I had submitted my writing to various publications for close to a decade before launching my own literary magazine— Mothers Always Write. While I was successful in publishing my poetry and essays, that success has increased significantly since I've founded and edited MAW. I've learned some interesting things about the review and publications process just from being on the other side of the desk, and these ideas apply whether you're seeking to publish in literary journals, magazines, or blogs.
1) There's no need to be formal, just professional.
Maybe it's the former attorney in me, but I always felt compelled to write formal cover/query letters—leaving out anything personal or unique. The letters were perfectly executed and followed all of the writer's guidelines, but they failed to reveal anything about my personality or my writing style. Then I started receiving cover letters as an editor of MAW, letters that were personable, quirky, and often as creative as the submitted piece itself.
Some writers clarify with specificity how MAW is different from other journals. Others describe how MAW has filled a specific void in the mother-writing world. Still others identify the particular statement they think the magazine makes. Those cover letters that explain why a writer wants to be published by MAW and identify their understanding of the magazine are by far the most compelling. Of course, the submission has to be right for the journal, but a cover letter that lets the editor know what you like about the magazine packs an extra punch. It provides invaluable feedback to the editors about how we're doing, and it's difficult to ignore. How inspiring it was to hear that the journal that I had poured myself into creating had touched my submitters!
2) It's okay to communicate and follow up with editors.
Somehow I got the idea that editors don't want to be bothered. I always believed the communication channel between writers and editors was intended to be a one-way street. Perhaps I envisioned the editor at a large mahogany desk in some New York office building wading through file folders full of famous writer submissions.
Maybe there are some journals that want writers to adhere to a strict no-contact policy. But, what I learned by editing a literary magazine is that we editors value communication from the world of writers. For example, when a poem or essay is accepted for publication, it is not only acceptable but appreciated when a writer sends a thank you email. Editors love to hear feedback about how the piece was presented on the page. I often wonder if the writer thinks the photo we paired with her piece is as perfect as we think it is. Did she like the selection of pieces as a whole? We receive tweets from prospective writers noting where they spotted the magazine and letting us know that they're sending something over. I've had writers point out inconsistencies in the writer's guidelines. This feedback helps us improve our future issues.
And, editors are more open than you'd think to suggestions from writers. We appreciate when a contributor emails that they have the perfect photo or when they feel their piece would be stronger if published in conjunction with a specific holiday, book release, or marketing campaign. Producing a journal is collaborative, and editors cannot know all. If your piece is timely because of a simultaneous book release, a movie, or a new scientific study, let the editor know.
I guess, if an editor is too busy, you won't hear back from her. But, many want to hear your view, especially when you are pleased with the publication.
3) Promoting your writing and even helping others market is key.
Promoting your writing by way of social media helps the writer but also helps the journal and is a good way to thank the journal for publishing your piece. Editors appreciate help in getting their journal (and your writing) read by many. As a result, they notice when a contributor or prospective contributor retweets an announcement by the magazine or shares their published writing on Facebook. Editors notice when a writer has a genuine interest in the magazine. While it's okay to hit and run, MAW prefers writers who really believe in the vision of our magazine and who are going to stick with us as readers and perhaps repeat writers.
As a writer, I now follow more closely the journals I love, read their pieces, and tweet them or share them on social media. I also seek out journals that are going to promote me, share my writing, and help to get my name out there while creating a readership for my piece. At MAW we make a huge effort to promote not only our own pieces, but also the pieces written and published elsewhere by our writers. This takes time, but it provides an important service to writers.
4) It's important to know the journal or blog to which you are submitting.
There are many reasons why an editor might reject a piece. Most often, the journal has a particular editorial focus, and the piece is not consistent with that focus or theme. Editorial focus can be subtle. For example, MAW focuses on mothering with a positive, accepting approach. While motherhood is a very broad topic, some pieces we receive are written by mothers but don't have mothering as their primary focus. Another common cause of rejection is that the piece doesn't have universal appeal. While we love very personal stories about motherhood, something important must come out of them, something that reaches out and grabs our mother readers. As a writer, it is important to find that relevant angle and to nail it.
Through editing, I've learned to spend more time identifying the subtle differences in focus among journals so that I can better direct my pieces to them. The point here is to know whether the magazine or blog purports to be literary (in which case the focus is in large part about getting the message across subtly through the use of rich, figurative language); if its goal is to provide more practical information (i.e. 10 things I wish my mother told me about mothering); or is the focus journalistic (feature story with research, interview and exposition). Is the tone of the journal/blog nurturing or sassy? Is focus more narrative (story, characters, and dialogue are important) or reflective (inner thought, emotion, and inspiration guide the piece)?
I've also learned to think more about the timing of my writing submissions. If I write an article inspired by the cherry blossom tree, I'd better submit it to the journal well in advance of the spring bloom (perhaps the following year if I didn't write it in time) so that an editor can review and publish the essay when it feels most relevant.
This is why it is important to read and watch a journal for a few cycles of its publication before submitting in order to understand its primary focus and perhaps figure out what themes it has already covered and what it might be looking for next.
I've also discovered new journals and blogs to which I can submit my writing. By tracking down listings where journals like MAW can place calls for submissions, I learned of many sites on which to find listings of publications. I now rely on sites (like BYB) that categorize journals by subject. I watch my twitter list of writers I follow to see where they are publishing. When I read an essay I like in a journal or on a blog site, I'm sure now to read the writer's bio to see where else she has published.
5) Editors like to know who you are and what you write.
I don't mean that in any creepy stalker way; it's just that creating a magazine is a business and an art, and editors tend to want to know who's who. When an editor reads a piece they particularly like in another journal, they might follow the writer to determine whether they want to solicit a piece for their own journal. For example, if MAW is putting together an issue focused on a particular theme and we come across a writer who tends to favor that theme, we'll examine her writing as a possibility. As a result, it's very important for writers to maintain a website or a blog where editors can go to get a flavor for the style and range of their work.
Recently, I've had to rethink my personal website that I created years ago when my focus was primarily YA fiction. Since then, I have written poetry and essays for adults and have now updated my website to illustrate that change. If a writer's website shows the span of their work, she might find that a journal that published her poetry might also reach out and request an essay or a book review, for example. It is important to create a clear, online presence that showcases you as a writing professional so that blogs and journals can find you.
Oh, and the editor, the one behind the large mahogany desk in the New York office, she's actually sitting on the couch in her pajamas with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream on her lap, reading submissions late into the evening.
Julianne Palumbo's poems, short stories and essays have been published in Literary Mama, Ibettson Street Press, YARN, The MacGuffin, The Listening Eye, Kindred Magazine, Poetry East, Mamalode, and others. She is the author of Into Your Light (Flutter Press, 2013), and Announcing the Thaw (Finishing Line Press, 2014), poetry chapbooks about raising teenagers. Julianne was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her YA poem, "Stuffing Bears." She is the Founder/Editor of Mothers Always Write, an online literary magazine for mothers by mother writers.


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The reason why Impala can read this table is Impala has its own implementation of Parquet written separately in C++.
1. Download parquet-hive-bundle jar in Maven Central, and put it in Hive metastore lib directory.
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2. Restart Hive metastore on that node so that command like "desc <tablename>" will work.
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Straighth Chatting from the Library: Wendy LaCapra
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. The author will award one of ten ebooks to ten randomly drawn winners via rafflcopter. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.
READ THE INTERVIEW
What would we find under your bed?
Shoes. Dust. The dirty clothes hamper. And whatever book I have been reading (I don't have the room for a nightstand).
What was the scariest moment of your life?
This wasn't the scariest moment, but I'd like to tell a story about a moment that changed my approach to every scary moment since. About a decade ago I was in a crowded market in Varanasi. It was night. I was with a young woman from our tour and we were negotiating her purchase. The rest of the tour was scattered. There were two men asking for money unrelated to our transaction and the five of us were so close we were all pressed up against one another, as was everyone else in the market. In that moment, the power in that part of the city failed. It was so dark I couldn't see anyone else, but I could feel them. Instinct said to be frightened. I took a deep breath through the fear and asked myself—are we in danger? The answer was a resounding no. So, I held my friend's hand and just waited. In a few minutes, the lights came up and the hectic pace resumed where it left off. Ever since that moment, I realized calm and clarity can prevail even in uncertain situations.
Do you listen to music while writing? If so what?
No music. I love music, but I tend to focus on lyrics. If I am writing, I find that just too distracting. Even when the music has no lyrics, sometimes the 'mood' is so strong I cannot concentrate on writing.
What is something you'd like to accomplish in your writing career next year?
I'd like to release my 4th and 5th books. If the muse is very sweet, maybe my 6th.
How long did it take you to write this book?
2 weeks for the first draft 6 months to edit
Sophia Baneham has lived in the poison of her dead father's shadow for longer than she cares to admit. Now she exists outside of polite society's influence, holding gambling parties for London's most dangerous men. When a man walks into one of her soirees, a compelling mix of charisma and icy control, he offers the lady of sin a wager she can't refuse...
Lord Randolph is a spy in the service of His Majesty, but he's given an oath to protect the daughter of his mentor. Even as his gamble of marriage starts to spiral out of control and his passions ignite, Randolph is determined that he'll handle things his way…
But when danger closes in, Randolph won't just have to protect Sophia from an intended killer. He'll have to protect her from himself... READ AN EXCERPT
He had never before failed in a mission. Never.
Clearly, he had been off his game and there was only one reason.
Sophia.
Before they had met, Randolph had thought of Sophia as an evil-made-necessary—a means to probe the secrets Baneham had left behind. But then she had turned her cornflower blue eyes on him and everything had changed.
…Hours after returning from India, he arrived at a Fury soiree—uninvited. Lady Sophia's footman stuttered under his glower, but the man refused to grant him entry. No one could be admitted to the soiree, the man insisted, without approval of the hostess, even if accompanied, as Randolph was, by the hostess's cousin.
He remained in the hall, suffering the indignity of his wait with hands clasped behind his back. The entry was hardly what he had expected of Baneham's home. The man had been the epitome of male. These furnishings could only be described as—he suppressed an inward shudder—dainty.
He peered into the rooms beyond. The dandies within did nothing to dilute the feminine air. The library was a rainbow of velvet jackets and frothing cravats, topped with clouds of fluffed white wigs. Even from the distance, the scent proved this the motliest male collection of Eau du Cologne enthusiasts ever assembled.
"Cousin Charles has brought me a gift, I see." Her voice sang over his veins the way the wind sang against lines of a hoisted sail—the song sank all the way into his cock.
He turned.
The voice came from a petite, provocatively curved woman sewn into her pink silk bodice—he could think of no other way the fabric could fit so tight. Her hair powder was laced with a matching pink hue. She looked like strawberries and cream and, if he was permitted a taste of her lips, he was certain she'd be as mouthwateringly sweet.
Her gaze dropped from his face and traveled boldly down his body.
By Saint George, he wanted a sampling of her sweetness.
"Lord Randolph," he said, "at your service."
Her faint smile implied a flirtatious scold. "You do not have an invitation, Lord Randolph."
"Soon remedied, I hope. I am recently returned from the continent." She did not need to know which continent—nor how recently. "I have heard your soirees are the must-attend events for any London rake worth his salt."
"Do you fancy yourself a rake, then, Lord Randolph?" She sounded hopeful, blast her sensual voice.
He leaned forward and whispered, "Issue me an invitation, sweetness, and I will provide any proof you may require."
"No proof is required…" a faint, secret smile teased her mouth—both challenge and invitation, "at present."
It had been lust at first sight. She lit a carnal fire in his blood and the resulting burn was hotter and deeper than any he'd known.
Wendy LaCapra, a 2012 Golden Heart® Finalist, has been reading romance since she discovered Victoria Holt (in the library's adult section!) From that point on, her only dream was to create worlds with historical richness, intrigue and pleasure. She lives in NYC with her husband and can occasionally be found gossiping about history and romance with the Dashing Duchesses or burning up the web with those mystical mistresses of resilience, the GH class of 2012 aka the Firebirds. Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wendylacapra
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WendyLaCapraAuthor
Website: http://www.wendylacapra.com/
Buy the book at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Labels: giveaway, Goddess Fish Promotions, Straight Chatting from the Library, Virtual Book Tour, Wendy LaCapra
Wendy La Capra July 14, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Thank you for hosting me, Judith!
jodi marinich July 14, 2015 at 9:36 AM
Mai T. July 15, 2015 at 4:51 AM
What do you consider to be your best accomplishment?
Wendy La Capra July 17, 2015 at 6:19 PM
Thanks for visiting, Mai! While I am very happy about writing books, I'm probably proudest of finishing college in four years while holding down a full time job. And I most love being an Aunt.
Quilt Lady July 19, 2015 at 4:48 PM
Enjoyed the excerpt, sounds really good. Entering under the name of Virginia

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Obama Backs Israel's Right to Self Defense Action Over Syria
May 7, 2013 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
— by John Tackeff
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama reaffirmed Israel's right to defend itself with respect to Syira. President Obama said in an interview with Telemundo:
What I have said in the past and I continue to believe is that the Israelis justifiably have to guard against the transfer of advanced weaponry to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah. We coordinate closely with the Israelis recognizing they are very close to Syria, they are very close to Lebanon.
Further, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Obama Administration is keeping in close contact with the Israeli Government to monitor the situation:
[Principle Deputy White House Press Secretary] Earnest said Obama believes Israel is justifiably concerned about the threat posed by Hezbollah obtaining advanced weapons systems, including missiles. The U.S. "is in very close contact" with the Israeli government on a range of issues, Earnest added.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Earnest, Hezbollah, Israel, LA Times, Obama, Syria, Telemundo
Hezbollah Arsenal "Many More than 40,000 Rockets"
November 29, 2010 by PJV Contributor Leave a Comment
Iranian generals "increasingly regular visitors to Lebanon" says Israel.
Hezbollah hides weapons among civilians in southern Lebanon.
Fears that Hariri report will implicate Hezbollah, bring civil war.
The buildup of rockets by Iran-backed Hezbollah is more substantial than media reports have suggested, The Israel Project has learned. In line with reportage, Israeli intelligence understands that Hezbollah has amassed in excess of 40,000 rockets in the immediate vicinity of the Israeli-Lebanese frontier.
However, in Israel's assessment the Shi'ite Hezbollah also has a considerable stockpile in other parts of Lebanon. The 40,000 weapons are located in hiding places in villages throughout southern Lebanon in contravention of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701. The resolution, which led to the 2006 ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, calls for the Lebanese government to be the sole bearer of arms in the south of the country.
Israel fears Iran is playing an ever-larger role in Lebanon. There has been a noticeable increase in visits by Iranian military and political leaders over the last two years according to Israeli officials. Tehran is spreading its sphere of influence to include both Hezbollah and Beirut.
Hezbollah gets short- and long-range missiles in three main ways: by sea, by air and via the Syrian border. Iran and Syria are the main suppliers of Hezbollah's weaponry, while Hezbollah has also obtained Russian rockets, in Israel's estimation.
"Iran and Syria both pose significant conventional security challenges and these conventional challenges intersect with the asymmetrical threats posed by Hezbollah…whose rockets indiscriminately target Israeli population centers," said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Andrew J. Shapiro in July 2010.
The Lebanese border towns that face Israel are heavily Shi'ite. Hezbollah stores weapons in underground bunkers and in buildings among the civilians there. Public buildings doubly serve as Hezbollah lookout points.
United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is not allowed to enter private properties, making it difficult for UNIFIL to monitor weapons smuggling.
The Israel Defense Forces has published videos filmed by drones and from fixed positions showing explosions at three weapons depositories close to the frontier.
Israel is watching the border particularly closely at the moment fearing that Hezbollah may choose to launch rocket attacks in the next few weeks. Jerusalem believes it may do so in order to deflect attention away from the eagerly-anticipated publication of the findings of the U.N. inquiry into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.
Reports have circulated implicating Hezbollah in the assassination. Drawing Israel into a military campaign Hezbollah believes would move attention quickly away from the Hariri report.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Elsner, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Packer, Syria, TIP


Would you wait for your car to blow up before you brought it to a mechanic for tune ups?
Would you neglect your teeth for 45 years and think that your teeth are healthy?
Would you wait to have a heart attack before you considered the health of your heart?
Find out about the true health and FUNCTION of your nerve system by checking in with your chiropractor on a consistent basis. For some people this is one time per month. For some one time per quarter. Talk to your chiropractor. Find out about your spinal health and function and then make a plan to take care of it before it is too late.
Recently I have heard many mamas talking about their own self-care slump over the summer. Self care goes out the window when the children are around more and there is a lack of routine. I have repeatedly found myself really understanding the people in my practice who have such a hard time with self-care appointments, especially over the summer.
I can relate to this dilemma. I am a "helper-type" person. I find it easier and more natural to help others before myself. Many coaches of mine over the years have reminded me that on an airplane, adults are instructed to put their own oxygen mask on first before applying the mask to their child. This rule is so important for me as a caregiver and as a mama.
In examining my summer of little self care, I look back to where the train left the proverbial track. While looking at my life under the magnifying glass, I saw that I even went 10 weeks without a haircut. I didn't realize until the woman who does my hair told me. I was traveling in the time-warp machine called KIDSKNOWHOWTOMAKE THEIRNEEDSMET. I decided to learn from this summer and implement a system to stop the train from veering so far away from the rails. I now make future appointments while at my appointments. And I even schedule several appointments ahead. This means that even if I miss one, I am okay because I already have the next one in place. In my appointment challenged world, this tiny little tweak helps.
I am going to take care of all of my scheduling now. I can't keep on with my blog yappin'. I am heading over to that fabulous chiropractor, Dr Steve, to make my appointments for my adjustments, one of my favorite self-care steps! If you are at all like me and have a hard time fitting yourself in, remember our home mantra, "If Mama ain't happy, ain't NOBODY happy." So do the things that make you happy; if not for yourself, then for your family. They have to live with you!


It's been a long time since I've posted anything. Too long. And there is a good reason why. I don't believe I've mentioned it before, but I suffer from chronic depression and fibromyalgia, two crappy conditions that feed off of each other until I am this tornado of pain and foul moods permanently camped out on the couch with cheese curl crud embedded under my fingernails. I *do* take medications (yes, that is plural) to fight the depression, but they just haven't been enough lately, and never really were. So – enter the backup depression fighters – Mr. JustCraftSh*t and an old, lost love – painting!


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The Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Crafts CZ brings together small and medium-sized enterprises and craftspeople and their organizations from around the whole country on an open, non-political platform. For its members provide information service primarily focused on the segment of small and medium-sized companies - news from banking products, marketing, training, export promotion, statistics, legislation, etc.
The association cooperates with the government, individual ministries, and over recent years has initiated a host of statutory measures which are helping to create the business environment in our country. The association, which presents the opinion of the important majority from the sphere of SMEs, has an important place within the framework of European structures.
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#if EWOULDBLOCK != EAGAIN
        case EWOULDBLOCK:
            return PAL_EWOULDBLOCK;
#endif
    }

    return PAL_ENONSTANDARD;
}

// TODO: temporarily keeping the un-prefixed signature of this method
// to keep tests running in CI. This will be removed once the managed assemblies
// are synced up with the native assemblies.
extern "C" int32_t ConvertErrorPalToPlatform(Error error)
{
    return SystemNative_ConvertErrorPalToPlatform(error);
}

extern "C" int32_t SystemNative_ConvertErrorPalToPlatform(Error error)
{
    switch (error)
    {
        case PAL_SUCCESS:
            return 0;
        case PAL_E2BIG:
            return E2BIG;
        case PAL_EACCES:
            return EACCES;
        case PAL_EADDRINUSE:
            return EADDRINUSE;
        case PAL_EADDRNOTAVAIL:
            return EADDRNOTAVAIL;
        case PAL_EAFNOSUPPORT:
            return EAFNOSUPPORT;
        case PAL_EAGAIN:
            return EAGAIN;
        case PAL_EALREADY:
            return EALREADY;
        case PAL_EBADF:
            return EBADF;
        case PAL_EBADMSG:
            return EBADMSG;
        case PAL_EBUSY:
            return EBUSY;
        case PAL_ECANCELED:
            return ECANCELED;
        case PAL_ECHILD:
            return ECHILD;
        case PAL_ECONNABORTED:
            return ECONNABORTED;
        case PAL_ECONNREFUSED:
            return ECONNREFUSED;
        case PAL_ECONNRESET:
            return ECONNRESET;
        case PAL_EDEADLK:
            return EDEADLK;
        case PAL_EDESTADDRREQ:
            return EDESTADDRREQ;
        case PAL_EDOM:
            return EDOM;
        case PAL_EDQUOT:
            return EDQUOT;
        case PAL_EEXIST:
            return EEXIST;
        case PAL_EFAULT:
            return EFAULT;
        case PAL_EFBIG:
            return EFBIG;
        case PAL_EHOSTUNREACH:
            return EHOSTUNREACH;
        case PAL_EIDRM:
            return EIDRM;
        case PAL_EILSEQ:
            return EILSEQ;
        case PAL_EINPROGRESS:
            return EINPROGRESS;
        case PAL_EINTR:
            return EINTR;
        case PAL_EINVAL:
            return EINVAL;
        case PAL_EIO:
            return EIO;
        case PAL_EISCONN:
            return EISCONN;
        case PAL_EISDIR:
            return EISDIR;
        case PAL_ELOOP:
            return ELOOP;
        case PAL_EMFILE:
            return EMFILE;
        case PAL_EMLINK:
            return EMLINK;
        case PAL_EMSGSIZE:
            return EMSGSIZE;
        case PAL_EMULTIHOP:
            return EMULTIHOP;
        case PAL_ENAMETOOLONG:
            return ENAMETOOLONG;
        case PAL_ENETDOWN:
            return ENETDOWN;
        case PAL_ENETRESET:
            return ENETRESET;
        case PAL_ENETUNREACH:
            return ENETUNREACH;
        case PAL_ENFILE:
            return ENFILE;
        case PAL_ENOBUFS:
            return ENOBUFS;
        case PAL_ENODEV:
            return ENODEV;
        case PAL_ENOENT:
            return ENOENT;
        case PAL_ENOEXEC:
            return ENOEXEC;
        case PAL_ENOLCK:
            return ENOLCK;
        case PAL_ENOLINK:
            return ENOLINK;
        case PAL_ENOMEM:
            return ENOMEM;
        case PAL_ENOMSG:
            return ENOMSG;
        case PAL_ENOPROTOOPT:
            return ENOPROTOOPT;
        case PAL_ENOSPC:
            return ENOSPC;
        case PAL_ENOSYS:
            return ENOSYS;
        case PAL_ENOTCONN:
            return ENOTCONN;
        case PAL_ENOTDIR:
            return ENOTDIR;
        case PAL_ENOTEMPTY:
            return ENOTEMPTY;
        case PAL_ENOTRECOVERABLE:
            return ENOTRECOVERABLE;
        case PAL_ENOTSOCK:
            return ENOTSOCK;
        case PAL_ENOTSUP:
            return ENOTSUP;
        case PAL_ENOTTY:
            return ENOTTY;
        case PAL_ENXIO:
            return ENXIO;
        case PAL_EOVERFLOW:
            return EOVERFLOW;
        case PAL_EOWNERDEAD:
            return EOWNERDEAD;
        case PAL_EPERM:
            return EPERM;
        case PAL_EPIPE:
            return EPIPE;
        case PAL_EPROTO:
            return EPROTO;
        case PAL_EPROTONOSUPPORT:
            return EPROTONOSUPPORT;
        case PAL_EPROTOTYPE:
            return EPROTOTYPE;
        case PAL_ERANGE:
            return ERANGE;
        case PAL_EROFS:
            return EROFS;
        case PAL_ESPIPE:
            return ESPIPE;
        case PAL_ESRCH:
            return ESRCH;
        case PAL_ESTALE:
            return ESTALE;
        case PAL_ETIMEDOUT:
            return ETIMEDOUT;
        case PAL_ETXTBSY:
            return ETXTBSY;
        case PAL_EXDEV:
            return EXDEV;
        case PAL_ENONSTANDARD:
            break; // fall through to assert
    }

    // We should not use this function to round-trip platform -> pal
    // -> platform. It's here only to synthesize a platform number
    // from the fixed set above. Note that the assert is outside the
    // switch rather than in a default case block because not
    // having a default will trigger a warning (as error) if there's
    // an enum value we haven't handled. Should that trigger, make
    // note that there is probably a corresponding missing case in the
    // other direction above, but the compiler can't warn in that case
    // because the platform values are not part of an enum.
    assert(false && "Unknown error code");
    return -1;
}

// TODO: temporarily keeping the un-prefixed signature of this method
// to keep tests running in CI. This will be removed once the managed assemblies
// are synced up with the native assemblies.
extern "C" const char* StrErrorR(int32_t platformErrno, char* buffer, int32_t bufferSize)
{
    return SystemNative_StrErrorR(platformErrno, buffer, bufferSize);
}

extern "C" const char* SystemNative_StrErrorR(int32_t platformErrno, char* buffer, int32_t bufferSize)
{
    assert(buffer != nullptr);
    assert(bufferSize > 0);

    if (bufferSize < 0)
        return nullptr;

// Note that we must use strerror_r because plain strerror is not
// thread-safe.
//
// However, there are two versions of strerror_r:
//    - GNU:   char* strerror_r(int, char*, size_t);
//    - POSIX: int   strerror_r(int, char*, size_t);
//
// The former may or may not use the supplied buffer, and returns
// the error message string. The latter stores the error message
// string into the supplied buffer and returns an error code.

#if HAVE_GNU_STRERROR_R
    const char* message = strerror_r(platformErrno, buffer, UnsignedCast(bufferSize));
    assert(message != nullptr);
    return message;
#else
    int error = strerror_r(platformErrno, buffer, UnsignedCast(bufferSize));
    if (error == ERANGE)
    {
        // Buffer is too small to hold the entire message, but has
        // still been filled to the extent possible and null-terminated.
        return nullptr;
    }

    // The only other valid error codes are 0 for success or EINVAL for
    // an unkown error, but in the latter case a reasonable string (e.g
    // "Unknown error: 0x123") is returned.
    assert(error == 0 || error == EINVAL);
    return buffer;
#endif
}


In the '50s anyone could paint a lush landscape or even the Mona Lisa. Paint by numbers turned amateurs into artists—or at least made them feel that way—with the help of a numbered paint set and corresponding canvas. This year, 50 years since the launch of the first Craft Master kit, Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Presenting the paint-by-number phenomenon as a guide to the history of creativity, leisure and domesticity in postwar America, the exhibition explores the pastime from its inception to its critics and collectors. Reviled by some who saw them as a symbol of mindless conformity, paint by numbers soared to popularity with $12 million in sales during their first three years on the market. "I think the first thing paint by numbers did for anyone was take the fear out of picking up a brush, dipping it in paint and brushing it onto a surface," says creator Dan Robbins.
Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s runs through December 31. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History is located at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20565. For more information, call 202/357-2700 or visit www.american history.si.edu/paint. The show's catalog, Paint by Numbers: The How-to Craze That Swept the Nation (Princeton Architectural Press) is also available online at www.papress.com.
At www.paintbynumberz.com, you can learn fun facts or browse through a paint-by-number gallery.
1-2-3 ART will transform your photograph into a personalized paint-by-number kit. For more information, call 877/412-3278 or visit www.photopaintbynumber.com.
Craft House International, which bought the Craft Master line from Palmer Paint Co., offers both acrylic and oil paint-by-number sets and is located at 328 N. Westwood Ave., Toledo OH 43607. Tel: 800/537-0295. Web site: www.store.yahoo.com/crafthouseinternational.
Paint-by-number kits for children and adults are available from ColArt Americas Inc., which is located at 11 Constitution Ave., Piscataway NJ 08855. Tel: 800/445-4278. Web site: www.winsornewton.com.
PaintWorks offers 84 paint-by-number designs in various sizes. Kits include acrylic paints, paintbrush and pre-printed artboard or wood plaque. Contact Dimensions at 1801 N. 12th St., Reading PA 19604. Tel: 800/523-8452. Web site: www.dimensions-crafts.com.
Hobby World of Montreal, which offers acrylic, watercolor and oil paint-by-number kits, is located at 4540 Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal, Quebec H4A 1V9 Canada. Tel: 888/462-2996. Web site: hobbyworldinc.com.
Get the inside scoop from creator Dan Robbins at www.danrobbinspaintbynumbersguru.com. This site also tells you how to get news, editorials and updates about the paint-by-number trading world with Larry Rubin's quarterly newsletter. For more information or a subscription, contact Rubin at 2100 NE 52nd Court, Fort Lauderdale FL 33308. Tel: 954/523-7792.


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RPM Fusion é um repositório de software, que proporciona pacotes adicionais para a distribuição GNU/Linux Fedora. Nasceu da fusão dos antigos repositórios Livna, Dribble e Freshrpms. Distribuíam softwares que não eram aceitos pelo Fedora, seja por não cumprirem os requisitos de software livre do Fedora, ou porque eles poderiam violar leis nos Estados Unidos.

História
Em 8 de novembro de 2007 foi anunciado que os repositórios Livna, Freshrpms e Dribble seriam fundidos em um repositório unificado de software adicional chamado RPM Fusion, com o objetivo de agregar recursos e abordar problemas de dependências e compatibilidades de modo mais eficiente. A primeira versão para a qual o RPM Fusion forneceria complementos seria o Fedora 9, mas o repositório não ficou pronto a tempo e então os três antigos repositórios continuaram a distribuir seus pacotes separadamente. Posteriormente, em 3 de novembro de 2008, os três repositórios finalmente conseguiram fundir-se no RPM Fusion antes do lançamento do Fedora 10.

Repositórios
RPM Fusion se divide em dois repositórios de software separados em termos de licença:

Free
Softwares de código aberto, que a equipe do Fedora não pode incluir nos repositórios do projeto por questões que não envolvem licenciamento.

Nonfree
Softwares redistribuíveis que não sejam de código aberto, o que inclui software com código-fonte disponível publicamente e sem restrições similares às de "uso comercial".

Repositórios antigos

Livna
"Livna" é o anagrama de Anvil, pseudônimo de Damien Nadé, o programador francês que mantinha o rpm.livna.org. Ainda que Livna tenha sido extinto ao ser integrado no RPM Fusion, a biblioteca libdvdcss permaneceu no Livna por questões de copyright.

Dribble
Continha softwares que não poderiam fazer parte dos repositórios oficiais do Fedora ou de Livna por não cumprirem requisitos mais estritos, e concentrava-se em multimídia, jogos e emuladores, embora não exclusivamente.

Freshrpms
Criado por Matthias Saou em 2000 para uso próprio.

Fedora

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This Category contains Boat Trailer Pipe Lights kits and replacement parts for these Kits. Pipe lights are a great innovation in Boat Trailer Lights. These kits allow you to mount your Boat Trailers light on your Guide Poles, permanently solving the issue of trailer light submersion. The standard kits mount to industry standard 2 inch PVC. We additionally offer adapters which would allow you to mount these Pipe Light Kits to different diameters of Guide Poles. These Pipe Light kits include the required wiring and connectors to tap into your existing trailers wiring harness.


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The History of Qigong
Life force energy, or Qi, is the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Qigong is a practice that allows the practitioner to work directly with this energy. Cultivated over thousands of years, today, this energy-based exercise stems through two major branches. One is meditation focused, using intention to circulate universal life force energy for personal wellness. The other is incorporated into martial arts, to improve one's power of attack and defense.
Like all things ancient, the true roots and history of Qigong are shrouded in mystery. However, we do have archeological clues as to how this system came into being. The earliest evidence comes from the Ma Huang Tui Tombs, which reveal depictions of dance postures that links breathing with specific movements. Researchers from the Shanghai Qigong Research Institute theorize that the Wu Shaman may have been the first to become aware of and channel subtle energy through ceremonial dance. The practice began by emulating the posture of animals, and wearing masks to further heighten the energy.
Qi energy was originally seen as synonymous with the breath, a vital substance that circulates through all of nature. This energy flows through all things; the plants, animals, and atmosphere, concentrating in mountains and rivers. Group shamanic rituals eventually evolved into a personal practice through the guidance outlined by the School of Natural Law, developed by the Confucian School of Philosophy. Initially, this art form was called Tao-Yin, or "leading the guiding energy."
The first known published mention of this energy is found in the ancient Chinese classic, the I-ching (Book of Changes), before 1122 BC. The book outlines the concept of the three natural energies; Tian (Heaven), Di (Earth), and Ren (Man). Now, over 1,500 different styles of exercise exist to channel the interrelating natural energies as a way to take responsibility for the cultivation of one's own energies.
Conscious meditation integrated into the practice between 502-557 A.D. when Da Mo, the first Buddhist Patriarch Bodhidharma brought Buddhism from India to China during the Liang dynasty. The power of the mind's intention for channeling and regulating the energy is a critical part of Qigong today. Through meditation, one can become more fully aware of these energies, and direct them throughout the body accordingly.
Since the establishment of the Chinese Republic in 1912, the secrets of Qigong have circulated around the world. The benefits and sometimes miraculous results from this energy-based art form, after thousands of years of development, are finally being verified by modern Western science. Learn more about some of these studies in our other articles; The Miracles of Qigong Master Dr. Yan Xin, Scientific Evidence for Stopping Cancer from 3,000 Miles Away, and Can Subtle Energy Restructure Water?.
Increase Your Qi Flow
Life Force: The Scientific Basis, by Claude Swanson PhD
https://www.iqim.org/about/history-of-qigong/
https://ymaa.com/articles/history/history-qigong
https://www.holdenqigong.com/history-of-qigong/
https://www.taoistsanctuary.org/history-of-qigong
http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/lifestyles/chinese_qi_gong_history.html
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Death is the ultimate defeat. No matter how many successes we have, we are all doomed to suffer the final failure. But
Scientific Evidence for Dream Telepathy
"A wealth of anecdotal and clinical material exist which supports the possibility of telepathic effects occurring in dreams. However, an experimental approach
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How much does light influence our body's health? There seems to always be more to discover about this strange, luminous force that allows our eyes to be able to see our environment…
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Supersoniks is a communication agency specialising in the following areas: advice, graphic design, multimedia production and website creation. Created in 2000, its expertise has been solicited by a number of territorial collectivities and other public actors in the Centre Region and elsewhere, notably in the cultural sector.
Supersoniks contributes to the following aspects of the ReNom project: ergonomic and functional conception of the website; graphic identity and interface creation; development of TEI data importation procedures; restitution and exploitation of corpora; exploitation of indexes of named entities; georeferencing, etc.
Created in 2008, Digiscrib was born of a desire to firmly implant the valorisation of cultural and literary heritage in the digital era.
The society is principally dedicated to the high-quality digitisation of books, photographs, films, slides, and historical and contemporary documents. It also provides the following services: data processing; OCR processing; text transcription; text correction; metadata integration; PDF creation; electronic publishing (EPUB).
Digiscrib's participation in the ReNom project principally concerns electronic publishing. The society will be responsible for: testing data structure; marking place and character names in EPUB files; marking concerned places on SVG maps; EPUB creation.


I recently came upon this song again (I hadn't heard it in years.), and it really struck a chord with me. I very much suggest watching it.
And if you don't want to watch it, then here are the lyrics.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '99, wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience…I will dispense this advice now.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own..


They all have the same type of highlights. These are not typical highlights, done with foil. This is a special process, called balayage, derived from the French word for sweeping. Highlights are swept onto the hair by hand in a free-form sort of way. There is no exact placement with foils. Highlights are concentrated at the ends of the hair rather than at the roots.
So yes, they do have roots. But, they look like summer hair roots. Not a big block of blonde with an inch of black roots.
If that is balayage, then what exactly is ombre? Ombre is where the entire bottom of the hair is a different color, usually a lighter shade than the roots. Ombre is a lot harder to maintain and harder to grow out if you change your mind. However, it does look great on Drew Barrymore.
Any color hair. You can add lowlights or highlights to darker hair.
Hair with layers and texture. This disguises where the actual highlights begin.
Gray hair or gray streaks, because the stylist can paint over the gray areas directly.
Clients who want a more subtle, natural color.
This color, because it is not focused on the roots, does not expire so fast. It is not as time-sensitive and, quite frankly, as expensive as regular highlights. Clients then can capitalize on their re-growth, making it a featured accent, rather than a trip to the salon every month.
What is the most popular service you do now, compared with 10 years ago?
Balayage. This is a French highlighting technique that creates a softer, natural, sun-kissed effect. This technique is low-maintenance for the guest because the highlights start away from the scalp. People want to look fashionable and feel good about their appearance, but in this day and age we don't all have the time to be in the salon every few weeks for a touch-up.
And look, she's a walking advertisement for balayage.
Note the subtle highlighting on her dark hair. Image credit: Adele Reding Photography.
Sold. See you at the salon.


I am going to compare the starters against eachother.
Chauncey Billups vs Rodney Stuckey: This is a no brainer. Billups is much better then Stuckey at this point in their careers. Yes I know Stuckey can score, and can put up some numbers, but we are banking on his limited playoff experience + the great defense of Chauncey Billups to limit him. On the other hand, Stuckey isnt a known defender and we feel that Billups will have his way with him.
Shane Battier vs Brandon Roy: We have Delonte as our starting SG, but we will be having Shane Battier guarding Roy. Roy is one of the best SG's in the NBA, but Battier is arguably the best 1 on 1 perimeter defender in the NBA. Sure Roy won't be stopped, but Battier will make his life a living hell and make Roy work for everything. I believe Battier's defense on Roy will be good enough to atleast limit him to under his season averages.
Delonte West vs Tayshaun Prince: Personally I think this is a wash. We are having West on Prince because we aren't as worried about Prince dominated a series the way Roy is capable of. Delonte is a good defender as well, so we don't expect Prince to score a whole lot. Even if Prince posts up, we would double with Duncan off Biedrins since he isnt a perimeter threat. On the other hand Prince has shown that he has trouble guarding smaller quicker players, and we think that West would hold his own just fine against Prince.
Elton Brand vs Lamarcus Aldridge: This would be a good matchup to watch. We feel Brand has the advantage since he is a better overall scorer then Aldridge, and also a better defender. Overall we just feel Brand is the better overall player in pretty much ever facet of the game, except shooting jumpers.
Tim Duncan vs Andres Biedrins: No question about who wins this matchup. Duncan is superior to Biedrins in every aspect of the game. Biedrins would need help guarding him downlow because he isn't strong enough. Also if a team doubles Duncan, our outside shooters will make them pay since they are all excellent 3 point shooters.
Bench: I think the benches are pretty close, but we feel we have the advantage. We have 3 players off our bench who started for teams last year (Nocioni/Scola/McDyess) and a solid PG who knows his role in Antonio Daniels who won't be playing a whole lot since he has Chauncey in front of him. Then there is Bonzi Wells who will give us a much needed scoring presence with the bench. We also have Desagna Diop as insurance in case Scola or McDyess get into early foul trouble.
Where Portland lacked some serious veteran leadership in the playoffs this year, we've tried to upload on experience as well as some much needed upgrades. We feel we have a perfect combo of youth and experience to make it hard for any team that's thrown at us.
Rodney Stuckey vs. Chauncey Billups: Billups is clearly more experienced and a better floor leader. However Stuckey is a quick, big guard who can defend pretty well. Billups won't have an advantage on him as he has on other smaller guards. On the other end Stuckey is definantly quicker and should be able to blow by Billups for some easy baskets. To add to that, he's not one of our main scorers so he doesn't have to put up big numbers to be useful for us.
Brandon Roy vs. Delonte West: There is no way in hell that West is able to contain him in any way. Roy is a clear cut star and will have a field day on him. Even if they throw Battier at Roy he won't be able to contain him as proved in the Rockets series this year. Also that would create a monstrous mismatch at the SF position. We take this matchup by a loooong shot.
Tayshaun Prince vs. Shane Battier: If this would be the matchup, it'd be very interesting. Prince is clearly better on the offensive end while Battier is not much more then a shooter. Defensively Battier probably has the edge. But Prince would have no problem at all defending Battier. If like the spurs mentioned in their writeup they put West on Prince that would create a HUGE mismatch for us and Prince will definantly be able to take advantage of that. So I can say we'd definantly take this matchup.
Lamarcus Aldridge vs. Elton Brand: Seeing Aldridge now has 3 years of experience under his belt and was playing very well at the end of this year. Matching him up with a slow, injury-prone horrible defender like Brand will undoubtly help our scoring. Also Brand won't be able to stop Aldridge from running the break by any means. Brand also has a reputation for being on losing teams. In past years he has only made his teams worse or was injured all the time. The youthy, healthy Aldridge will take this one.
Andris Biedrins vs. Tim Duncan: While I think Duncan has the edge here, Biedrins is up there too and has a lot of room to improve. Again, Duncan is an old vet who's age is starting to take it's toll. Biedrins just keeps improving, he's a great rebounder and solid defender. He won't be able to entirely shut down Duncan but he'll definantly make it very hard for him.
Bench: Both benches are filled with talent, however Posey is a proven top notch defender who is clutch too. He brings a lot of experience off the bench. Add to that Steve Blake and Joel Przybilla who both started for a 54-win team last year. And Brandon Bass who is one of the best backups at his position. This bench has scoring, defence, rebounding and lots of experience. McDyess/Scola is worse then Przybilla/Bass so our frontcourt depth definantly better. And personally I would for sure take Blake/Bowen/Posey over Daniels/Wells/Nocioni. They lack any kind of defence on their bench.
spurs. i like their veteran lineup come playoff time.
Spurs. I love that front court. Add Billups and I think they're the best Western Conf. team.
I wont vote on this one, dont wanna look like I am trying to impact who I play next round. Great job by both GM's though.
The Portland writeup should be included sometime soon!
This is very close, but I give the slight edge to the Blazers because they have Prince who can shut down Melo, a major advantage in Roy over West, and quicker and younger guys down low. Granted, the 1-2 punch of Billups-Duncan is :drool: but I like the depth and mix of youth and veterans the Blazers bring.


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Warren unveils abortion rights platform following new laws
by Gwen Vasquez
Both the Alabama and Georgia laws are the latest in an onslaught of state-level anti-abortion legislation that aim to dismantle Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that constitutionally protects a woman's legal right to an abortion.
Senators approved the bill at 4.05am, but it has not been officiated. Andrew Koenig described it on Thursday as "one of the strongest" abortion bills yet passed in the U.S.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson arrives for a news conference on May 14, 2019, in his Capitol office in Jefferson City, Missouri.
The Alabama law would make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion, and even victims of rape and incest would not be permitted to terminate their pregnancies.
In Georgia, some speculate that the state's new anti-abortion law leaves open the possibility for women obtaining an abortion after six weeks, or even miscarrying, to be charged with murder.
Democratic senators attacked the proposal when it was up for debate on the Senate floor.
Rihanna has spoken out against Alabama's controversial anti-abortion bill.
Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who's widely viewed to have a tough election coming up in 2020, told CNN's Manu Raju, "The Alabama law is a bad law - it's very extreme - it essentially bans all abortions".
According to America's Health Rankings by the United Health Foundation, the rate of maternal mortality in Missouri are well above the national average and have been on the rise according to data from 2016 to 2018.
But his point was that the bill did not go far enough.
City are innocent until proven guilty over FFP probe, insists Guardiola
But against Tottenham , two balls and we conceded two goals and in that competition you are out. You're not going to extend his contract because you don't want him.
Look out Pokémon Go: Microsoft unveils new Minecraft Earth augmented reality game
It's early days for Minecraft Earth , and Microsoft doesn't have all of the answers to many questions figured out just yet. It will also allow for life-sized Minecraft buildings (or rooms, at least), in which users can team up and fight monsters.
Meghan Markle Finally Gets That Princess Title, Thanks to Baby Archie
That's probably because everyone knew where Prince George , Princess Charlotte , and Prince Louis were born already. The hospital also counts Sarah Ferguson and Victoria Beckham among the many moms who've given birth there.
"They sound more like sex predators to me", one user wrote.
'Rather than understanding that women's lives all hold different stories.
'We cannot paint with a broad brush and interfere by putting a law forward that tells them what they can and cannot do'. When Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from SCOTUS, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, for one, predicted that abortion would be illegal in 20 states, and soon.
Now, a similar law in Louisiana has come before the court. White men make up most of the Alabama Senate and the group that voted in favor of the bill, but Ivey, who ultimately signed this bill into law, is a white woman.
Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand of NY also have endorsed the codification of abortion rights, while Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said Thursday that such a move "deserves to be taken seriously".
Supporters say the Alabama bill is intentionally created to conflict with the 1973 Roe versus Wade decision that legalised abortion nationally in hopes of sparking a court case that might prompt the justices to revisit abortion rights.
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2 injured in Butler Township Crash Wednesday
By Corey Murraycmurray@hillsdale.net
BUTLER TOWNSHIP — The Branch County Sheriff's Office is investigating a crash that left two yet-to-be-identified people with "pretty serious injuries."
The crash occurred at the intersection of Clarendon Road and Litchfield Road, just north of Butler Motor Speedway.
Both injured parties were transported from the scene by LifeCare Ambulance.
The Litchfield Fire Department and Quincy Fire Department assisted on scene.
The Branch County Sheriff's Office will release additional details in a news release and an updated story will be published at that time.


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Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored!
06/30/2010 05:12 am ET Updated May 25, 2011
Never try to watch Survivor with Larry Talbot over for kibbles and bits. This episode opened with a couple of gorgeous shots of the full moon over Samoa, and the next thing I knew, Larry was clawing at the door to get out, and I had to send Little Dougie over to walk him for me. Let this be a lesson to me: no matter what those dopey Twilight movies tell you, werewolves make lousy house pets.
But someone else was morphing into his monster form under that full moon as well. Russell, aka Bulbous Baggins, the Hobbit on Crack, was changing into Darth Baggins, the Dim Lord of the Sith. Parvati, it turned out, was a separate person, not under his Sith mind control, and operating with secrets of her own. How dare she treat Darth Baggins the way he treats everyone else? Who does she think she is? Him? There was trouble a-brewin' in the Yo-Yo Tribe camp.
Of course, it's hard to have an angry confrontation with women when they won't stop giggling at you.
Darth Baggins: "You lied to me. That's how I feel."
Parvati: "I didn't lie to you. How did I lie to you?"
Darth: "'Cause you didn't tell me about it."
He's confusing lying with sins of omission. Oh yes, and he's acting like she exists only to do his bidding, when she's actually there to win, which would mean defeating everyone, including him. Darth exhibits the pathology of the True Sociopath: he forgets that other people are actual other people, not creatures of his creation, not extensions of himself. Parvati laughed at this. Laughing at sociopaths is a good way to end up down by the river in a shallow grave.
But Parvati summed up things pretty accurately to us: "Russell likes to be in control." That's like saying Adolf Hitler liked to tease Jews, "'Cause he thinks he's the godfather of this game. And I think having me have an idol that he didn't know about made him feel like he wasn't in control." Well, it's more like it showed him he isn't in control, but do go on. "And scared a little bit. But that's kinda what I wanted anyway. [Giggle]" All well and good, except Darth's usual response to someone he finds he can't control is to use all his powers of Sith evil to get them eliminated. On the other hand, where would he seek new allies? Surely The Pathetics are wise to his treachery now.
Come the dawn, Darth was working on Candice to flip, cannily making it sound like he'd been a full part of Parvati's poison surprise, trying to keep the breach opening between he and Parvati and Danielle from being known to the remaining Pathetics. Could she fall for it? Candy is known to melt in the tropical sun.
Reward Challenge: What bloodsport have lined up next? Boxing on stilts? Tackle Scrabble? Full-contact blindman's buff? Jousting on Galapagos tortoises? Jigsaw puzzle-solving under gunfire?
No. Shuffleboard.
And the reward? The three winning players get to drop in on Robert Louis Stevenson. They're a little late with that treat. Dear sickly Bobby died 116 years ago, as detailed in The Q Guide to Classic Monster Movies, a book written by none other than Little Dougie himself, and available from Amazon.com. (Take that, Palin's Pimp! I can do product placement too!)
While at Bobby's, they were to be shown "the movie Treasure Island." Excuse me? Which film of Treasure Island? The great MGM one with Wallace Beery? The lovely-looking Disney one with Robert Newton? The ridiculously lame one with Orson Welles? The unintentionally camp TV movie one with Charleton Heston? (In that one, the treasure map is engraved on stone tablets instead of drawn on parchment, but at least Sir Christopher Lee is in it.) The felt-heavy Muppet version with Tim Curry? The animated one set in outer space? Be specific, Probst! How fierce the shuffleboard play will get may well depend on which one is the reward. Think how shafted you'd feel if you sprained a wrist playing a wild round of Survivor Shuffleboard, only to find out the reward was watching Charleton Heston play pirate in a dead man's house? Aaaarrrrgh!
Also, Probst described Bobby as being "most famous for writing the novel Treasure Island." Given that there are more movies based on Bobby's The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde than on any other book ever written, even The Bible, a strong case could be made that he's most famous for writing that. However, I think we can all agree, he is not most famous for writing The Master of Ballantrae.
Winning this could be a good/bad sort of thing, you know, like Yin/Yang. Besides the very real danger that they might have to watch Charleton Heston do what he used to call "acting," (starving survivors could get very hungry while watching Cheston devour the scenery as a pirate), these three players would be away from camp overnight, while the other six players plotted against them.
Parvati summed up the "good" possibility: "There will probably be a clue to a hidden immunity idol at today's reward." Of course she doesn't know this for a fact. Maybe there will be no more idols. But they can be sure that the remaining six players back at camp will assume the three who go will have an idol clue, so they will be arriving back with fresh targets on them. But Parvati wasn't finished: "So I'm hoping and praying that myself, Danielle, Russell, or Jerri goes on that reward and finds that clue." A few things occur to me:
1. Notice the conspicuous absence of Sandra from that list. Nice.
2. Why on earth would she think Russell would be dumb enough to share a clue with her now that he knows she didn't share the last one with him?
3. What makes her think Jerri is really her ally? True, she saved her at the last council, but no real bond is there, and Jerri has proven to be a limp, boring player in this season. If Jerri has a brain in her head (an admittedly-doubtful theory), she would keep any idol clue she found, and the idol itself, if she found that, a deep, dark secret.
4. "Praying"? Putting aside how puerile and childish prayer and religious belief are at all for the moment, and assuming for a second that the absurd fiction of an omniscient, omni-powerful supreme being running the entire cosmos is real (sort of a giant Glinda the Good Witch of Oz), why would She care who finds hidden immunity idols on some little TV show on a small, insignificant planet in some backwater galaxy? And if, for no sane reason, a being concerned with micro-managing the entire universe was to take an active role in determining events on a reality TV show, why would She aid The Villains? Get a clue, dumbo.
Have you ever just watched a game of shuffleboard you weren't playing in yourself? I thought not. We had five minutes of highly-rated CBS airtime to show us just why it's never caught on as a spectator sport. It was every bit as boring as it sounded: watching people play shuffleboard to decide who gets to see a film of Treasure Island. Next week, maybe we can watch people play tiddlywinks to decide who gets to see a screening of The Love Guru. It made me wish I smoked, so I could slip outside for a cigarette. What's happening over on Flash Forward?
Wow! That pregnant lesbian FBI chick is a mole, no, she's a double agent, and that creepy idiot-savant has broken into Penny Widmore-Hume's house, and the hot Finnes brother found a ring of power hidden in a chess queen, but the pregnant lesbian has orders to kill him. (Naturally Charlie Pace, the actual hobbit, had to explain how the ring worked to Shakespeare-in-Love) And there's going to be another worldwide blackout! Good Grief, Flash Forward is fast-paced and exciting! What? I have to switch back and report on what? Survivor? Oh crap.
Back over on soporific CBS, Colby, Danielle, and Amanda had won the boring, thrill-free, snoozefest, shuffleboard contest. The only excitement was that three crew members fell asleep while filming it, and dropped their equipment on their own toes, but that wasn't shown to us. The Watching-Paint-Dry Channel's ratings suddenly spiked at 10 minutes after 8 PM. I wonder why.
A Night in the Museum, Part 3: Samoan Simpletons: Lucky viewers got to see Bobby Stevenson's house, and without even risking their lives playing shuffleboard. Perhaps that was interesting to some of you, but when you've been Bobby's personal houseguest guest there as I have, albeit, only when Fanny Stevenson was away for the weekend, it's so old cocked-hat.
Amanda's eyes were glazing over as she was shown such treasures as a first edition of Jekyll & Hyde. It's not like she's ever read a book anyway. Pearls before sows. She was busy trying to shake idol clues out of precious, fragile, 200-year-old first editions. I'd suggest the tour guide give her The Black Spot, except that, until she's seen the movie, she'll have no idea what it even means.
(A real treat would have been showing them the original manuscript for The Black Arrow, which is entirely in my handwriting, as Bobby had sprained his wrist writing A Child's Garden of verses.)
They ran them the Wallace Beery-Jackie Cooper version, which is pretty much the best one, but, without Johnny Depp in the picture, Amanda was too bored, and far more concerned with rooting around in a museum, ransacking the 19th century antiquities she was surrounded with for the idol clue. On the one hand, she is playing the game. On the other, never invite her to The Dickens House Museum in London, let alone The White House.
Well guess what? The clue wasn't hidden in the antiquities. It was in the bowl of popcorn. Unfortunately for Amanda, she and Colby were so wrapped up trying to figure out who the hell Jackie Cooper, Wallace Beery, and Lionel Barrymore even were ("Who are these people?" I imagine them asking, "Is the kid the father of the guy who played Perry White in that old Superman movie from before I was born? Is this Lionel guy Drew Barrymore's great-great-great-grandaddy?"), that they never saw Danielle find and slip out the clue. Only Colby could be dim enough to not notice a scroll of parchment in a bowl of popcorn he was eating from. They're lucky he didn't eat it.
But Sherlock Amanda snooped about and found the clue where Danielle had cleverly hidden it, lying on the floor, out in the open, and grabbed it and ran off. Finally we had some action. In a house filled with precious, priceless, fragile Stevenson possessions, Danielle and Amanda were having a physical brawl to get the clue away from each other, while Colby lay on the bed, watching the movie, far more concerned with Long John Silver, Jim Hawkins, and Billy Bones. Well, he hasn't been playing the game much at all lately. Why should tonight be any different? "I didn't even see it. I was watching Treasure Island."
Danielle felt the "Finders Keepers" rule should apply, while Amanda was going with the "Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law" approach, and Colby just wanted to watch the movie. Who'd have thought the night-spent-watching-TV would have more action than the challenge?
Colby, forced to adjudicate who had "dibs," decided Danielle owned the clue, and Amanda folded, and handed it back! Why? Who made Colby judge and jury? As far as I could see, it belonged to whoever had it in their hot little hand. Frankly, they could have fought tooth and nail for it all night long. It certainly would have made up for that boring shuffleboard contest. Even Amanda admitted she'd been an idiot to give it back. And it was lousy strategy on Colby's part to insist that the clue be given to a member of his enemy alliance, instead of retained by his own ally. The obvious thing to do would be open it and read it aloud so all three heard it, but thinking isn't something Colby's been engaged in since Tom was voted out, or puberty; whichever came first.
Wasn't anyone there impressed that Wallace Beery could wildly overact with one leg tied up behind him, his foot literally stuck into his butt-crack, for the whole movie? No? Kids. No respect for Classic Cinema.
(Personal side note: In 1935, I tried my damnedest to help Jackie Cooper lose his virginity, but he seemed determined to hang on to it. Something about saving himself for Shirley Temple, and me being older than his grandmother.)
When they got back to Camp Yo-Yo, during a monsoon (and where we'd had no footage whatever of any conniving behind their backs while they were gone. I guess the entire Survivor camera crew wanted to see Treasure Island.), Colby could only brag about sharing one rather small bed with the two women; nothing at all about the clue. But Darth was alert and waiting, and watching when Danielle went sprinting out in the storm to find the idol.
Team Player Darth Baggins went Idol Hunting with Danielle. He found it when her back was turned, and, shock, surprise, he hid it in his pocket, lied to her that he hadn't found it, and scurried off, leaving the hopelessly stupid woman with no idea that she'd just been flanked by her "ally." Danielle is so dim, she couldn't even realize that the only possible reason Darth would stop looking and leave was if he'd found it. The Revenge of the Sith was on!
But of course, Darth is pathologically incapable of not bragging to anyone about having the idol. He went and told Candice, thinking to show her he "trusts" her to make her his new pawn. How many women have to shaft him for him to get the message to keep his secrets secret?
Candice actually got the secret part of it, so rather than tell Colby, Rupussy, and Amanda, her "allies," she decided to keep the knowledge to herself. This is a fairly smart move, though not the one I'd prefer her to make.
Sandra was all but wearing a t-shirt saying "I want to flip!" So who did she reach out to? Colby. Why bother? His head is not in the game. I half-expected him to interrupt her narrative of how she'd been screwed-over by the other Insufferables, to say, "That's nothing. Billy Bones got marooned on Treasure Island for years, and Long John Silver betrayed all his crewmates. Let me tell you about his parrot."
What Colby did say was even funnier: "I know Danielle has the hidden immunity idol, or she will." Oh Colby, Colby, Colby. Were you born this stupid, or did you catch it from JT? All you "know" is that Danielle has the clue. I'm not sure she could find her own butt, even with a clue, let alone the idol that Darth Baggins slipped out right under her nose. No one on the Pathetic tribe understands what "Know" actually means. So right off, he and Sandra are plotting under a false precept.
"If we do this," asked Colby of Sandra, "Do we first take out Russell or Parvati?" Please, please, please take out Darth. Just make sure everyone thinks you're going for somebody else, so the weaselly little Sith Hobbit doesn't play the idol you don't realize he has.
Sandra told Darth a cunning lie, cunning because it's so extremely believable. She told him she hadn't talked to Colby because: "He doesn't have no personality." If we extract her illiterate double negative (Does she pass on her horrid lack-of-language skills to her kids?), she's wrong; "no personality" is exactly what he does have. Darth told her they had a flipper from the other side, but not who it was. Could Glenn Beck chart all these double and triple crosses out on his chalkboard for me? I'm getting bewildered.
Sandra became my heroine by determining that Darth must go. But obstacles lie ahead. Who is the flipper? (Candice) If they tell all the Pathetics to vote for Darth, will Candice tattle to Darth, getting him to play his idol or would he think it was a ploy to flush out his idol, as Parvati did last week, and not play it? Can Candice see the wisdom of voting for Darth, and not alerting him? And there's still the unknown factor of whom will win immunity. I'm with Sandra here, but it could rebound on her right away, if she's not really careful. The chances of her winning the Immunity Challenge are, after all, nil.
And Colby was fretting over whether Sandra could be trusted, when the real issue is whether Candice can be trusted. After all, Sandra was the one who clued them into Darth's lies last week, the warning he stupidly ignored on the sage advice of newest jury member JT.
Immunity Challenge: Well this was kinda like Jenga. They had to build ten foot tall houses of cards, actually small wooden plaques, to win immunity. Better than another round of shuffleboard.
Thanks to editing, one has no real sense of how this was going, but each shot of a collapse was hilarious. Anyway Jerri, whom no one was discussing voting out, won immunity, beating Darth by a narrow margin. How exciting was this? Well I only got 71 words out of it, and I wrote a lot more than that about the boring shuffleboard competition.
Darth decided that Amanda would be his target tonight, because "She's kinda like Boston Rob in a girl's body." Yes, if he lost his all looks. Come to think of it, Boston Rob has been in many a girl's body, and he hasn't turned into Amanda yet, fortunately for Amber.
And notice how the relentless misogyny of Darth appears yet again. Does he aim at Colby or Rupussy? Nope. Amanda.
On instructing Candice to vote for Amanda, she agreed to his face, saying, "I'm ready to put her name down. She's crossed me too many times." Name once. Actually, Amanda's been Candice's one close ally and confidant. Could Darth's deciding to take out Amanda get Candice to stay loyal for this crucial vote? Might she even be able to mislead Darth into not playing his idol, by naming a fake target for the Patheics? At last, some suspense.
Candice flipped. She told Darth that he was the target. Damn you, woman! Damn you! And the treacherous little twit (Oh how my fingers longed to hit a different vowel) betrayed Sandra while she was at it. Evil, Candice, evil! May you spend eternity sharing a sleeping bag with Voldepussy!
Darth, fortunately, is filled with paranoia after last week's surprise. He's not sure he believes Sandra, so he went and asked her. What did he think she'd answer? "Yes, Darth, I've flipped, and I'm voting for you tonight." Because he's stayed focused on Amanda, as long as he feels safe enough not to play his idol, he could still go. Hope, that thing with feathers, still lives.
So Rupussy, Genius Colby, and Sandra confronted Candice. What's Candice going to say? "Yes, I ratted you all out to Darth Baggins?" Nope. She denied it, and swore she was still on board, and then Colby spoke these hideous words: "We're voting for Parvati."
"WHAT?????" I screamed at my TV, "No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!" Vote out Darth! Can not anyone in this pathetic alliance of Pathetics stick to one plan for five minutes? I got me some bitch-slapping to do, starting with Candice, and movng quickly on to Colby. No wonder ABC cancelled The Colbys after only two seasons somewhat over 20 years ago. It wasn't just that it starred Charleton Heston. It was the idiocy of Colbys everywhere, but especially in Samoa.
So Sandra had a private talk with Candice. Oh, Darth tried to join in, but Sandra snapped at him and told him to get lost. Candice swore to Sandra she hadn't flipped, and then told Sandra to vote for Amanda, her one true ally! Hello? Candice promised she was not flipping. But did she tell Sandra that Darth had the idol? No. She kept that bit of info, which would have proven her honesty, to herself. Time for council. And I need another vodka, make that a double, because this sequence of Candice basically betraying everyone in Samoa, including total strangers she passed on the beach, managed what the shuffleboard tournament didn't. It got me all riled.
Tribal Council: Voldepussy went downscale for his Tribal Council fashion choice this time: a black jacket, a green t-shirt with vaguely 60s psychedelic stuff on it I couldn't make out, and a black Survivor baseball cap. Not even any feathers in his hair. JT was hiding his face in his hands in shame, like the sinister weeping angels on Doctor Who.
In describing his fellow Insufferables, Darth called Jerri "calm." I guess he didn't have the energy to pronounce all of "comatose." He called Parvati "Charming." He has a radically different definition of "Charming" than I do, but then, he would. Clearly, despite getting his filthy shorts in a twist about her keeping secrets from him, his lower brain is still responding to her a little more than Mrs. Baggins would like.
And, just to cement his alliance with Sandra, he called her "just there."
At least Rupussy had the sense to sit there and tell Jeff bald-faced lies. Gotta love him, mainly because there's no one else left who is loveable.
However, just to remind everyone how stupid he is, Colby announced definitely that Danielle has the idol currently holding its breath in Darth's shorts, and Rupussy chimed in agreement.
Could we get to the vote please? I want to watch The Office, where people only pretend to be idiots.
Well, voting for Darth became moot. He played the idol. As I said earlier, getting him out would have required Candice to convince him he was not the target, and this she relentlessly did not do. At least he was playing it in vain.
As the Amanda and Parvati votes began racking up, Courtney's skeleton had a laughing jag in the jury box, though the sweetest moment was Darth's whispered "Damn it," as he realized he'd wasted his idol.
But the flip went the wrong way, and Amanda was voted out. In the immortal words of Long John Silver: "Aarrrrgh!" Sandra and Candice both voted for Amanda, who received six votes. Colby voted to keep Amanda, but he'd have done her more good if he hadn't told her to hand the idol clue over to Danielle. I am officially sick of all of these morons.
Next week's previews made it look like Paravti vs Darth. Maybe that will turn out better. As for me, my timbers are thoroughly shivered. We had an hour of Yo-Yo Hos, and I needs me a bottle of rum.
Avast and cheers, me darlin's.
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The Riverline area, comprising eight hectares of public space will begin construction in September as part of the Queen's Wharf redevelopment project.
Delicious.com.au Article: Putting on the Ritz: Perth's new luxury hotel lives up to its name
News, The Ritz-CarltonBy Balmer Agency July 3, 2020
Melissa Leong from Delicious.com.au explores Perth's newest hotel – The Ritz-Carlton, Perth. The new hotel is making its mark on Western Australia's capital city, including its food scene.
The Courier Mail Article: Big Plans for New Star Entertainment Tower
Epsilon, Gold Coast, News, Tower 1By Balmer Agency June 30, 2020
The Star Entertainment's $6 billion plan for the Gold Coast continues to reach milestones in spite of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the economy. The residential tower, The Star Residences, and The Dorsett Hotel are on track for completion in 2022.
Brisbane Times Article: Four Brisbane casino towers emerge from the ground after three years
News, QW-ResidencesBy Balmer Agency May 10, 2020
After three years of construction, four towers that make up the Queen's Wharf project have begun rising from the ground in Brisbane's CBD. The tallest of the four towers is Queen's Wharf Residences, currently the only residential tower with a direct connection to the integrated resort.
Queen's Wharf Residences will provide for 2,000 jobs by 2021
News, QW-ResidencesBy Balmer Agency May 7, 2020
Get a first look at 'The Landing' a brand-new public space in the works as part of the Queen's Wharf project's ambitious redevelopment of Brisbane's riverfront.
The Urban Developer Article: First Look: Queen's Wharf Brisbane River Park
News, QW-ResidencesBy Balmer Agency April 29, 2020
Brisbane's construction industry continues through COVID-19 shutdown
As most industries feel the impact of COVID-19 shutdown, Brisbane's construction industry carries on as it has been deemed an essential service.
Gold Coast Bulletin Article: Dorsett Hotel tower on track to open in 2022
Gold Coast, News, Tower 1By Balmer Agency April 17, 2020
The operator of The Star Gold Coast has revealed construction of the $400 million Dorsett Hotel tower remains within budget and on track to open in 2022 despite the group hurting from the COVID-19 shutdown.
The Urban Developer Article: Melbourne's Top 20 Major Development Projects
News, West Side Place - Stage 1By Balmer Agency March 26, 2020
West Side Place has been listed by The Urban Developer as one of Melbourne's Top 20 Major Development Projects. Located at 250 Spencer Street in Melbourne's CBD, West Side Place will comprise 1,376 apartments and 257 luxury hotel suites, and over 3,000 SQM of ground floor retail space.
Queen's Wharf shifts into top gear, 1600 jobs generated this year
News, QW-ResidencesBy Balmer Agency February 24, 2020
The Queen's Wharf project is expected to bring in 1600 workers as it prepares to reach for the sky this year.
First look at game-changing 64-storey Queen's Wharf tower
Take a look at Queen's Wharf Residences, the Queen's Wharf Precinct's first residential tower which will soar 64 storeys above Brisbane's CBD.
Financial Review Article: The Ritz-Carlton Perth spins rocks and branches into gold
News, The Ritz-CarltonBy Balmer Agency January 17, 2020
The Ritz-Carlton's 1000th hotel has opened its doors on the banks of the Swan River. Find out more about revolutionary The Ritz-Carlton, Perth.