Day 23,753: Slowly dictating away.
This is my 100th post since I started thecronediary.com on January 27, 2018. As with several posts in the series, it is already moving me to learn new things and new ways of doing old things. Many of the links are to older posts you may have missed.
I had hoped to see if I could do a full year of consecutive posts. Then, I decided perhaps it was better to chunk my goals and see if I could go for 100 days before setting a goal for a second hundred days. Turns out, that was a wise choice since, at this 100 mark, I now find myself with an arm in a cast due to a broken elbow. As long as my arm is in a cast, I'm not going to promise to continue daily postings. I'm pretty sure the Universe has been trying to tell me to slow down. I got the hint when I lost my keys a few posts ago, but apparently the Universe didn't think I took the hint fast enough and decided to really slow me down with a broken elbow.
But, to at least finish this first leg of a self commitment, I am getting this 100th post up today. Here are a few things I learned in my first 100 days.
Take suggestions. When I posted yesterday that I broke my elbow, a clever reader immediately suggested I look into voice-to-text software. Thanks Val. I'm now dictating on Google Voice directly into Google Docs. It's a very interesting and fairly accurate experience. It might even be a better way to write quickly when I am back to fully typing with 10 fingers. Lesson learned: When you get stopped in life you can either look at it as a full stop and be derailed, or merely a stop sign, which means you should pause, look in all directions, and figure out how to proceed with caution.
Follow gurus. Or, just listen to wiser people who have gone before you. In doing this blog, I follow 2 gurus – Seth Godin and Gail Sher. Godin has been blogging daily for over 10 years. He feels it's the most important thing he's done in his career. I have followed his marketing advice ever since his first book Permission Marketing in 1999 and have never looked back. Gail Sher is new to me, but has been around for a while as well. She was recommended to me by a valued colleague. Thanks Bill. Her book, One Continuous Mistake, is about the four noble truths for writers. The first truth is: Writers write. Lesson learned: Good people have good reputations for good reasons.
Be open to new connections. A downside of blogging is there are a lot of spam commenters looking to hack your account. Yet, in between there are legitimate other bloggers and thought providers, but also fresh voices who are worth learning about, connecting to and considering new digital friends. Thanks Hitting 60. Lesson learned: If you don't let ego get in the way, you can easily discern real people and voices from fake spammers.
Take time to think and regroup. They used to call that a vacation. Consistency counts, such as a regular blog schedule, but it also counts to be open to new thoughts and learn new things. It all takes time. I could look at this time as being sidelined, or as newly found free time to finally finish some of the lessons I never seem to master. At least one blog and one podcast I follow are now on hiatus. They announced it and I know that they'll be back. Thanks Inkblots and Icebergs and The Urban Monk Pedram Shojai.Your example makes it easier for me to understand and I can take a hiatus. Lesson Learned: Balance and time off needs to be consciously developed.
Metrics don't matter. Yes is in direct contrast to current trends that feel the need to measure everything constantly. This is nowhere more apparent than in my daily job in marketing which is increasingly judged by various new metrics. Marketing has always been a fun field, and I have always relished it. However, the modern metrics are exhausting. Thanks Google Analytics and Tag Manager. I could get hung up on blogging metrics, constantly checking stats such on new followers and comments. Instead, I've learned people are reading however they want whenever they want and 0 comments doesn't mean that there are zero readers. Some people have sent me emails; some stopped to chat; some have posted on Facebook, and some have posted directly on the blog. Thank you to everyone who has stuck with me and read any portions of any posts. Your feedback and comments help keep me motivated. Lesson learned. Anything worth doing is worth doing for yourself. Having an audience is a bonus. Bonuses are delightful like a cherry on top.
The Big Lesson Learned over the past 100 days is the concept of a practice, and how to create a practice. The definition of an addiction is something that you do on a consistent basis, but it does yourself harm. The definition of the practice is something that you do on a consistent basis, but it helps you grow. These past hundred days have shown me how to implement a practice of blogging. To the degree that you've been following along, commenting, or just quietly and occasionally reading – thank you. I will become consistent again after I finished my new practice of healing my elbow. It starts with a visit to the orthopedic today.
Focus on Gun Sanity. Check out the article A Resister in Gun Country by Catherine Koebel in the May 2018 issue of Vogue. Key quote: Fear spreads like a virus, but courage is catching, too.
Happy 100 Rhona. Especially under the circumstances! I recently set out to compile a gallery of 100 photographs around a theme. When I reached 99, I suddenly realized I was done. The very next image would have added nothing new to the series. So I was happy. I stopped. When I heard of your injury, I was poised to share my experience — maybe offering you poetic license to miss post #100. I'm glad I kept quiet, because reading just now that you reached your first "chunk" (in a cast! ) was a delight. Am I surprised you rose to the occasion? Not for a minute.
Thanks Rob. I was surprised, but happy to have discovered the new tool.


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Posted Monday, 23 January 2023 by Scott Groom
A new ward has opened at Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital for patients who are waiting to be discharged home after receiving care and treatment in an acute hospital.
Philip Ward is 24-bedded 'discharge to assess' ward, providing patients with the final aspects of care they need to support them to be ready for discharge home or to their next place of care, such as physiotherapy. The ward allows these patients to receive their treatment away from our acute hospitals, which frees up spaces for patients who do require care in an acute setting.
The ward forms part of winter capacity plans by UHDB and the wider health and social care system across the Midlands region to support and maintain the flow of patients through hospitals as pressures on the system remain high.
Hannah Timms, Matron for Discharge and Integration at UHDB, said feedback from patients has been really positive since the ward opened its doors:
"Having this ward here in Tamworth allows patients to receive the care they need closer to their homes, and also frees up valuable beds in our acute hospitals to help with the patient flow. Patients do really enjoy being here – it's quieter than a big acute hospital and we're surrounded by lots of green space and being able to see that out of the window makes a big difference to patients. It is a really nice environment."
The ward opened its doors on 28 November after six weeks of intensive planning and preparation which involved setting up the ward with the relevant equipment, but also assembling a brand-new team.
Ward 5 has also been opened at our Florence Nightingale Community Hospital in Derby to provide a similar service to Derbyshire patients.
Find out more about the work of colleagues at FNCH's Ward 5 here >
The ward combines UHDB colleagues who have come together from a wide range of specialties, alongside our partners from Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust, who are based on the ward to provide a multi-disciplinary approach to discharge by supporting patients with social care needs - providing a great example of how organisations across the region are working closely together to make the best use of our skilled NHS workforce.
Registered Nurse, Josh Sanchez, joined the Philip Ward team from the Endoscopy unit at Queen's Hospital Burton, where he has worked since 2021 after moving to the UK from the Philippines.
He said: "It has been challenging as everything is new and I've never worked on an inpatient ward before, so getting used to the routines and new tasks is very different to what I'm used to. But I really like it here and all my colleagues are so supportive and have been really good to me.
"In Endoscopy, we only see patients on a day case or outpatient basis so don't get to spend much time with them, whereas here, patients stay for longer so it's nice to be able to spend time with them and really get to know them."
One of the first patients to stay on the ward was 64-year-old Alastair McEwan, who was admitted after previously staying on Sir Robert Peel's Andrew Ward.
Alastair was full of praise for the Philip Ward team and the environment itself: "I have to say it's ace! Everything is spotlessly clean and is always kept that way and the décor is nice and bright.
"The staff are brilliant and have looked after me so well. Nothing is too much trouble for them. I would just like to thank them all. They sort out everything for every patient and are so friendly. They have really helped to put me at ease and made me feel comfortable."
Sharon Martin, Executive Chief Operating Officer at UHDB, said: "Our community hospitals play such a vital role in helping us deliver care to our communities across Derbyshire and Staffordshire closer to their homes, and this is just another example of the brilliant work our community teams are doing.
"Winter is an extremely busy time for the NHS, and having Philip Ward along with Ward 5 at our community hospital in Derby helps us to continue to provide the ongoing support to patients during their discharge home or their next place of care.
"I am extremely grateful to the team for all their hard work in getting Philip Ward up and running in such a short amount of time. It's a great example of working together with our partners across the health and social care system to make changes that improve the experience and care for our patients."

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In contrast, I've always approached Easter as a more somber time—certainly a time of ultimate triumph. But one that was preceded by the agony of Jesus on a cross. To me, Easter was when Christ laid down His life for us.
Now I've begun to look at things a little differently.
Recently, I challenged by a friend to view Christmas in a new light. She pointed out that His birth on earth was when Jesus left His Heavenly glory.
The more I considered this, the more sharply I saw the contrast of His life in Heaven. I had always looked at Christmas as a gift—which it is—instead of seeing past the present to the sacrifice it must have been. Jesus' birth truly was the time when He laid down His life for us.
He exchanged Heavenly robes for swaddling garments of ragged cloth.
He exchanged the chorus of angels praising him day and night with the voices of cattle in a lowly manger.
He exchanged the power and authority of being God in Heaven with that of living as a helpless—fully human—baby.
He exchanged the protection of angels with the dubious protection of human parents.
He exchanged immortality with a life that would end in physical death. (Yes, He was fully resurrected, but He had to go through the process of living to dying to reconcile us with God).
He exchanged perfect—intimate—fellowship with God for a relationship with us.
I will never see Christmas the same way again. How about you?
WOW! I never thought of Christmas this way. Always thought of the gift of Jesus as coming from God, but not of Jesus's sacrifice to us as well. Thank you. You have made Christmas even more special. Merry Christmas, Edie.
I pondered long over this, Edie. And it cuts through all the commercialism of the holiday, to the heart of it. I don't think I'll ever think of Christmas the same again, either. Thank you for sharing it!
Wow. This is amazing! Thanks so much for sharing!
A God who humbles Himself and takes the form of a human child to relate to us truly deserves worship.
What an intriguing new perspective on the Christmas miracle.
Thank you for opening my heart to a new way of thinking. Fascinating that your thoughts actually reverse the happiness and sorrow aspects of Easter and Christmas. Really makes me think.
Wonderful thoughts and reminders of the sacrifice our Heavenly Father and His Son made for us! Merry Christmas sweet friend!


The owners of the first private retirement home for horses in Great Britain are passionate about developing staff through Apprenticeship Programmes.
Nicky and Ray Van Dijk, owners of Happy Horse Retirement Home in Crai, near Brecon, opened the centre in 1989 and now have eight staff who care for 50 horses. The company has helped train nine apprentices in the past five years, most of whom have gone on to careers in the equine industry. One former apprentice represents Great Britain in harness driving.
Happy Horse Retirement Home is no stranger to the Apprenticeship Awards Cymru as assistant manager Marc Pugh won the Jobs Growth Wales Outstanding Achiever Award last year. His success story has inspired others to enter the equine industry. The company offers a variety of staff training, ranging from Foundation Apprenticeships to a Higher Apprenticeship, and tailored personal training plans designed to achieve individual goals are developed. The apprenticeships are delivered by Coleg Cambria.


On Wednesday, the 17th of April 2019, the most of the major European bourses had winded up the day higher, while Wall St. had failed to maintain the catch-up growth seen earlier this week.
On Friday, the 12th of April 2019, most of the European stock exchanges had rounded off the day higher, as London, Paris and Germany, all scored heavy gains.
On Thursday, the 11th of April 2019, the European stocks had gathered pace after couple of days of muffled momentum, mostly spurred by the gains of financials, in particular banks alongside travel stocks.
On Sunday, the Abu Dhabi bourse had posted a modest rise, largely led by the gains of ADNOC distributions, and Dubai sustained its winning streak, while Saudi Arabia fell in the wake of a continued weakness in the financing sectors.
On Wednesday, the 3rd of April 2019, the European shares surged for fourth straight session in a row, boosted by positive investors' sentiment over a potential Sino-US trade deal, a softer Brexit and robust economic data from euro zone and China.
Stock markets of Gulf remained mixed on Sunday, the 31st of March 2019, as Abu Dhabi bourse extended its losses and Saudi bourse kept surging, boosted by financials such as banks.


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Hunger-striking American citizen released from Egyptian prison
Mohamed Amashah, a 24-year-old medical student, was imprisoned for protests.
ByHatem Maher
The Freedom Initiative
A hunger-striking medical student from New Jersey was released from a Cairo jail after serving more than a year in pre-trial detention for holding aloft a sign that read "Freedom to All Prisoners" in the iconic Tahrir Square, the human rights advocacy group that represents him said on Monday.
Mohamed Amashah, who is 24 and holds dual American-Egyptian citizenship, flew home on Monday following his release a day earlier, the Washington-based Freedom Initiative group said in a statement.
"Yesterday Egyptian-American political prisoner Mohamed Amashah was released from Egyptian prisons after 486 days of arbitrary detention," the statement read. "Mohamed landed in Dulles International Airport this morning and returned home to Jersey City, New Jersey to be with his loved ones."
Handout via Reuters
A handout picture shows Egyptian-American medical student Mohamed Amashah posing for a photo in Tanta, Egypt, November 20, 2015.
Amashah started a hunger strike in March over fears that he might get infected with the coronavirus; Egypt's crammed jail cells are notorious for their harsh conditions and poor hygiene standards.
The rights-group Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms claimed last month that more than a dozen detainees in Cairo's Tora prison had contracted the highly contagious virus.
MORE: One month after American's death in Egyptian prison, family still seeking US response, Trump condolences
MORE: Egypt eases restrictions despite surge in virus infections
Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
Small groups of protesters gather in central Cairo shouting anti-government slogans in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 21, 2019.
However, the Egyptian government denied the existence of any outbreaks in prisons, confirming only that an employee at the Tora prison had tested positive for the coronavirus after he died in May. The country has been halting prison visits by lawyers and families since March, citing COVID-19 worries.
Amashah, who was arrested in April 2019, faced charges of "misusing social media and aiding a terrorist group to achieve its goals," referring to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
Rights groups accuse the state of filing similar "trumped-up charges" against all dissidents, regardless of their political affiliations. The Egyptian government denies that, insisting that all detainees face due legal process.
Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images
A picture taken during a guided tour organised by Egypt's State Information Service on February 11, 2020, shows the entrance of the Tora prison clinic in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Amashah's release follows that of another dual Egyptian-American citizen. Reem Mohamed Desouky, a Pennsylvania teacher, was freed in early May after being held for almost 10 months for criticizing the government on Facebook.
MORE: Egypt to reopen tourist destinations less hard-hit by virus
MORE: Rare protests in Egypt call for president to step down
In January, Mustafa Kassem, another U.S. citizen, died in a Cairo prison following a lengthy hunger strike, prompting Republican and Democratic lawmakers to call for sanctions against Egypt's government and a review of U.S. foreign aid to the country.
A handout picture shows Egyptian-American medical student Mohamed Amashah posing for a photo in New York, U.S. Jan. 10, 2017.
"Amashah was forced to recuse his Egyptian Citizenship in exchange for his freedom. This allowed the government to use the foreigner deportation law to deport him out of the country," Mohamed Soltan, the head of Freedom Initiative group, told ABC News.
"His release comes as a result of private and public pressure on the Egyptian government by the US administration and bipartisan congressional members in key committees demanding his release."


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Clark Hagan is a Colorado born Grammy award winning Producer/Engineer with a world class resume and a legendary mastery of the recording arts. After graduating from the University of Colorado at Denver, Clark began to master his craft as a recording engineer while working with the legendary Bill Porter whose credits include artists such as Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, and the Everly Brothers while at RCA from 1959 to 1964.
After a short stint at Allen-Martin Productions in Louisville, Kentucky, Clark moved to Nashville where his trusted relationship with Porter provided the opportunity to work with the legendary Chet Atkins. In his time with Atkins, Clark engineered the Grammy Award Winning record in 1996 for best country instrumental, Jam Man, and was nominated again in 1997 for a record with Atkins and Tommy Emmanuel in the same category in which he played guitar on to. Clark's success with Atkins paid off and subsequently led to work with some of Nashville's top artists including Ray Stevens, which he was awarded a Platinum award on the soundtrack movie "Get Serious". Bryan White, which he was awarded his first Platinum record, "Between Now and Forever". Bryan's first million selling record. Jeffery Steele, who has written over 200 songs that have charted in Bilboards top 100, and Alison Krauss amongst others.
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Corsair also announced their membership in Intel?s Memory Implementers Forum at IDF. The Forum is expected to provide a central online community for the memory industry including next generation product information.
Corsair Memory, a member of JEDEC, has been a leader in the design and manufacture of high speed modules for over a decade. We have earned our reputation as being the first to market with leading-edge products supporting new computing platforms and technologies. Corsair supplies memory for applications ranging from mission-critical servers to ultra-high performance gaming systems. The performance and reliability of Corsair memory products makes them ideal for the high bandwidth internet infrastructure. More information on Corsair is available at www.corsairmemory.com.


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Atheist Group: Students' Creation Museum Visit Violates Constitution
Veronica Neffinger | iBelieve Contributor | Thursday, May 5, 2016
#Freedom from Religion Foundation
An atheist organization has warned public schools that taking their students on a trip to Ken Ham's Creation Museum would be a violation of the Constitution.
Christian Today reports that atheist organization Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) emailed letters to three public high schools, telling them that their planned trips to the Creation Museum violated the Constitution's Establishment Clause.
"Public schools may not advance or promote religion. Bringing students on a field trip to a religious venue is a blatant promotion of religion," said FFRF Legal Fellow Madeline Ziegler in her letter to Nicholas Subashi, legal counsel for the Brookville Local Schools.
The FFRF instead suggested that the public schools take their students on field trips to seculuar institutions instead.
"It is unconstitutional for a public school to take students on a field trip to a religious venue such as the Creation Museum, a Christian museum which promotes the religious doctrine of creationism and lists its mission as 'to point today's culture back to the authority of Scripture and proclaim the gospel message,'" the letters read, according to the Christian News Network.
However, Ken Ham, the Creation Museum's founder, says that having public school students visit the museum on a field trip does not violate the Constitution as long as teachers present Creationism as one possible viewpoint.
"If public schools were bringing students here and their teachers were saying, 'THIS interpretation is the only truth that you should personally accept,' then that would be a violation of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution," he said. "Public school officials should neither personally endorse nor diminish the museum's view, but rather present our beliefs objectively."
Ham also said that groups like the FFRF like to bully public schools because they don't want students learning about alternate interpretations besides Evolution.
Photo courtesy: Wikipedia


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Q: Why IDisposable is an Interface, not abstract class? Can we define IDisposable as an abstract class instead of Interface like below. What are disadvantages?
public abstract class absDisposable
{
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I wrote that code in the same Interface works, else there is no reason of abstract class with no implementation. This is same way we define Interface, without any implementations.right? However, the question is not the IDisposable only, its about all Interfaces we use. Why don't we simply write the methods we require, why do we go one level more for Implementing Interfaces? Since Interface serves no purpose. We always have to give our own implementations in derived classes, so no question of code re-usability also. And how Interfaces resolve lack of multiple inheritance in c#, if we cannot re-use codes? All I want to know is what situation an Interface proves its presence?

A: Since C# does not support multiple inheritance, your idea would make it impossible to combine disposability with an existing base class.
Since IDisposable doesn't include any implementation, there is no reason to make it an abstract class.

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Yara is our Head of Youth and Community Engagement, where she is responsible for driving our strategy towards developing youth focused solutions, programs and initiatives in order to develop future skills and capacity.
At The Talent Enterprise, Yara has spearheaded the design and delivery of our programs focusing on positive education & youth development, including Saudi Arabia's National Growth Mindset Initiative – a large scale program for grade 11 students to build critical skills such as growth mindset, grit, resilience and confidence. She recently led the design and delivery of a nation-wide program to introduce community service for students in grade 8 to 12, across 22,000 schools in KSA along with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Labour. Yara is also leading The Talent Enterprise's flagship 'Project 458' which brings together policy makers, educators and employers to actively commit to and address employability and work readiness for over 150,000+ university students and build capacity for 2,500+ educators and career guidance professionals on the future of work.
Yara specialises in youth work, development and community studies. She is a Saudi national, fluent in Arabic, English & Italian. Over the past decade, Yara has mainly worked with key stakeholders and decision-makers in the education and not-for-profit sector. She worked with the team at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature for over four years to build a national initiative aimed at bringing young people in the region face to face with authors and harnessing their love of the Arabic language.
Yara has recently completed her Masters in Applied Anthropology, Community and Youth Work from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and has a Bachelors Degree in Sociology and Criminology, University of London, UK.
Yara is a bookworm and has a passion for films. She has also been involved in TV production and filmmaking throughout the course of her career, including working as part of the Research & Production team for MBC's 'Badriya' talk-show, a popular talk show that focuses on social issues in Saudi and she also supported the award-winning Emirati director & producer, Nujoom Al Ghanem on two independent films.


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Four OTs among 'worst corporate tax havens', Oxfam says
The UK holds ties with four of the world's worst corporate tax havens, according to a study by Oxfam.
The charity has pinpointed Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Jersey and the British Virgin Islands as serious offenders when it comes to offering unproductive tax incentives and extremely low corporate tax rates.
The 46-page report, entitled 'Tax Battles', made no mention of Gibraltar, which has worked hard for many years to ensure compliance with EU and global financial transparency initiatives.
Oxfam warned that the UK risked losing its reputation "as a global force for good" if it failed to tackle tax avoidance on overseas territories and crown dependencies.
The 15 worst tax havens identified by Oxfam included Bermuda, Cayman Islands, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Singapore, Ireland, Luxembourg, Curaçao, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Bahamas, Jersey, Barbados, Mauritius and the British Virgin Islands.
Ana Arendar, Oxfam's head of inequality, said maintaining the status quo would rob countries of the money they needed to pay for education and life-changing treatment.
"As long as tax havens are able to help rich clients and big businesses avoid paying their fair share, those who can least afford it are left picking up the tab," she said.
"Allowing our overseas territories and crown dependencies to operate as tax havens undermines Britain's efforts to be an outward-facing, responsible member of the international community."
"It's time to end this embarrassing contradiction in our own backyard."
Oxfam said developing countries lost out on 138 billion US dollars (£110 billion) a year because they were forced to offer competitive tax incentives to attract multinational companies.
It also hit out at moves to slash corporation tax to help shore up Government finances, claiming that it often triggered a VAT hike which could punish the poorest people in society.
Prime Minister Theresa May revealed her ambition last month to ensure the UK had the lowest corporate tax rates in the G20 group of advanced economies.


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// Package
///////////////
package org.apache.jena.ontology;

// Imports
///////////////
import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.* ;
import org.apache.jena.shared.JenaException ;
import org.apache.jena.util.iterator.ExtendedIterator ;

/**
 *

 * Provides a common super-type for all of the abstractions in this ontology
 * representation package.
 *

 */
public interface OntResource
    extends Resource
{
    // Constants
    //////////////////////////////////

    // External signature methods
    //////////////////////////////////

    /**
     *
Answer the model that this resource is attached to, assuming that it
     * is an {@link OntModel}. If this resource is not attached to any model,
     * or is (unusually) attached to a model that is not an OntModel,
     * answer null.

     * @return The ont model that this resource is attached to, or null.
     */
    public OntModel getOntModel();

    /**
     *

     * Answer the ontology language profile that governs the ontology model to which
     * this ontology resource is attached.
     *

     *
     * @return The language profile for this ontology resource
     * @throws JenaException if the resource is not bound to an {@link OntModel}, since
     * that's the only way to get the profile for the resource
     */
    public Profile getProfile();

    /**
     *
Answer true if this resource is a symbol in one of the standard ontology
     * languages supported by Jena: RDF, RDFS or OWL. Since these languages
     * have restricted namespaces, this check is simply a convenient way of testing whether
     * this resource is in one of those pre-declared namespaces.

     * @return True if this is a term in the language namespace for OWL, RDF or RDFS.
     */
    public boolean isOntLanguageTerm();

    // sameAs

    /**
     *
Assert equivalence between the given resource and this resource. Any existing
     * statements for sameAs will be removed.

     * @param res The resource that is declared to be the same as this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#SAME_AS()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void setSameAs( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Add a resource that is declared to be equivalent to this resource.

     * @param res A resource that declared to be the same as this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#SAME_AS()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void addSameAs( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Answer a resource that is declared to be the same as this resource. If there is
     * more than one such resource, an arbitrary selection is made.

     * @return An ont resource that declared to be the same as this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#SAME_AS()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public OntResource getSameAs();

    /**
     *
Answer an iterator over all of the resources that are declared to be the same as
     * this resource. Each element of the iterator will be an {@link OntResource}.

     * @return An iterator over the resources equivalent to this resource.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#SAME_AS()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public ExtendedIterator<? extends Resource> listSameAs();

    /**
     *
Answer true if this resource is the same as the given resource.

     * @param res A resource to test against
     * @return True if the resources are declared the same via a sameAs statement.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#SAME_AS()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public boolean isSameAs( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Remove the statement that this resource is the same as the given resource.  If this statement
     * is not true of the current model, nothing happens.

     * @param res A resource that may be declared to be the sameAs this resource
     */
    public void removeSameAs( Resource res );

    // differentFrom

    /**
     *
Assert that the given resource and this resource are distinct. Any existing
     * statements for differentFrom will be removed.

     * @param res The resource that is declared to be distinct from this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#DIFFERENT_FROM()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void setDifferentFrom( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Add a statement declaring that this resource is distinct from the given resource.

     * @param res A resource that declared to be distinct from this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#DIFFERENT_FROM()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void addDifferentFrom( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Answer a resource that is declared to be distinct from this resource. If there is
     * more than one such resource, an arbitrary selection is made.

     * @return res An ont resource that declared to be different from this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#DIFFERENT_FROM()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public OntResource getDifferentFrom();

    /**
     *
Answer an iterator over all of the resources that are declared to be different from
     * this resource. Each element of the iterator will be an {@link OntResource}.

     * @return An iterator over the resources different from this resource.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#DIFFERENT_FROM()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public ExtendedIterator<? extends Resource> listDifferentFrom();

    /**
     *
Answer true if this resource is different from the given resource.

     * @param res A resource to test against
     * @return True if the resources are declared to be distinct via a differentFrom statement.
     */
    public boolean isDifferentFrom( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Remove the statement that this resource is different the given resource.  If this statement
     * is not true of the current model, nothing happens.

     * @param res A resource that may be declared to be differentFrom this resource
     */
    public void removeDifferentFrom( Resource res );

    // seeAlso

    /**
     *
Assert that the given resource provides additional information about the definition of this resource

     * @param res A resource that can provide additional information about this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#SEE_ALSO()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void setSeeAlso( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Add a resource that is declared to provided additional information about the definition of this resource

     * @param res A resource that provides extra information on this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#SEE_ALSO()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void addSeeAlso( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Answer a resource that provides additional information about this resource. If more than one such resource
     * is defined, make an arbitrary choice.

     * @return res A resource that provides additional information about this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#SEE_ALSO()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public Resource getSeeAlso();

    /**
     *
Answer an iterator over all of the resources that are declared to provide additional
     * information about this resource.

     * @return An iterator over the resources providing additional information on this resource.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#SEE_ALSO()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public ExtendedIterator<RDFNode> listSeeAlso();

    /**
     *
Answer true if this resource has the given resource as a source of additional information.

     * @param res A resource to test against
     * @return True if the res provides more information on this resource.
     */
    public boolean hasSeeAlso( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Remove the statement indicating the given resource as a source of additional information
     * about this resource.  If this statement
     * is not true of the current model, nothing happens.

     * @param res A resource that may be declared to provide additional information about this resource
     */
    public void removeSeeAlso( Resource res );

    // is defined by

    /**
     *
Assert that the given resource provides a source of definitions about this resource. Any existing
     * statements for isDefinedBy will be removed.

     * @param res The resource that is declared to be a definition of this resource.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#IS_DEFINED_BY()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void setIsDefinedBy( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Add a resource that is declared to provide a definition of this resource.

     * @param res A defining resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#IS_DEFINED_BY()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void addIsDefinedBy( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Answer a resource that is declared to provide a definition of this resource. If there is
     * more than one such resource, an arbitrary selection is made.

     * @return res An ont resource that is declared to provide a definition of this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#IS_DEFINED_BY()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public Resource getIsDefinedBy();

    /**
     *
Answer an iterator over all of the resources that are declared to define
     * this resource.

     * @return An iterator over the resources defining this resource.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#IS_DEFINED_BY()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public ExtendedIterator<RDFNode> listIsDefinedBy();

    /**
     *
Answer true if this resource is defined by the given resource.

     * @param res A resource to test against
     * @return True if res defines this resource.
     */
    public boolean isDefinedBy( Resource res );

    /**
     *
Remove the statement that this resource is defined by the given resource.  If this statement
     * is not true of the current model, nothing happens.

     * @param res A resource that may be declared to define this resource
     */
    public void removeDefinedBy( Resource res );

    // version info

    /**
     *
Assert that the given string is the value of the version info for this resource. Any existing
     * statements for versionInfo will be removed.

     * @param info The version information for this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#VERSION_INFO()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void setVersionInfo( String info );

    /**
     *
Add the given version information to this resource.

     * @param info A version information string for this resource
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#VERSION_INFO()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void addVersionInfo( String info );

    /**
     *
Answer the version information string for this object. If there is
     * more than one such resource, an arbitrary selection is made.

     * @return A version info string
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#VERSION_INFO()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public String getVersionInfo();

    /**
     *
Answer an iterator over all of the version info strings for this resource.

     * @return An iterator over the version info strings for this resource.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#VERSION_INFO()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public ExtendedIterator<String> listVersionInfo();

    /**
     *
Answer true if this resource has the given version information

     * @param info Version information to test for
     * @return True if this resource has info as version information.
     */
    public boolean hasVersionInfo( String info );

    /**
     *
Remove the statement that the given string provides version information about
     * this resource.  If this statement
     * is not true of the current model, nothing happens.

     * @param info A version information string to be removed
     */
    public void removeVersionInfo( String info );

    // label

    /**
     *
Assert that the given string is the value of the label for this resource. Any existing
     * statements for label will be removed.

     * @param label The label for this resource
     * @param lang The language attribute for this label (EN, FR, etc) or null if not specified.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#LABEL()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void setLabel( String label, String lang );

    /**
     *
Add the given label to this resource.

     * @param label A label string for this resource
     * @param lang The language attribute for this label (EN, FR, etc) or null if not specified.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#LABEL()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void addLabel( String label, String lang );

    /**
     *
Add the given label to this resource.

     * @param label The literal label
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#LABEL()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void addLabel( Literal label );

    /**
     *
Answer the label string for this object. If there is
     * more than one such resource, an arbitrary selection is made.

     * @param lang The language attribute for the desired label (EN, FR, etc) or null for don't care. Will
     * attempt to retrieve the most specific label matching the given language

     * @return A label string matching the given language, or null if there is no matching label.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#LABEL()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public String getLabel( String lang );

    /**
     *
Answer an iterator over all of the label literals for this resource.

     * @param lang The language tag to restrict the listed labels to, or null to select all labels
     * @return An iterator over RDF {@link Literal}'s.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#LABEL()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public ExtendedIterator<RDFNode> listLabels( String lang );

    /**
     *
Answer true if this resource has the given label

     * @param label The label to test for
     * @param lang The optional language tag, or null for don't care.
     * @return True if this resource has label as a label.
     */
    public boolean hasLabel( String label, String lang );

    /**
     *
Answer true if this resource has the given label

     * @param label The label to test for
     * @return True if this resource has label as a label.
     */
    public boolean hasLabel( Literal label );

    /**
     *
Remove the statement that the given string is a label for
     * this resource.  If this statement
     * is not true of the current model, nothing happens.

     * @param label A label string to be removed
     * @param lang A lang tag, or null if not specified
     */
    public void removeLabel( String label, String lang );

    /**
     *
Remove the statement that the given string is a label for
     * this resource.  If this statement
     * is not true of the current model, nothing happens.

     * @param label A label literal to be removed
     */
    public void removeLabel( Literal label );

    // comment

    /**
     *
Assert that the given string is the comment on this resource. Any existing
     * statements for comment will be removed.

     * @param comment The comment for this resource
     * @param lang The language attribute for this comment (EN, FR, etc) or null if not specified.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#COMMENT()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void setComment( String comment, String lang );

    /**
     *
Add the given comment to this resource.

     * @param comment A comment string for this resource
     * @param lang The language attribute for this comment (EN, FR, etc) or null if not specified.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#COMMENT()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void addComment( String comment, String lang );

    /**
     *
Add the given comment to this resource.

     * @param comment The literal comment
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#COMMENT()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public void addComment( Literal comment );

    /**
     *
Answer the comment string for this object. If there is
     * more than one such resource, an arbitrary selection is made.

     * @param lang The language attribute for the desired comment (EN, FR, etc) or null for don't care. Will
     * attempt to retrieve the most specific comment matching the given language

     * @return A comment string matching the given language, or null if there is no matching comment.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#COMMENT()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public String getComment( String lang );

    /**
     *
Answer an iterator over all of the comment literals for this resource.

     * @param lang The language tag to restrict the listed comments to, or null to select all comments
     * @return An iterator over RDF {@link Literal}'s.
     * @exception ProfileException If the {@link Profile#COMMENT()} property is not supported in the current language profile.
     */
    public ExtendedIterator<RDFNode> listComments( String lang );

    /**
     *
Answer true if this resource has the given comment.

     * @param comment The comment to test for
     * @param lang The optional language tag, or null for don't care.
     * @return True if this resource has comment as a comment.
     */
    public boolean hasComment( String comment, String lang );

    /**
     *
Answer true if this resource has the given comment.

     * @param comment The comment to test for
     * @return True if this resource has comment as a comment.
     */
    public boolean hasComment( Literal comment );

    /**
     *
Remove the statement that the given string is a comment on
     * this resource.  If this statement
     * is not true of the current model, nothing happens.

     * @param comment A comment string to be removed
     * @param lang A lang tag, or null if not specified
     */
    public void removeComment( String comment, String lang );

    /**
     *
Remove the statement that the given string is a comment on
     * this resource.  If this statement
     * is not true of the current model, nothing happens.

     * @param comment A comment literal to be removed
     */
    public void removeComment( Literal comment );

    // rdf:type

    /**
     *
Set the RDF type (i.e. the class) for this resource, replacing any
     * existing rdf:type property. Any existing statements for the RDF type
     * will first be removed.

     *
     * @param cls The RDF resource denoting the new value for the rdf:type property,
     *                 which will replace any existing type property.
     * @see Individual#setOntClass(Resource)
     */
    public void setRDFType( Resource cls );

    /**
     *
Add the given class as one of the rdf:type's for this resource.

     *
     * @param cls An RDF resource denoting a new value for the rdf:type property.
     * @see Individual#addOntClass(Resource)
     */
    public void addRDFType( Resource cls );

    /**
     *

     * Answer the rdf:type (i.e. the class) of this resource. If there
     * is more than one type for this resource, the return value will be one of
     * the values, but it is not specified which one (nor that it will consistently
     * be the same one each time). Equivalent to getRDFType( false ).
     *

     *
     * @return A resource that is the rdf:type for this resource, or one of them if
     * more than one is defined.
     * @see Individual#getOntClass()
     */
    public Resource getRDFType();

    /**
     *

     * Answer the rdf:type (i.e. the class) of this resource. If there
     * is more than one type for this resource, the return value will be one of
     * the values, but it is not specified which one (nor that it will consistently
     * be the same one each time).
     *

     *
     * @param direct If true, only consider the direct types of this resource, and not
     * the super-classes of the type(s).
     * @return A resource that is the rdf:type for this resource, or one of them if
     * more than one is defined.
     * @see Individual#getOntClass(boolean)
     */
    public Resource getRDFType( boolean direct );

    /**
     *

     * Answer an iterator over the RDF classes to which this resource belongs.
     *

     *
     * @param direct If true, only answer those resources that are direct types
     * of this resource, not the super-classes of the class etc.
     * @return An iterator over the set of this resource's classes. Each member
     * of the iteration will be an {@link Resource}.  Use
     * .as( OntClass.class ) to map this resource to
     * an OntClass.
     * @see Individual#listOntClasses(boolean)
     */
    public ExtendedIterator<Resource> listRDFTypes( boolean direct );

    /**
     *

     * Answer true if this resource is a member of the class denoted by the
     * given class resource.
     *

     *
     * @param ontClass Denotes a class to which this value may belong
     * @param direct If true, only consider the direct types of this resource, ignoring
     * the super-classes of the stated types.
     * @return True if this resource has the given class as one of its rdf:type's.
     * @see Individual#hasOntClass(Resource, boolean)
     */
    public boolean hasRDFType( Resource ontClass, boolean direct );

    /**
     *

     * Answer true if this resource is a member of the class denoted by the
     * given class resource.  Includes all available types, so is equivalent to
     *

     * hasRDF( ontClass, false );
     *

     *

     *
     * @param ontClass Denotes a class to which this value may belong
     * @return True if this resource has the given class as one of its rdf:type's.
     * @see Individual#hasOntClass(Resource)
     */
    public boolean hasRDFType( Resource ontClass );

    /**
     *
Remove the statement that this resource is of the given RDF type.  If this statement
     * is not true of the current model, nothing happens.

     * @param cls A resource denoting a class that that is to be removed from the classes of this resource
     * @see Individual#removeOntClass(Resource)
     */
    public void removeRDFType( Resource cls );

    /**
     *

     * Answer true if this resource is a member of the class denoted by the
     * given URI.

     *
     * @param uri Denotes the URI of a class to which this value may belong
     * @return True if this resource has the given class as one of its rdf:type's.
     * @see Individual#hasOntClass(String)
     */
    public boolean hasRDFType( String uri );

    // other utility methods

    /**
     *
Answer the cardinality of the given property on this resource. The cardinality
     * is the number of distinct values there are for the property.

     * @param p A property
     * @return The cardinality for the property p on this resource, as an
     * integer greater than or equal to zero.
     */
    public int getCardinality( Property p );

    /**
     *

     * Set the value of the given property of this ontology resource to the given
     * value, encoded as an RDFNode.  Maintains the invariant that there is
     * at most one value of the property for a given resource, so existing
     * property values are first removed.  To add multiple properties, use
     * {@link #addProperty( Property, RDFNode ) addProperty}.
     *

     *
     * @param property The property to update
     * @param value The new value of the property as an RDFNode, or null to
     *              effectively remove this property.
     */
    public void setPropertyValue( Property property, RDFNode value );

    /**
     *
Answer the value of a given RDF property for this  resource, or null
     * if it doesn't have one.  The value is returned as an RDFNode, from which
     * the concrete data value can be extracted for literals. If the value is
     * a resource, it will present the {@link OntResource} facet.
     * If there is more than one RDF
     * statement with the given property for the current value, it is not defined
     * which of the values will be returned.

     *
     * @param property An RDF property
     * @return An RDFNode whose value is the value, or one of the values, of the
     *         given property. If the property is not defined the method returns null.
     */
   public RDFNode getPropertyValue( Property property );

    /**
     *
Answer an iterator over the values for a given RDF property. Each
     * value in the iterator will be an {@link RDFNode}.

     *
     * @param property The property whose values are sought
     * @return An Iterator over the values of the property
     */
    public NodeIterator listPropertyValues( Property property );

    /**
     *
Remove the specific property-value pair from this resource.

     *
     * @param property The property to be removed
     * @param value The specific value of the property to be removed
     */
    public void removeProperty( Property property, RDFNode value );

    /**
     *
Removes this resource from the ontology by deleting any statements that refer to it,
     * as either statement-subject or statement-object.
     * If this resource is a property, this method will not remove statements
     * whose predicate is this property.

     *
Caveat: Jena RDF models contain statements, not resources per se,
     * so this method simulates removal of an object by removing all of the statements that have
     * this resource as subject or object, with one exception. If the resource is referenced
     * in an RDF List, i.e. as the object of an rdf:first statement in a list cell,
     * this reference is not removed.  Removing an arbitrary rdf:first
     * statement from the midst of a list, without doing other work to repair the list, would
     * leave an ill-formed list in the model.  Therefore, if this resource is known to appear
     * in a list somewhere in the model, it should be separately deleted from that list before
     * calling this remove method.
     *

     */
    public void remove();

    // Conversion methods

    /**
     *
Answer a view of this resource as a property

     * @return This resource, but viewed as an OntProperty
     * @exception ConversionException if the resource cannot be converted to a property
     */
    public OntProperty asProperty();

    /**
     *
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Q: Issue with ClosedReceiveChannelException and Data Binding I'm writing a piece of code which uses Kotlin's coroutines pipilens and Androids Data Binding.
While working i've found that when my couroutine crashes due to the 'ClosedReceiveChannelException' the bound View Model (through Data Binding) doesn't update the 'Data Bound components'.
fun onProcessStart(cachedImageId: String) = viewModelScope.launch {
    text = "Started for image: $cachedImageId"

    try {
        val extractedTextPipe = extractText(cachedImageId)
        val processedTextPipe = processText(extractedTextPipe)
        val processedText = processedTextPipe.receive()
        text = "Finished for image: $cachedImageId"
    } catch (t: Throwable) {
        Log.d("TEST", t.message+ " "+t)
        text = "Failed for image: $cachedImageId with code: ${t.message}"
    }
}

Altough the catch is triggered and the Log.d is present in the logs the text with the new message is never updated.
That wouldn't be a suprise if the following didn't work as well:
 fun onProcessStart(cachedImageId: String) = viewModelScope.launch {
        text = "Started for image: $cachedImageId"

        try {
            throw IllegalStateException()
            text = "Finished for image: $cachedImageId"
        } catch (t: Throwable) {
            Log.d("TEST", t.message+ " "+t)
            text = "Failed for image: $cachedImageId with code: ${t.message}"
        }
    }

The above code works - the text from the catch is updated.
My question is - why once the val processedText = processedTextPipe.receive() throws ClosedReceiveChannelException the text value stops from being updated.
-- edit
This issue can be also observed with the following:
  text = "Started for image: $cachedImageId"

    try {
        delay(10000)
        throw IllegalStateException()
    } catch (t: Throwable) {
        Log.d("TEST", t.message + " " + t + " " + Thread.currentThread().id)
        text = "Failed for image: $cachedImageId with code: ${t.message}"
    }

A: Well - after a good night's sleep I've figured out that I have forgotten to use LiveData in the text field.


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Peter Benchley Books In Order
Jaws (1974) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Deep (1976) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Island (1979) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
The Girl of the Sea of Cortez (1982) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Q clearance (1986) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Rummies / Lush (1989) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Beast (1991) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
White Shark / Peter Benchley's Creature (1994) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Time and a Ticket (1964) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Ocean Planet (1995) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Shark Trouble (2002) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Shark! (2002) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Shark Life (2002) Hardcover Paperback Kindle
Peter Benchley was an American author of mystery and thriller novels best known as the author of Jaws and co-wrote the novel subsequent film adaptation alongside Carl Gottlieb. Several of the author's novels were adapted into movies include, The Island, The Deep, White Shark, and Beast. Later in life, the author came to regret writing such thriller which he felt increased fear and caused unnecessary culls of sharks as predators in the ocean ecosystem. This led him to become an active advocate for marine conservation.
Peter was the son of Marjorie and Nathaniel Benchley. Nat Benchley, his younger brother, is an actor and a writer. Peter was an alumnus of Harvard University, Allen-Stevenson School, and Phillips Exeter Academy. Immediately after graduating from college in 1961, the author traveled across the globe for one year. The experience is narrated in his first book, Time and a Ticket published in 1964. After his return to America, the author spent half a year in the Marine Corps and worked as a reporter for The Washington Post.
By 1971, Peter took several freelance jobs to support his wife and children. It's during this time when he declared making a final attempt as a writer that his agent arranged meetings with several publishers. Jaws was released in 1974 and became a bestseller for 44 weeks. According to Steven Spielberg, the man who directed the film version of the novel stated that he initially found many characters unsympathetic and wanted the shark to win. The film adaptation of Jaws starred Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, and Robert Shaw and was released in the summer of 1975 which was considered as the graveyard season for movies. The film was positively received and grossed over $500 million worldwide.
The Island published in 1979 is a story of the descendants of 17th-century pirates who reign terror in the Caribbean and are the source of Bermuda Triangle Mystery. Peter Benchley wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation. The film starred Michael Caine and David Warner but failed when it premiered in 1980.
In the bestselling novel Jaws by Peter Benchley, we are introduced to a small summer town known as Amity. In this town, people have to make money from tourist trade and of course in the few months when the sun is shining bright. The fourth of July is particular a crucial month when the town's population skyrockets from just 1000 people to 10,000 people in just 24 hours. But unfortunately something deadly and hungry, something that lives in the deep waters is visiting the small town.
Peter Benchley describes in graphic details what this fish does on the next pass. Politics fuel this story and readers get to see the struggles between the town council and Sheriff Martin Brody as the debate about public safety and commerce heats up. If the local town beach is closed down, the town dies with it, but if the beaches are open, then someone must die, and that is a chance that the council feels they have to take.
The author has also created subplots that explain in detail the special interest that controls the decision making of the town council. However, these subplots are not included in the movie version of the book.
Sheriff Brody's wife Ellen plays a bigger role in the narrative. She is not contented with her life, and she feels that she married below her social class when she decided to get married to a police officer. She is from the country club, sailing, tennis and spending money on luxurious things, but she misses more than just clubs and money. She misses her people.
When Matt Hooper returns to town, Brody's wife instantly feels comfortable with him. It turns out that Ellen dated Matt's elder brother David and the memories of that time still flood her even today. Ellen's obsession with Matt creates tension between her husband and Matt. Brody conjectures the worst, and with the shark in the water and piranha on the town council, he does not need any other distraction.
In desperation to finally put an end to the fish menace, the town counsel turn to a local fisherman named Quint. His rates are incredibly high, and at first, he is doing it for the money, but as the fish continues to show higher intelligence and even foxes him severally, he becomes obsessive. Killing the shark becomes his quest.
A couple honeymooning dives off the coast of Bermuda when they discover a shipwreck and a small vial that will forever change their lives. When the two return to their hotel room with the glass vial, a mysterious man approaches them claiming that the glass vial is rare to find but they refuse claiming that they need to find out what is in the vial before they can sell it to anyone.
A man who doesn't even exist hires them to find more of these vials, and the couple soon discovers that the vials contain pure morphine. This only marks the start of their adventure as the couple work with the local light housekeeper to find as many of these vials before they land into the wrong hands.
Two men and a boy are lazing out during one of the hottest hours of the Caribbean day when they discover a cameo that seems to be drifting. They maneuver their boat alongside the cameo, and one of the men reaches out to pull back the tarpaulin, and the reveals whatever it contains and the reader get a jolting shock which reminds them of those first few pages of the bestselling novel, Jaws.
This begins one of the many strange marine incidents that over the years have held different explanations. New York reporter Blair Maynard is shocked by the variety of explanations, but it is not until he arrives to the place where silence reigns and realizes that he is on to something extremely extraordinary.
He lands on the strangest island in the West Indies, and his investigation becomes even more intriguing with each discovery he makes.
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Lack of ingenuity
08 July, 2010 00:00 IST
England's abysmal opening displays in the World Cup were surely attributable in substantial part to the lack, call him what you please, of a playmaker, a midfield general.
No, I never thought Fabio Capello, though I have known, liked and admired him as player and coach since 1973 — being able to speak to him in Italian, rather than endure his broken English, is certainly a help — yet he never claimed to be Professor Frankenstein. Let me explain myself. England's abysmal opening displays in the World Cup were surely attributable in substantial part to the lack, call him what you please, of a playmaker, a schemer, a midfield general. There has alas been nobody since Paul Gascoigne and before that Glenn Hoddle who as the England World Cup manager of 1998, summarily dropped him to his violent despair after he had been drunk on the golf course in training camp.
Both the players could, in an old Italian phrase, "invent the game", do the unexpected, produce the sudden, devastating pass, whether it be a through ball, a cross-field ball, or a pass inside the opposing full back, which will suddenly ignite a dangerous attack.
Yet the odd historical fact is that when such players, such comparative rarities, do emerge, they all too often find themselves mistrusted and excluded by selectors — as in England's past — or team managers. Both Hoddle and Gazza were absurd examples of this negative trend. And the much lauded Bobby Robson, when manager of the England team, initially mistrusted both of them.
When it came to the long legged Hoddle, with his superb right foot, his long and searching passes, there was already as you might say, form. Hoddle's predecessor as manager was Ron Greenwood, dug out of disillusioned retirement, having been for years in charge of what became known as the West Ham United academy of football; which produced three crucial members of England's World Cup winning 1966 team, Bobby Moore, Martin Peters and Geoff 'Hattrick' Hurst.
Yet when Hoddle made a splendid debut against Bulgaria at Wembley, crowning it with a spectacular long range goal, Greenwood promptly dropped him from the next game with the ludicrous words, "Disappointment is part of football".
Robson initially didn't fancy Hoddle at all. He reportedly found him insufficiently combative. When at Hampden Park in 1985, with a pre World Cup tournament in Mexico City imminent, he picked Hoddle against Scotland, he stuck him fatuously out on the right wing. Fortunately the other players knew a trick worth two of those. When it came to the Mexican mini-tournament, they conspired to allow Hoddle to move into the middle.
As for Gascoigne, Robson had some right to call him "daft as a brush". Off the field, his personal life has been a drunken disaster. On it, however, he was a shining talent, technically assured, wonderfully inventive, the possessor of a fierce right foot. Yet for much of the season preceding the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Robson would stick him out on the left flank in the England B team.
Shortly before the World Cup squad was to be announced, Robson picked him for a friendly against the Czechs at Wembley, with the tactless and minatory warning that this would be his last chance to "make" the squad. Surely the worst way to treat so fragile a character. Indeed when the teams lined up in the tunnel prior to taking the field, an agitated Gazza was compulsively kicking a football against the tunnel wall. In the event, however, he went out and played the Czechs off the park and went on to have a wonderful World Cup. Even if, for him, it literally ended in tears, when in the semifinal against Germany in Turin he was booked, meaning that he would miss the final; which England didn't reach.
Robson's hero and role model was in fact Johnny Haynes, for several seasons his team-mate at Fulham, a star turn since at 15 years old he excelled in the schoolboys' international which, a rarity at the time, was televised. Master left-footer of the through pass and the rest. Coming round at long last to Hoddle and his talent, Robson, shortly before the 1986 tournament, declared in England's American training camp that though he had never believed he would see an English playmaker the equal of Haynes, Glenn Hoddle was that man. Which induced me to write at the time that it was interesting to see the Road to Damascus pass through Colorado Springs.
That Haynes himself gave long and sturdy service to Fulham and had some fine games and sometimes goals for England was beyond dispute. But arguably he failed in both his World Cups. In 1958, in Sweden, he was said to be suffering from blistered feet. Certainly he made scant impact on England's games and they failed on a playoff against the Soviets to get out of the group stage.
Forty years later in Chile he was a somewhat morose England captain, once telling the journalists, myself included, "You want us to lose." Of course we didn't but he himself did little to enable us to win. A foreign team's coach said to me, of Haynes, "With England, everything goes through number 10. So what do we do? We put a man on number 10."
Perhaps the most scandalously excluded player was Len Shackleton. First picked for England in a so called Victory International in Glasgow in May 1946, he would win a mere and miserable five caps. Yet as late as 1954, at Wembley, he was part of an England team, for once full of ball players which swept West Germany aside and Shack himself lobbed a sensational goal.
Of course it didn't help that he was an eternal rebel, publishing an autobiography, Clown Prince of Soccer, which notoriously included a chapter, The Average Director's Knowledge of Football, which consisted of a blank page. Nor could it have helped when, training with the England team at Roehampton, Walter Winterbottom, the over academic England manager, told the five forwards to run down the field, inter-passing, then put the ball into the empty goal. Shack looked up wearily. "Which side of the goal, Mr. Winterbottom?" he asked.
One of the cleverest English inside forwards I ever saw including his amazing August 1951 debut for Spurs against a beefy Bolton Wanderers defence at White Hart Lane, was the tiny, seemingly fragile Cockney, Tommy Harmer, master of a splendid repertoire of passes, an exquisite ball player. But needless to say he never got near the England team, either with Spurs and ultimately Chelsea. How it could do with him in South Africa; he, who ended as a messenger with an Anglo-Israeli bank in the City of London. Today, he would have been a millionaire.
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