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Alpha's Regret-My Luna Has A Son by Jessica hall Chapter 95
Valen POV
Pulling up at the Mountainview Hotel, fire trucks lined the front of the Hotel. Police and flashing lights. It was a total fiasco. I could see Everly's truck and my father parked beside it and getting Valarian out of the car. While Macey stood by the car, my father was quick to get Valarian and waved to Zoe in question, who rushed over with Casey. She thanks him. Yet I couldn't see Everly anywhere. The entire building was on fire, flames spewing out the windows that burst from the extreme heat that could be felt from where I parked behind my father on the main road. People were running everywhere, and police and ambulances were also on the scene.
I glance around, waving to Zoe, and jog over to her and Marcus. Marcus had a tablet in his hand and people lined the path, standing at the evacuation point as he finished checking names off.
"Everyone is accounted for, the fire started in the kitchen, thankfully the alarms tripped still from the backup batteries so no loss of life," Marcus tells me and I noticed the tablet was a list of who was in the hotel and where everyone checked off and accounted for but one. Ava was handing out bottled water and checking those Marcus marked off.
"Where is Everly?" I ask. Seeing my father drive off with Casey and Valarian, he honks the horn and I nod to him. Zoe looks around before pointing between two firetrucks.
"The other buildings?" I ask Macey as she comes over.
"Fine, it was contained in the main building. The apartments out the back and events rooms and storage sheds are fine, only the main hotel," she answers, and at least that was a relief. I nod glancing at Everly who stood in her pink and white cloud pajamas with her back to us. Moving across the large lawn, I head over to her.
When I spoke to her she was hyst*rical, but now I felt nothing but blistering fiery anger, so hot it would give the inferno in front of us a run for its money. Yet the underlying feeling below it was pure devastation. This place was as much her baby as Valarian was. This was hers. Coming up behind her, she stared at the flames eating away her village, a village she built.
I gripped her shoulders, coming up behind her, but she just stared ahead. I didn't know what to say. There was no comfort I could offer to make this right.
"I'll rebuild, this is why we have insurance, this is why I have a failsafe, the main thing is no one is hurt, this place can be restored, lives can't be replaced," she says as I rest my chin on her shoulder and wrap my arms around her.
"I'm sorry, Love," I tell her and she nods once in acknowledgment of my words but says nothing else. Media and reporters started lining the streets behind us, murmurs could be heard, police taking statements. I wandered off, helping where I could and so did Everly, organizing buses to take everyone to my hotel that was staying here. Yet when the flames were gone, the place was nothing but a husk of what once was. Everly watched the last fire truck leave, but the media lingered, taking any last-minute scraps they could for their headlines. B****y vultures.
"Come on," I tell her, trying to lead her away, but she shakes her head and walks toward the building. I needed to get Valarian to school, so we would have to come back. Yet I had a feeling Everly wasn't leaving anytime soon.
"They warned me," Everly said, staring up at what's left. The structure was sound, but the place was gutted. Yet despite it all, the building still stood, the brickwork tainted black, the render crumbling and the place hollow.
"This is because of the petition, because I fought for the rogues, for this city and this is how they repay me," she growls.
"They won't stop, will they?" she asks, glancing at me. I hang my head, knowing this would be the beginning.
"What's next Valen? What would your next move be, if you were Nixon?" she asks.
"You think it was Nixon?"
"Who else," she says.
"Everly? I…"' I glance around at the media still lingering, watching curiously when she walks off toward the wreck.
Everly POV
The place was destroyed as I stared at my heart and soul b****d to charcoal. I stared at the front door of the office. I could picture it like it was yesterday. The night before it poured, and I had all but given up, until I met the woman that sat on a chair with a smoke hanging between her lips by that very door. On a plastic faded chair, the way her eyes looked me up and down with no judgment.
Valen comes over to me while I stare at the spot she sat that day, wet from walking, hopeless, and homeless. He rubs my arms from behind me.
"We should go," Valen whispers. I point to the spot.
"That is where I met your mother," I tell him. "I thought she was one of the people staying here. She had smoke hanging out of her mouth." I chuckle.
"She offered me a place to stay, a hot meal, and then a job. But she gave me so much more than that," I tell him.
"This place," Valen says. I shake my head.
"Hope. She gave me hope. Then she gave me a family, and then a home," I tell him looking up at what's left.
I point to the room directly above us. "That is where I stayed. The next morning I came out to her calling out to me, her truck loaded with baby stuff for Valarian. There was so much stuff," I sniffled.
"It takes a village to raise a child. We are going to build our own village. Your mother told me that, and we did." I tell him before stepping through the front door of the office, the glass door all shattered and glass crunched under my feet, the walls black and some of the floors still smoldered. I walked out the back to my office, which used to be her apartment.
"Everly! It's not safe," Valen calls out to me while rushing in after me. Yet I didn't care, I had to see if it survived. The safe was fireproof, and it held something more precious then gold. It had my letter.
Everything was covered in soot, the room crumbling around me as I fished my keys from my pocket and kneeled next to the safe. "Everly, we shouldn't be in here! They haven't cleared the entire place yet," Valen says but through my tears, I place the key in and twist before pulling it out and using another key to twist the next lock and the next. The keypad for the digital screen melted, but the manual locks were fine. My heart beat faster when I heard the final lock click.
I closed my eyes, gripping the handle s*****g in a shuddering breath, before pulling the door open. Opening it, I found the safe intact, the heat b****d the outside good, and it was warm inside. A few things on top were curled and ruined but as I dug to the bottom I burst into tears when I saw my envelopes. They were brown from the smoke but intact. I clutched them to my chest and let out a breath.
"Thank you," I whispered to no one in particular. If there was a sign, that she was still with us. This was it. Because God only knows how many times I had pulled that d**n letter from its envelope when I thought I would break. Valen rubs my back, letting me fall apart, yet I couldn't move as I stared at my safe. I have no idea how long I sat there, but Valen had to go grab Valarian's clothes from the apartment, yet I couldn't bring myself to move.
This place was a time capsule, as I found every moment of this place flashing through my mind. Her voice was so clear, her memory still alive even though it was now b****d rubble. I was leaning against the brown brickwork with my envelope, the one most precious to me. There were so many letters, letters of advice, letters of love. She wrote a new letter every day, each one a detailed report of what we accomplished that day. A reminder of how far we have come.
And every day she dropped it in the post box out the front and sent it to her lawyer to hold on to. But one letter meant the most to me and it was the one I clutched in my hand like it was my lifeline, a reminder in case I forgot. One thing about Valarie was that she was unforgettable. I close my eyes, leaning my head back against the wall when her voice rings in my ears.
"You don't need them. They aren't wasting tears on you, so don't waste your tears on them. They don't deserve them,"' Valarie had once told me. Her voice was on replay and I savored the sound of the memories she imprinted on me and it only made me angry that someone would try to take that memory from me, from the rogues. They b****d my village and I will b**n this city to the ground. I b**n, they will b**n with me.
"Hold on to that anger because sometimes it is the only thing that will keep you going," Valarie had also told me. And I let it fester, needing something to keep going when I heard the crunch of somebody walking into the place. I wipe my tears but sigh when I realize it is only Valen. He crouches in front of me, tipping my chin up to meet his gaze.
"Where's my girl gone?" he whispers, his eyes searching my face.
"Sitting in the wreck of her village," I tell him.
"This is not my girl. My girl is a Luna, and chief to her village,"
"My village is gone," I tell him.
"What happened to you will rebuild?" I sighed I wanted to punch something, scream and fight, yet at the same time I wanted to curl into a ball and d*e with this place. But he was right. I had a city to b**n and I couldn't do that here, feeling sorry for myself. I nod and he stands and I open the letter, reading the letter. The one thing that kept me going time and time again. Valen stands back but remains quiet as I skimmed the page. Valarie's words were unmarred and untainted as I stared at them.
"What's that?" Valen asks.
"A reminder," I tell him. Leaning forward, I grab the others from where they sat and hand them to him. He looks at the hundreds of envelopes.
"These are all from my mother?" he asks, and I nod.
He holds his hand out for the one piece of paper written in her immaculate handwriting, the one letter that means the most to me. It was the shortest of all the letters she wrote. The others were a detailed day-by-day account of what we had achieved. What we built. But this one was something else.
Just in case no one has told you today!
YOU WILL NEVER DO IT!
I'm watching, always watching my girl. And I will be watching when you prove them all wrong!
With that, I tucked the letter back in its envelope and handed it to Valen to hold with the others before walking out of the office. "Everly? What are you doing?" Valen calls as he follows me through the charred remains.
"Building a village," I tell him. Valen laughs and I look at him over my shoulder.
"What?" I ask and he shrugs and shakes his head, un-tucking the envelope I gave him, he opens it.
"Build your Village, Love," he says.
"I am. I built this place from nothing. I will do it again," I tell him, shoving through the doors and outside.
I stop in tracks as I step into the carpark. Valen walks up behind me and he wraps his arms around my chest pulling me back against him. The letter in his hand opened, yet my gaze was on the hundreds of rogues and pack members that covered every inch of the lawn. Shovels, and supplies in hand before a convoy of trucks and machinery pulled into the hotel. I s**k in a breath and s*****w. Every Rogue must be here, and all of Valen's pack. I glance at him over my shoulder.
"Only this time, it isn't just four rogue-w****s and three babies. You built a village and these are your people. You never have to do anything alone again," Valen whispers, and tears fill my eyes as I stare back at everyone who showed up. Macey and Zoe both stood at the front with shovels in hand. My lip quivers that they would all show up for this place.
Valen kisses my cheek and lets me go. My knees shook as I walked toward my village before they gave way from under me, they all suddenly dropped to their knees and bowed their heads. The sight of them became too much, and I broke. Tears fell as I placed my head in my hands and cried. Moments later I felt small hands touch my neck and I looked up to see Valarian standing beside me.
"Don't cry Mumma," he whispers, wiping my tears. He was wearing a hi-vis shirt, jeans and little steel cap boots.
"Hey, Everly!" Valen calls and I turn to look at him over my shoulder. Valarian stares at his father when Valen yells out to me.
"You'll never do it!" he yells out, and I chuckle. I open my mouth to answer him when a chorus rings out through the crowd in unison.
"Watch her!" the crowd screamed back at him.
Fight Between Alphas by Jessica Hall Ch. 64
Fight Between Alphas by Jessica Hall
Alpha's Unhinged Mate by Jessica Hall Ch. 65
Alpha's Unhinged Mate by Jessica Hall


Halloween… What used to be a cute kid's holiday has now turned into an extravaganza of costumes, parties and celebrations of all kinds.
Some nonprofits may be looking to harness this energy and build awareness for their cause. Here are 10 reasons nonprofits are hosting Halloween-themed fundraisers.
Certainly you and your staff can dress up in costumes themed around your cause, but what about including your supporters?
Maybe hold a costume contest and ask your supporters to share their photos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest with your hashtag.
You could award virtual or real prizes for the best themed costume, scariest costume, most original, etc. Not only will your supporters have fun, you'll get a promotion boost as well.
Below are a few fun ideas to get you started and take a look at this Halloween promotional infographic for ideas to get supporters involved.
You can post the social media feeds directly on your website to generate interest and excitement. Maybe even host a party for your supporters. Or plan a hayride fundraiser to celebrate your contest winners.
What are your ideas for Halloween? How does your organization get into the spirit of the season and promote your cause? Share your thoughts in the comments below. We'd love to hear from you.


The Utrecht Health Project (in Dutch: Leidsche Rijn GezondheidsProject, LRGP) is a population based cohort study of the inhabitants of Leidsche Rijn, a district in the west of the city Utrecht.
Residents of Leidsche Rijn who register at one of the academic healthcare centres receive a written invitation to participate in the Utrecht Health Project (UHP) from their general practitioner.
So far approximately 10,000 inhabitants have given their informed consent to participate in the study. The cohort is expected to grow substantially in the future. Of all these participants an Individual Health Profile (IHP) was made. The IHP is a check of a number of health characteristics, potential determinants for illness or healthiness in the future. The results of the IHP are the starting point for the following of the health career of the participant. Also blood was drawn from most participants and some cases an ECG and spirometry was performed.
The results of the IHP is sent to the registration file of the UHP and a certified copy is placed in the electronic medical file in the computer of the General Practitioner. This electronic medical file (the GP Information System, GPIS) is used daily to note regular visits, prescriptions written and to document correspondence about patients from laboratories and hospitals (the "green card"). The GP is responsible for the file for each patient registered in the practice. The GPs in Leidsche Rijn are trained in the correct coding of information in everyday healthcare using international coding systems (e.g. International Classification of Primary Care ICPC). Periodically, coded information from participants in the UHP is collected from the GP medical files. Once it is part of the research files, this information cannot be traced back to a particular person.
The Utrecht health project is a collaboration between the Leidsche Rijn Julius Gezondheids Centra (Julius Health Care Centers) and the University Medical Center Utrecht. The operational responsibility resides with the Health Care Centers. The scientific responsibility resides with the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care at the University Medical Center Utrecht. Ethical permission has been obtained by the applicable boards and all participants undergoing the Individual Health Profile give written informed consent.


Art Crasher is excited to be kicking off our gallery tour tonight,February 7, 2014 in San Francisco. We invite fellow artists and art lovers to join us at SOMArts' Bay Gallery from 7:30pm-11:30pm. This will be the first of four US shows. The tour will continue in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City. Come out and enjoy work from 80 international artists from 12 countries. We will also have San Francisco's own Pete Doolittle painting live at the show from 8:00pm-11:00pm. We are also very excited to announce our partnership with UrbanSitter. Whether you're heading to one of our gallery shows, going for dinner or need to run errands, UrbanSitter is your online resource to find an occasional sitter, last minute help or full-time nanny. UrbanSitter is generously sponsoring each of our tour dates. We'd like to take the time to share a word from UrbanSitter's Community Manager, Molli Hoos.
"UrbanSitter is excited to sponsor ArtCrasher's first Art Tour show! As part of our effort to help make the show a success, we are offering a $15 discount to book a sitter on Friday night.
To redeem, simply create a free profile at (>>>) urbansitter.com and enter code ARTCRASHERS15 on the Credits page under My Account -urbansitter.com/parent/credits.
Not familiar with UrbanSitter? We are an online resource that connects parents with great babysitters. A local start-up founded right here in San Francisco by 4 busy parents, UrbanSitter helps you find available sitters recommended by your friends or parents in your social circles - so you can feel secure in hiring someone you trust. Simply search sitters calendars, select based on reviews and credentials, then book and even pay right online!
See you on tour, Art Crashers!
31 days have come and gone. Banksy's NYC residency is officially over.Banksy left us with a few treats on this Halloween day. Banksy, you will be missed.
I don't have much to say to introduce this blog post this morning because I'm speechless. I just about fell off my chair when I read this, this morning. Banksy posted his daily piece today accompanied by an article he wrote. Today's piece was going "to be an op-ed column in the New York Times." The New York Times refused to publish Banksy's column today. It's no surprise the column was canned. As a newly minted American, I have learned over the years there are some topics you just don't bring up in a negative light. One of those topics is 9/11. 9/11 for the US is a wound that is still slowly healing. That wound is like an angry bear. If you wouldn't poke an angry bear, you also shouldn't reopen a wound. I'm all for freedom of speech, but as someone who has family in NYC, this piece hit a nerve.
Miss a day, miss a lot. My Aussie friend, Bec, just arrived in California yesterday. Today we ran the "Dirty Girl" Marathon-aka 5k run through the mud in costume. San Francisco is a huge dressup city and Bec came ready with pink wig in tow! She is my traveling partner in crime. We met while bartending in college in Canada.Before I knew it,we were traveling together to Cuba, France, England, and North Africa. We reunited yesterday for the first time in 3 years.
Had to throw this in for a laugh.Post mud race. Its hard to smile when the sun is in your eyes and there is mud in your mouth, but what a great laugh and a great time.
After temporarily shutting down his show due to "police activity", Banksy's work showed up in Hell's Kitchen today. We're happy to see the NYPD hasn't been successful in their quest to take him down.
Another day, another Banksy. Banksy made a "1/36 scale replica of the great Sphinx of Giza made from smashed cinderblocks." Its nice to see Banksy venture out from his usual art form.
Another day,another Banksy.Today this piece showed up in South Bronx.
Another day,another Banksy.Banksy hits the Upper West Side as his month long residency in NYC continues.
It seems McDonald's in New York City will have a new featured item that won't be found on the menu. This sculpture "will visit the sidewalk outside a different McDonalds every lunchtime for the next week." A nicer reminder of the grade E meat being served...Yum!
After a nearly 6 hour flight back to California, I was happy to be reunited with my 7 month old pup. I already miss the big city. As I walked off the plane, my email chimed and new Banksy work appeared on my iPad. This piece needs no introduction. It reminds us of something we already know, the NYC skyline is forever changed.
If you criticize Banksy, be prepared. He has no problem throwing some...Kelly Rowland quotes your way? Banksy shares "Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what? "I'm just going to use that hostility to make me stronger, not weaker" as Kelly Rowland said on the X Factor." There, you've been told.
Banksy Sets Up Shop in Central Park, Does Anyone Notice?
Banksy set up shop in Central Park yesterday. Authentic, signed, Banksy pieces were selling for $60 each. Pedestrians in NYC are constantly hounded on the street for a buck. You eventually learn to tune out sellers and have tunnel vision to reach your destination. The shop was set up from 11am-6pm. Between those hours, only lucky seven pedestrians stopped to buy his work. I say "lucky" because Banksy's work typically goes for a pretty penny. His piece "Bombing Middle England" was sold in 2007 for $200,000 at auction alone. I think its fair to say some buyers were oblivious as to what they were actually buying. A new homeowner from Chicago bought four pieces,saying "I just need something for the walls." I'm sure those pieces won't be coming off his walls anytime soon.
I have a few things to get off my chest, maybe this confessional will do me some good.
Another day, another...slaughterhouse delivery truck? Banksy has sent out this truck to the Meatpacking District. Shall we say "The Muppets" meets "Silence of the Lambs" ?


It looks like director Sam Raimi won't be making the World of Warcraft film due to his scheduling with another movie.
Talking to CraveOnline Raimi said, "Actually, they don't have me directing World of Warcraft anymore because when I took the Oz job [Oz: The Great And Powerful], they had to move on to another director. They had to start making it."
Raimi's last comment might indicate that the movie has or will start production soon, so perhaps all is not lost.


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Four area schools are competing at today's CIF-Southern Section Dual Meet Wrestling Championships.
Del Rio League champion Santa Fe, Suburban League champion La Mirada and Del Rio runner-up California qualified for the CIF-SS Division 3 tournament at Carter High School in Rialto. Schurr, the Almont League's first-place team, will compete in the Division 5 tournament hosted by Western High School in Anaheim.
Weigh-in for both tournaments starts at 9 a.m., with wrestling beginning at 11 a.m.
This is familiar territory for eight-time league champion Santa Fe (5-0 league), which is looking to win its fourth CIF-SS dual-meet title in seven years. The Chiefs, ranked No. 3 in Division 3, captured the crown in 2005, 2007 and 2009.
Santa Fe features Kioni Villalobos (112 pounds), Jose Gutierrez (130), Dillon Crouch (145), Joey Davis (152) and Omar Esparza (heavyweight), who all won individual league championships at last week's Del Rio League finals. The Chiefs, who have a first-round bye, will face the Montclair-Carter winner in the second round.
"Montclair and Carter both have good individuals," Santa Fe head coach Sal Garcia said. "It's going to be a long break before we wrestle. We need to make sure we are warmed up and ready to go and not take anybody lightly.
La Mirada (6-0 league) will take on Colony in the first round. The No. 8 Matadores produced seven champions at last week's Suburban League finals. Those first-place finishers included Danny Perez (112), Matt Ortiz (119), Joel Castillo (125), Marcus Vargas (130), Carlos Martinez (135), Myles Madison (140) and Henry Gonzalez (152).
California, which posted a second-place 4-1 league mark, will wrestle against San Andreas League champion Cajon. Miguel Rosales (119), Juan Rosales (125), Torrey Moreno (135) and Nick Mercado (140) captured league crowns for the Condors last week.
Schurr's first-round opponent is Cypress. The No. 6 Spartans (5-0 league) produced three first-place medalists in Eric Rangel (112), Paolo Solorzano (135) and David Avina (171) at last week's Almont League finals.
"I'm proud of my guys for winning league again," Schurr head coach Jay Valencia said.


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Milo (and Nestlé) pays back | Inquirer Opinion
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Milo (and Nestlé) pays back
By: Rina Jimenez-David - @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 12:30 AM August 03, 2016
"Milo" is a brand that many Filipinos remember with fondness dating back to childhood. My own childhood memories consist of sneakily scooping Milo from the can into a cup and then sitting in front of the TV set, spooning it into my mouth, together with ice-cold water that tasted so much better than if the two had been mixed together.
My Milo habit must have rubbed off on my daughter. When I visited her in New York earlier this year, on her list of bilin was a pack of Milo, and I decided to surprise her by bringing two big packs, one of them a variant developed for adults. Like me, she loves eating Milo raw, seated in front of the TV. Just a few days ago, she posted on Facebook that she had run out of Milo and asked if anyone knew where she could source the choco-malt drink in the jungles of Manhattan or Harlem.
A few years ago, we discovered a Singaporean restaurant in the commercial center of Cubao that served an outstanding Hainanese chicken. But what drew me to it was their "Milo dinosaur," an iced drink concoction made up of frozen Milo and milk, with a sprinkling of Milo powder on top. Sadly, the place closed some years ago, and while other Singapore-Malay eateries also serve the "Milo dinosaur," they can't compare. My mouth waters just thinking about it now.
Yes, they have heard about the "Milo dinosaur," acknowledged Sherilla Bayona who, as head of the Nestlé Philippines Beverages Business Unit (including Milo, Nestea and Nesfruta), oversees the performance of Milo in the local market. But the company itself has nothing to do with its creation or marketing. But have the sales of the "Milo dinosaur" impacted on Milo's sales here? Jacques
Reber, chair and CEO of Nestlé Philippines, seemed bemused by the query. "No," he said firmly, smiling.
Maybe he was too modest to say so, but there's really no need to push Milo in the local market. "Penetration," which in marketing refers to the number of households reached by a product, is over 90 percent for Milo in the Philippines. "Not many brands can make that claim," added Reber.
Indeed, the Philippines seems to be fertile ground for all Nestlé products and not just for Milo. Last year, Nestlé sales here totaled P121 billion, up from P116 billion in 2014. And, at midpoint of this year, Reber said he is optimistic that the company, which is over a hundred years old in this country, will exceed last year's figure.
Currently, too, Nestlé Philippines ranks among the top five corporations in the country, and sits at No. 8 among Nestlé markets worldwide. The Philippines is the second biggest market for Nestlé in Asia, next only to the behemoth China, and is thus the biggest market for Nestlé in Southeast Asia (even if Singaporeans apparently invented the "Milo Dinosaur").
The company pays back Filipinos' loyalty to its products and brands by investing in turn in the economy, as attested by Reber and other Nestlé officials (including SVP for corporate affairs Ernesto Mascenon) in a press con yesterday to announce its P2-billion investment in a Protomalt plant for Milo.
Undergoing construction right now is a plant in Lipa, Batangas, that, said Reber, reflects the company's "strong confidence in the continued growth of the country's economy, consistent with its long-term mission of nurturing generations of Filipino families and contributing to nation-building."
Construction of the plant began in December 2015 and is expected to be completed in October 2017.
At present, Protomalt, an ingredient in Milo that gives it its distinctive taste, is sourced from Singapore, where the Nestlé Group's biggest malt plant is located. Other malt plants can be found in Nigeria and Australia, since Nestlé makes it a point to manufacture the Protomalt itself to ensure consistent quality wherever Milo is sold.
Once the Batangas plant is up and running, it will use barley and cassava as major raw materials for the production of the malt extract. And while the cassava will initially be imported from Thailand, Nestlé is even now talking with cassava farmers to see if they could produce enough of the crop to meet the factory's needs.
This, said Mascenon, is the "value added" to the future plant—contributing to the growth and development of the agricultural sector. Already, Nestlé has started to qualify cassava farmers in Mindanao, and is hoping to find more farmers (or maybe farmer cooperatives) who will take up cassava farming to supply Nestlé's requirements in the future.
Indeed, this is an approach Nestlé has already taken: working with coffee farmers, for instance, to supply the beans for Nescafé and other coffee products.
Mascenon said the company expects the malt plant's capacity to increase considerably in three to four years, with potential for exporting some of its output to other Nestlé companies abroad.
In the last five years, Nestlé has invested close to P14 billion in the country, said Reber, revealing that he expects even more investments to come in the next five years, with demand growing and capacity increasing.
Aside from the Protomalt plant, Nestlé has five factories in the country: Cabuyao in Laguna (infant nutrition products, milks and liquid beverages), Cagayan de Oro (coffee and powdered milk drink), Pulilan in Bulacan (ice cream and fresh dairy), Lipa (powdered beverages and breakfast cereals), and Tanauan, Batangas (coffee creamer and powdered milk drink).
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I think they need an absurdist movement; a large number of sympathizers willing to state they're gay (preferably if already married and/or respectable person) only to recant during a trial and bring the legal/prison system to a standstill or breaking point.
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There was a massacre being committed against Catholics in the province of some Africa country in the 50's. In one village, an army truck pulled up outside of the catholic church before Sunday mass to round up those arriving for the service. Word got around to the protestant church's in the village, and all the church's sent there congregations to the Catholic Church, chanting "We are all Catholics now". Such was the ensueing chaos, the truck left empty.
It would be great to see something similar happen in Uganda. Sadly, religious hatred of homosexuals as such a hold upon the country - such a move seems extremely unlikely.
What is needed is world condemnation. Write to your political leaders, and members of Parliment etc, and demand that they speak out!
When an atrocity is taking place, silence is not an acceptable way to respond! So if people have not already done so, get writing - and if you have written then write again, and again.
It is tactically brilliant, although cowardly, for American evangelical missionaries to go to another country that has a weaker legal system than the United States so that they can execute a more fully realized form of their agenda.


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A Roundtable on COVID-19 and The Attention Economy
By D. Graham Burnett, Carlos Montemayor, Gabriella Warren-Smith, Josefina Massot, and Catherine Hansen 06/21/2020 06/22/2020
"Attention" has come to the fore in the last decade as a matter of pressing critical significance — with particular concern centering on how new economies and technologies are transforming our attentional regimes. But the historically unprecedented pandemic of COVID-19 has, over the last months, generated radically new attentional conditions: new kinds of screen time; new forms of social mediation; new intesifications of both isolation and solidarity. What is happening? What can be done?
D. Graham Burnett, a professor of the History of Science at Princeton University, works on the history of attention. Since the onset of the pandemic lockdown, he has convened a weekly Zoom gathering to think about problems of attention and our unprecedented moment. This roundtable discussion emerged from those sessions. It was conducted remotely, in the third week of May — too early to reckon with the dramatic events that have galvanized the United States (and reverberated globally) in the wake of the monstrous killing of George Floyd. The contributors have added a short afterword that briefly addresses these remarkable developments.
The participants are: Carlos Montemayor, a San Francisco-based philosopher; Catherine Hansen, a Tokyo-and-Beirut-based scholar of literature; and Josefina Massot, a Buenos Aires-based editor and translator. The initial questions were formulated by the London-based independent curator and cultural producer Gabriella Warren-Smith.
COLLECTIVE ATTENTION
For the first time since WWII, humans are connected globally by a crisis that requires us to work together. Even as we experience many of the same drastic changes, we are all fixated on the subject of coronavirus. Its impending presence has dominated our conversations, thoughts, and sleepless nights — unifying our attentional focus as we all adapt to this new way of life. How is attention shifting as we move towards collective forms of behaviour and thinking?
CARLOS MONTEMAYOR: I think the COVID crisis potentially offers a certain kind of "boredom" that can be used to promote joint attentive experiences of an aesthetic, collective kind. This effort will depend on a unique kind of openness to novelty in a reconfigured environment, outside our "comfort zones." The sudden refocus of our attention on the pandemic, imposed by necessity and fear, will hopefully initiate a larger conversation about the urgent need to foster our attentional capacities in less demanding and dangerous times — we mustn't forget whatever lessons we learn now. For one thing, the entire planet has been suddenly reminded that humans have very similar basic needs.
D. GRAHAM BURNETT: I see what you are saying, Carlos, but I think we do have to underline that, for people in the grip of illness, or in the throes of terror as they attend to loved ones, face financial ruin, or worry about infection, "boredom" may not be near-at-hand. So we have to think, too, about fear. And about the way that fear is a heightener — of attention, for sure. Nothing focuses the mind like death, and the fear of death — there is something basic and deep and fundamental that ties attention and suffering.
CATHERINE HANSEN: My sense is that, while this crisis may be, in a way, "universal," our experience of the things we attend to is not: there are as many inner experiences of an object or story as there are people. But the whole purpose of collective conversation is to make those experiences congruent — to calibrate them. Techniques for the communal expression and calibration of inner events have existed as long as humans have, perhaps starting with the oral epics recited around fires at cave mouths; works of art also have a "calibrating" effect. Which brings me to the current pandemic: while we're all scared and sad in our own ways, and therefore tend to communicate on totally different wavelengths, we're all scared and sad about the same thing. The COVID crisis (like any other) has collectively calibrated our inner attentional events.
JOSEFINA MASSOT: I'm going to have to differ here… the COVID crisis has perhaps fostered a sense of "emotional" communion, but I don't think that solidarity is being realized on a practical (and ultimately, "attentional") level. In other words, I don't think we're all discovering similar basic needs, experiencing the same drastic changes, or adapting to the same new way of life — and consequently, we're not really moving toward more collective forms of behaviour and thinking.
It mostly boils down to class: the socioeconomic gap has grown massively as a result of the pandemic, and this has spawned (or exacerbated) an attentional gap. Embedded in the word "attention" (from the Latin attendere) is the act of waiting, and we're all being asked to "wait" till this blows over. Thing is, only the relatively wealthy can afford that; the less privileged must scramble more than ever to make ends meet, and they must do so immediately. As a result, attentional states vary along class lines. The well-off have time to spare, and excess supply breeds boredom, and boredom breeds distraction. The underprivileged can only think about survival, triggering a kind of hyper-focused anxiety. These opposite attentional states are equally deficient because they're extreme: the former is too promiscuous; the latter, too narrow. In this, I suppose I want to push on what you said, Graham, about fear focusing or heightening attention — this may be true to an extent, but the reality is, fear can also devalue, even obliterate, attention.
CH: It's good that you bring up socioeconomic and attentional disparity, because I've been asking myself for whom, or on whose behalf, we're thinking about these questions. Could it be that this pandemic moment is showing us that the sensibilities and sensitivities that (arguably) unite us are available and familiar to some of us simply because of the self-time and solitude we may be (or have been) fortunate to possess? In that sense, I think the collective calibration of experience through attention should be guided by empathy, an attentive care to the needs of others — especially those who are not rich in privilege (and opportunity, and community) and in the types of leisured interiority or leisured distraction that this affords us.
JM: I couldn't agree more. In order to bring what I call distraction and hyperfocused anxiety closer to the "golden mean" of true attention, the rich should direct their presently scattered attentional capacities toward the less fortunate, which will in turn allow the latter to (potentially, partially) expand their attentional scope to include non-urgent matters. That would be a kind of calibration, as you put it — an attentional redistribution to match an equally necessary economic one.
CM: And I think another ethical, collective attentional shift might involve not just people but the world at large: an openness and generosity to our surroundings, the attentive care of other species, of the environment. If there's one message I've been consistently hearing it's that nature is now "recovering" — that we are, in a sense, the virus, and that this is an opportunity to change our ways. To be honest, I feel that this kind of message might be guided by fear, grief, and anxious boredom; that it may not come from a genuine reorientation of attention, but rather, from confusion. Still, maybe even misguided reorientation is better than business as usual!
DGB: I think here of Simon Weil's theologically-inflected emphasis on an "ethic" of attention, as when she writes, affectingly: "The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing." She thought it so rare as to consider it a "miracle" — even as she placed this kind of attention at the absolute foundation of our moral obligations to each other.
SELF-ATTENTION
In a world that never stops, finding "time to yourself" can feel like a kind of luxury product. But suddenly we are immersed in a new timezone of continuous self-time, giving one, perhaps, the unusual chance to develop personal skills, contemplate, and stretch one's creativity. Attention has become self-directed, physically and emotionally determined by one's inner environment. How might new models of the self emerge, in these times of great isolation?
CM: Attention has been increasingly trained to multitask, and it has therefore been stripped of its autonomy. The new COVID timezone should allow for the recovery of our personal time, which should in turn facilitate the recovery of healthy, autonomous attention. Unfortunately, self-attention of the kind created by the pandemic is a source of fatigue and fear, because it is marching in lockstep with social media, the 24/7 news cycle, and various commercial interests. What we need is a genuine reorientation of attention that radically departs from entertainment, social fear and anxiety, and the incessant self-oriented performances for popularity in social media. A healthy kind of self-attention would ignore these sources of anxiety as much as possible; only in this way will it be genuinely self-directed.
JM: Frankly, I'm concerned that a more selfish model of the self will emerge for those of us who do have ample time to self-reflect in isolation (because again, not everyone does: the underprivileged don't, and the same goes for parents of young children, doctors, etc.). At any rate, this selfish model would sprout not just from isolation but from fear of the other — after all, we've been told, anyone can carry this deadly virus, anyone is a potential threat, everyone must be avoided. Selfishness is currently viewed as an act of generosity ("shun others, save lives"), and I worry that we might normalize it in the long term.
CH: Someone who's on a personal or public "front line" right now, or in a position of sudden precarity, could probably ask themselves: "What can we discover about ourselves when we stop doing (or can't do) the things we usually do?" And someone who's luckier could ask the same question. And then, for different purposes, in different contexts, these two, lucky and unlucky, could both ask: "What can we then do with what we have discovered about ourselves? What can we do for others?" I think that's the key to avoiding a selfish model of the self.
JM: Absolutely, and you've just made me think of a more optimistic model: one based more heavily on being than doing, which is of course so antithetical to Western society. Then again, the pandemic has given many of us a pass to just sort of "be" while we wait. You ask, What can we discover about ourselves when we stop doing (or can't do) the things we usually do?, and maybe this is the lesson: we're not (just) what we do, but also what we are. Yes, the godly I am who I am is equal parts tautological and tired, but tautologies are true by necessity and clichés almost always are by experience. Whatever "doing" remains must aspire to serve others; otherwise, we're back to selfishness under a prettier guise.
DGB: The language of attention is very interesting here. One of the most powerful historical arguments that has been made about the discourse of "attention" is exactly that it arises in its distinctively modern form (marked by intense concern about the balance of attention and distraction in our individual and social lives) in the period that sees the breakdown of the "classic" subject. This is Jonathan Crary's point in Suspensions of Perception: intense attention discourse arises as part of an effort to reconstitute some kind of unitary subject in the wake of a set of destabilizing transformations (e.g., the discovery that the eye and the mind are not at all "camera obscura"-like devices, but rather oozy and distributed and unreliable systems). In the context of mounting evidence that there was/is no privileged or sovereign "locus" where personhood can be shown to reside, the language of "attention" provides a way to re-articulate that volitional, agential, coherent nucleus of subjectivity. At least in principle. It does not work, of course. But we inherit this language — language that closely ties "attention" to the core of "being." The question now is: how can we use that language effectively, in a time of genuine crisis? A crisis of the subject in a conceptual sense — and a crisis of the subject in a material, embodied sense too?
IN-ATTENTION
Historically, various technologies have been feared for their dangerous effects on the mind and the body — on one's ability to think and reflect. In COVID-19 we are presented with a unique situation; online engagement has soared as we have become increasingly dependent on this form of connection with the outside world; the boundaries between work and pleasure have in many cases broken down as living rooms become offices, and time at home becomes one seamless unbroken "engagement." As our ability to focus on clear, defined tasks weakens, and the planning of future activities can feel actually futile, how does our sense of direction change, and how does attention become more divided?
CM: A kind of "monastic" or ritualised set of attentional routines, engaging our aesthetic and moral capacities, should replace the typical epistemic and preference-maximising capacities exploited by work and online media. This would facilitate a genuine reorientation of attention, one aimed towards autonomy, which would eliminate the type of "unbroken engagement" you speak of. In-attention (or attentional inhibition) can then be a virtue of reorientation rather than a vice of boredom or anxiety. The trauma and social fear that will follow the COVID crisis will present an opportunity to expand on these efforts, healing not only the economy and social anxiety but attention itself.
DGB: I am also sympathetic to new kinds of cenobitic-monastic "ritual" as part of a program of resistance: resistance to the immediate crisis of the pandemic, but also resistance to the ongoing crisis of the "fracking" of the human attentional capacity by the deranging dynamics of hypercapitalism. My utopian hopes ride on the rise of different kinds of intentional communities, formally committed to disciplines of non-monetizable attention, and working to develop new ways of indexing those commitments. I believe the arts play, at least potentially, a key role here. An artist like On Kawara, for instance, or Tehching Hsieh — these artists generated new ways of "bodying-forth" inhabited time, alone and with others. Artists and interventionists working now (I think of everyone from Thomas Hirschorn to Miriam Lefkowitz or Jonathan Van Dyke) are working in the same space. I myself have a strong interest in the so-called "Order of the Third Bird," a collective which can also be understood to operate in this zone.
JM: Classic spatiotemporal boundaries have, indeed, broken down: without the ability to focus on the present or plan for the future, time has become almost boundless. The same goes for space, perhaps paradoxically: we're confined at home, but technology has largely bridged the gap between the physical and the virtual, and the latter knows no limits. I'm not sure attention has become more divided as a result of this, but I do think that its sense of direction has changed. Just as our will freezes in the face of infinite choice (if an endless number of forces tug at an object from every direction, the object won't move), our attention freezes when faced with spatiotemporal infinity. Instead of division, then, it might experience something like stasis. But perhaps this is a good thing: having nowhere to go, it may well choose to turn toward itself. In this sense, the "in" could be interpreted not as a lack or negation or inhibition but as an inward motion – in-attention as meta-attention. This might allow attention to heal itself, too, as Carlos puts it; it may be one of the "monastic" or ritualised attentional routines he proposes.
MEDIATED ATTENTION
Cognitive neuroscientists claim that the human brain has an innate drive for information, and that this drive ebbs and flows under conditions of boredom and anxiety. Enclosed in our homes, we access most of our information through the mediation of networked technologies. News sites, social media, and online communication platforms have become pillars of social interaction and part of minute-to-minute routines. Our digital devices literally get hot as we continuously find ourselves repeatedly "checking on the world." Will our reliance on these technologies change our relationship with information, and how does its transmission through the screen affect our ways of processing what comes at us?
CM: Our relationship with information will absolutely change — it is changing. As mentioned, the human brain has powerful capacities for empathetic, uninterested attention, but commercialised social media, smartphones, computers, etc., are exploiting our reward systems and epistemic information maximisation capacities more than ever. We must turn our attention away from these addictive cognitive mediators, or we will miss out on any lessons afforded by attentional reorientation during the pandemic.
JM: It's interesting that you bring up "addictive mediators," because I think this technological ramp-up will exacerbate Internet addiction. There are several diagnostic criteria for it, but the pandemic will impact at least three. First, we'll use the Internet more than ever as a way of relieving a particular dysphoric mood (specifically, anxiety), since it's our main source of data and subsequent relief regarding present danger. Second, and relatedly, we'll tend to be more anxious than before when not using the Internet. Third, we'll stay online for longer, since we currently have more time and less attentional capacity than ever, which means we're likely streaming shows/browsing news/engaging in social media and other attentionally undemanding activities at unprecedented rates. The longer the pandemic lasts, the more these traits will be reinforced. And of course, addiction directly affects attention, because (back to my first answer) it simultaneously leads to distraction and hyperfocused anxiety: it makes us both scatterbrained and obsessed with our drug of choice.
CM: Yes, addiction could exacerbate the mental enfeeblement produced by fake news, constant TikTok and Instagram gratification, quasi-sadistic anonymous bullying on Twitter, and various forms of attentional distortion under the grip of fear, social competition, the erosion of rational standards for communication, and so on. We risk not only mental enfeeblement, but also the degradation of our capacities to attend to aesthetic and moral value.
DGB: I feel like some of the work that the "Friends of Attention" have done together as a collective speaks exactly to this issue. I think, for instance, of the "Twelve Theses on Attention", which surface an intense (and perhaps counter-intuitive) commitment to freedom of attention lying, essentially, in the "freedom-to-be-bound" by the attentional path laid by another. Shades here of Iris Murdoch's reading of Simone Weil in The Soverignty of Good. But also a concern with linking an Arendtian idea of "world-making" to the idea of resistance to what Tim Wu calls the "Attention Merchants." Without this, freedom of attention would seem to be nothing more than vulnerability to continuous solicitation. This is very much the diagnosis of James Williams, in his disturbing Stand Out of Our Light.
JM: I agree that the degradation of our capacities to attend is exactly what is at issue. As to whether technological mediation will impact how we process information, my answer is also yes. Potentially good news first: since every media outlet is basically tackling the same issue, we have a historically large representative sample from which to pick, compare, and contrast our sources. This gives us a unique chance to hone our attentional and critical thinking skills, perhaps learning to more effectively tell fake news from fact. That probably won't happen, though, and something much more dire might: watching the crisis unfold through our screens may lead to not just social but emotional distancing from the actual victims. I fear that we may come to view their horror as a kind of spectacle — and a banal one at that, since many platforms are casually intermingling grim updates from the latest epicenters with listicles on how to Feng Shui our bedrooms to ward off COVID-induced cabin fever or some such thing. When the petty and the tragic get neighboring online real estate, they invite a dangerous kind of attentional dissonance.
CH: Once again, if I may, I'll answer with a series of hopefully fruitful questions: How, in this time of crisis, are we making ourselves more susceptible to distraction and spectacle? Making ourselves into people who need those things? How can we prevent that devolved state from persisting afterward? What techniques of the self can we deploy? Which ones have, in this time of crisis, become newly available, and can be remembered for later?
ECONOMIZED ATTENTION
Over these weeks and months unprecedented numbers of people around the world have been at home 24/7. In the US and Europe, online consumption has drastically increased, providing tech companies with increasing levels of information about users' online habits and activity. This personal data ultimately helps companies target users' attention, to maximise time spent on their product, and the number of ads viewed. As our daily routines become more similar, do we become more predictable and unified in our behaviour, and therefore more targetable?
CM: Yes, exactly: more marketable, more predictable, and more addicted to commercial exploitation and solicitation. Our interests need to reorient themselves; we must rekindle the old attentional routines that have allowed the human brain to cooperate on a large scale, based on empathy rather than market value — to paint the walls of caves rather than consume products while looking at a screen without pause. We still have these attentional capacities, but we do not let them flourish because of the 24/7 economy of attention we have created. We need a new environment for our attention to flourish outside standard online commercial venues.
JM: We're definitely providing tech companies with increasing levels of information about our online habits, which are also quite similar at the moment because we're paying attention to the same thing and making many of the same related purchases (food, meds, masks, etc.). I wonder, though, if all this information will help companies in the long- or even mid-term, when lockdowns ease up and our habits become less predictable again. Given that the pandemic is a social/psychological/economic anomaly, the data gathered during this period might be much less valuable in just a few months' time. A comfort of sorts, though perhaps I'm being naive… At any rate, to riff off Carlos, we do need an environment that lets us rebel against the economy of attention, and I think many of us may have found it: for those who can, staying home 24/7 has suddenly granted us the privacy and time to develop new hobbies or rediscover old pleasures, unbeknownst to the rest of the physical and virtual world. Let's then turn our attention to things within the home and self — things that can't be digitally tracked and monetised: let's read a book we already own, play with our kids, or walk to the corner store for cake mix (gloved, masked, alone, and prodigally distanced from others, of course). Let's secretly paint the walls of our caves, if you will. In times of necessary mass submission, we need local, private revolutions.
DGB: But with an eye, of course, on systemic change. In a democracy, one can hardly hope to have a politics that is better than the people. It's in this framework, I think, that the "private" in the deep sense you invoke here is inextricable from the civic. A concept of the "Attention Economy" that took this seriously — that would be a way forward.
(Collectively Authored)
How extraordinary, in these last three weeks, to have seen one crisis of historic proportions (the pandemic) substantially overtaken by another (the sweeping rage and grief that has gripped the United States in the wake of George Floyd's murder). Systematic racism and police brutality are issues that both subtend and transcend the language of the "Attention Economy." Radical change is needed. Our roundtable was about other matters, which suddenly feel, for all their urgency, less immediately urgent, given what is happening around us in the streets of New York City, and Oakland, and across the country. That said, in rereading our discussion (in preparation for its publication), we decided not to make revisions, not to try to "update" it. The piece as it stands reflects thinking about COVID-19 and attention on the cusp of the irruption of the 2020 Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Did the forms of intensified media synchrony and social isolation that we discuss contribute to the intensity of the spasm of collective anger that met the circulation of digital images of Floyd's death (and others' too)? It seems likely. And is that anger a manifestation, among other things, of the profound and untenable forms of economic and social injustice to which we return again and again in our discussion? To be sure. What we need now is attention where it belongs: on change.


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Law on free internet, better restroom facilities for public transport terminals signed
By CNN Philippines Staff
Updated Jun 19, 2019 4:06:45 PM
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, June 19) — A law requiring free internet services and better restroom facilities in public transportation terminals was signed into law in April.
Republic Act 11311, also called "An Act to Improve Land and Transportation Terminals, Stations, Stops, Rest Areas and Roll-on/Roll-off terminals," was signed into law by President Rodrigo Duterte last April 17.
The document was released by Malacañang on June 19 on the Official Gazette website.
The law requires free internet access for public land transportation terminals, as well as in roll-on/roll-off (RORO) stations.
It also requires better restroom facilities, including diaper changing stations. Terminals should also provide lactation stations for breastfeeding mothers separate from the restrooms.
The practice of collecting fees from passengers to use public restrooms is now prohibited as long as passengers can present a paid bus ticket. Fees can still be collected for "separate, well-appointed or deluxe sanitary facilities."
Owners, operators or administrators of transportation terminals may be fined P5,000 per day for violating the law.
The law will take effect after 15 days upon publication on the Official Gazette or newspapers.
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Do you have a drawer or cabinet full of half-used, perhaps expired pet medications? We all know that we are supposed to dispose of "extra" medications, not keep them around "just in case," but sometimes frugality makes getting rid of something that might be useful in the future awfully hard. Here we inform you of several instances when you must restrain yourself. The risks far outweigh any potential benefits.
What are you doing with "leftover" oral antibiotics anyway? Weren't you told to give your pet the entire prescription? Anyway, do not be tempted to give your pet whatever is lying around when a new problem arises. Antibiotics have no efficacy against viruses, fungi, or any disease that isn't caused, at least in part, by a bacterial infection.
Also, a particular type of antibiotic is only active against a certain subset of bacteria. What are the chances that the antibiotic you have on hand is the ideal one for treating the infection your pet now has? Finally, expired antibiotics can lose their effectiveness. Giving your pet an antibiotic when it is not needed, the wrong type of antibiotic, or an expired antibiotic can result in antibiotic resistant infections that are very difficult to treat.
Avoid giving your pet any medication that contains a corticosteroid unless it has been prescribed by your veterinarian to treat your pet's current medical problem. Corticosteroids suppress the immune system (among other things) and if your pet has an infection of any sort, they can make your pet's condition worse rather than better.
Prednisone, prednisolone, cortisone, hydrocortisone, dexamethasone, betamethasone, flumethasone, isoflupredone, methylprednisolone, and triamcinolone are all commonly prescribed corticosteroids. Check the medication label. If you see any of these listed as an active ingredient (any other ingredients that end in "-one" are suspect also) do not give that medication to your pet. This applies to both oral and topically applied medications.
Unless your pet has a chronic eye condition and you are 100% sure you know that is what you are treating with previously prescribed medications, never put anything in your pet's eyes without first consulting a veterinarian. Most eye injuries/disorders cause pets to have similar symptoms (redness, drainage, and squinting).
Without an exam and a few simple tests, it is virtually impossible to know what is going on. Problems affecting the eyes have a disturbing tendency to go from bad to worse VERY quickly, particularly if they are treated with the wrong medication.
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Q: Why is my Rotation Matrix not working? I have various entities in my game that have hit-boxes defined by Vector array's,
one of my entities rotates slowly to follow the player's movements so naturally I need the hit-box to rotate too.
My code results in warped and distorted lines as I draw each vertex to the screen. My entites are 64 x 64 in size so + 32 indicates the center of the object.
    public  void rotateVertices(Vector2[] vertices, double angle) {

    double cos = Math.cos(angle);
    double sin = Math.sin(angle);

    for(int i = 0; i < vertices.length; i++){
        Vector2 v = vertices[i];
        vertices[i].x = ((v.x - (x + 32)) * cos - (v.y - (y + 32)) * sin) + (x + 32);
        vertices[i].y = ((v.x - (x + 32)) * sin + (v.y - (y + 32)) * cos) + (y + 32);
    }

}

my constructor:
    public EnemyTriBall(Handler handler, float x, float y) {
    super(handler, x, y, 3, 6);

    vertices[0] = new Vector2(x + 25, y + 13);
    vertices[1] = new Vector2(x + 64, y + 33);
    vertices[2] = new Vector2(x + 25, y + 53);

}

A: Here:
Vector2 v = vertices[i];

You don't make a copy of the old vector, you just reference vectices[i]. So when you do this:
vertices[i].x = ((v.x - (x + 32)) * cos - (v.y - (y + 32)) * sin) + (x + 32);

you modify x of of the original vector. Then in the next line:
vertices[i].y = ((v.x - (x + 32)) * sin + (v.y - (y + 32)) * cos) + (y + 32);

You use old v.y but new v.x which gives you weird results. The easiest fix would be to get x and y and use them instead:
    float vx = vertices[i].x;
    float vy = vertices[i].y;
    vertices[i].x = ((vx - (x + 32)) * cos - (vy - (y + 32)) * sin) + (x + 32);
    vertices[i].y = ((vx - (x + 32)) * sin + (vy - (y + 32)) * cos) + (y + 32);

There might be other issues, I did not check the formulas but I'd start with this one.

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Famous Mountain Lion Known to Cross California Freeway Found Dead from Suspected Rodenticide Poisoning
(Beyond Pesticides, July 31, 2018) P-55, a mountain lion, famous for crossing Southern California's notorious 101 Freeway, has died of causes biologists suspect are related to rodenticide poisoning, according to the National Park Service (NPS). The radio collar strapped to P-55, aged 3, failed to transmit that the animal has died, and, when biologists found him, his remains were too decomposed to determine the exact cause of death. NPS officials indicate that there are two likely scenarios that lead to the death of a healthy mountain lion: a fight with another male, or poisoning from rodenticides. Although decomposed, officials indicate there were no signs of a struggle where his body was found.
This is the latest incident in Southern California linking rodenticide use to the poisoning of mountain lions. In 2014, it was reported that another mountain lion in the region, P-22, also famous for its propensity to roam near Griffith Park's Hollywood sign, was nearly killed from mange and poisoning brought on by rodenticide exposure.
Despite policies passed at the state and local level, secondary poisoning of non-target predators by rodenticides still poses a risk to wildlife. In 2014, California Governor Brown signed AB 2657, which banned the use of anticoagulant rodenticides in state parks, wildlife refuges, and conservation land. According to the Bay-area group Raptors are the Solution, nearly 30 communities throughout the state have also adopted policies that stop community-wide use of anticoagulant rodenticides and/or encourage businesses, homeowners, and other residents to not sell or use these products.
Prior to P-55's death, another mountain lion, P-41, in the Verdugo Mountains, was also found dead. While its body was also too decomposed to determine exact cause of death, lab results detected six pesticides, including both first and second generation anticoagulant rodenticides in its liver.
Mountain lions can be exposed to rodenticides by eating animals that recently fed on poisoned pellets or bait, such as squirrels, woodrats, or other prey. The effects of these pesticides, which cause blood thinning and prevent blood clotting, can be passed to predators like the mountain lion when they feed on contaminated animals. These chemicals do not kill prey quickly, allowing them to feed on poisoned bait multiple times, meaning their bodies can contain residues many times the lethal dose. Both predators and prey exposed to sublethal doses of rodenticides can become lethargic, are more likely to be hit by cars, and are more susceptible to other diseases.
Help protect wildlife from unnecessary poisoning by stopping the use of rodenticides around your home or business, and encouraging your neighbors to do the same. To address rodents like mice, squirrels, or gophers without toxic chemicals, see Beyond Pesticides ManageSafe webpage. Residents in California can get active in this issue by working to pass policies restricting rodenticide use. Contact Beyond Pesticides at [email protected] or reach out to local groups like Raptors are the Solution for assistance.
Source: National Park Service, Star-Telegram
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LEEDS RHINOS chief executive Gary Hetherington has condemned plans to re-structure the domestic game and called for RFL chairman Brian Barwick to take strong action.
His outburst follows comments made earlier on Tuesday at a press conference to formally introduce the new chief executive for Super League, Robert Elstone.
NEW ERA? (from left): Wigan's Ian Lenegan, St Helens' Eammon McManus, new Super League chief executive Robert Elstone and Warrington's Simon Moran at today's press conference. Picture: Paul Currie/SWpix.com.
At that press conference St Helens chairman Eammon McManus revealed there were plans to change the structure of the domestic game from 2019.
His remarks prompted a fierce response from Hetherington who, in a statement, said: "Today's announcement regarding plans for next season appear to be an absurd grab for power for the game by a small group of men who think they own the game.
"Leeds Rhinos are not party to this and are totally against the creation of a separate Super League executive. Super League clubs voted seven to five at our last meeting on some key issues related to promotion and relegation.
Elstone was appointed by the Super League clubs following an extra general meeting last October when they voted Rugby Football League chief executive Nigel Wood off the board. Wigan owner Ian Lenagan told the press conference the move did not amount to a breakaway.
Lenagan, who revealed that Leeds Rhinos are the sole dissenting voice, said the Super League board remains committed to promotion and relegation.
Former Everton chief executive Elstone had earlier spoken of his passion for rugby league after being formally introduced.
The 54-year-old Barnsley-born Elstone took his new job eight days ago and held his first press conference at Warrington's Halliwell Jones Stadium.


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There are several ways to send pictures to others on your smartphone—picture message, email, Bluetooth, and even by bumping phones together.
Now there's an even more unique way to transfer pictures from one Apple device to another—with sound.
Chirp is an iOS application that allows users to transfer photos to each other by sound. You can even transfer images to multiple nearby Chirpers at the same time, as long as everyone has the app installed and running. In order to start the transfer, you'll have to to first upload the picture you want to send to the Chirp server.
Once you upload the picture, the application will create a unique chirp sound for the picture. To transfer the picture, make sure the other person(s) has the application open. Tap on the yellow button at the bottom of the screen to emit the chirp. The other phone should recognize the chirp and receive the picture.
The photo won't automatically save on their phone, but they have the option to save and share it.
The video below demonstrates how the application works.
The whole process doesn't take very long and stands uniquely apart from any other picture transfer app for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Not only does the app transfer pictures, but also allows the transfer of notes and other links, as well.
One of the cooler aspects of Chirp is that you can send a chirp over a PA system, over the radio, or even via a YouTube video, so your fellow Chirper doesn't have to be right beside you to get the file.
You can download Chirp from the iTunes App Store for free.
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Hai Phong proposes suspension of flights from Thailand to Cat Bi airport
The People's Committee of Hai Phong has asked the Ministry of Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam to suspend flights from Bangkok (Thailand) to the city's Cat Bi International Airport in service of the local prevention of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak.
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Cat Bi international airport (Source: saigongiaiphong)
Hai Phong (VNA) - The People's Committee of Hai Phong has asked the Ministry of Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam to suspend flights from Bangkok (Thailand) to the city's Cat Bi International Airport in service of the local prevention of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak.
At present, everyday the airport receives one direct flight from Bangkok, which carries a lot of passengers from Europe.
The northern port city has actively classified passengers to transfer suspected cases to concentrated quarantine areas. However, the disease is developing complicatedly in many countries and territories, including Europe nations and Thailand. Therefore, the city made the aforesaid proposal to help prevent the virus from spreading.
On March 15, Chairman of the municipal People's Committee Nguyen Van Tung inspected the medical checkpoint in Cat Hai district and attended a meeting on COVID-19 prevention in Minh Hong village, Nghia Lo commune of the district.
More than 220 local households were provided with prevention measures such as reguarly washing hands with soap and wearing face masks in crowded places. Those having symptoms such as coughing and fever should go to the nearest medical facility for check-up and limit going to crowded places.
Locals were also advised to inform authorities about cases returning from epidemic-hit areas.
By 12:00 on March 15, all 138 suspected cases in Hai Phong tested negative for the coronavirus. This means the city has so far reported no cases of COVID-19./.
COVID-19 Ministry of Transport Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam suspend flights Bangkok Thailand Cat Bi international airport Vietnamplus Vietnam News Agency Related stories Hai Phong
Senior officials of ASEAN member countries met online on January 19 to discuss preparations for the upcoming ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Retreat (AMMR) that is slated for January 21.
National history museum exhibition marks Party's founding anniversary
Airlines plan to increase domestic flights during Tet
Domestic airlines will focus on exploiting routes around the country instead of international routes during the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) which will fall in the first half of February, according to Director of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam Dinh Viet Thang.
Foreign Ministry hails press agencies' contributions
The Foreign Ministry held an annual meeting with the press at the Government Guesthouse in Hanoi on January 19, praising press agencies and reporters nationwide for their contributions to achievements made by the diplomatic sector in the past year.
The capital Hanoi has been decked out in flags, banners, and panels in celebration of the upcoming 13th National Party Congress.
Soc Trang: Poverty rate plunges to 2.66 pct. in five years
The poverty rate in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang fell from 17.89 percent in 2016 to 2.66 percent in 2020 thanks to the effectiveness of the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction.
Ha Nam targets 17,500 new jobs in 2021
Authorities in the northern province of Ha Nam have set a target of creating 16,500 jobs and sending 1,000 workers overseas in 2021.


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package com.levelup.java.guava;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.junit.Test;

import com.google.common.base.CharMatcher;
import com.google.common.base.Splitter;

/**
 * This java example will demonstrate examples of
 * Google Guava Splitter
 *
 * @author Justin Musgrove
 * @see Splitter example
 *
 */
public class SplitterExample {

	@Test
	public void split_string_to_list_using_delimiter () {

		List<String> oakTrees =
			Splitter.on(',')
				.trimResults()
				.omitEmptyStrings()
				.splitToList("Granit Oak, Bartek, Gernikako Arbola, "
						+ "Queen Elizabeth Oak, Kongeegen (the King Oak), "
						+ "Chêne chapelle, Poltava Oak,,,");

		assertEquals(7, oakTrees.size());
	}

	@Test
	public void split_string_to_list_using_charmatchers () {

		List<String> abcs123s = Splitter.on(CharMatcher.anyOf(";,.)"))
				.trimResults()
				.omitEmptyStrings()
				.splitToList("a,b;c.d,e.f),g,h.i;j.1,2.3;4.5,6;7.8,9;0");

		assertEquals(20, abcs123s.size());
	}

	@Test
	public void split_string_using_regular_expresion () {

		List<String> splitOnLetter = Splitter
				.onPattern("a|b")
				.splitToList("12312a31231b23123");

		assertEquals(3, splitOnLetter.size());
	}

	@Test
	public void split_string_to_list_using_fix_length () {

		List<String> digits = Splitter
				.fixedLength(1)
				.splitToList("1234567890");

		assertEquals(10, digits.size());
	}

	@Test
	public void split_string_to_map () {

		String str = "firstName:John , lastName:Doe, age:56, address:1234 Elm Street";

		Map<String, String> demographics = Splitter.on(",")
			  .trimResults()
			  .withKeyValueSeparator(":")
			  .split(str);

		assertEquals(4, demographics.size());
	}

}


Sometimes, depending on the antimalware product you use, the installation is blocked and the program put to quarantine. In other cases, your antimalware product asks you if you want to continue with the download even though it thinks it's risky. In this case, you can either abandon the installation and look for another source, or proceed with it since the source is well-known and thus, must be reliable.
If you decide to play it safe and go for the first option, you may have just spared yourself a malware infection. But you may have also gotten a feeling of uncertainty and distrust with regards to the legitimacy of the source you thought was safe.
If you decide to go for the second option, you may indeed have to deal with malware of some sort, which hopefully your antimalware solution will be able to neutralize. But it may also turn out that the program is harmless, and your product is guilty of detecting a false positive. If this happened once in a blue moon, it might not affect you that much. But if it happened often, you might just learn to ignore malware detection alerts, and eventually find yourself in a 'Boy-who-cried-wolf' type of situation.
...not only to regular end users, but also to enterprise customers, software developers and even the antivirus vendors themselves. Let's analyze the issues from each perspective.
1. False positives and consequences for consumers.
According to Virus Bulletin, an antivirus false positive occurs when anti-malware software erroneously labels a clean file as malware, and can be either "a clean file mistakenly labelled as malware" or "legitimate email incorrectly labelled spam." And clean files can be any type of file, from those already installed on your computer, to new ones you want to download.
If a security software blocks access or deletes a file that's vital to the proper functioning of some system programs, those may become unusable and, in some cases, the deletion may render a system unstable. For example, if a Windows system file is falsely detected as malware and removed, the entire operating system will have to be restored. Think of this happening in a large corporate environment, and you can imagine the consequences.
At the same time, if a piece of legitimate email is mistakenly labelled as spam, it may be the case of an important business document not reaching its intended recipient. Which, again, may have consequences for that business person and their company.
Since we've moved from consumer to business environments, let's look at things from a higher-level perspective – that of a system administrator or an IT security team: when a malware alert is triggered pointing to a certain file, for example, they have to investigate the issue in order to ensure the file is clean. If the alarm turns out to be a false one, then their time is wasted. Which is why, the more false positives they receive, the greater the chance they ignore the next alarm. And when that happens in a business environment, things can get quite messy. Case in point: the Target security breach – their IT security team ignored malware alerts they got before they realized their systems had actually been breached, leaving some 40 million credit and debit cards and personal data of 70 million customers exposed to hackers. Granted, the malware alerts in this case were part of far more complex detection systems than your ordinary antivirus software. And the reasons for them failing to take immediate action are not entirely known, but they may vary from lack of security resources, to lack of a structured mitigation plan. However, regardless of the detection systems and risk mitigation policies they have in place, the fact of the matter is that false positives cost companies a great deal of money. A recent report conducted by the Ponemon Institute shows that companies spend around 21,000 hours annually analyzing false negatives and/or false positives. Which means they spend roughly $1.3 million per year on activities triggered by inaccurate or erroneous intelligence.
As mentioned above, some less known software developers may also be affected by false positives, if some security software falsely detected their legitimate programs as malware. Needless to say, such false alarms would drive away potential customers.
Last but not least, antivirus vendors may also be affected in a number of ways. If their product detects false positives frequently, or one false positive has a widespread impact, their Technical Support team may get overwhelmed with complaints and they may even get bad press.
If the antivirus company uses third-party antispam or antivirus technology, they won't be able to control the situation directly, but would have to rely on their provider for improvements.
Because of all the issues end-users and organizations face when dealing with false positives, any reputable independent test agency puts high emphasis on low false positive rates.
AV-Test sees false positives as one of two different factors that influence the Usability of a product. For Virus Bulletin, "the 'no false positives' rule is one of the main requirements for certification in the VB100 test process". While AV-Comparatives considers false positives "an important measurement for AV quality," and an important factor in determining the reliability of a product, besides its detection capabilities. VirusTotal, the free Google-owned online malware scanning service has also addressed this issue recently.
Even end-users themselves, have started to put more emphasis on low false positive rates. A recent security survey among end-users conducted by AV Comparatives shows that 55.7% of them consider low false positive rates among the most important characteristics of a security product. More than half of those surveyed.
So, 100% malware detection rate OR 0 false positives?
Clearly, malware detection is the most important criterion when assessing the quality of an antivirus product. It's its raison d'être. So the higher the detection rate, the better. But even if a solution has the highest detection rate, if it has a great number of false positives, it's as useless as a solution with no false positives and a low detection rate.
Just think about it: if your security product detected all malware and kept you safe from it, but frequently screamed "malware-malware," even when not the case, would you still trust it?
So, false positives rates go together with detection rates. Any change in the detection rate would imply a change in the number of false positives, unless measures are implemented to control them. Such measures require significant hardware and human resource investment, so only companies dedicated to security can justify those expenses.
The industry is becoming more aware of the importance of false positives, and so should you. Whether you're an end user looking for a better antivirus product, an organization looking for the best security solution to protect large infrastructure, or a company looking to license antimalware technology – either by integrating an antimalware SDK into your own solution, or selling an existing solution under your own brand – do not overlook the antivirus false positives issue. False positives test results conducted by independent testing companies like the ones mentioned above are always the best way to start a product or technology evaluation.
Just keep this in mind: for an antimalware engine or product to be eligible, the product test results must demonstrate both good detection and low false positives.


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Archdiocese • Local • Schools • Youth & young adult
Didde prepares for students' arrival
by The Leaven
Bobbi Jo Rockers, a junior from Greeley, and president of the Didde Center's student council, works as a Hornet Helper on move-in day at Emporia State. LEAVEN PHOTO BY BOB HART
by Bob Hart
Special to The Leaven
EMPORIA — The freshman year of college brings with it new freedoms, a new independence and new temptations.
Absent from the daily watchful eye of parents and family, young students on campus quickly discover there's no one else to make sure they get up in the morning, get to class on time and make good choices.
Suddenly, it all falls squarely on each student's own two shoulders.
And even at a midsized school like Emporia State University, with a fall enrollment of just under 6,000 students in 2016, there's the risk, at times, of feeling like just another face in the crowd.
Where can a new student go to find a sense of purpose and direction?
"I discerned my vocation in the context of doing this type of work," said Father Nick Blaha, chaplain and director, on a recent afternoon in his office at ESU's Didde Catholic Campus Center. "This is such a crucial stage of life — things can really turn on a dime.
"Students who come to us are not typically in crisis, but they may be searching for direction, asking the normal questions like, 'Who am I?' and 'Why am I here?'
"I think it's part of my job to be a credible friend, to make the introduction to Christ and the church, and then sometimes to get out of the way."
The role of credible friend begins on move-in day for the freshmen dorms, when Father Blaha and Didde volunteers take part in a venerable ESU tradition: greeting students and their parents as "Hornet Helpers" (Corky the Hornet being ESU's mascot) and literally doing the heavy lifting.
It's a point of pride at ESU that these freshmen and their parents rarely carry so much as a box. Volunteers — including faculty, staff and older students — take care of that.
In fact, they have each student's belongings transferred from vehicle to room in a matter of less than 10 minutes, on average.
The Didde volunteers at Freshman Move-In, which takes place on a Friday, wear name tags that also include a message that reads: "Ask me about the Didde Catholic Campus Center."
Many students do, and they're promptly invited to an afternoon volleyball game that same day. It's just the beginning, when it comes to making them feel welcome.
By Sunday of that same weekend, new students are included in a back-to-school barbecue on the grounds of the center, which is directly across Merchant Street on the west side of the campus. Before long, they're introduced to the many opportunities the center offers them — not only to attend Mass and receive the sacrament of confession, but to take part in social events, Bible study and social justice activities.
"Those first two weeks, we're out there, highly visible," Father Blaha said. "We're at the fairs and at the block parties. We're making contacts and inviting people to be part of our community."
"There's a place for everyone here," said Bobbi Jo Rockers, a junior elementary education major from Greeley and president of the Didde Center's student council.
"We don't push anything down people's throats," she said. "We accept anyone and everyone, and we'll meet you where you're at."
The center is even a clean, safe place to study and do laundry.
With all it has to offer in mind, Father Blaha has even given the Didde Catholic Campus Center a nickname.
"I sometimes call it a frontier outpost of divine life," he said.
The Leaven
The Leaven is the official newspaper for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.


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Jeanne-Mance (provincial electoral district)
Jeanne-Mance was a former provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada.
Jeanne-Mance
Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
National Assembly of Quebec
District created
District abolished
First contested
Last contested
Census divisions
Montreal (part)
Census subdivisions
It corresponded to part of the Saint-Léonard neighbourhood in Montreal.
It was created for the 1966 election from parts of Montréal–Jeanne-Mance electoral district. Its final election was in 1998. It disappeared in the 2003 election, as nearly all of its territory and a part of Viger electoral district were merged to become the Jeanne-Mance–Viger electoral district.
It was named in honour of French settler Jeanne Mance.
Members of the Legislative Assembly / National AssemblyEdit
Aimé Brisson, Liberal (1966–1976)
Henri Laberge, Parti Québécois (1976–1981)
Michel Bissonnet, Liberal (1981–2003) (was re-elected in Jeanne-Mance–Viger in 2003)
Election results (National Assembly)
Election results (QuebecPolitique.com)
1992–2001 changes (Flash)
This article about a Canadian electoral district is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jeanne-Mance_(provincial_electoral_district)&oldid=903846575"


Torquay United, this time, last time.
The last time I saw Torquay United play live, it was the match that knocked them out of the league. The question is, is the next match that I have seen of them since then, going to be them winning promotion at Old Trafford?
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For today's sketch I used markers and watercolor pencils.
and my hair is going wild!
I'm pleased that I've worked in my sketchbook every day this week.
It's a satisfying habit and I'm enjoying it.
Love that you framed this sweet duo in a floral oval. Sweet. Good for you for sketching every day.
This one is probably my favorite of the sketches I've missed. The girl and her kitty are both so sweet!