany in control and repetition. suddenly I didn't need those guides any longer.
it's been a journey thats for sure but I can only think of one Japanese style saw I will probably continue to keep around and that's a small one of the flexible flush cut variety. Other than that I'm with you.


Three racket companies dominate competitive tennis: Babolat, Head, and Wilson. Together these three brands accounted for 81% of all the rackets I strung at the ITF Pro Circuit Futures of Winston-Salem recently.
By comparison, at the NCAA tournament they accounted for 94% of all the rackets I strung.
The biggest surprise of the bunch was the Gamma RZR Bubba, a 137 square inch, sub-10 ounce racket used by Matt Seeberger, who won the Futures of Winston-Salem doubles championship with Julio Peralta.
In case you didn't know, Seeberger also won two NCAA team titles, 3 NCAA singles titles, and 3 NCAA doubles titles playing for the D3 University of California – Santa Cruz Banana Slugs.


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Incumbent Lee M. Zeldin (R) defeated challenger Anna Throne-Holst (D) in the 1st Congressional District race. (Photo: www.facebook.com)
While Hillary Clinton (D) won New York's 29 electoral votes, it was Donald Trump (R) who came out on top in the 2016 election. "The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer," the 45th president of the United States told supporters at a rally in New York City early on Wednesday morning.
The astonishing outcome, which contradicted late polls that had Clinton on top, was a surprise for many.
It also marks the first time that the random sample "poll" from the Monogram Shop has been incorrect. Since the 2004 presidential race, the East Hampton store that specializes in personalized items has been selling plastic drinking cups with the presidential candidates' names on them. Owner Valerie Smith keeps tabs on the number sold for each candidate and posts an update daily on the window of the store. Until now, the candidate that sold the most cups in each election had coincidentally also won the race. The 2016 tally had Clinton well ahead of Trump.
Locally, incumbent Lee M. Zeldin (R) defeated challenger Anna Throne-Holst (D) in the 1st Congressional District race. "A powerful message was sent all around the 1st Congressional District today, all throughout the state of New York, and all around America. We love our country, you helped knock on those doors and make those calls, your passion, patriotism and desire to secure our country and grow our economy for our next generation," Congrasman Zeldin said in his victory speech. While Throne-Holst said her congressional campaign was a "privilege of a lifetime" in her concession speech.
Incumbent Kenneth P. LaValle (R) comfortably won the New York State Senate - 1st Congressional District race against his opponent Gregory John Fischer (D).
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Joseph H. Lorintz and Edmund Dane were elected as New York State Supreme Court Justice and Andrea H. Schiavoni (D) was elected as Southampton Town Justice. Riverhead Town Justice Allen Smith was re-elected and Shelter Island Town Justice Helen J. Rosenblum, who was running unopposed, earned 1,182 votes.
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Wanna look like Mario? McDonald's will help.
UK branches of McDonald's will partner with Nintendo to sell Super Mario-themed Happy Meals in the lead-up to the launch of the Switch in March 2017, according to promotional advertisements leaked by an informant of Nintendo Life.
From January 11 through February 7, customers who order a Nintendo Happy Meal will receive balloons, coloring pads, special craft paper that can be folded to resemble iconic Mario characters, as well as an eBook—a recurring feature in UK-based McDonald's restaurants.
"The 2017 promotions gives kids the chance to join Mario and friends on an adventure to help find their Yoshi," per promotional materials. "Through a host of activities featured in the activation kit, kids can use their imaginations to learn more about the Super Mario power-ups and use them to help look for Yoshi."
Toys are more than likely included in each Happy Meal, though the reference materials include no specifics in that regard.
As for Switch, Nintendo revealed the console/handheld hybrid in October. On January 13, the company will host a stream in which it will reveal an exact launch date, price, and offer previews of launch titles—one of which may or may not be The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Would you like French fries with that gimmick?
McDonalds should mimic Nintendo. Happy Meals will now be in short supply. Adults along with their kids will line up at the break of dawn for a happy meal.
Only in the UK and no actual toys? Lame.
They're still using that creepy happy meals mascot, eh?
I remember collecting all the super mario bros 3 happy meal toys. Wish I still had them.
There is nothing in this promotion related to the Switch.
The E. coli is in another White castle.
It's not like this is new at all. They had Super Mario Happy meals with the launch of Mario 3. Those toys were great!


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Officers Linked to Death of Teen
By Matt Lait and Scott Glover
Dec. 8, 2002 12 AM PT
Times Staff Writers
Two Los Angeles police officers sought to cover up their contact with a 16-year-old gang member who was shot to death on the border of a rival gang's territory just minutes after the officers released him from their patrol car, according to a district attorney's review of the case.
Neither officer, one of whom was accused of dropping off the same youth in rival gang territory as punishment a month earlier, documented the encounter with the victim on the day he was killed.
"It appears, based on this investigation, that [the officers] intentionally withheld information from the homicide detectives, internal affairs investigators and their chain of command," wrote Deputy Dist. Atty. Laura L. Laesecke, who investigated the officers as part of the Rampart scandal. "Not only does their lie obstruct justice, but it also calls into question the veracity of the rest of their ... statements" about the case.
Ultimately, Laesecke concluded that the officers could not be prosecuted for obstructing justice because the best evidence against them came from so-called compelled statements in which they were ordered to cooperate with authorities or face termination from the Los Angeles Police Department. Such statements cannot be used in court against those who made them.
Additionally, Laesecke wrote, the statute of limitations on such a charge had expired. Both officers, Mario Rios and Michael Montoya, deny any wrongdoing and remain on the job.
Montoya, now assigned to the community relations office in Northeast Division, seemed resigned to the criticism he and other officers have faced in the wake of the Rampart scandal.
"This is not the first bad thing that's been said about me. They're not true," Montoya said in a recent interview. "But what can be done about it?"
Montoya and Rios, now assigned to Southeast Division, were charged administratively by LAPD officials with making false statements about the case during an internal affairs investigation.
They were cleared of wrongdoing after they presented a declaration from a retired homicide detective who said he recalled Montoya mentioning that he knew the victim as a police informant, but did not remember whether the officer acknowledged having any contact with him on the day he was killed.
The detective refused to testify at the officers' hearing. In a recent interview with The Times, he declined to comment at length, saying only that he could not recall what the officers told him about their interaction with Eric Vega, known on the streets as "Baby Happy."
The incident, which was documented along with more than 80 other cases recently rejected for prosecution by the district attorney, came to light as part of the investigation into the Rampart scandal, launched in 1999 following the admissions and allegations of corrupt ex-cop Rafael Perez.
The Vega case itself, however, was never mentioned by Perez. Instead, investigators came upon it as they looked into allegations of officer misconduct in another Rampart case.
According to police reports, Montoya and Rios were working an "observation post" in the 1200 block of South Lake Street on Nov. 5, 1996, looking for suspicious gang or drug activity, when they spotted Eva Garcia dealing drugs. Based on their observations, other officers from the Rampart anti-gang CRASH unit swooped in and arrested her.
What the police reports do not state -- and what officers admitted years later during compelled interviews with detectives -- was that while Garcia was being arrested, Vega also was handcuffed and put in the back of Montoya and Rios' squad car.
The officers said later that Vega was not arrested but actually was a police informant who wanted to pass on information to them. He was handcuffed, the officers said, only so that his fellow gang members would not become suspicious of his cooperation.
After a few minutes of driving around with Vega in the car, the officers said, they concluded that Vega did not have any significant information and asked him where he wanted to be dropped off. Vega, they said, asked to be let out near a gang hangout known as El Castillo, where his mother was staying. The officers said they dropped him off there.
Moments later, at 4:39 p.m., Montoya and Rios received a radio call about a shooting. Within a minute, they were at the scene -- the first officers to arrive. The victim, they discovered, was Vega.
The killing occurred on the border of a rival gang's territory and was a couple of blocks from where the officers allegedly released Vega. Witnesses later implicated a rival gang member in the killing, but no arrests have been made.
Montoya said he told a sergeant and the lead homicide detective that night about their contact with the shooting victim. Like the detective, the sergeant said in a recent interview that he had no recollection of any such conversation.
Unaware of Vega's death, his mother and girlfriend went to South Lake Street looking for him about 6 p.m. that day. A neighborhood resident told them Vega had been arrested. They then went to the Rampart station, but were told there was no record of his arrest.
The next day Vega's mother went to Juvenile Hall to find her son, but there was no record of him being there either. When she returned home, she later told police, she learned that her son had been killed shortly after he was taken away by officers the previous day.
Suspicious of the timing, Vega's mother and his girlfriend returned to the police station and claimed that officers were somehow connected to the youth's death. It was at that point that Vega's girlfriend also said she was with her boyfriend about a month earlier when Rios and another officer put Vega in the back of their squad car and drove off.
She said she saw her boyfriend about two hours later, his shirt torn and a frightened look on his face. She said Vega told her the officers gave him a choice: get dropped off in territory of the Mara Salvatrucha gang or the Rockwood gang, both rivals of his 18th Street gang. He said he chose Rockwood.
After Vega got out of the car, he allegedly said, the officers shouted to two of his rivals that Vega was from 18th Street. He told his girlfriend that the gang members chased him and managed to rip his shirt but did not catch him.
In her analysis of the events surrounding Vega's murder, prosecutor Laesecke raised a series of questions about the officers' accounts.
If they dropped off Vega at El Castillo, where his mother was, why did he then walk from there toward Pico Boulevard, a well-known border between his gang's territory and that of a rival? And how was it that he found himself in a life-threatening struggle "within five minutes" of being dropped off by the police?
The prosecutor also noted that the two officers did not document their contact with Vega in any of the reports they generated that day, a violation of department policy. "Montoya and Rios completed their [daily report], Eva Garcia's arrest report and their report as first officers on the murder scene after Vega was killed and, therefore, were aware at the time the reports were written of the significance of their contact with him," she wrote. "Nevertheless, they omitted his name and any reference to any contact with him from each of those reports."
Finally, the prosecutor was skeptical of the officers' claim that they told a supervisor.
For one thing, Laesecke noted, there is no mention of the officers' contact with Vega in the homicide report prepared by Det. John Curiel. And on the day after Vega's killing, in a tape-recorded interview with the victim's girlfriend, Curiel can be heard asking the young woman for basic information, such as the location of the arrest, a description of the officers involved and the reason for the arrest.
"If [Curiel] was already aware of Montoya's and Rios' involvement, it seems logical that he would have also asked Garcia some questions based on the information given to him by the officers or at least tried to reassure her that the officers were not involved in Vega's death," she continued.
Gary Wigodsky, an alternate public defender who has been specializing in Rampart cases, said the officers' conduct described in the district attorney's memo is "outrageous." He noted that most of the officers interviewed during the investigation had very little recollection of the incident. "That's a telltale sign," he said. "You know something fishy happened when they can't remember anything."
Scott Glover
Scott Glover is a former investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times.


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This page is here to show you a number of different support designs that can be built very simply for use with your zip wire. Perhaps one of the easiest ways to build a support is the simple A-frame support which can be easily built using roundwood with a diameter of between 140-160mm (finished).
As you can see a launch ramp is quiet common either as part of the structure or as a separate structure from the main structure. If installing a zip wire run on a slope of any description, quite often a ramp will not be required but this depends on the height of the crossbar support at the receiving end.
We have put on this page a number of pictures of supports with one picture showing the dimensions of an example of a zip wire end A-frame support structure with launch ramp. These dimensions are in inches except for the 12ft high measurement.
You will not be able to buy readymade supports but you will be able to buy the wood needed to make them. We suggest that you look for a good wood / timber merchant or fencing specialist.


This famous hymn was written by Caelius Sedulius (d. circa 450) with its stanzas starting with each subsequent letter of the Latin alphabet, 23 in total; a device known as abecedarius or acrostichon. Sedulius called his poem Paean Alphabeticus de Christo.
Hostis Herodes impie, the Vesper hymn for Epiphany, consisting of stanzas 8, 9, 11 and 13, once again followed by a doxology.
Hence, settings of A solus ortus cardine are usually of this 8-stanza form, or some of its stanzas.
In this form, it was translated by Luther and published in his first collection of hymns (1524) as Christum wir sollen loben schon.
he would not lose what he had made.
secrets which she has not known.
at a word she conceived the Son in her womb.
who does not allow even the birds to hunger.
the Shepherd who is the creator of all.
Yet call that Offspring blest her own.
Conceived in her womb the Son.
The Infant Baptist had revealed.
Who feedeth even each fowl of air.
They made creation's Shepherd known.
To the Father and to Paraclete.
S ne vesszen el, kit alkotott.
die geboren is uit de maagd Maria.
See Christum wir sollen loben schon.
The Manuscripts of Sedulius: A Provisional Handlist, by Carl P. E. Springer (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 85 part 5), mentions the hymn's history and lists manuscripts in which it appears.
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