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The Return of God of War Chapter 521
"I must say, I'm quite disappointed in you, Levi! You used to be a dark horse! Now, you've resorted to relying on your connections!"
"Logically speaking, Morris Group should be yours. How did you end up as a small-time technical consultant?" Lauren let out a derisive laugh.
She was in a particularly good mood now.
She was initially prepared to fight a hard battle.
But in the end, it was her ex-fiancé from during her childhood, Levi Garrison, who had turned up!
Not to mention, a completely ruined version of him.
She was ecstatic and felt fully confident about the negotiation that was about to begin.
"Wait, Ms. Fletcher! Something's wrong. If Morris Group sent a useless person like him here, it means that they're not taking this negotiation seriously at all!" her assistant exclaimed.
The smug smile on Lauren's face immediately vanished.
She had actually thought about this too.
Did Morris Group deliberately send a useless person here?
Doesn't that directly reflect their thoughts about this negotiation?
Even if they're the ones who have the upper hand, they're blatantly disrespecting Triple Group!
"What is Morris Group trying to do? Did they send a piece of trash over, to humiliate us?" Lauren threw the question to her assistant.
She purposely raised her voice so that Levi could hear her.
Her assistant replied, "Ms. Fletcher, I've just received the confirmation! Levi Garrison is the person they had sent to negotiate on the company's behalf! He is authorized to make any decision!"
"In that case, let's begin!" Lauren ordered in a cold tone.
While everyone was setting up the venue, Lauren approached Levi with a sneer. "Levi, I really never expected us to meet again like this! I had never believed the statement that people had said, stating that everything in life is temporary until I had seen you once again. Oh, how things have changed!"
Levi nodded. "Yeah! You've grown so much since the last time I saw you."
"I know, right?" You've changed even more though! The Garrisons were clearly billionaires who had successfully listed their company. What happened in less than a month to make them fall so low? Now, all of the Garrisons are barely scraping by! They're all just a pathetic bunch!
They used to be so high and mighty. Even though your father and mine were good friends, I knew that your father looked down on my family and saw us as peasants!
"But now, my family has a market value of two billion! I'm also the general manager of Triple Group in Erudia! We are the ones looking down on your family now! Including you! All of you are merely fit to lick the dirt from our boots!"
Lauren abruptly changed the topic. "Of course, you're not doing too bad. At least you can still fulfill your basic needs, but you're still considered a low-life!"
Levi who remained silent the entire time sighed softly when she was done.
Reality is simply too cruel.
A pure and kind little girl had turned into this kind of person…
One side of Lauren's mouth lifted. "You can sigh all you want, but the reality is a b****! Don't look down on others, because you'll never know when they would rise and walk all over you! That's what we Fletchers are doing right now; walking all over the Garrisons!"
Levi wasn't angered by her words, but Seth on the other hand, couldn't continue listening to her insults anymore.
When Lauren noticed that, she announced with a smile, "Alright, enough talk about this. My wedding is in five days! I'm marrying Lee Jung-jin, the nephew of Triple Group's regional general manager, Park Cheon-shin! You must come, yes? Here's the invitation!"
Levi accepted the invitation from her hand, with surprise sprawled across his face. "A Keerean?"
"Yeah! He's a greatly valued executive of Triple Group and owns company shares too! Even the old you can't compare to him!" Lauren flaunted arrogantly.
Levi smiled in response. "Sure. I'll be there."
When Levi ignored her jab at him, Lauren immediately softened her tone, changing tactics. "Oh well, no matter what, we grew up together Levi. I'm like a sister to you, am I not? You'll come for my wedding no matter what, right?"
Lauren had wanted Levi to attend her wedding so that he would realize that choosing Zoey over her was the biggest mistake of his life!
"Mm, alright. I'll definitely attend your wedding!"
Although he felt nauseated by the current Lauren, she was still his childhood betrothed, and he had regarded her as a younger sister.
Since she was going to get married, he would attend her wedding just for the sake of it.
Lauren nodded in satisfaction. "Don't forget to dress up nicely too!"
"Mm. I wish you happiness!" Levi offered her a bland smile.
"I…" Lauren hesitated for a brief moment.
Truth be told, she didn't have any feelings for Lee Jung-jin.
Nonetheless, because of his status as Park Cheon-shin's nephew, as well as his competency, Lauren had agreed to marry him.
She wanted to gain more power for herself, as well as for her family so that they could become a noble family.
Park Cheon-shin suggested a marriage between her and his nephew because he saw her potential.
Once Lauren became his daughter-in-law, all of Triple Group's assets would be his to control.
In fact, he had wanted to kick Horace out of Triple Group a long time ago.
However, the higher-ups from the headquarters did not allow that, because the position could only be occupied by a capable Erudian.
Coincidentally, Horace had been showing poor work performance as of recently. Thus, Park Cheon-shin successfully had him sacked and allowed Lauren to replace him.
Lauren was currently so excited that she had immediately called her father, Isaac. "Dad, guess what? I ran into Levi Garrison! He has promised to attend my wedding!"
"Hahaha! Really? That's wonderful! We'll show him exactly who the Fletchers are, along with how outstanding my daughter is! He's the one who isn't worthy of you! Damn that piece of trash!"
Isaac shared his daughter's excitement.
He wanted Levi to witness Lauren's monumental wedding and regret his choice back then!
"Ms. Fletcher, everything is ready! Please, have a seat," informed her assistant.
At the same time, Levi moved to take his seat, across from hers.
Lauren glanced at Levi with disdain gleaming in her eyes and proclaimed, "The negotiation has officially begun! I'm sure that you know the current situation. I want to hear your take on it…"
"Sure. Then, I'll go ahead first!"
With that, Levi got down to business. "Firstly, Triple Group must pay back the 80 billion that they've stolen from Scott Yates' faction. This huge sum of money is supposed to be for the development of Quebec! Triple Group isn't allowed to do anything until the money has been paid."
Before anyone could react, he continued, "Secondly, make a public apology and confess to all the crimes that Triple Group has committed over these past few years."
"Thirdly, Triple Group must either get lost from Erudia, or follow its laws."
"These three points are what I want to bring across."
After Levi was done saying his piece, silence blanketed the room.
Lauren was dumbfounded.
Everyone had varying expressions on their faces.
Even Seth was wearing a look of utter disbelief on his face.
Aren't you going a little overboard, Mr. Garrison?
Everyone knows that Quebec is dominated by Triple Group now.
Nonetheless, he spoke such arrogant words!
Did he just tell Triple Group to get lost?
Has he gone mad?
Who in Quebec has the balls to do what he has just done?
It took Lauren a whole minute to return to her senses.
"Levi, what nonsense are you spouting? When did Triple Group steal 80 billion from Scott Yates? Where did you hear that rumor?" Lauren angrily rebuked.
She was, in fact, shocked on the inside.
How did he know?
"Rumor? Hahaha…" Levi burst out laughing.
Has Lauren become as shameless as Triple Group too?
"The truth will always come to light. Triple Group shouldn't assume that their shady dealings will remain hidden forever! That money was specially gathered to support the construction and development of Quebec! Unfortunately, Triple Group had the guts to take that money. How preposterous!"
The moment he proclaimed as such, even Lauren was taken aback.
Her anxiety spiked because Triple Group was actually still losing sleep over that money.
Firstly, the amount involved was simply too enormous.
Secondly, that sum of money was specially funded by South City.
Hence, they had tried their best to do charity, in order to clear their guilty conscience.
Mentioning that sum of money was a direct hit on Triple Group's weakness.
Levi repeated in a chilly tone, "Today's negotiation will revolve around the three points that I had stated. Number one, return the money; number two, make a public apology; number three, either get lost or obey the law!"
His words were simply too cool!
Seth was so awestruck that he had almost cried!
Mr. Garrison is a real man!
Lauren was beyond stunned.
The negotiation wasn't supposed to go like this…
Even so, what the hell is this?
"Didn't you say that you were getting married? Triple Group has five days! Don't blame me for being merciless if you fail!"
Levi gave them a deadline.
"Levi, the points I was going to bring up today were-"
Lauren was cut off mid-sentence.
"I'm sorry to say this, but you have no right to do so! Since you've asked for a negotiation, everything is up to me!" Levi left no room for discussion.
"Fine. So, you mean that everything you say is equivalent to Morris Group's decision?" Lauren scoffed.
"Of course! Since I'm here, it means that I represent the entire Morris Group!" Levi nodded.
"Are you sure that this is how you want today's negotiation to go?"
Lauren's lips curled in disdain. "Then, can you bear the consequences?"
"Bear the consequences? I think that I should be the one asking Triple Group this question. I'm only giving you five days! If you don't do what I have asked, I will personally take everything back and drive Triple Group out of Erudia!"
Levi sounded impassive as though he was talking about the weather.
Everyone, including Lauren, erupted into fits of laughter.
Drive Triple Group out of Erudia?
He must be crazy to be able to say something like this, right?
Even the leaders of South City have turned a blind eye to this matter.
Who in Quebec would dare to go head to head with Triple Group?
A measly company like Morris Group?
They're indeed a tough nut to crack, but they're still nothing, compared to Triple Group.
"Levi, do you really think that you possess authority just because they had sent you here to negotiate? They clearly did that as a mere formality, but you've seriously thought that you were some kind of important person?" Lauren snickered.
"Oh and what about you? Stop dwelling over unimportant matters and just relay my message to your superior!" Levi retorted.
"Who dares to speak so arrogantly?"
Just then, a voice sounded, as a voice sounded out, speaking in imperfect English.
Lee Jung-jin appeared in a suit.
"Honey, this is the guy who I was betrothed to when I was a child! Now, he's just a piece of trash!" Lauren whispered.
Lee Jung-jin glanced at Levi, with a surprise filling his eyes before sneering. "My dear, he isn't worthy of you!"
"So, you're the one who wants to drive Triple Group out of Erudia?"
Lee Jung-jin sized Levi up with a contemptuous look.
Boom, boom, boom.
The sound of thunderous footsteps shook the ground as Choi Hong-man, who was two meters tall, bearing a weight of more than two hundred pounds, appeared.
He resembled a God, as he looked down his nose at Levi and Seth.
Seth could feel the dangerous aura that Choi Hong-man was emanating, immediately explaining, "Don't get the wrong idea. We have only come to relay the message! This is our boss' decision!"
Seth didn't want to cause a conflict.
He felt that Levi was no match for Choi Hong-man, so he chose to retreat for now.
"Yes. I was the one who had said that! So why don't you try and see what would happen if you failed to deliver, on the three points I've just stated, within five days?"
Levi stared straight at Lee Jung-jin, answering his question.
Seth gave himself a mental slap.
Levi was stepping forth, full throttle.
Choi Hong-man took a menacing stride forward as he announced in a frosty tone, "Try and see?"
Choi Hong-man's gigantic body resembled that of a beast's.
His booming voice sounded like thunder, and he gave off an extremely intimidating aura.
Everyone retreated out of fear, including Lauren, leaving Levi and Choi Hong-man in the middle.
Choi Hong-man glared at Levi, as though he were a predator, with Levi being his sole prey.
Seth looked on anxiously, knowing full well that he would be beaten to a pulp if he had faced off against Choi Hong-man.
He's an amazing fighter!
Levi's in deep trouble this time…
"You'll know the consequences in five days!" Levi declared with a smug grin. "Let's go!"
Levi turned around to leave, with Seth following him closely.
Without warning, Choi Hong-man dragged Seth over and pinned him down, against a chair.
Seth froze up, his reflexes as an ex-military scout failing to kick in.
He could only stare at Choi Hong-man in shock as he was held hostage, in a tight grip against the chair.
Seth was utterly shocked.
He's too powerful!
He's stronger than I had thought!
Levi won't stand a chance against him!
We're done for…
"Who has given you permission to leave? The negotiations are not over yet!" Choi Hong-man bellowed, making the ground shake.
Lauren and her party roared in excitement.
Levi's manipulative tactics had made them hesitant to put forward their terms, and Choi Hong-man had proved that violence was the only way to get them out of this sticky situation.
"That's right!" Lauren jeered. "We haven't even put forward our terms yet! Why are you leaving?"
Lee Jung-jin scoffed. "That's really rude of you. Do you really think that we're going to back down so easily?"
"Yeah! You shouldn't be walking out just like that!"
The party from Triple Group started to grow cocky.
Choi Hong-man pointed at Levi and yelled in broken English, "You! Come! Sit!"
Levi grinned. "Can't you just let me leave?"
Lee Jung-jin and Lauren exchanged looks and burst into laughter.
They glanced at Choi Hong-man to put across a signal to Levi that he would have to get past Choi Hong-man first before he could leave.
Lauren left the room after that.
Park Cheon-shin had given her two schemes for the negotiations and had instructed her to let Choi Hong-man threaten the Morris Group party if things went south.
In fact, the second scheme was to mobilize Choi Hong-man.
What was to follow after that was none of her business.
"Be gentle, Mr. Choi…" she had announced earlier on with a grin. "I need him to show up at my wedding."
Lee Jung-jin left after shooting Levi a look.
It was time for Choi Hong-man to shine.
The party from Triple Group filed out of the room and closed the door behind them.
"Did you hear me?" Choi Hong-man bellowed, glaring at Levi.
Levi merely stared at him. "Let that person go. This is not your country, and you have no right to act like you own the place!"
Levi's voice was calm yet authoritative, as though he was leading an army of a million men.
It could make anyone who was listening to him cower in fear.
Even Choi Hong-man was startled for a second, but he soon regained his footing quickly. "Hmph! I do not let people go easily! You too!"
He charged forward upon uttering those words.
Despite possessing a burly body, he moved at what seemed to be lightning speed. Before anyone could react, he had already grabbed Levi by the shoulders, ready to throw him onto a chair.
Levi was close to two meters tall, but that was nothing compared to the two-hundred-pound wall of muscle before him.
Seth and his allies closed their eyes in defeat.
However, to Choi Hong-man's horror, Levi did not even move a single inch.
He was shocked…very shocked.
He could throw an elephant into the air with ease, yet Levi stood rooted to the ground, no matter how hard he had tried to lift him.
"Get out!" Levi shouted all of a sudden, his booming voice echoing across the room.
To everyone's shock, Choi Hong-man staggered backward, due to the sheer force of Levi's voice, only stopping after crashing into the table in the middle of the room.
His eyes were filled with fear, yet, he refused to back down.
"You're asking for trouble!" Choi Hong-man hollered like a feral beast before charging forward once again.
He leaped into the air like a cannonball before crashing down onto the tables and chairs explosively.
Everyone staggered backwards from the shockwave that he had created, its searing heat almost burning through their skins.
Crack!
The tables and chairs crumbled into a pile of debris under his weight.
Choi Hong-man had gone all out!
Seth hissed in fear.
He's simply too strong!
A single kick from Choi Hong-man could break a stone apart!
Choi Hong-man howled, as the veins on his legs popped.
Levi's bangs fluttered in the air, as the vibrations that Choi Hong-man was creating had soon shaken the room, around them.
Choi Hong-man focused all his energy on his right leg, ready to deal a fatal strike.
He was confident that he could shatter the thickest walls in the world with one kick, let alone a scrawny man like Levi Garrison!
Levi has become dead meat…
Seth had lost all hope.
He's too strong!
Simply too strong!
He's a one-man army!
No wonder he's the best fighter in Keerea! He's like a battle-weathered sword!
No wonder everyone calls him a 'human-sized weapon'!
Levi stood rooted to the ground, as though he was frightened out of his wits as well.
However, just seconds before Choi Hong-man's leg made contact with his head, his fist flew out like a released spring.
He punched Choi Hong-man squarely in the leg, creating a deafening boom that had almost caused everyone's eardrums to burst.
There's no way that Levi has survived that…
However, much to everyone's surprise, Choi Hong-man was launched into the air, as though he had been rammed into, by a car. His right leg was bent at a weird angle.
Choi Hong-man's body reduced a dozen tables into dust and shattered the glass door, yet his momentum did not diminish by a single bit.
He flew outwards for another few seconds and crashed through the railings of the second floor, hurtling towards the first floor.
Meanwhile, Lauren and Lee Jung-jin walked in, side-by-side towards the first-floor lobby.
"What do you think Choi Hong-man is planning to do to Levi, honey?" Lauren asked with a wide smile.
Lee Jung-jin scoffed. "That man is a beast! There is simply no way that Levi Garrison could survive all of that!"
"That's great!" Lauren chirped happily.
Levi's arrogant attitude had angered her immensely, and she was more than willing when it came to witnessing Levi getting himself crushed by Choi Hong-man.
"Alright! I think it's about time we head back."
The two of them returned to the meeting room, only to be greeted by a loud crash.
"W-what's that?" Lee Jung-jin exclaimed in terror.
A huge figure plummeted down from the second floor…
Lauren froze in her tracks and Lee Jung-jin started to tremble in fear.
Crash!
The figure landed heavily, with a thud, making the ground shake as though an earthquake had just occurred.
Choi Hong-man's body spasmed, as he frothed at the mouth, spewing out a mixture of blood and teeth all over his face.
"W-what in the world is going on?" Lauren stammered.
"Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Did a person just fly out?" Lee Jung-jin asked perplexedly, seeming as though he had been utterly confused.
"Let's go in and take a look!" Lauren exclaimed, setting off into a run.
"Yeah! Maybe it's Levi!" Lee Jung-jin added.
Soon, they arrived at the spot where the person had landed, only to see Choi Hong-man having a seizure on the ground.
"What?" they exclaimed in unison. "Choi…Hong-man? Why are you here? Where is Levi Garrison?"
The two of them stared at Choi Hong-man, dumbfounded.
This is outrageous!
After a while, Choi Hong-man stopped moving completely. It was almost as though his soul had left his body.
Why would a champion fighter get thrown out of his arena so easily?
How did he end up on the first floor?
How is this even possible?
"T-T-This…" Lee Jung-jin was at a loss for words.
He would never be able to forget the scene that he had just witnessed.
As a Keerean, he knew just how strong Choi Hong-man was.
To Keereans, Choi Hong-man was an undefeatable force, with rumors stating that his body was immune to all types of weapons.
Once, he had managed to wipe out an entire cult, despite being shot in the chest seven times.
The bullets had merely pierced through his skin, leaving both his organs and bones unharmed.
His body was impenetrable!
What in the world happened just now?
This is unbelievable!
"What are you waiting for? Send him to the hospital!" Lee Jung-jin screeched.
"I'm going to find Levi Garrison!" Lauren yelled back, as she bounded up the stairs.
To her horror, there was no one in the meeting room.
Levi was long gone!
"I'm certain that someone from Morris Group had swooped in to save him!" Lauren muttered to herself in anguish. "Who could be stronger than Choi Hong-man?"
Meanwhile, in South City, Park Cheon-shin received a call from his nephew Lee Jung-jin.
"Huh? What happened?" Park Cheon-shin exclaimed, dumbfounded.
"Levi Garrison beat Choi Hong-man up… He's in the hospital now, and we don't know if he'll survive…" Lee Jung-jin stammered nervously.
Park Cheon-shin's phone fell to the ground with a loud thud, as he stared off into the distance, with a shocked look upon his face.
"What's wrong? Were you actually convinced that Choi Hong-man was undefeatable?" Lee Jae-shik asked calmly as he sipped on his tea.
Park Cheon-shin glanced at him in disbelief. "Did you see this coming, Master?"
"Of course I did!" Lee Jae-shik answered. "Even a random security guard from Morris Group can defeat Lee Da-yong and Lee Da-jong. What makes you think that Choi Hong-man is any stronger?"
"Are you sure, Master?" Park Cheon-shin asked.
"Haha! Only strong ones are worthy of my attention! It'll be pretty disappointing if Choi Hong-man had wiped him out with one strike," Lee Jae-shik announced, smiling.
Park Cheon-shin grinned as well. "I should ask them about the negotiations!"
Taking out his phone, he soon began to dial a string of numbers.
"What? You're only giving us five days' time?" Park Cheon-shin yelled, with his fists clenched.
After hanging up, he relayed Levi's three warnings to Lee Jae-shik.
Lee Jae-shik slammed his palm against the table. "How dare they threaten to kick us out of Erudia? It's simply ridiculous!"
"Master, please calm down!" Park Cheon-shin pleaded. "We need your help!"
"Of course I'll help you!" Lee Jae-shik exclaimed, his eyes alight with a furious flame.
All three of his disciples had been beaten up, becoming utterly humiliated, and he could no longer tolerate it.
"Master, my nephew's wedding is in five days' time," Park Cheon-shin reminded him. "Can we settle this after his wedding?"
"I would also like to invite you to his wedding, Master. I'm sure that it'll make the wedding unforgettable for everyone there!" Park Cheon-shin pleaded.
"Of course! We'll head straight to North Hampton after the wedding to settle the score with Morris Group!"
Lee Jung-jin relayed the message to Lauren immediately after he had received it.
"What? Master Lee is going to attend our wedding?" Lauren exclaimed excitedly, her gloominess from earlier completely gone.
"My uncle told me to focus on the wedding and to ignore Morris Group for the time being!" Lee Jung-jin relayed. "We need to get the media's attention too!"
The wedding was not just a wedding- It was a publicity stunt by Triple Group.
Soon, news of their wedding spread to every corner of North Hampton, with headlines such as, 'The General Manager of Triple Group Erudia Branch, Lauren Fletcher, To Get Married To The Nephew of The Chief Manager of Triple Group Erudia Branch, At Bayfront Manor In Five Days' Time', taking over the front page of every local newspaper.
In addition to that, the residents of North Hampton were shocked to find out that the renowned master of Taekwondo, Lee Jae-shik, also known as the chief instructor of the Keerean Army, was going to be one of the witnesses at the wedding.
The news shook everyone in North Hampton, along with the entire Quebec region to its core.
The public had been eyeing the wedding for a long time, but they had not expected someone as well-known as Lee Jae-shik to grace the wedding with his presence.
The sheer publicity the wedding was getting was unbelievable.
Everyone looked forward to the day of the wedding with much excitement.
Meanwhile, in the Fletcher family mansion…
"That's amazing! We should thank the Gods for this!" Isaac Fletcher exclaimed in high spirits.
Lauren's grandfather Jenson hobbled over on his walking stick, trembling in excitement. "What? Master Lee is going to attend the wedding as well?"
"That's right, Dad!" Isaac announced, his voice trembling. "His presence is worth more than any other celebrity! Only someone like Benny Quinton will be able to compare to him!"
He respected a foreigner more than his own countrymen.
"Hahaha! We truly have been blessed by God!" Jenson exclaimed, with a hearty laugh as he gazed at Lauren lovingly.
"That's right!" Sam affirmed as happy tears rolled down her face. "My daughter has become a general manager and is now getting married to a Keerean. Furthermore, a well-respected Master is attending her wedding too! I'm so happy for you, Lauren!"
"Wow, imagine what would have happened if she had chosen to marry Levi instead…" Isaac sighed.
"That would be terrible! That scumbag doesn't deserve my granddaughter!" Jenson growled out loud.
When Levi chose to marry Zoey all those years back, Jenson had taken it upon himself to beg, in front of Joseph Garrison, only to be humiliated by the entire Garrison family.
He would never forget the shame that he had felt that day.
"Before I forget, please ensure that you have invited Joseph Garrison to the wedding! I need him to know what my granddaughter deserves!" Jenson added.
I need to get my revenge!
"Of course! I'll pay a visit to the Garrison family right now!" Isaac agreed, as he got into his car and made his way to the Garrison family's home.
The Garrison family had lost all of their assets to Levi, all except the house they had stayed in.
They were basically a bunch of forgotten souls.
The luxury cars that had used to line their yard were all gone, now replaced by motorcycles and a Mercedes Benz.
Isaac felt thoroughly refreshed, looking at such a gloomy sight.
Oh, how the tables have turned!
Don't you remember how you had used to humiliate us as though we were your slaves?
Everything is different now!
You've fallen from grace, while the Fletchers have risen up to the top!
Isaac laughed at the thought of that.
Doesn't it sound ridiculous?
"Hm? Isaac? Why are you here?" a voice ran out.
Isaac looked up to see Levi's adoptive parents, Ben and Winnie, walking towards him with confused expressions on their faces.
They approached him with much trepidation.
"Where's Joseph Garrison?" Isaac scoffed, with his hands in his pockets.
He could not bear to look at Joseph in the eyes for the longest time, but everything was different now.
He no longer saw Joseph Garrison as a threat.
Soon, the entire Garrison family gathered themselves in the yard.
"What's wrong, Mr. Fletcher?" Joseph asked apprehensively.
Ever since their reputation had gone down the drain, the Garrison family's self-confidence had spiraled downhill.
Joseph kept his head down as much as possible, as a result.
"I'm here to announce that my daughter's wedding is in five days' time! All of you must ensure that you are present on that day!" Isaac ordered.
"Congratulations! We'll definitely be there! Thank you for the invite," Joseph thanked with a smile.
Isaac's grin grew wider. "Do you know how capable my daughter is? Her year-end bonuses, as the general manager of the Erudia Branch of Triple Group, could be as high as two hundred million! Her fiancé is a member of the Lee family, the founders of Triple Group! He holds at least ten billion worth of shares! Even you couldn't compare to them at your peak!"
"That's amazing!" Joseph exclaimed. "Ms. Lauren is a genius!"
"Glad to see that you've acknowledged it!" Isaac proclaimed smugly as he glanced at the other members of the Garrison family. "Don't you remember how arrogant you had looked when we had begged you not to void the marriage agreement?"
Joseph could feel his cheeks heating up in shame.
He's striking back…
"Oh, by the way, didn't you say that Levi deserves better than my daughter? Look what has happened since then! Hahaha!" Isaac continued forth with a laugh.
However, his smile melted off his face swiftly, as he had yet to receive an answer from the Garrisons.
They had been replying enthusiastically to his every statement, yet they fell silent the moment he had mentioned Levi.
Their faces began to darken as they glared at Isaac.
Isaac began to get annoyed. "What? Are you still skeptical of my daughter?"
Ben and Winnie exchanged looks and nodded. "That's right! Levi deserves better!" they cried out in unison.
The others remained silent, but their stand was clear.
Lauren Fletcher is no match for Levi!
He's the God of War, for goodness' sake!
Your daughter doesn't deserve a man like him!
Isaac flew into a rage the moment he had heard those words.
"What makes you think that Levi is better than my daughter?" he demanded, jabbing his finger into Ben's face. "So what if he had used to be a tycoon in the city? My daughter leads the Triple Group! Don't you know how powerful Triple Group is? Don't you know who my daughter is getting married to? Levi Garrison is nothing compared to my daughter, and that's a hard fact!"
"Hahaha!" Ben jeered. "Oh, Isaac, why are you so proud of the fact that your daughter is getting married to a foreigner, and is sucking up to foreign executives? Is it really something to boast about? Besides, it doesn't matter what position she holds in her company. She'll never be good enough for my son," he added with a cold grin.
"That's right! What's there to be proud of, about working for a Keerean company? Dream on!"
The crowd buzzed around Isaac, as they continued to hurl insults at him.
Despite all the despicable things that they had done, along with the questionable morals that some of the members had, the Garrisons were die-hard patriots.
They did not see marrying a Keerean as something to be proud of.
Isaac, on the other hand, stomped his foot in anger.
"How dare you! Things are different now! Stop being so arrogant!" he hollered.
"Isaac, we're more than happy to be able to attend your daughter's wedding," Ben announced. "However, Levi can't be there. You'll regret it if he shows up."
"That's right!" Winnie agreed. "You'll be the one who will come to regret your actions, rather than him!"
"He'll outshine everyone at the wedding! He'll make your entire family regret everything!" Joseph added.
However, Isaac refused to believe them.
"I don't care! He'd better show up at the wedding!" he yelled. "Just how is he going to outshine my future son-in-law?"
He did not believe in superstitions or prophecies.
After he had departed, Ben sighed and muttered, "What an idiot! He's making the same mistakes as we had!"
That night, at Bayview Garden…
"Levi, look! The girl that you had gotten set up with is getting married to that handsome Keerean boy!" Zoey exclaimed with a smile.
"I know that. Everyone's talking about it," Levi announced, with a slight hint of annoyance in his voice.
"Are you regretting everything now? Lauren's so pretty and talented!" Zoey asked, staring into his eyes.
"Since when did you learn how to get on my nerves?" Levi quipped as he reached out to tickle her.
Zoey evaded his tickle attacks and pleaded for mercy. "I'm sorry, darling! By the way, did you get an invite to her wedding?"
"That's right. I've already confirmed our attendance," he answered.
Zoey clenched her fists. "We need to take this seriously. I'll buy you a set of clothes tomorrow."
"There's no need for that!" Levi uttered with a smile. "I already have the perfect outfit for the occasion."
He had decided to show up at Lauren's wedding, donning his God of War attire.
"That's great!" Zoey exclaimed, nodding profusely. "I think that I'll decide to stay out of this. The Fletchers aren't particularly fond of me."
"Haha!" Levi laughed. "She's like a sister to me. She's not someone whom I'll marry."
Zoey grinned. "Oh, darling, you're so ignorant! She doesn't see you as a big brother! Why don't you make it up to her with a gift? Here, take this!"
She handed him a credit card, earning her a few affectionate head rubs from Levi.
Only Zoey could be this kind…
Any other woman would have barred me from attending any wedding, let alone the wedding of someone whom my parents had set me up with, all those years ago!
I won't even receive an allowance to buy gifts with!
Levi smiled. "Why didn't I think of that? Thanks for the money! I'll make sure to buy the best gift that I can find."
Afterward, he told Azure Dragon to prepare a gift for Lauren at the wedding.
Meanwhile, Triple Group began to infiltrate every sector of the North Hampton economy, prior to the wedding so as to wriggle their way back into the market.
The wedding was nothing more than a tool to establish their footing in North Hampton.
Everything that they had been doing was nothing more than the prelude to absolute control!
On the other hand, Levi told his forces to hold still and leave them alone.
Four days passed in a blink, and it was soon the day before Lauren and Lee Jung-jin's wedding.
The Fletcher family was ready for the wedding, and Bayfront Manor was transformed into a wedding venue.
"I bet that no one would want to miss out on my daughter's wedding!" Isaac joked, with a proud laugh. "Take a seat, everyone!"
"You'll officially belong to the Lee family tomorrow, Lauren," Jenson congratulated her happily. "You're making us proud!"
The Fletchers beamed at one another.
Meanwhile, Lauren stood before the mirror, trying out gown after gown as she tried to pick one that would bring out her beauty the most.
I'll be the star of the show tomorrow!
I'll show them how irreplaceable I truly am!
I'll make them regret every insult that they've uttered!
"Who would you like to see the most tomorrow, Lauren?" Sam asked.
"Levi Garrison!" Lauren answered, a cold glint flashing across her eyes.
The Fletchers knew how hurt Lauren had been when Levi had chosen Zoey over her, hence, her love for him had turned into hatred, as time went by.
She despised him.
She told herself that she would work hard to outshine everyone, in order to prove herself worthy.
She had been waiting for the day where she would rise above Zoey and Levi and be able to look down upon them.
I'll make him regret everything!
I'll walk down the aisle with a man a hundred times better than you right before your eyes!
You don't deserve to be my husband!
Just you wait!
Lauren wished that time could pass faster.
She longed to see the looks of remorse on Levi's and his family members' faces.
The Fletchers continued their lighthearted banter as Jenson turned on the TV.
"According to an overseas sources, a necklace named the 'Love of the World' was sold at an auction for eight hundred million. The buyer was rumored to be an Erudian, as the necklace is currently being shipped towards Erudia."
"I heard that the necklace is used as a wedding gift! It's represented pure and innocent love for centuries. I wonder which lucky Erudian bride it's going to?"
The news piqued the interest of the Fletchers, particularly Lauren.
Lee Jung-jin had prepared a limited edition necklace, as a token of love, which had cost him millions.
All her friends had been awestruck by its beauty.


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ESPN has a final tally of the number of people who watched the University of Montana Griz upset the No. 1 ranked North Dakota State Bison last Saturday and, according to ESPN, nearly a million people were watching.
"The game drew a very respectable .7 household rating, which is about 981,000 viewers according to ESPN," said Assistant Sports Information Director Eric Tabor. The same game from a year ago between Eastern Washington and Sam Houston State drew only a .5 rating, so a little bit of an interesting comparision there."
Even with the NFL Preseason and a big boxing match on the same day, The Griz managed to get a lot more views than expected and ended up as the fourth most watched sports program that Saturday, even though the game wasn't broadcast during prime-time.
"It's very good news for Grizzly Athletics and, more importantly, it's good news for the institution as a whole. It's not often that a school like the University of Montana gets placed on the national like that and you couldn't ask for a better result. You couldn't have written a better story line. I'm hoping that someday someone makes a movie about this game."
Even with all of the drama and viewership, the Griz still didn't beat their all-time highest viewership, which was the 2009 Griz vs. Applachian State semi-final game. That game was seen by 1, 857, 000 people, but also had the benefit of being shown late in the season and during prime-time.


NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the validity of the Article 35-A today. The Valley has been under shutdown since Sunday in support of Article 35A that guarantees special privileges to the state.
The top court is hearing a batch of petitions in the matter, including the one filed by an NGO 'We the Citizens', which has links with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), seeking revoking of the article.
Amarnath Yatra has been suspended as a precautionary measure. Hundreds of pilgrims camping in Jammu to join the yatra to the 3,880 metre high holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir were not allowed from the Bhagwati Nagar base camp Sunday morning, the officials said.
On Sunday, the Valley saw peaceful protests in support of Article 35-A that bars people from outside Jammu and Kashmir to acquire any immovable property in the state.


Oracle likes to talk about "engineering together" its formidable database, middleware and business applications software directly into its data center hardware.
But it looks now as if it's not going to be engineering anymore into the former Sun Microsystems chips and machines it has owned for the last six years.
Oracle is in the process of laying off about 1,800 employees, mostly from the hardware business that was Sun, which was acquired for $7.4 billion in 2010. The long-running high-end chips business and its correlated Unix-based Solaris operating system both appear to be headed for the Computer Tech Museum, since neither has been profitable for Larry Ellison's mothership.
Reports originated by the San Jose Mercury News and The Layoff, an online source for IT business layoff new, said Jan. 23 that Oracle is laying off approximately 450 employees in its Santa Clara-based SPARC hardware systems division and that about 1,800 employees companywide are being asked to leave.
The majority of those being let go are hardware and Sun-based software developers, although some of them are in management and staff positions.
"The Santa Clara facility is not closing as part of this reduction in force," an Oracle spokeswoman said in a media advisory. "Rather, Oracle is refocusing its Hardware Systems business, and for that reason, has decided to lay off certain of its employees in the Hardware Systems Division."
The Mercury News reported that rumors had been spreading for some time that SPARC and its Unix operating system Solaris were on the way out since Oracle made cloud services its No. 1 business four years ago. Since then, the company's cloud-based revenue has risen as hardware sales have fallen.
Six months ago, Oracle revealed its new SPARC S7 processor would be offered as an Oracle cloud computing service. Thus the writing was on the wall for enterprises that utilize SPARC chips in their servers that a phase-out was imminent.
Oracle's hardware revenue fell 13 percent quarter to quarter in its last earnings report. Licensing for on-premises software also had dropped by 20 percent, leaving cloud as the most promising section of its business. Cloud revenue has risen for 12 straight quarters.
CEO Mark Hurd claimed on Dec. 15 Oracle passed Salesforce.com to become the No. 1 provider of software-as-a-service cloud applications sales to companies with more than 1,000 employees.


I wonder if some of my new "followers" who have a decidedly reactionary tone to their blogs read my bio before "liking" this blog. Or are they simply trolls trying to "clean" up WordPress to conform to their narrow minded viewpoints? I may like individual posts, but I always look at the entire blog to see if it is something I support, and not a satirical rant. Look, before you click.
If you are new, please share what attracted you to my blog. Inquiring minds want to know.
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Hey y'all and welcome to week 2 of your CSA. We hope everyone enjoyed the first box of produce for the season. We received some great feedback from everyone cooking delicious meals and prepping vegetables last week.
We are hiring!! If you know of anyone that may be interested in working on our farm, please tell them to email us at twodogfarmsllc@gmail.com. Job description includes harvesting, cleaning, and packing vegetables. Experience isn't necessary, but a hard working attitude and eagerness to learn is definitely appreciated!
We are in a state of transition right now. We just recently bought a shipping container, divided it in half, cut doors into the side, and then sprayed the inside with an insulating foam. We are planning to turn it into a cooler using a Cool-bot. This is a really unique gadget that tricks a window unit into thinking it is blowing 65 degree air, when really it is blowing mid 30-40 degree air! Salad Days has used one for a couple years now with great success, as have many other farmers that we follow. One side will strictly be 30-40 degrees for produce and the other side will be in the upper 60s to store tomatoes, watermelons, boxes, and other misc. things. Van said he may even put a desk in that side! Makes sense to me! It will be really nice to have this project finished and get back some organization.
1. Red Radishes- This variety is called Sora. It is a very crisp radish that would make a great addition to any salad or slaw.
2. Scarlet Turnips- Beautiful in color with large stalks and greens.
4. Collards- A southern tradition, but click the link below to find 13 new ways to try collards.
5. Green Leaf Lettuce- This variety is called Salad Bowl, a delicate, lime-green oak leaf variety. A very tender lettuce that makes for a delicious and delicate salad.
6. Spring Onions- Sweeter than your regular onion, and greens carry an intense flavor. Can be used many ways raw or such as grilling and roasting whole.
8. Napa Cabbage- Light green leaves with white prominent veins. Can be used in stir fries, raw in slaws. Makes great cabbage rolls and great Kimchi, a traditional fermented Korean side dish.


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Suspect in Custody After At Least 7 Killed in Shootings in Northern California
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Seven people were killed in two related shootings Monday at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm in a coastal community south of San Francisco, and a suspect was in custody, officials said.
San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine says four people were killed at the farm and three at the trucking business on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a city about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of San Francisco.
It wasn't immediately clear how the locations were connected.
California state Sen. Josh Becker, who represents the area, said people were killed in separate shootings. San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa tweeted that one shooting happened at a mushroom farm.
The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office tweeted just before 5 p.m. that a suspect was in custody.
"There is no ongoing threat to the community at this time," the sheriff's office said.
Television footage from the area showed officers taking a man into custody without incident.
Aerial television images also showed police officers collecting evidence from a farm with dozens of greenhouses.
The shooting followed the killing of 11 people late Saturday at a ballroom dance hall in Southern California.
"We are sickened by today's tragedy in Half Moon Bay," Dave Pine, president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, said in a statement. "We have not even had time to grieve for those lost in the terrible shooting in Monterey Park. Gun violence must stop."
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Rendered in dull grays instead of beige, "Ghostbox" by T+E+A+Mexamines the big-box store, using these massive, flat-footed shells as the setting for new species of public and private space. Building off their work at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, the designers envision a disused department store that's continually recycled and recombined to create everything from apartment dwellings to topographical, park-like landscapes. One of the show's most impressive models, it sits on a boulder-sized foam and concrete mass, revealing an ideal setting for a techno-dystopian food hall.
Keith Krumwiede's "Visions of a New America" offers a more directly satirical reconsideration of the suburban mansion. One side of a hallway is covered in wallpaper featuring an idyllic 19th-century riverbank landscape, lined with contemporary mansions but populated by top-hatted men on horseback. Across the hall, collage paintings show burly European peasants threshing wheat as an obscenely bloated McMansion looms.
"Visions of a New America" is one of an entire category of projects at the biennial that use collage and aggregation to tear down hierarchies and widen the circle of serious architectural consideration. This idea, of transparently re-appropriating architecture for use in other architecture, is itself outside the canon, as architects have historically dreaded admitting their ideas aren't only peerless products of singular genius.
This architecture-by-aggregation approach peaks in Andrew Kovacs'"Proposal for Collective Living II (Homage to Sir John Soane)." It's an architectural model composed of detritus picked up at the dollar store: rubber ducks, a spray bottle nozzle, a plastic cupcake, toy models of the St. Louis Arch. The exhibit is an outgrowth of Kovacs' work curating architectural "B-side" imagery on the Internet. "What's interesting to me about [B-sides] is that because they exist on the periphery, there's an opening to rethink what the limits of the discipline of architecture could be," Kovacs says.


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McKinney Boyd, McKinney and McKinney North combined to qualify seven wrestlers for the Class 5A and 6A state tournament.
The tournament takes place at the Berry Center in Cypress this Friday and Saturday.
North senior Austin Ruff won the 138 pounds weight class at the 5A Region III meet at Bryan High School. Christian Mendez (160) and Ruston Travis (152) qualified as well with third and fourth place efforts.
McKinney's Andrew Corona took second in his weight class of 220 pounds and is headed to state.
Lionette Hannah Burlingame secured fourth place (165) to qualify.
Adam Maestas (113) and Collin McCoy (195) both took second for Boyd at the 6A Region II meet at Allen High School.
Check back next week for results from state.


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India and Latvia (one of the three Baltic nations) have warm and friendly relations that are expanding steadily. Latvia became an independent nation in 1991 and was a part of the Soviet Union until 1991. It is a member of the EU, Eurozone, Schengen visa regime, and NATO.
Latvia has a population of around 2 million, a GDP of around Euro 35 billion,and total trade of Euro 37 billion (exports nearly half). With Baltic Sea on its western coast, Latvia's neighbours include Estonia, Lithuania, Russia and Belarus. With an area of around 65,000 sq km, Latvia is larger than some other EU members (including Belgium, Denmark and Netherlands). Latvia participates in the cooperation formats of Baltic Council of Ministers (3B) and Nordic-Baltic 8 (NB 8).
LEADERSHIP ENGAGEMENT
India recognized Latvia as a sovereign and independent State in 1991. Diplomatic relations were established shortly thereafter on 20 December 1991. Latvia opened an Embassy in New Delhi in 2014.
The Indian Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden is concurrently accredited to Latvia.
There have been a series of high-level visits and interactions between India and Latvia over the last three decades.
Most recently, Prime Ministers Modi and Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš interacted at the India EU Summit in a virtual format on 8 May 2021.
Latvia's President Guntis Ulmanis visited India in October 1997 at the invitation of President R KNarayanan. Vice President Hamid Ansari had met President Vjonisin Mongolia on the sidelines of the
11th ASEM Summit in July 2016. Prime Minister Māris Kučinskis visited India in November 2017when he met Prime Minister Modi. He attended 'World Food India 2017' event. President Raimonds Vjonisin and President Kovind had a brief interaction during President Kovind's visit to Zagreb in Croatia in March 2019. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu visited Latvia in August 2019. He met President Egils Levits and Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš. The then Lok Sabha Speaker Smt Sumitra Mahajan visited Latvia in 2018.
EAM Jaishankar and Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs had a telephone conversation in February 2021. FM Rinkēvičs participated in the 1st India Nordic Baltic Conclave (virtual format) in November 2020. Earlier during the year he participated at the 5th Raisina Dialogue and had met EAM on that occasion, besides a group interaction with PM Modi (January 2020). FM Rinkēvičs and EAM Jaishankar also met in New York during the sidelines of UNGA in Sep 2019. Then EAM Sushma Swaraj and FM Rinkēvičs met in New York on the sidelines of the UNGA in 2017. The then MOS (EA) MJ Akbar visited Latvia in 2017. Earlier FM Rinkēvičs met MoS(EA) Gen (Dr) V K Singh in Luxembourg in November 2015 on the sidelines of ASEM Foreign Ministers' meeting. Foreign Minister Artis Pabriks visited India in 2006 and Foreign Minister Rinkēvičs visited twice in 2013.
Some other high level visits include : From Latvia - Speaker of Saeima ingrīda ūdre (2003), Solvita Āboltiņa, Speaker of Saeima (2012), Deputy PM (2003), Minister of Culture (2007 and 2016), Minister of eGovernance (2007), Economics Minister (2010); and from India – Minister of Electronics &IT and Law & Justice (2016), MoS Health and Ayush (2016).
INVESTMENT, TECHNOLOGY AND TRADE LINKAGES
Latvia has made a rapid transition by privatising its industry. While Latvia was traditionally an agricultural economy with seafaring, fishing and forestry as other economic sectors, today its major economic sectors include chemicals (pharmaceuticals, recycling, eco-friendly chemicals & bio-cosmetics), transport &logistics and woodworking besides agriculture. Food processing & beverage, machinery manufacture, metal working, green technologies, life sciences and textiles. Manufacturing sector has now shifted from basic metals to electronics, machinery and equipment for medical, precision and optic instruments. High-tech electronics, IT and design are the other areas of success stories. 40% of energy requirement of Latvia is sourced from renewable energy (mainly biomass from woodworking sector and hydropower). Electricity generation is mostly from hydroelectric power. Latvia hosts the regional headquarters of several major multinationals including Maersk, Unilever, Michelin, Siemens and Nokia.
Latvia's location affords access to ice-free deep-water ports and good rail and road links act as a gateway for trade between east and west. Latvia's membership of the EU and Eurozone, good connectivity, highly educated workforce, low tax rates and SEZs are of interest for investors. Most adults know Russian, English and German in addition to Latvian. Potential areas of investment include pharmaceuticals and healthcare, telecommunications, IT and software development, heavy engineering and biotechnology.
India Latvia trade was worth around Euro 385 million in 2019-20 reflecting a 40% increase over the previous year. Indian exports were around Euro 120 million. Major Indian exports to Latvia included Plastics and articles thereof; rubber and articles thereof; Base metals and articles of base metals; Textiles and textile articles; Products of the chemical and allied industries; and Vegetable products etc. Major Indian imports from Latvia include Base metals and articles of base metals; Machinery and mechanical appliances; electrical equipment; Wood and articles of wood; Products of the chemical and allied industries; and Optical instruments and apparatus (inc. medical); clocks and watches; musical instruments etc.
Latvia participated in the India Europe 29 Business Forum in November 2019. Latvian companies including Latvia Mobile Telecom (LMT), SAF Tehnika (digital Microwave Data transmission equipment) and the Latvian Space Industry Association participated at the India Nordic Baltic Conclave (November 2020). ASSOCHAM and CII had concluded MOUs with counterpart Latvian Chamber of Commerce during the visit of Vice President to Latvia in 2019.
ICT, cyber security, agritech, food processing, pharmaceuticals, fisheries, waste management, hygiene are potential areas of collaboration.
The Latvian economy is expected to contract by nearly 6% in 2020 due to disruptions caused by COVID19.
BILATERAL INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION MECHANISMS
There are regular Foreign Office Consultations between India and Latvia. The 7th round was held in Riga in March 2019.
A new mechanism is the India-Nordic-Baltic Conclave, which held its first meeting in a virtual format in November 2020 under the theme 'An Innovation-driven Partnership for Growth in a New World'.
A number of agreements on cooperation in various fields have been signed. These include : Economic & Technical Cooperation (1995), Culture, Arts, Education, Science, Mass Media and Sports (1995), Air Services (1997), Commission on Trade, Economic, S&T & Culture (2001), Cultural Exchange Programme (2006), Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement (2010), Health (2012), Avoidance of Double Taxation and Tax Evasion (2013), Cultural Exchange (2019), and between Chambers of Commerce (2019).
ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL TIES
There is resonance for Yoga and Ayurveda in Latvia. University of Latvia established a 'Centre for Indian Studies and Culture' in 2013. The Centre organises Yoga and Hindi classes. The University, in collaboration with the Arya Vaidya Pharmacy, Coimbatore has been conducting a 3-month Diploma course in Introduction to Ayurveda since 2015. An Ayurveda Chair was established at the University of Latvia in Riga in 2018.
An MoU on research collaboration on Ayurvedic management of Type 2 diabetes was signed between the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) Ministry of Ayush and University of Latvia and Arya Vaidya Pharmacy, Baltics SIA Latvia in December 2020.
A Centre for Baltic Studies opened at the Dev Sanskriti Vishwa Vidyalaya in Haridwar in 2016. The University has signed co-operation Agreements with several universities in Latvia, including the Riga Technical University, University of Latvia and Turiba University. The University hosted an e-Global conference on 'India-Latvia : A Personal bonds' in November 2020.
Around 35 Latvians have availed of ITEC training slots in the last 12 years, mostly for the Audit and Parliamentary studies courses.
The Indian origin population in Latvia is estimated to be around 3,000. Many of them are in business and IT sectors. This includes nearly 2,000 Indian students studying mainly medicine and engineering in Latvia.
A bust of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled at the National Library during the visit of Vice President to Latvia in 2019. The two sides also signed Cultural Exchange Programme during the visit.
In March 2021, Latvian shooting team participated at the World Shooting Championship held in New Delhi. In April 2021, Indian women tennis team competed against Latvia in the Billie Jean King play offs in Jūrmala.
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Rude Awakenings:
Two Englishmen on Foot in Buddhism's Holy Land
By Ajahn Sucitto and Nick Scott
Published by Wisdom Publications
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In this excerpt, Nick and Ajahn are welcomed to India by beggars, taxi-drivers, and some very noisy wildlife.
CHAPTER 1 PILGRIM'S WAY
AJAHN SUCITTO "Chomp, chomp, chomp! Slurp!" Something devilish about that sound, a deliberately provocative assault on my meditation. When your eyes are closed and your mind turned inward, you feel the world should leave your unguarded hearing alone—it doesn't—let alone such lip smacking in the middle of the night on a New Delhi rooftop while I am seeking to contemplate higher things.
"Chomp, chomp! Slurp, slurp!" It must be just beside my left shoulder. A slow turn and opening of the eyes reveals only the brown-black murk of night sky, smoke, and dust; and a tree back beyond the roof whose branches extend overhead. In front of me beyond the parapet is the street, still half alive with a cycle-rickshaw driver rocking and aimlessly pirouetting his bike while chatting with someone squatting on the road; a few people on the pavement, children mostly, sleep in blankets; scraps of paper tumble spasmodically when the dull air rolls in its sleep. New Delhi's Chelmsford Road, at night, half lit with yellow sodium lights, lacks the energy of a full-blown hell. No, the sound again comes from behind and above: something dark hanging upside down under the tree—beating leathery wings and chomping. "Giant fruit bat," comments "Nick-Who-Knows."
Eating upside-down is anyway no more contrary than sitting and pacing on a roof in the moonlight. It depends on your perspective. For us this full moon night of November 2, 1990 is the uposatha night. In the time of the Buddha, the monastic community would sit up on these moon nights meditating until dawn. In the forest monasteries of Thailand and Britain, we still carry out this observance. Or attempt to. Having arrived in New Delhi only yesterday at two A.M. after a flight from Heathrow, we're jetlagged and in a time warp, but we might as well get used to it – disorientation is going to be a normal mind state for the next six months at least. If we survive. Our aim is to walk around the Buddhist holy places of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and then head for Kathmandu; avoid the main roads, wander across country living on alms food and whatever.
"I can arrange a car for you!" Ravi, an Indian guest at my home monastery, had exclaimed. "Bihar is very dangerous! Bandits, murderers – no one travels on foot in Bihar!" Or sleeps out in the open. However, Bihar and the eastern section of Uttar Pradesh were the "Middle Country," the land where the Buddha was enlightened and wandered teaching for forty-five years. After the death of the Buddha, the Middle Country—then called Magadha—prospered as the centre of the empire of the Buddhist monarch Ashoka (268-231 B.C.E.). Some of the stupas that he erected over portions of the Master's ashes still loom over the paddy fields of the Ganges plain. Even after his death and the dissolution of the empire, the wisdom of the Buddha continued to mould the culture: great Buddhist universities such as Nalanda, a light of learning unparalleled in the world in its time, arose in this region. And now? With a 26 percent literacy rate, there is some justification for Ravi's comment that: "Only the Buddha could have got enlightened in Bihar; the people are the stupidest in India."
Anyway, there was never any question in our minds but that we would be walking. We were going on a pilgrimage, not a sightseeing tour; so the logic was to walk and be absorbed into India as much as absorbing it. A pilgrimage has to be about surrendering oneself, to allow a new centre of being to develop. To realize, rather than to travel, is a pilgrim's aim and momentum.
It's difficult to keep that clear. Yesterday night as we were arriving above India in the tightly controlled space of a DC10, the fake detachment of soaring above it all had given me a last chance to recollect the pilgrimage in visionary terms. Below was the arena for spiritual development—the turmoil to be at peace with, the determined journey to no apparent destination. Then began the slow wheeling down from that lofty space. Soon I knew the mind would be wanting things to go "my" way, squabbling over petty inconveniences, hungering after trivia; according to Indian religious thought it was inevitable—forgetting one's higher nature is an essential part of the spiritual journey.
There was a thud of wheels, a slow turning and then the clank of the stairs connecting to the hull. The midnight transit through customs offered a last moment to step back and cast a cool eye on circumstance. Then, with a friendly nod from a Sikh customs man, we were in and moving.
NICK It was when we got outside the airport building that we really knew we were in India: we were immediately in a crowd being hassled by taxi drivers, beggars, and young men promoting different hotels; it was warm although it was midnight; and there was that distinctive urban Indian smell, somewhere between spices, incense, and stale urine. Following advice we had been given by a friend, we escaped our assailants, skirted the yellow ambassador taxis and the shiny airport coaches, looking for the cheap option, the ex-servicemen's bus into New Delhi.
There were four of them, battered oblong metal boxes standing side by side in the gloom some way off from the terminal. As we got close, we could tell which was going first by the two passengers and two crew sitting inside in the darkness. Looking closely into the others, as we passed, I could see they too had crews, but huddled asleep under blankets. We clambered aboard; inside there were two rows of simple metal seats with the minimum of padding between red plastic covers and the hardness of their bases, there was no door for the passenger doorway, half the cover for the oily engine was missing and no glass in the side windows.
The excitement of arriving and the nostalgia of being back in India made everything seem romantic. We shuddered along looking out on a country neither of us had seen for fifteen years; the empty streets bathed in the light of the moon giving our passage an extra sense of magic. Every so often the bus would shudder to a stop in the middle of nowhere to let strange characters get on or off: a fat man struggling down the steps with an impossible bundle and boxes tied up in string, or an old lady arising out of the shadows with a shopping bag. Each time a cry of "Chalo" (let's go) from the conductor would set the bus off again like a spooked cow. Eventually it was our turn. The bus stopped and the conductor cried out, "Connaught Circus." We clambered down with our bags to the pavement and with another "Chalo" it was our turn to be strange characters exiting into the night.
Bhikkhu Ajahn Sucitto is abbot of Cittivaveka, Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, and has published several books of his teachings. Dr. Nick Scott is a plant ecologist living in England. He now also teaches meditation retreats.
From Rude Awakenings by Ajahn Sucitto and Nick Scott; (c) 2006. Reprinted by arrangement with Wisdom Publications, Inc., www.wisdompubs.org
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WM Updates Sustainability Status
January 9, 2015 | USA, Houston TX
A Waste Management slow-fill facility for one of its CNG-fuelled fleets.
Waste Management, based in Houston, Texas, a leading provider of comprehensive waste management services in North America, has released its 2014 Sustainability Report, titled "Creating a Circular Economy," which documents the company's progress on recycling, energy production, transforming waste into valuable resources and helping businesses move toward zero waste.
"As our customers have become more focused on waste reduction, so have we," said David Steiner, Waste Management president and CEO. "By finding new ways of extracting value from the materials we manage, we're making advancements toward our long-term business strategy, and helping others do the same."
"We believe we can reuse materials in a 'circular economy' that operates as a true closed-loop system, where little is wasted. There's a lot of work ahead to make this vision a reality, but we're committed for the long run because we see the potential to radically transform the way we all define — and interact with — waste," continued Steiner.
In its latest Sustainability Report, Waste Management lists amongst its many achievements the ongoing lowering of emissions: By the end of 2014, Waste Management will operate over 70 natural gas fueling stations to power its growing fleet of alternative fuel trucks, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The company currently operates more than 3,500 of these vehicles, the largest fleet of its kind in North America.
Natural Gas Vehicle Milestones:
Waste Management set a goal of reducing total fleet carbon dioxide emissions by 15 percent below 2007 levels by 2020; it achieved fleet CO2e emissions of 18 percent below 2007 levels in 2013.
With more than 3,000 natural gas collection trucks on the roads in North America, Waste Management has the largest fleet of vocational heavy-duty natural gas trucks in the United States. Fleet expansion continues — more than 90 percent of the trucks purchased in 2013 had natural gas engines.
Replacement of an old diesel truck (2006 or older) with new natural gas truck reduces diesel fuel use by an average of 8,000 gallons per year and greenhouse gas emissions by about 22 metric tons per year (the equivalent of a 21 percent emissions reduction per truck).
Natural gas fueled trucks are also quieter than diesel and cut smog-producing nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 50 percent compared to the cleanest diesel trucks.
(Source: Waste Management)
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Death notices: Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014
Geraldine Long Bailey, 75, of Pensacola died Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Services: 8:30 a.m. Thursday at Heirs of the Kingdom Church. Joe Morris & Son Funeral Home is directing.
Johnnie Ray Carroll, 82, of Pensacola died Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. Visitation: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4 at Trahan Family Funeral Home until services begin at 11 a.m.
Lydia Ann Cline, 48, of Gulf Breeze died Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. Lewis Funeral Home in Navarre is handling arrangements.
Vera Lee "Huggins" Davidson, 85, of Panama City died Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. Visitation: 10 a.m. Thursday at Petty-Eastside Chapel Funeral Home in Atmore, Ala., until services begin at noon.
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Joseph Claude Dortch, 56, formerly of Pensacola, died Friday, Oct. 24, 2014. Services: 10 a.m. Friday at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church of Crestview. Joe Morris & Son Funeral Home is directing.
Emma Webb Ellis, 76, of Pensacola died Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014. Services: 1 p.m. Friday at Englewood Baptist Church. Joe Morris & Son Funeral Home is directing.
Tamara Lyn Hansen, 51, of Pensacola died Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. Memorial services: 2 p.m. Thursday at Chapel of Olive Baptist Church. Harper-Morris Memorial Chapel is directing.
Patricia A. Helms, 67, of Pace died Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. Visitation: 1 p.m. Saturday at Trahan Family Funeral Home until memorial services begin at 3 p.m.
Delbert George Lewis, 71, of Pensacola died Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014. Visitation: 1 p.m. Thursday at Faith Chapel Funeral Home South until services begin at 2 p.m.
Homer Brunson "Catfish" Little, 92, of Milton died Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014. Visitation: 6 to 8 tonight at First Apostolic Church in Milton. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church. Trahan Family Funeral Home is directing.
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Ellen Elizabeth Poynter, 90, of Pensacola died Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. Memorial services: 1 p.m. Thursday at St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church. Harper-Morris Memorial Chapel is directing.
Velma R. Sellers, 72, of Milton died Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014. Visitation: 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Lewis Funeral Home in Milton until services begin at 1:30 p.m.
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Timothy B. Skinner, 79, of Navarre died Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. Trahan Family Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Geneva Bagwell Strickland, 85, of Milton died Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. Visitation: Noon Thursday at East Side Baptist Church in Milton until services begin at 2 p.m. Trahan Family Funeral Home is directing.
Natalie Marie Tolbert, 26, of Navarre died Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. Visitation: 11 a.m. Wednesday at The Harbor of Holley Assembly of God Church until services begin at noon. Lewis Funeral Home in Navarre is directing.
William Wesley Vaughan, 92, of Pensacola died Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014. Visitation: 11:30 a.m. today at Faith Chapel Funeral Home South until services begin at 12:30 p.m.


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Son of Somerset Files
Project by Elizabeth Hagale
Elizabeth Hagale
Alabama, United States • Series • Sci-Fi, Transmedia
After inheriting a treasure trove of UFO research from her estranged grandfather, a young woman documents her investigation into the mysteries that lie therein with some help from an amateur ufologist.
by Elizabeth Hagale
Transmedia narrative is a new and exciting form of storytelling, and what better subject matter is there than extraterrestrial life and close encounters? Don't answer that. I studied this form of storytelling as my final project as a Media and Film Studies major at Birmingham-Southern College, and that experience will hopefully help me make this series all it can be and more. Son of Somerset Files is shaping up to be an intriguing look at one woman's search for the truth - both in her family history as well as to what is out there. This webseries will follow Chloe's investigation through vlogs, tweets, Tumblr posts, and Instagram pictures, and everyone will be invited to come along on the bumpy ride!
A shoutout on Twitter from our very own Chloe (@sonofsomerset)!
The incentives above, plus a personalized UFO doodle or your very own forged photographic evidence of a close encounter! For the latter, please provide us with a photo you've taken yourself. One of a kind!
The incentives above, plus a credit in the Special Thanks with a link to your profile of choice (or not, it's cool)!
Woah, jumping ahead a bit! At this level, you get all of the incentives above, PLUS some behind-the-scenes footage from the set. Of course, mums the word for some of the secrets that might be revealed!
All of the incentives above, plus a small "role" in the series...online, of course. You can personally interact with Chloe during a specific scenario on either Facebook, Twitter or YouTube comments. You decide!
All of the incentives above, plus an Associate Producer credit!
All of the above incentives (excluding that for $200 or more), plus a Producer credit!
It's kind of hard to work with people when they can't teleport. And this isn't that kind of sci-fi.
Prop Package
Help us develop the photos for the Son of Somerset Files!
$20 to go
costs $50
We'd like to pay our lovely DP!
Our lead actress will have a lot of screen time, and hopefully just as much payment!
It'd be nice if our lead actor got some compensation as well.
Well, more like actors. This will cover any fees for supporting actors!
We'd like to retroactively pay some excellent actors for their work.
Paying the director! Would be nice.
Craft Services Food
Food. Ya gotta have it.
Sometimes we might need some funding for set dressing. But not the ranch kind.
Elizabeth Hagale (Director/Writer) lives in Huntsville, AL, and is a recent graduate of Birmingham-Southern College. She already has a few stellar music videos under her belt and is itching to produce this webseries.
Jay Burleson (Director of Photography) is an indpendent filmmaker from Alabama. His work has screened in North America, Sweden, and Canada. His first feature film won the Audience Choice Award at the Southern Shorts Film Festival in Athens, AL. He currently has two feature films in post production.
Chelsea Moquin (Script Editor) was born and raised in Huntsville, AL, where she lived until she moved to Georgia to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design. She graduated with a degree in Dramatic Writing and moved to Brooklyn in order to follow her dream of writing for television.
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Q: Django concatenate two querysets for same model I have a list of Products, each belonging to a different Distributor.
I need to display a form for each of those products and their corresponding distributor. I can do so with this code:
form_products = ProductFormSet(
    queryset = Product.objects.filter(product__id=product_id)
)

The problem is that I need to display the form with the product belonging to a particular Distributor named "FirstDistributor" first in the page.
I tried to do so with the following code using the | operator between the querysets:
form_products = ProductFormSet(
    queryset=(
        Product.objects.filter(
            product__id=product_id,
            distributor__name='FirstDistributor') |
        Product.objects.filter(
            product__id=product_id
        ).exclude(distributor__name='FirstDistributor')
    )
)

But the forms are still displayed in the same order. How can I concatenate those two querysets into one, while keeping the same order?
q1 = Product.objects.filter(product__id=product_id,
    distributor__name='FirstDistributor')

and
q2 = Product.objects.filter(product__id=product_id
    ).exclude(distributor__name='FirstDistributor')

Thanks!

A: You can try to do it like here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/2176471/4971083
It's the solution for ordering your records by specific value in Django.
You could order your records by distributor_name = 'FirstDistributor'
p= Product.objects.filter(product__id=product_id).extra(
select={'is_top': " distributor__name='FirstDistributor'"})
p = p.extra(order_by = ['-is_top'])

A: You can use itertools to combine the two:
from itertools import chain
result_list = list(chain(page_list, article_list, post_list))

Source:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/434755/3279262

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HomeTechnologyVibrational waves have power to transform medical, auto, IoT industries: report
Jun. 18, 2018 at 2:35 pm
Vibrational waves have power to transform medical, auto, IoT industries: report
Tim Hinchliffe 1 year ago 1 commentelectricityiotphysicsresearchsacred geometryvibration
Research by a UK-led team of physicists into nano-scale vibrational waves suggests that modern technology related to electricity and heating may be radically transformed in the near future.
With a power that could bring transformational advances in the design and development of a new generation of advanced materials, such as thermoelectrics, the research published in Science magazine has the potential to be particularly effective in the automotive, medical, and Internet of Things (IoT) industries.
Thermoelectric materials are used in products that we rely on every day, capturing waste heat and recycling it into electricity, for example recovering heat that is generated when a car brakes to recharge its battery, or using body heat to power wearable health monitoring devices.
The research provides a novel, powerful way to study 'phonons' – the collective oscillation of the nuclei of atoms, which can be thought of as waves that control the way that heat or sound carry through materials.
The design of these new materials takes place quite literally one atom at a time, and thus requires powerful and versatile experimental techniques to probe how heat propagates through solids.
Professor Quentin Ramasse
"The technique we demonstrate has the potential to provide us with a deeper understanding into how small structural changes at the single atomic level can influence the performance of materials we use in our daily lives," said research leader Professor Quentin Ramasse in a statement.
"What may appear as very fundamental research on complex properties of matter such as phonon propagation, can have profound implications for industrial and societal benefit," he added.
The research was led by Professor Ramasse, Chair of Advanced Electron Microscopy at the University of Leeds and Director of SuperSTEM, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's (EPSRC) National Research Facility.
Located at STFC's Daresbury Laboratory, at Sci-Tech Daresbury, SuperSTEM's powerful electron microscopes can pinpoint and identify single atoms a million times smaller than a human hair.
Here, the research team have developed a new technique that enables them to probe the specific properties of phonons, in volumes of material up to 20 orders of magnitude smaller than any other technique in existence. This new approach could provide a way to study how phonons are affected locally, when microscopic amounts of different chemicals are added at the atomic level, which is often the case in the development of new materials.
Professor Susan Smith
"SuperSTEM is a world leading facility with an outstanding track record in supporting UK industry and academic research right here in the North West. Discoveries made using SuperSTEM will continue to lead to innovations that significantly benefit both society and our economy," said Professor Susan Smith, Head of STFC's Daresbury Laboratory, in the same statement to the press.
This research was carried out in collaboration with University of Oxford, the University of London's Royal Holloway, RMIT University (Australia) and industrial partner, Nion.
Everything is Vibration
Cymatic evidence that vibrational waves form patterns in nature
There once lived a man in Australia, Peter Davey, who claimed to be able to boil water using only vibration. He has since passed on, but his story was documented by local news stations.
If his project turns out to be true, it will coincide with the latest research out of the UK that uses vibrational waves for purposes of thermoelectricity.
Nikola Tesla, the father of wireless technology, once remarked:
Alpha waves in the human brain are between 6 and 8 hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between 6 and 8 hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain's alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between 6 and 8 hertz. Thus, our entire biological system – the brain and the earth itself – work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of humankind.
Everything in nature vibrates to a certain frequency, and there is evidence to suggest that vibration gives form to matter.
This is done through the study of cymatics where materials such as sand, salt, or fluids are placed over a speaker, and these materials begin to take on complex, geometrical forms depending on the frequency.
Through studying cymatics, one can find the origins of well-known shapes in geometry such as the flower of life lattice, the six-pointed "Star of David," the tetrahedron, and many forms that appear in nature like the pinecone or the wings of a dragonfly.
Check out the below video, but keep the volume low, to see cymatics in action:
By changing the vibrational waves, matter begins to form, and there are many theories that suggest that this process is what formed our universe — "In the beginning was the word…" and the word was sound.
In many ancient cultures, it is believed that the world was "sung" into creation. To the indigenous people of Australia, a songline, also called a dreaming track, is one of the paths across the land (or sometimes the sky) which mark the route followed by localised "creator-beings" during what was known as "dream time." The paths of the songlines are recorded in traditional songs, stories, dance, and painting.
In other words, the songs were sung to mimic the path of creation in the time before time, where the creators sang the world into being.
According to "Emu Dreaming: An Introduction to Australian Aboriginal Astronomy," the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory tell the story of Barnumbirr, a creator-being associated with the planet Venus, who came from the island of Baralku in the East, guiding the first humans to Australia, and then flew across the land from East to West, naming and creating the animals, plants, and natural features of the land.
South African researcher, author, and advocate of the Ubuntu movement, Michael Tellinger, believes that 200,000+ year-old stone circles in Africa that cover more than 450,000 sq km are not cattle kraals (because there are no entrances or exits), as is the common theory, but rather formations based on sacred (fixed) geometry, which has its roots in vibration, which can be visualized through cymatics.
According to Tellinger:
Everything we observe is simply different densities of vibrational resonant frequencies. I call it "The fractal-multi-dimentional-toroidal-nature of reality". As above, so below. There is no end to the frequencies above and below. It is an infinite continuum that keeps spiraling to an unimaginable, unfathomable, infinity. And if there is an end to this seemingly creative spiral spirit, it is there that we will find GOD and the source-code for everything.
This suggests that in the ancient past, somebody created these structures to resonate at certain frequencies. What the purpose was is anyone's guess, and among the suggestions include the theory that theses circles acted as nodes in a type of ancient energy grid that covered the entire Earth at one time, all done through the power of vibrational waves.
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Physiotherapy is a critical component of the overall health of women during the antenatal and postnatal period.
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Fender's free Tune app hits Android devices
By Michael Astley-Brown ( Total Guitar ) published 30 January 17
Guitar tuner ventures beyond iOS phones
In August last year, Fender unveiled its very first app, Tune, which, as you'd expect, is a guitar tuner. We lamented the fact it was only on iOS, so we're thanking our lucky stars that it's now available for Android.
As per the iOS version, Fender Tune promises an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that makes it easy for newcomers to get their instrument in tune, while also covering basic tone tips, including strumming and setting up amps.
The app detects notes from acoustic guitars and amplified electrics, and offers auto tune, chromatic and manual tune modes, including alternate tuning options and the ability to create custom tunings.
Fender reckons its DSP technology delivers spot-on accuracy, as well as offering nifty adaptive feedback bubbles.
You can download Fender Tune now absolutely free from Google Play.
Tune is the first in Fender's forthcoming "ecosystem" of apps, and we're eagerly awaiting whatever's next...
Michael Astley-Brown
Mike is Editor-in-Chief of GuitarWorld.com, in addition to being an offset fiend and recovering pedal addict. He has a master's degree in journalism, and has spent the past decade writing and editing for guitar publications including MusicRadar, Total Guitar and Guitarist, as well as a decade-and-a-half performing in bands of variable genre (and quality). In his free time, you'll find him making progressive instrumental rock under the nom de plume Maebe.


[collectd] SSC Serv 2.0.0 is available.
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has proven to be very stable.
Network plug-in or use an alternative port.
Linux, it uses the Windows-specific names.
packages from the "Download" page in the customer's area.
There's a free (as in "beer") version of SSC Serv 2 available as well.