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Q: first-child problems with jquery Show me another way to write so it finds the first A:
$("UL.tab LI A.selected, UL.tab LI A:first-child").corner("tl:7px bl:7px");

As my Jquery doesnt seem to go for the first A tag!?
Markup:

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A: For your markup you can use the following selector:
$("ul.tabNavigation li:first a").corner("tl:7px bl:7px");

Here is better to use :first selector for
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A: $('ul.tab li a.selected :first')

A: If you want to select the first ANCHOR element (the one that's inside the first LI element), you can do this:
$( 'a:first', '.tabNavigation' )

Usually, you want your "main" elements to be available as references throughout your code (so that you don't have to query them repeatedly). For instance you can retrieve the reference to the UL element beforehand:
var tabnav = $( '.tabNavigation' )[0];

and then when you want to select the first ANCHOR, you do this:
$( 'a:first', tabnav )

This will perform very well.
Similarly, to select the ANCHOR that has the "selected" class:
$( 'a.selected', tabnav )

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The 14 children are among roughly 100 who will be reunited with their families in Britain as part of a fast-track registration scheme.
Fourteen refugee children from the Calais migrant and refugee camp known as the "Jungle" will be reunited with their families in the UK on Monday.
The children, who arrived in Croydon this afternoon, are among roughly 100 accepted to the UK as part of a fast-track registration scheme.
However, they make up only a fraction of the total number of minors in the northern French camp, where conditions have steadily worsened ahead of the planned demolition of the site. Authorities had intended to destroy the settlement on Tuesday, but this may be delayed until next week, according to reports.
As many as 10,000 refugees and migrants – many from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan, and sub-Saharan nations – are caught in limbo in the makeshift camp.
Of those, the Help Refugees charity estimates 387 unaccompanied children in the "Jungle" have a legal right to be in the UK. Other charities suggest the figure may be nearer 150. There are as many as 1,300 unaccompanied children in the camp, according to a census carried out by the French and UK government this year.
Many people have expressed outrage over the tiny number the UK is accepting.
The Home Office declined to confirm to BuzzFeed News exactly how many children were being accepted to the UK under the provision.
In a statement, a spokesperson said home secretary Amber Rudd's priority was to "ensure the safety and security of the children in the Calais camp".
They said: "When she met the French Interior Minister this week, she made it crystal-clear that we intend to transfer as many minors as possible who qualify for transfer to the UK to claim asylum on the basis of close family in the UK under the Dublin Regulation, before the start of the clearance."
Under European Union regulations, unaccompanied children have a legal right to seek asylum in a country other than the first one they land in, if they have relatives in that country.
A spokesperson from Help Refugees told BuzzFeed News that although they were "delighted" some children were starting to arrive, they wanted to see children who qualified under the Alf Dubs amendment also brought to safety.
The House of Lords passed the Alf Dubs amendment in May. It said the UK would also take "vulnerable unaccompanied child refugees" who had arrived in Europe before the controversial Turkey–EU deal.
The Help Refugees spokesperson said: "We also need assurances that the children who will be remaining in France will be provided protection before the demolition."
It comes shortly after court documents revealed that the UK government continues to stall on provisions for unaccompanied child refugees ahead of the Jungle's imminent demolition, and is instead relying on the efforts of voluntary organisations.
Citizens UK, a coalition of charitable organisations based in the UK, said many of the children who had previously been reunited with their families were reunited by charitable – not official – efforts.
The children will be reunited with their families in churches in Croydon, where they must register with the Home Office.
As Calais camp closed and vulnerable children without shelter. Rowan: "this is a matter of great urgency"
The former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is among several religious leaders welcoming the children. The former leader of the Church of England has been prominent in speaking out for child refugees, telling BBC Radio 4's Today that Britain had "a basic moral imperative" to help the children in the camps.


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Stella Jean Asks 'Do Black Lives Matter in Italian Fashion?'
The Italian-Haitian designer and the only Black member of Italy's Camera della Moda speaks to BoF Editor-in-Chief about racism within the country's fashion industry.
LONDON, United Kingdom — For designer Stella Jean, enough is enough. "It's time to turn the page" and demand fashion reform, she said. Last month, alongside Milan-based designer Edward Buchanan, Jean issued letters to Carlo Capasa, president of the Camera della Moda, and to the organisation's 14 executive members in what Jean described as "an historical appeal to bring to the forefront for the first time in our history, the paradoxical taboo topic of racism in Italy… and also to support Black designers who are still invisible in the business of Italian fashion."
In the latest episode of The BoF Podcast, Jean sat down with BoF Founder and Editor-in-Chief Imran Amed to share her personal history growing up the daughter of a Haitian mother and Italian father, discuss the systemic racism within Italy's fashion sector and focus on fostering change.
The self-taught designer, whose clothes have been worn by the likes of Beyoncé, Rihanna and Zendaya, called out fashion giants for making "performative gestures of public support" regarding racism in America, while simultaneously "overlooking what is happening to the Black minority in their own country among its workforce." During the virtual call with Amed, Jean shared that she had received a letter from Capasa regarding the creation of a new unit in the Italian fashion council to tackle racism within the sector. Jean hopes that this will transform her question "do Black lives matter in Italian fashion?'" into the statement "Black lives matter in Italian fashion."
In order to effect change, fashion leaders and executives must have an open discussion about what more can be done to boost diversity within their organisations, Jean said. While brands rushed to post black squares on social media, Jean urged leaders to first address the lack of diversity within their corporate structures. "[Brands] have long preached multiculturalism but have rarely applied such concepts beyond the media window… [and] in the spaces away from the spotlight where no one is watching," she said. "[This is a] wound that we have ignored for far too long… If you don't understand that awareness is the first step in solving the problem, this wound will never heal."
For Jean, who founded the sustainable development initiative Laboratorio delle Nazioni, growing up in the 1980s "and struggling [with] being so diverse from [her] fellow citizens has motivated [her] to find a way to show people not to be afraid of different cultures and colours, but instead to see them… as a chance to grow better and together." Jean recognises fashion as a tool that can offer fair and equitable opportunities for people in low-income countries. When Jean creates a collection she meets and works with various artisans in countries like Peru, Haiti, Burkina Faso, Mali or Pakistan for example, researching and learning about the local indigenous skills to then create a textile or garment, combining the country's traditional craftsmanship with Italian design. "The beauty of fashion is it has no borders," Jean said.
Op-Ed | Fashion Is Part of the Race Problem
Op-Ed | Inclusivity Demands More Than a Show
Fashion's New Stella
Tackling Systemic Racism in the Fashion Industry
Harlem Fashion Row's Brandice Daniel, Black in Fashion Council Co-Founder Sandrine Charles and creative consultant Henrietta Gallina on actionable anti-racism steps brands must take to move the industry forward.
NEW YORK, United States — The anti-racism protests that erupted across the US over the last two months have brought conversations around racism in the fashion industry to the fore. In the latest #BoFLIVE event, BoF's Lauren Sherman spoke with Harlem Fashion Row Chief Executive Brandice Daniel, Sandrine Charles Consultancy Founder Sandrine Charles as well as brand and creative consultant Henrietta Gallina about combatting systemic racism in the fashion industry.
In order to implement meaningful change, brands must introduce clear, public goals for which they are accountable. Vague, performative messages will no longer suffice as employees and consumers put pressure on brands to deliver actionable progress. "When we talk about the problem, I always come back to equity and that's what I'm striving for," said Gallina. "We are no longer asking for the industry to support us, we are asking for the power structures to be rebuilt."
Companies must be holistic in their approach when tackling racism in the workplace. "It absolutely starts at the leadership level and C-suite level," Daniel said. "Black people have set the foundation for the fashion industry but we've never held leadership roles." Hiring a D&I chief, while a step in the right direction, doesn't hold much weight if anti-racism measures aren't implemented throughout the business, both from the bottom up and the top down.
"What's really important is that everyone else acknowledges where they have a privilege in this industry," said Charles, who is also the co-founder of the Black in Fashion Council. "Moving forward, they also have to do the work." Charles, Daniel and Gallina all underscored the importance of introspection and then action, particularly from white and non-Black people. Committed allies are a crucial step to moving the fashion industry forward. "It's essential that we do the work with everyone because there are various spaces that we don't have access to," Charles said.
Fashion Media Called Out Over Workplace Racism
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In the latest special edition of the BoF Podcast, Fendi Creative Director Silvia Venturini Fendi talks to BoF Editor-at-Large Tim Blanks about everything from the future of smart clothing to the end of the fashion show as we know it.
The Rise of The Resale Economy | BoF VOICES
Vestiaire Collective's Max Bittner and Depop's Maria Raga discussed the opportunities and growing pains of the burgeoning resale market at VOICES 2019.
To watch this talk at VOICES 2019 on our YouTube channel click here.
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As a sustainability pioneer long before 'sustainability' became an industry buzzword, Eileen Fisher and her eponymous brand have been pushing the boundaries for decades. Here's what she's learned.
Sandy Liang Takes Risks | Inside Fashion
The New-York based designer discusses the highs and lows of launching a label straight out of fashion school with BoF's Lauren Sherman.

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import numpy as np

class Batch:
    def __init__(self, sz, data, label):
        self.size = sz
        self.data = data
        self.expect = label

class DataSet(object):
    def __init__(self, data, label):
        self.datas = data
        self.expects = label
        self.numBatch = 0

    def batches(self, batch_size):
        batch_range = range(0, len(self.datas), batch_size)
        perm = np.random.permutation(len(self.datas)).tolist()
        batches = [perm[idx:idx + batch_size] for idx in batch_range]
        self.numBatch = len(batches)
        for batch_idx in batches:
            data = [self.datas[p] for p in batch_idx]
            expect = [self.expects[p] for p in batch_idx]
            yield Batch(len(batch_idx), np.array(data), np.array(expect))

"""
VarLenDataSet accepts datasets with variable length
and return data of the same length in one batch
"""

class VarLenDataSet(DataSet):
    def __init__(self, data, label):
        super().__init__(data, label)

        # Group data by length
        group_by_len = {}
        for idx, data in enumerate(self.datas):
            data_len = str(len(data))
            if data_len not in group_by_len:
                group_by_len[data_len] = []
            group_by_len[data_len].append(idx)
        self.group_by_len = list(group_by_len.values())

    def batches(self, batch_size):
        group_perm = np.random.permutation(len(self.group_by_len)).tolist()
        self.numBatch = sum([len(range(0, len(grp), batch_size)) for grp in self.group_by_len])
        for grp_idx in group_perm:
            group = self.group_by_len[grp_idx]
            ing_range = range(0, len(group), batch_size)
            ing_perm = np.random.permutation(len(group)).tolist()
            batches = [ing_perm[idx:idx + batch_size] for idx in ing_range]
            for batch_idx in batches:
                data = [self.datas[group[p]] for p in batch_idx]
                expect = [self.expects[group[p]] for p in batch_idx]
                yield Batch(len(batch_idx), np.array(data), np.array(expect))

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Q: Return different instances for each call using rhino mocks I've got this code:
Expect.Call(factory.CreateOrder())
    .Return(new Order())
    .Repeat.Times(4);

When this is called four times, every time the same instance is returned. I want difference instances to be returned. I would like to be able to do something like:
Expect.Call(factory.CreateOrder())
    .Return(() => new Order())
    .Repeat.Times(4);

Can this be done in some way?

A: Repeat 4 times your expectation by specifying a different return value each time (notice the Repeat.Once())
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
   Expect.Call(factory.CreateOrder()).Repeat.Once().Return(new Order());

UPDATE: I believe the following will work as well:
Expect.Call(factory.CreateOrder())
  .Repeat.Once().Return(new Order())
  .Repeat.Once().Return(new Order())
  .Repeat.Once().Return(new Order())
  .Repeat.Once().Return(new Order());

A: Patrick Steele suggested this extenstion method:
public static IMethodOptions<T> Return<T>(this IMethodOptions<T> opts, Func<T> factory)
{
    opts.Return(default(T));
    opts.WhenCalled(mi => mi.ReturnValue = factory());
    return opts;
}

See his blog entry for more details.

A: Instead of using
.Return(new Order());

Try using
.Do((Func<Order>)delegate() { return new Order(); });

This will call the delegate each time, creating a new object.


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Q: Concurrently using std::regex, defined behaviour?
Is it possible to use a std::regex object in multiple threads all using std::sregex_iterator, std::regex_match, etc.?

For instance, would the following produce logical behaviour:
bool SomeFunc( const std::string& szString1, const std::string& szString2 )
{
     static const std::regex regexTest( "=== ([\\w]+) ===", std::regex_constants::optimize );

     std::future<bool> f = std::async( []( std::string szString ) {
        return std::regex_match( szString, regexTest );
     }, szString1 );

     bool b = std::regex_match( szString2, regexTest );

     return (b && f.get());
}

I can't find anything which states whether using a const std::regex concurrently results in undefined behaviour or not. As far as I can tell, no edits are being made to the regex object so no undefined behaviour should be induced by using it concurrently?
Thanks in advance!

A: Yes, a const std::regex is thread-safe. Actually any const method in the standard library is thread-safe, see:

§17.6.5.9/3. A C++ standard library function shall not directly or
  indirectly modify objects (1.10) accessible by threads other than the
  current thread unless the objects are accessed directly or indirectly
  via the function's non-const arguments, including this.


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Home News LG Introduces New "OLED.EX" Display Tech for Better Picture Quality
LG Introduces New "OLED.EX" Display Tech for Better Picture Quality
Vanshika Malhotra - Last Updated: December 30, 2021 2:55 pm
LG has introduced a new OLED TV display technology called OLED.EX ahead of CES 2022 today. The technology, which is an acronym of "Evolution" and "eXperience," is meant to enhance the overall picture quality by improving the brightness by up to 30% as compared to the conventional OLED screens.
New LG OLED.EX Tech Detailed
The new OLED.EX technology uses the basic self-emissive characteristic of an OLED display, which allows for deeper blacks and accurate colors. But, this isn't the best part. LG applies deuterium compounds to the technology to produce highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes. This can help in stronger light emissions, which, in turn, will improve the picture quality, brightness, and color accuracy without any distortion.
LG has come up with a new way to extract deuterium for this process as the element is 2 times heavier than hydrogen and exists in small quantities.
This is combined with LG's personalized algorithm based on machine learning to improve the tech's efficiency. The algorithm can predict the usage amount of the organic light-emitting diodes (up to 33 million) and based on users' patterns, can control the display's power output to make it more efficient.
In an official blog post, Dr. Oh Chang-ho, Executive Vice President & Head of the TV Business Unit at LG Display said, "With our new OLED.EX technology, we aim to provide even more innovative, high-end customer experiences through the evolution of our OLED technology, algorithms, and designs."
Plus, the new technology will reduce the bezel size of the screen from 6mm to 4mm (for 65-inch OLED screens), thus, calling for an even immersive viewing experience. The OLED.EX technology is expected to be integrated into the OLED TVs, starting from the second quarter of 2022.
LG has also announced that it will showcase the new Transparent OLED solutions at the upcoming CES 2022 event, which starts on 5th January. More display technologies and TVs are expected too, so stay tuned for our in-depth coverage.
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Judgment Lien (7)
Lawsuits Involving Financial Matters (11)
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Keyword(s): Failure to Respond to CFP Board; Professional Discipline; Employer Policy Violation; Diligence; Court Order Violation; Fitness
Standard(s) Violated: Article 406; 606(b); 607; 606(a); 701; 201
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he did not respond to a complaint issued to him by CFP Board.
Keyword(s): Suitability; Fitness; Misuse of the Marks; Settlement; Arbitration; Customer Complaints; Professionalism
Standard(s) Violated: Article 606(b); 601; 607; 4.2; 606(a); 201
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when she: 1) engaged in a pattern of recommending that clients invest their entire retirement savings in unsuitable variable annuities and sub-account allocations, as evidenced by four National Association of Securities Dealers ("NASD," now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. or "FINRA") arbitrations; and 2) when she used "cfp" after her name on her Web site.
Keyword(s): Court Order Violation; Borrowing from Client; Professionalism; Securities Laws Violation
Standard(s) Violated: Article 607; Article 3(a); 606(b); 201
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he borrowed money from clients and sold unregistered securities in violation of a state consent order.
Keyword(s): Diligence; Disclosure to Clients; Fitness; Customer Complaints; Arbitration; Employer Policy Violation; Professionalism
Standard(s) Violated: Article 606(b); 201; 406; 606(a); 607; Article 3(a); 701; 102
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) failed to clarify his lack of involvement in recommending and endorsing a particular investment to his clients; and 2) executed transactions on a client's behalf without first confirming that the proper written authorization was in place.
Keyword(s): Fiduciary Duty; Professionalism; Commission/Compensation; Disclosure to Clients; Commingling; Suitability; Diligence; Client's Best Interest; Fitness
Standard(s) Violated: Article 402; 610; 607; 703; 103(e); 702(a); Article 3(a); 201; 405; 701; 103(d); 202
Matter Type(s): Client Dissatisfaction; Professionalism; Civil Court
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct ("Standards") when he performed financial planning services for a client's ("Client") father ("Client's Father") without providing to the Client's Father a written financial planning agreement and written disclosures and when he received the Client's Father's funds through a bank account controlled by Respondent.
Keyword(s): Fitness; Misrepresentation; Advertising; Disclosure to Clients; Professional Discipline; Fraud Related to Professional Activity; Diligence
Standard(s) Violated: Article Article 3(a); 101(b); 201; 402; 607; 606(b); 102; 606(a); 705; 401(a)
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he knowingly offering securities despite inaccurate financial projections set forth in a private placement memorandum.
Keyword(s): Diligence; Fitness; Professionalism; Fraud Related to Professional Activity; Misrepresentation; Professional Discipline; Advertising; Disclosure to Clients
Standard(s) Violated: Article 102; 401(a); 402; 201; 606(a); Article 3(a); 606(b); 607; 101(b)
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when she knowingly offered securities despite inaccurate financial projections set forth in a private placement memorandum.
Keyword(s): Professional Discipline; Employer Policy Violation; Failure to Respond to CFP Board; Securities Laws Violation; Diligence; Serious Crime; Fraud Related to Professional Activity; Fitness
Standard(s) Violated: Article 606(b); 406; Article 3(e); 201; 606(a); Article 3(c); Article 3(a); 607; 102
Matter Type(s): SEC Discipline
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when when he did not respond to a Complaint issued to him by CFP Board.
Keyword(s): Professional Discipline; Felony-Theft; Embezzlement or Other Financial; Securities Laws Violation; Competency; Fitness; Misrepresentation; Fraud Related to Professional Activity; Interim Suspension
Standard(s) Violated: Article 201; 607; Article 3(c); 606(b); 606(a); 102; 406; 302; Article 3(a)
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) sold securities to clients while not licensed to do so; 2) promised investors large returns and guaranteed their principal on fraudulent investments; and 3) pleaded guilty to a felony investment fraud charge.
Keyword(s): Employer Policy Violation; Fraud Related to Professional Activity; Felony-Non-Violent Crime; Misrepresentation; Fitness
Standard(s) Violated: Article 102; 607
Matter Type(s): Criminal Court
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct by pleading no contest to a third-degree felony for transmitting materials harmful to a minor, when adjudication was withheld.
Keyword(s): Professionalism; Customer Complaints; Arbitration; Unauthorized Transaction; Professional Discipline; Securities Laws Violation; Fitness
Standard(s) Violated: Article Article 3(a); 701; 606(a); 607; 201; 606(b)
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when she executed trades in a trust account without the trustee's authorization.
Keyword(s): Failure to Register; Professionalism; Client's Best Interest; Borrowing from Client; Interim Suspension; Failure to Respond to CFP Board; Suitability
Standard(s) Violated: Article Article 3(f); Article 3(a); 606(b); 607; 201; 202; 703
Summary: Whether a CFP® certificant violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) did not prepare a financial plan for a client ("Client") after agreeing to do so; 2) borrowed money from the Client; 3) recommended and sold a viatical to the Client, who was 85 years old at the time, when Respondent was not licensed to do so; and 4) did not provide an Answer to CFP Board's Complaint.
Keyword(s): Commingling; Professionalism; Borrowing from Client; Client's Best Interest
Standard(s) Violated: Article 602; Article 3(a); 607; 201
Summary: Whether a CFP® certificant ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he borrowed $70,000 from his client's margin account to invest in a business owned and controlled by Respondent's wife.
Keyword(s): Fitness; Outside Business Activity; Employer Policy Violation; Unauthorized Transaction; Arbitration
Standard(s) Violated: Article Article 3(a); 406; 606(a); 606(b); 607
Summary: Whether a CFP® certificant violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when his employer ("Broker Dealer") found that he had violated its policies by signing documents for a client without written authorization from the Broker Dealer and by not reporting outside activities to the Broker Dealer.
Keyword(s): Diligence; Professional Discipline; Supervision; Securities Laws Violation; Fitness; Failure to Notify CFP Board
Standard(s) Violated: Article 606(b); 607; 701; 606(a); 201; Article 3(a)
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) failed to conduct adequate due diligence of investments that he recommended to clients; and 2) entered into a settlement agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") in which he agreed to a one-year bar from associating with any investment adviser.
Keyword(s): Commission/Compensation; Supervision; Professional Discipline; Fitness; Employer Policy Violation
Standard(s) Violated: Article 406; Article 3(a); 607; 606(b); 201
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) persistently failed to properly document customer transactions and was subsequently terminated by his firm and investigated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. ("FINRA", formerly known as the National Association of Securities Dealers, or "NASD"); and 2) continued to act as a compliance officer in some capacity, despite entering into a Letter of Understanding wherein he agreed to no longer act as a compliance officer.
Keyword(s): Judgment Lien; Fitness; Settlement; Bankruptcy
Standard(s) Violated: Article 607; Article 3(a)
Matter Type(s): Civil Court
Summary: Whether an applicant for reinstatement of his CFP® certification violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he filed for bankruptcy in 2004 and accrued various judgment liens.
Keyword(s): Diligence; Employer Policy Violation; Conflict of Interest; Borrowing from Client
Standard(s) Violated: Article Article 3(a); 406; 201; 606(b); 409; 607
Matter Type(s): Professionalism; Civil Court
Summary: Whether a CFP® professional ("Respondent") violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) accepted a $100,000 loan from a client, which violated his firm's policy against borrowing from clients; 2) failed to repay the client's loan according to the original terms of the promssory note; 3) failed to disclose any potential conflicts of interest and the risks associated with the promissory note; 4) failed to determine whether the promissory note he executed with his client was appropriate for his client; 5) allowed the client to purchase a piece of real estate for Respondent's benefit; and 6) failed to disclose any potential conflicts of interest and the risks associated with the client's purchase of a piece of real estate.
Keyword(s): Fitness; Settlement; Professional Discipline; Misdemeanor; Customer Complaints; Arbitration
Standard(s) Violated: Article Article 3(a); 606(a); 607
Matter Type(s): Other Professional Discipline; Client Dissatisfaction; FINRA Arbitration; Civil Court
Summary: Whether a candidate for CFP® certification violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when: 1) multiple clients filed customer complaints and arbitrations against him; and 2) a state division of securities issued an order of intent to revoke his state securities license.
Keyword(s): Diligence; Failure to Respond to CFP Board; Fitness; Bankruptcy; Client's Best Interest; Disclosure to CFP Board; Commingling; Borrowing from Client; Fraud Related to Professional Activity
Standard(s) Violated: Article 606(b); 102; 409; Article 3(a); 607; 201; 704; 103(d)
Keyword(s): Fitness; Settlement; Judgment Lien
Summary: Whether an applicant for reinstatement of his CFP® certification violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct due to his involvement in a 2007 Internal Revenue Service tax lien in the amount of $143,503.33.
Keyword(s): Fitness; Failure to Notify CFP Board; Settlement; Misdemeanor; DUI/DWI
Standard(s) Violated: Article Article 3(a); Article 3(c); Article 3(e); 607
Summary: Whether a candidate for CFP® certification violated CFP Board's Standards of Professional Conduct when he pleaded guilty to a Driving Under the Influence charge in 2008, and did not notify CFP Board within 10 days of his criminal conviction.


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A super-relaxed Annie Seel shares her thoughts and feelings the day before it all really gets going.
Annies focus is now clearly on Dakar 2016.
Tomorrow is the 3rd of January: the prolog in Buenos Aires, then laison to Rosario. A year of planning and preparation is finally over. Today Annie and her co-driver Bert Heskes (NL) will take their Dessert Warrior through scrutineering.
Annie's passion for the"hardest rally-raid in the world" is tangible. The goose bumps that she shows me on her arms as she tells me that "Today, things finally get serious" are infectious, maybe signaling an end to Annies laid-back run-up to the over 9000 km trial of (wo)man and machine.
We talk of Annie's primary goal of completing the Dakar for the first time on 4 wheels (after 5 finishes on 2) and of how the tinyest problem can lead to a retirement when unfortunate circumstances and coincidence are combined. Being the fastest female is also on Annie's to-do list!
Annie is known for keeping her head under pressure, and she is quietly confident of her, as yet unproven, co-driver Bert Heskes. Bert says that they have a natural understanding of each other, making communication simple. Bert comes with a depth of mechanical experience, having raced his own Dessert Warrior for several years.
The Desert Warriors gleaming paint is as yet unscarred. The bonnet displaying the names of many of Annies micro-sponsors. Again this year Annie is being supported by many of her fans, some who have bought a kilometer of Annie race, and others have contributed to see their names on the bright yellow bodywork.
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Ingen annan svensk har gjort det tidigare: kört Dakarrallyt i både bil och motorcykelklassen.
I januari blir Annie Seel historisk.
–Känns kul att ta ledarflaggan när jag hållit på med motorsport så länge, säger Seel till SVT Sport.
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Idag höll jag presskonferens inför min historiska start i Dakarrallyt 4 jan 2015.
Intresset var stort och alla "stora" media har gjort intervjuer.
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All stages of the Dakar 2015 are now official.
I'm very content with my Simpson neck protection, just great! Stabilizing when reading the roadbook, I get no neck ache. I put it on before race start and won't take it off until finished the stage, regardless what I must do in between.
Garry has as an ordinary type of neck guard; no good, he says – it fits badly, difficult to to take on and off when working with the car.
I have two Sabelt overalls from LM Motorsport. After the feshy stage that smeared everything it was nice to have a clean overall, while the service team washes the dirty.
* The photo: last day sunbathing, then I'm two weeks fully covered by the overall during rally.
The Bell helmet from G Partners is awsome, keeps all dust out.
I'm very greatful to all my sponsors.
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Even though I'm an adult living in adult-world, I'm still a teacher, which means that I still use academic planners! They just work so much better for my life than a traditional January-December spread would.
Right now, I'm using a pretty Karen Adams Designs agenda. I still have my Passion Planner, but I'm not using it quite as much now that school's out. I'm lucky if I have one thing scheduled each day (#teacherproblems).
After quite a bit of "research", I ultimately went with the Plum Paper Planner (more on that later)! However, here are the top three others I had it narrowed down to and why!
Here are my favorite 2017-2018 academic planners!
Let's start with the obvious: It's pretty! Who wouldn't get excited about seeing their plans surrounded in colorful Lilly artwork?
Tabs: I'm a HUGE fan of monthly tabs! They make planning so much easier!
Stickers: The Lilly Stickers are so cute and add a lot of happiness to your traditional monthly layout.
Size Choices: With four size choices, it's easy to choose the one that works best for you, whether you want to keep it on your desk or carry it around with you all day!
Durable: The faux leather cover keeps your planner safe, even when it's buried deep in your purse!
Blank and Grid Sheets: "I'll never use all these extra sheets!" I thought when I got my first Passion Planner. Ha! I keep so many lists back there that it's ridiculous!
Monthly Reflection Pages: We know that we should be reflecting on ourselves all the time, but it can be hard to remember! A reflection page follows each monthly spread, keeping you always striving to be your best and brightest self!
Daily Plans: The 30-minute intervals keep me on track. They also keep me from overscheduling myself (like I like to do). It's so easy to block out time (and to see large blocks of wasted time)!
Customizable Weekly Spread: My all-time favorite planner had this feature and I still miss it! Type six different areas of your life (classes, kids, etc.) to keep everything on track each week!
Editable: Type in your own plans, use your own fonts, write your own reminders. There is just something more professional-looking about typing out your plans!
Printable: Some people don't like planners that you print and bind yourself. However, I do because you put them in whatever order you want and eliminate pages you don't need!
Bright Colors: It's not hard to get me to spend my money… just show me some bright colors and I'm asking where to put my credit card information!
Of course, there are hundreds of academic planners out there! These are just the three that I found the most exciting (today)! I am always on the lookout for the best planners each season!
Any tips for finding planners? Do you have a favorite academic planner? Would you recommend it to others? Why or why not?


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American National Parks Resources
Posted Oct. 22,. 2010 Compiled by AUSTEN GREGERSON
us-parks.com — This is a website started in 2000 by self-proclaimed "nature enthusiasts". While this does mean someone searching for scientific information would need to look elsewhere, that doesn't mean the site is without use. US-Parks.com does have a fairly impressive amount of information on parks all across the country, and for someone just planning a weekend getaway to one of their listed destinations, one could do much worse in regards for consumer information.
TerraGalleria.com — As the name suggests, this site is a great resource for those wanting a review of some of the country's national parks in photos. Somewhat disappointing is the amount of stylized photos over pure, simple nature shots, but the latter isn't entirely unrepresented. Around 50 different parks are on display here, with a map and regional breakdown to further simplify the categorization of the information. The site could use a bit of a facelift, but the quality of the photos it contains is still impressive.
desertusa.com — Because all national parks don't necessarily have trees in them. The strongest aspect of this site is in its glossary of desert geology, because it's nice to know whether or not the rocks you're staring at are igneous or sedimentary. It may be too commercially-leaning for the scientific minded, but for the layman, it works just fine.
National Geographic — A little easier on the eyes than most of the other sites on the list, National Geographic lends its name as an assurance of quality information where others give off too much of a "bloggy" feel to it. Sixty individual parks are given their own personal pages at the bottom, each with its own summary of the park, including a map of its location and some of the flora and fauna that reside there.
Sierra Club — The famous wildlife and nature conservationist group continues its strides towards saving the existing environment online. While a little light on information specific to national parks, its strength lies in discussing some of the major current issues facing the environment, such as global warming and pollution. Each state has their own personal page on the site, giving more focused information on the area you would wish to research. A great place to begin when looking for story ideas.
UntraveledRoad — For the road warrior in search of how to best explore the national park system, this site offers a fairly in-depth look at what and how to see the country from your car. Pictures and descriptions are available for most national parks, but there are enough empty links to raise a concern for its overall handiness. A little more effort into the site would make it significantly more useful.
Wildlife Foundation of Florida — Much like the Sierra Club, but with a focus solely on the Sunshine State. Environmental disasters, such as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, find themselves strewn across the website's pages, full of useful information for someone looking to research further into the subject. A great way to get in contact with wildlife officials and experts from the state of Florida.
Yellowstone Park Foundation — The official fundraising arm of Yellowstone National Park. Contact information for the United State's first national park is the single biggest tool for this site, but it does include a few other useful pages, such as news briefs and current projects for the site. An offshoot of its National Parks Service website.
Everglades National Park — This website at first turned me off due to its old-school web design, but there is useful information to be had. Lists of the different birds, amphibians, flora and the like all come with a brief description of what they're like in the region and some of the issues facing them. Good for a jumping point, but may not be the most reliable source for hard facts.
GORP — Funny name, useful information. While geared toward the weekend warrior, the shear amount of park guides at hand for all 50 states (and international state parks as well) makes it a still very useful tool. Photo galleries of the parks are much more representative of the parks than some other sites.
Glacier National Park — Much along the lines of the Everglades National Park website, this site is full of information wrapped in an ugly package. Good tool, but probably no reason to go here over the National Parks Service site.
SmokeyBear.com — Everyone's favorite anti-forest fire bear has his own website, and while aimed at teaching children about the dangers of a matchbook and a can of kerosene, the contact information provided still proves itself to be very useful. And plus, you can't talk about National Parks without also mentioning Smokey the Bear.
OhRanger.com — Many similarities to GORP.com, yet nuanced in its feature to ask national park questions to an "expert", much in the fashion of Ask.com or WikiAnswers. State and national parks are broken down by state, along with a comprehensive search engine, thus allowing ease of access in finding the park you're looking for. If the experts answering questions are in fact what they say they are, OhRanger.com would easily surpass GORP in usability.
National Biological Information Infrastructure — Another good source for researching the issues facing the environment, including national parks. Operated by the U.S. Geological Survey's Biological Informatics Office, information found here can be more trustworthy than other random sites. A great, if not necessary, tool for investigation.
Bureau of Land Management — Their mission statement is at the bottom of the page, and it pretty much summarizes what they aim to do: "to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations." As a government site it is subject to speculation on some of the data they present, but as a source for official opinions regarding public lands, you can't do any better.
3-D Parks — A fun little website to see some of the national parks in three-dimensions, it has been temporarily shut down for "review" (which may end up being a permanent closure). Not much here as far as hard fact finding goes, but nonetheless an interesting way to see how the government has been trying to repackage and gain interest in the national park system.
National Parks Conservation Association — Another great source for finding current issues with national parks. It mirrors many ways of the Sierra Club, but with an added emphasis on the national parks system. Once again, contact information for expert opinions might be the best part of the site.
New York Times National Parks Travel Guide — A bit of a surprise on the list, the Old Gray Lady throws herself into the ring of national parks. More stories are shown here over hard facts, but regardless a great way to find new angles on some of the rehashed stories told about the parks.
El Yunque Peak — Hey, Puerto Rico may not be a state, but it still has a mountain worth talking about. Also named the Caribbean National Forest, it was included in the National park system in 1903. The site itself gives facts on the height, elevation, and topography of the mountain, although it does lean too far towards hiking for a purely investigative purpose.
National Park Foundation — Again, while this is the fundraising arm of the national park system, it is still a useful tool for those looking for broader information in regards to one of their popular parks. A brief overview of each park comes with a few useful links to other websites, including nps.gov.
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Maldegem (460 inhabitants) is located in the arrondissement of Eeklo.
The flag is: Or, a cross Gules, in each of the corners accompanied by three ducks Gules, placed at the borders of the flag. Proportions are 2:3.
"The arms were granted on September 27, 1909. The arms are derived from the old arms of the Lords of Maldegem. The first known arms of a Lord of Maldegem date from 1307. Philips, Lord of Maldegem, used a seal with a knight holding a shield with a cross and 12 merles. In the Gelre Roll of Arms from the early 14th century the arms of the Lords of Maldegem are shown as gold, with a red cross and 12 red merles."
For some obscure reason the merles (Dutch: merlettes) have become ducks, with beaks.
The flag was adopted on 5 October 1988.


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TensorFlow Time Series (TFTS) is a collection of ready-to-use classic models
(state space, autoregressive), and flexible infrastructure for building
high-performance time series models whatever the architecture. It includes tools
for chunking and batching a series, and for saving model state across chunks,
making use of parallel computation even when training sequential models on long
series (using truncated backpropagation).

To get started, take a look at the `examples/` directory, which includes:

 - Making probabilistic forecasts (`examples/predict.py`)
 - Using exogenous features to train on data with known anomalies/changepoints (`examples/known_anomaly.py`)
 - Learning correlations between series (multivariate forecasting/anomaly
   detection; `examples/multivariate.py`)
 - More advanced custom model building (`examples/lstm.py`)

TFTS includes many other modeling tools, including non-linear autoregression
(see the `hidden_layer_sizes` argument to `ARRegressor` in `estimators.py`) and
a collection of components for linear state space modeling (level, trend,
period, vector autoregression, moving averages; see the
`StructuralEnsembleRegressor` in `estimators.py`). Both model classes support
heuristics for ignoring un-labeled anomalies in training data. Trained models
can be exported for inference/serving in
[SavedModel format](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/python/saved_model/README.md)
(see `examples/multivariate.py`).


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Analyzing obviousness and anticipation challenges to claims directed to an isolated component of a prior art mixture
Theodore Chiacchio
In pursuing the most efficient production of a drug material (i.e., the active pharmaceutical ingredient in a drug product) exhibiting optimal potency for the therapeutic endpoint of interest, chemists and drug companies explore strategies for removing or minimizing impurities in that drug material that do not contribute to such potency. For example, where a drug material consists of a racemic mixture of enantiomers, one may wish to explore whether the activity of the drug in fact resides with a single enantiomer within the racemic mixture. When formulating an argument regarding the patentability over the prior art (or lack thereof) of a patent claim directed to an isolated component of a prior art mixture, it is worthwhile to step back and consider from which analytical framework it will likely be most advantageous to present one's argument, taking into consideration potentially applicable Federal Circuit case law. For example, one might analyze the issue by viewing the purified drug material as a species; i.e., relative to the genus/racemic mixture. It is also conceivable that one might liken the purified drug material to a range within a larger range and apply a burden-shifting framework such as that which the Federal Circuit applied in Galderma. See Galderma Labs., L.P. v. Tolmar, Inc., 737 F.3d 731 (Fed. Cir. 2013). In short, arguments could be made for applying several different potential modes of analysis. It is, therefore, worthwhile to examine how the Federal Circuit has dealt with obviousness and anticipation challenges to patent claims directed to an isolated component of a prior art mixture.
Obviousness
As a general rule, disclosure of a drug material comprised of a mixture of components, without more, does not render obvious a specific component of that mixture. See, e.g., In re May, 574 F.2d 1082, 1090 (CCPA 1978); Sanofi-Synthelabo v. Apotex, Inc., 550 F.3d 1075, 1084 (Fed. Cir. 2008). The Federal Circuit has held that, if the prior art discloses a drug material comprised of a mixture of compounds and the activity of the drug material is known to reside with one particular component of the prior art mixture/drug material, or if the prior art provides reason to believe this is so, then there will generally be found to be motivation to purify the mixture and isolate the active component even without an express teaching to this effect. Aventis Pharma Deutschland GmbH v. Lupin Ltd., 499 F.3d 1293, 1301 (Fed. Cir. 2007) ("Requiring an explicit teaching to purify the 5(S) stereoisomer from a mixture in which it is the active ingredient is precisely the sort of rigid application of the TSM test that was criticized in KSR."); see also Spectrum Pharms., Inc. v. Sandoz Inc., 802 F.3d 1334 (Fed. Cir. 2015). In such instances, isolation of the purified component will be prima facie obvious even without an express teaching in the prior art to isolate the component. Aventis Pharma Deutschland, 499 F.3d at 1301. The Federal Circuit has explained that "[o]rdinarily, one expects a concentrated or purified ingredient to retain the same properties it exhibited in a mixture, and for those properties to be amplified when the ingredient is concentrated or purified; isolation of interesting compounds is a mainstay of the chemist's art. If it is known how to perform such an isolation, doing so is likely the product not of innovation but of ordinary skill and common sense." Id. at 1302 (internal quotations omitted). As noted in Spectrum, "[a] physician would not likely want to administer a contaminant or a less pure material to a patient if one could use a pure material. Thus, there is always in such cases a motivation to aim for obtaining a pure, resolved material." Spectrum Pharms., 802 F.3d at 1334-35.
The above Federal Circuit guidance, however, concerns instances where the component of interest is known to exist within the prior art mixture and is known to be responsible for the beneficial physical, chemical, and/or biological properties of the mixture, or the prior art provides reason to believe this is so. The Federal Circuit has recognized, however, that "[i]t may not be known that the purified component is present in or an active ingredient of the mixture," and where this is the case, the court has held that "[s]uch a purified compound is not always prima facie obvious over the mixture." Aventis Pharma Deutschland, 499 F.3d at 1301. In such instances, courts will default back to an analysis of the structural similarities/differences between the claimed component and the other component(s) of the prior art drug material known to exhibit the desired properties in assessing obviousness. Id. at 1302. The Federal Circuit engaged in such an analysis in Aventis. On this issue, the court reasoned as follows:
The record suggests that when Dr. Smith synthesized SCH 31925, she understood that the 5(S) form of Ramipril was the mixture's therapeutically active ingredient. Even if she did not, however, the prior art provides a sufficient reason to look to the 5(S) configuration. The SCH31925 composition contained only the 5(S) and SSSSR stereoisomers of ramipril. Importantly, the forms differ by the configuration of only one carbon atom, and that atom is not one of the "bridgehead" carbons.
Id. at 1302.
Where it has been shown that the claimed component was known to exist in the prior art mixture and was known to be responsible for the beneficial properties of that mixture, the patentee can establish nonobviousness by showing that the isolated component exhibits unexpectedly superior properties relative to the prior art mixture. Aventis Pharma Deutschland, 499 F.3d at 1302; see also Sanofi-Synthelabo, 550 F.3d at 1089-90.
A patentee may also escape an obviousness finding based in whole or in part on the process used to isolate the desired component. For example, where the patentee has shown that the isolated component exhibits unexpected results, the fact that the process used to purify the prior art mixture would be a challenge for the person of ordinary skill in the art to carry out will further weigh in favor of a nonobviousness finding. Forest Labs., Inc. v. IVAX Pharms., Inc., 501 F.3d 1263, 1269 (Fed. Cir. 2007). Consistent with the foregoing, the Federal Circuit has held that where the process used to isolate the desired component from a prior art mixture is inventive, this may support a finding of nonobviousness of the component. Mylan Institutional LLC v. Aurobindo Pharma Ltd., 857 F.3d 858 (Fed. Cir. 2017); Aventis Pharma Deutschland, 499 F.3d at 1301.
Relatedly, the Federal Circuit has analyzed how enablement principles tie in to these sorts of obviousness analyses, understanding that the prior art need not, strictly speaking, enable the claimed subject matter as is necessary with anticipation. The Federal Circuit has held that even where the specific pieces of prior art relied upon do not enable one of ordinary skill in the art to isolate the desired component from the prior art mixture, the purified component will be held obvious where the "whole spectrum of prior art available before the invention was made would have enabled one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the [purified] compound." Spectrum Pharms., 802 F.3d at 1335-36 (citing Aventis Pharma Deutschland, 499 F.3d at 1301). Where the prior art as a whole does not enable purification of the desired component, however, the purified component may be nonobvious. Mylan Institutional, 857 F.3d at 871.
The above discussion concerns obviousness challenges to a patent claim directed to a purified component of a prior art mixture (for example, an enantiomer isolated from a racemic mixture); but what about where anticipation is argued? Under what circumstances will disclosure of a prior art mixture be viewed as constituting disclosure of a specific component of that mixture so as to anticipate a claim directed to that component?
The Federal Circuit has analyzed this issue as a genus-species issue. See e.g., Sanofi-Synthelabo, 550 F.3d at 1083-84. In Sanofi-Synthelabo the court re-affirmed the principle that "whether a generic disclosure necessarily anticipates everything within the genus … depends on the factual aspects of the specific disclosure and the particular products at issue." Id. at 1083. More directly relevant to this discussion, the court held that "general statements that these compounds consist of enantiomers [do not] constitute[] an anticipating disclosure of the [specific claimed] enantiomer…." Id. at 1084. Similarly, the court held that "[t]he knowledge that enantiomers may be separated is not 'anticipation' of a specific enantiomer that has not been separated, identified and characterized." Id. Along these same lines, a prior art reference disclosing a racemic mixture will not enable a later claim directed to a specific enantiomer, as is necessary for an anticipation finding, where it does not expressly teach how to separate out the desired enantiomer. Id. at 1085; see also Forest Labs., In, 501 F.3d at 1268-69.
Take-aways
Based on the governing Federal Circuit case law, where the patent claim at issue is directed to a specific component (such as a specific enantiomer) of a prior art mixture (such as a racemic drug material), it does not appear that there is anything to be gained by a patent challenger, from an anticipation standpoint, simply by virtue of the fact that the specific component inherently exists within that prior art mixture/composition. In other words, while a claim to such an isolated component may potentially be vulnerable to an anticipation attack, the anticipatory reference needs to specifically identify and characterize the component, and must teach how to isolate the component. Absent this sort of "slam dunk" scenario, a patent challenger's success is likely to rise or fall with the merits of its obviousness argument(s). The critical factors in the obviousness analysis will likely be whether the claimed component was known to be responsible for the activity of the prior art mixture/composition; whether the process used to isolate the claimed component was challenging, or better yet still from the patentee's perspective, whether the process was inventive; whether the prior art as a whole would have enabled one of ordinary skill in the art to isolate the claimed component; and whether the claimed component exhibits any unexpectedly superior properties relative to the prior art mixture/composition.
is the Founder and Owner of Chiacchio IP, LLC, a law firm that specializes in intellectual property law. Mr. Chiacchio has been practicing intellectual property law for over 15 years. He regularly prepares and prosecutes U.S. patent and trademark applications. Mr. Chiacchio counsels clients regarding a wide range of intellectual property issues, including patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret issues. Mr. Chiacchio prepares cease-and-desist letters for clients whose intellectual property rights are being infringed or misappropriated. Mr. Chiacchio has also spent well over a decade litigating intellectual property disputes on behalf of his clients. He has served as lead trial counsel in federal trademark infringement, copyright infringement, and trade secret misappropriation litigation; and has played an integral role in five patent infringement trials.
For more information or to contact Mr. Chiacchio, please visit his Firm Profile Page.
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On the obviousness front, this is a well-recognized situation wherein "obvious to try" has far greater leeway.


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Helena Maria Ferreira Fernandes (Rio de Janeiro, 19 de outubro de 1967) é uma atriz e ex-modelo brasileira. É casada com o diretor José Alvarenga Júnior.

Biografia
Helena começou a trabalhar como modelo em 1985, estampando várias campanhas publicitárias. Em 1994 estreou como atriz em uma pequena participação na telenovela de Carlos Lombardi, Quatro por Quatro. O sucesso, porém, veio um pouco mais tarde na telenovela Quem É Você?, de Ivani Ribeiro, onde interpretou a amarga Nádia. Devido ao grande destaque da atriz, foi convida a integrar o time do seriado infantil Caça Talentos, onde deu vida a Silvana, a antagonista principal. Acostumada a interpretar vilãs, como notado em Sítio do Picapau Amarelo e Canavial de Paixões onde interpretou a Raquel no SBT, em 2005 deu uma chance para a comédia interpretando a personagem Ipanema de Jesus no seriado A Diarista. A personagem fez tanto sucesso, que de participação especial se tornou personagem fixo.

Com o fim de A Diarista, em 2007, fez uma pequena participação em Malhação, no mesmo ano. Em 2008, a convite da autora Andréa Maltarolli, entrou para o elenco de Beleza Pura, onde viveu Márcia, uma jornalista que formava um pentágono amoroso com as personagens de Antonio Calloni, Guilherme Fontes, Soraya Ravenle e Reginaldo Faria. Ainda em 2008, participou de um dos episódios da série Faça Sua História. Em 2009, convidada por Maria Mariana e Glória Barreto, entrou novamente para o elenco de Malhação, interpretando dessa vez um papel completamente diferente do que interpretou da outra vez: em 2007, interpretou a "perua" Scarleth, ajudante de Bruna Capettini (Gabriella Vigol); já em 2009, viveu Úrsula, a inescrupulosa mãe de Caio, vilão interpretado por Humberto Carrão. Com o fim da temporada 2009 de Malhação, chegou a ser escalada para a então novela das 19h da Globo, Tempos Modernos, na qual interpretaria Luciana, mas essa participação acabou não ocorrendo, já que nem a personagem nem a atriz entraram na trama. Em 2011, foi escalada para Insensato Coração, de Gilberto Braga e Ricardo Linhares.

Em 2014 á 2015 entrou novamente no elenco de Malhação Sonhos, vivendo Lucrécia Gardel, mãe da Jade Gardel, a sua personagem era uma ex-bailarina e futuramente se tornou professora de dança na Ribalta.

No cinema, participou dos filmes Se Eu Fosse Você e À Deriva, participou da dublagem do filme Os Incríveis, e foi especialmente convidada pela Delart para dublar a versão de Alice no País da Maravilhas produzida por Tim Burton. Depois de 12 anos na Rede Globo, a atriz decide assinar contrato com a RecordTV para interpretar a antagonista principal de Belaventura. sucessora de Escrava Mãe.

Em fevereiro de 2019 volta a Rede Globo para a novela das 7, Bom Sucesso, de Rosane Svartman e Paulo Halm que estreia no final de julho do mesmo ano.

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Helena namorou o fotógrafo André Telles entre 1987 e 1993, tendo com ele seu primeiro filho, Yan Telles, nascido em 1988. Em 1995 começou a namorar o diretor José Alvarenga Júnior, com quem se casou em 1998. Em 2003 nasce seu segundo filho, Antônio, sendo o primeiro do casal. No mesmo ano anuncia sua terceira gravidez, nascendo em 7 de março de 2004 seu terceiro filho, Lucas.

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"Samsung hasn't really caught up with the competition with AI," said Ronan De Renesse, practice leader for consumer technology at Ovum, a market researcher. "But do they really need to?"
Google's YouTube Red, the online video platform's premium ad-free subscription-based offering, is soon heading for global expansion, bringing its global market availability in line with Netflix and Amazon Video.
According to Ovum's OTT Video Subscription Service Provider Forecast: Middle East and Africa, 2011–22, there will be 12.94 million premium online video subscribers at the end of 2018. Africa will beunderdeveloped at 1.31 million subscribers; but the Middle East presents strong uptake of subscription-based video on-demand(SVOD) and subscription-based linear online video (SLIN) services, driven by Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.


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Illinois man convicted in Wisconsin strangulation
By: Associated Press	May 11, 2014 8:19 pm
STURGEON BAY, Wis. (AP) — A jury in northeastern Wisconsin deliberated for less than three hours before convicting an Illinois man this week of killing a pregnant woman in 2012.
Brian M. Cooper, 37, was found guilty Friday of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, the Door County Advocate reported. He'll face life in prison when he's sentenced July 24, although the judge will have the option of allowing for the possibility for parole.
Wisconsin does not have the death penalty.
Cooper was charged with killing 21-year-old Alisha Bromfield, who was six months pregnant. She was strangled in August 2012 at a resort in Wisconsin's Door County.
Cooper and Bromfield, who were both from Plainfield, Ill., were in Door County for the wedding of Cooper's sister.
Cooper wasn't the baby's father, although Cooper and Bromfield did have a romantic relationship at one time, according to his defense attorney, John Birdsall.
Birdsall didn't immediately return a message left at his office Saturday.
Cooper did not react visibly when the guilty verdicts were read. But the victim's family could be heard cheering in the room set aside for them at the courthouse.
Tears streamed down Sherry Anicich's face as she talked about her daughter's death and expressed gratitude for prosecutor Raymond Pelrine.
"Oh God, that we can finally grieve our daughter," Anicich said, sobbing. "I'm so happy Ray never gave up. We are so happy Ray never gave up."
Jim Heisner, Bromfield's father, said he was pleased with the jury's verdict.
"He's going where he belongs — to jail. Hopefully the judge says life," Heisner said.
During opening statements, Pelrine told jurors that Cooper was in love with Bromfield and that, "If he couldn't have her, no one could."
Cooper, who was Bromfield's boss, had known her since she was about 15 years old, Pelrine said. He told jurors that Cooper had hidden spy cameras in his Plainfield home and in the bathroom of the room they shared at the resort.
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Fraudsters steal IDs, file for unemployment
Posted: Dec 24, 2020 / 07:30 AM CST / Updated: Dec 23, 2020 / 07:09 PM CST
The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) has confirmed that fraudsters are using a new scheme to file for unemployment compensation using personally identifying information (PII) which was seemingly obtained from a separate source (e.g. a previous cyber-attack or other identity theft) outside of the Department's systems.
An analysis found fraudsters were applying for unemployment benefits using the PII of certain identity-theft victims and including fake-employer addresses in their applications, a news release says.
Fraud notices from IDES, containing the PII, were then sent to the addresses fraudsters claimed were employers. "This is now another aggressive maneuver used by bad actors looking to defraud and disrupt states' unemployment systems," the release says.
Across the country, bad actors are filing unemployment insurance claims in the names of identity-theft victims. Fraudsters take this information and submit claims using a fake employer address, which can coincide with a residential address, or with an employer that has no connection to the victim.
IDES anti-fraud systems are structured to detect, stop, and flag these claims as fraudulent. However, this process does generate an employer notice, informing the employer of the fraudulent claim(s) filed on an employee.
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As a longstanding practice, IDES notices to employers contain PII to assist the employer in identifying which of their employees has filed for unemployment insurance benefits or which of their employees has had their identity stolen and had a fraudulent unemployment insurance claim filed in their name. IDES uncovered that employer notices have been mailed to addresses used by fraudsters when filing claims, reaching unsuspecting businesses and households whose addresses were used by fraudsters.
In response to this scheme, IDES has immediately taken steps to suppress PII on correspondence that traditionally goes out to employers. The Department will notify any victim impacted as they are reported to the Department. IDES will also work with the employer community to find new ways to report essential employer/employee activity to IDES, including encouraging enrollment in a widely used, secure reporting system.
IDES refers all unemployment fraud and unemployment identity theft-related matters to the U.S. Department of Labor Office of the Inspector General and other law enforcement bodies for finding, investigating, and prosecuting bad actors.
The Department continues to encourage all employers to register in the State Information Data Exchange System (SIDES), which will assist in the deterrence and detection of unemployment fraud. This free electronic system allows employers to quickly and easily respond to employee notices of unemployment insurance claims and eliminates the need and lag time involved with physical mail transferring between IDES and employers.
Individuals who inadvertently receive such notices containing PII are asked to call IDES at 800-814-0513 and follow the prompts.
Callbacks are returned in a first-in, first-out basis, and because of call volume, will not occur on the day a call is placed.
If an individual suspects they have been a victim of fraud, they should visit the IDES website and follow the instructions outlined to report fraud or identity theft to the department.
Since the start of the pandemic, IDES has paid out roughly $19 billion in benefit payments to eligible claimants while standing up five new federal programs. Since the spring, unemployment agencies nationwide have been fighting back fraudsters filing for unemployment benefits using stolen PII and taken steps to stand up new reporting methods for victims of identity theft.


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Q: Is taking advantage of the one-time binding of function arguments a bad idea? New python users often get tripped up by mutable argument defaults. What are the gotchas and other issues of using this 'feature' on purpose, for example, to get tweakable defaults at runtime that continue to display properly in function signatures via help()?
class MutableString (str):

    def __init__ (self, value):
        self.value = value

    def __str__ (self):
        return self.value

    def __repr__ (self):
        return "'" + self.value + "'"

defaultAnimal = MutableString('elephant')

def getAnimal (species=defaultAnimal):
    'Return the given animal, or the mutable default.'
    return species

And in use:
>>> help(getAnimal)
getAnimal(species='elephant')
    Return the given animal, or the mutable default.
>>> print getAnimal()
elephant
>>> defaultAnimal.value = 'kangaroo'
>>> help(getAnimal)
getAnimal(species='kangaroo')
    Return the given animal, or the mutable default.
>>> print getAnimal()
kangaroo

A: First, read Why are default values shared between objects. That doesn't answer your question, but it provides some background.

There are different valid uses for this feature, but they pretty much all share something in common: the default value is a transparent, simple, obviously-mutable, built-in type. Memoization caches, accumulators for recursive calls, optional output variables, etc. all look like this. So, experienced Python developers will usually spot one of these use cases—if they see memocache={} or accum=[], they'll know what to expect. But your code will not look like a use for mutable default values at all, which will be as misleading to experts as it is to novices.

Another problem is that your function looks like it's returning a string, but it's lying:
>>> print getAnimal()
kangaroo
>>> print getAnimal()[0]
e

Of course the problem here is that you've implemented MutableString wrong, not that it's impossible to implement… but still, this should show why trying to "trick" the interpreter and your users tends to open the door to unexpected bugs.
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The obvious way to handle it is to store the changing default in a module, function, or (if it's a method) instance attribute, and use None as a default value. Or, if None is a valid value, use some other sentinel:
defaultAnimal = 'elephant'
def getAnimal (species=None):
    if species is None:
        return defaultAnimal
    return species

Note that this is pretty much exactly what the FAQ suggests. Even if you inherently have a mutable value, you should do this dance to get around the problem. So you definitely shouldn't create a mutable value out of an inherently immutable one to create the problem.
Yes, this means that help(getAnimal) doesn't show the current default. But nobody will expect it to.
They will probably expect you to tell them that the default value is a hook, of course, but that's a job for a docstring:
defaultAnimal = 'elephant'
def getAnimal (species=None):
    """getAnimal([species]) -> species

    If the optional species parameter is left off, a default animal will be
    returned. Normally this is 'elephant', but this can be configured by setting
    foo.defaultAnimal to another value.
    """
    if species is None:
        return defaultAnimal
    return species

A: The only useful use I've seen for it is as a cache:
def fibo(n, cache={}):
    if n < 2:
        return 1
    else:
        if n in cache:
            return cache[n]
        else:
            fibo_n = fibo(n-1) + fibo(n-2) # you can still hit maximum recursion depth
            cache[n] = fibo_n
            return fibo_n

...but then it's cleaner to use the @lru_cache decorator.
@lru_cache
def fibo(n):
    if n < 2:
        return 1
    else:
        return fibo(n-1) + fibo(n-2)


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Q: Weird behaviour with `timeit` python3 I am using python 3.8.10
a wrote a function to calculate fibonacci which uses the lru_cache from functools
@lru_cache
def fast_fib(n):
    if n in [0, 1]: return n
    else:
        return fast_fib(n-1) + fast_fib(n-2)

I am trying to benchmark the execution time with the timeit function from timeit module.
from timeit import timeit

tmp = [0]*10000001
for z in range(1000001):
    print(f"Calculating fib({z})")
    tmp[z] = timeit("fast_fib(z)", globals=locals(), number=100)/100
    print(tmp[z])

But i run into some weird behaviour:

*

*I am meant to encounter a recursion_limit error at arount n=1000, But I don't

*The execution time remains really small (like 2e-7 seconds) even for really large n
I checked the function without the timeit, and I get the recursion_limit error like I'm supposed to, and the time takes as long as I expected for large n
What's the cause of this "weird" behaviour in the timeit function, I there something I'm doing wrong? Is there a better way to benchmark the function?

A: This behavior is caused by the ordering of the sequence of arguments passed to fast_fib. If a descending range(1000001, 1, -1) were used instead of an ascending range(1000001), your code would both hit the recursion limit and run for a long time for high n.
Why? Since fast_fib is using the @lru_cache decorator, results of past fast_fib calls are retained and reused. Normally, fast_fib would recursively call itself on n-2 and n-1, but since in your test it is called on an ascending sequence of consecutive integers, the results for n-2 and n-1 will already have been computed and stored in cache by the time it is called on n.
Here's an example:
Step 0:
  * cache: {}
Step 1
  * cache: {}
  * call: fast_fib(0) -> 1
Step 2:
  * cache: {fast_fib(0): 1}
  * call: fast_fib(1) -> 1
Step 3:
  * cache: {fast_fib(0): 1, fast_fib(1): 1}
  * call: fast_fib(2) -> fast_fib(1) [cached in step 2] + fast_fib(0) [cached in step 1]
Step 4:
  * cache: {fast_fib(0): 1, fast_fib(1): 1, fast_fib(2): 2}
  * call: fast_fib(3) -> fast_fib(2) [cached in step 3] + fast_fib(1) [cached in step 2]

Therefore, recursion will always be prevented by retrieval from cache.
If a descending sequence were used, however, the cache could not be used on the first call and fast_fib(n) would recurse as expected. Although a subsequent fast_fib(n-1) would likely be resolved by cache, depending on whether the cache is large enough to not have had this result overwritten already.


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My new client is an amazing talent and nationally syndicated cartoonist Francesco ("Ces") Marciuliano (Sally Forth, Medium Large, Drink at Work.com). Ces has fabulous partners in his wife Carol Hartsell and former co-worker Jeff Jowdy. Collectively the three make up Rule of 3 Productions.
Rule of 3 has been accepted to this year's New York International Fringe Festival with their original collection of four short comedies about serious job dissatisfaction. All four were written by Ces and are collectively known as This Isn't Working. Jeff will serve as director and Carol as producer.
Each play focuses on people defined by their careers but still looking for meaning in their lives…or just an excuse to ditch it all for teaching. This Isn't Working is about the ideas we don't share in brainstorming sessions, the goals we don't discuss in year-end reviews and the people we don't ever want to see outside of the office.
Blurb from the Fringe:
For anyone who's been told "Sick days are for the weak" comes "This Isn't Working," Rule of 3's production of short comedies written by the nationally syndicated cartoonist behind "Sally Forth" and drawn from the merger between professional crisis and personal hell.
We hope to see you at their fundraiser tenatively scheduled for August 1st at Siberia and featuring live comedy, a band, raffle prizes and more.
The dates, times & location of the live performance of This Isn't Working has yet to be scheduled by the Fringe. Once set, you'll be the first to know, so check back soon. Meanwhile, enjoy this Medium Large comic (click on it to scan the archives).


Today was the last of the big areas around greens. Most all the sodded areas were from extended shade and snow cover from this past winter. Some of the sod that was removed still had a few green bermudagrass stolons. We choose to recycles them in the rough areas where there was winter kill. Over the next few weeks these areas will fill in with some tlc.


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The Knights of Peter Claver is the largest predominately African American lay Catholic organization in the United States. The fraternal order of the Knights of Peter Claver was founded November 7, 1909 in Mobile, Alabama. The Ladies Auxiliary was authorized in August 1922. The charter members of Our Lady of Lourdes Court 300 were initiated on April 16, 1988. There is also a Junior Daughter chapter.
The Order is named after St. Peter Claver, a Jesuit priest from Spain who ministered to African slaves in Cartegena, Colombia, South America, in the 1600s. Peter Claver is said to have converted over 300,000 slaves to Catholicism. It is hoped that by knowing his love for his fellow man, we will be inspired to greater service.
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Reducing nostrils is an oftentimes major goal in rhinoplasty, particularly for ethnic noses but can be so for any ethnicity. There are many considerations when discussing this topic of alar-base reduction. The first is the importance of preserving the nostril shape and the nostril sill. Too often you see cut off nostrils where the shape of the nostril has been severely compromised, and the Jackson family is perhaps the worst public case of this and I mean all of them, LaToya, Janet, and the deceased poster boy of bad rhinoplasty, Michael Jackson. The cut-off nostril appearance is due to the old Weir-type incision in which the nostril sill (like a window sill that sits between the nostril and the upper lip) has been amputated and the shape of the nostril looks cut off. What I do to avoid this problem is to use a combination of two maneuvers. First, I perform what is known as a Sheen flap, so I don't violate the nostril but stay outside of the nostril right up to about a millimeter of tissue. This preserves the natural curvature of the nostril. What the Sheen flap accomplishes is the reduction in the nostril flare but it doesn't actually reduce the nostril size. I then perform, as needed, a nasal sill reduction, where I remove along the straight nasal sill a portion of it to shrink the nostril. By separating the nostril into a nasal sill reduction and an outer Sheen flap alar-base reduction, I can accomplish both goals while preserving the natural shape of the nostril.
The next fear of an alar-base reduction is unfavorable scarring. What I have found is that the transcolumellar incision (between the nostrils) used to perform a standard open rhinoplasty heals tremendously well. However, the alar-base reduction can heal unfavorably, not a keloid but just unfavorably where you can see the incision if you are relatively close up. Even though my transcolumellar incisions have healed tremendously well, in the past 3 years they have healed even better because I learned in St. Petersburg, Russia, where I was lecturing to use a dissolvable suture during that conference. I have now moved that knowledge over to my technique for alar-base reduction and have noticed a similar tremendous improvement. Regardless, I am always more careful in letting my patients know if they undergo an alar-base reduction that they may require a few steroid/5-fluorouracil (scar dissolver) injections and possibly dermabrasion as well to make the incision as flawless as possible.
Another important point is that I don't just knee-jerk reduce the alar base. The reason for my caution is that sometimes the central nasal tip is very broad and can only be reduced so much. Given that constraint, you do not want to reduce the sides too much, or sometimes not at all, because it can make the central tip look even fatter. This balance in size between the central nasal tip, the nasal sides, and the nasal bridge is a critical element to good rhinoplasty and requires artistic judgment from the rhinoplasty surgeon to decide the best relative proportion for each part of the nose.


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Comate develops pill dispenser for Health care Start-up: Bodhi
'Top up your health'. With these words, Laurens Siroux and Laurens Vanpoucke announced the creation of Bodhi. The duo also recently launched their new website where they explain the concept behind their start-up: On the one hand, it's a pill with the most important micro-nutrients. On the other, it's also an innovation in terms of how people deal with an everyday routine. The solution for this issue was a dedicated pill dispenser. It had to be a portable, battery-free dispenser with a flawless mechanism which would also function as an instant ambassador for the whole Bodhi story. For this development, they knew they could count on Comate.
A healthy lifestyle with extra micro-nutrients
Together with the doctor and specialist from Healthitude, Laurens Siroux and Laurens Vanpoucke have developed a pill which contains all of the most important micro-nutrients. They called upon Comate to support the development of the pill dispenser. Laurens Siroux: 'Nutritional supplements currently have a dull, commercial image. I hope that Bodhi will change that with this dispenser. We're trying to make health cool and sexy.'
The first batch of 500 dispensers for Bodhi has been ordered and is ready for sale.
Engineers and designers in one team
'For me, it was the first time I had taken on the challenge of developing a physical product. Working with an experienced team meant we could reduce the risks considerably. There was a lower risk of errors and time-wasting, and the extensive experience of the Comate team meant we knew which suppliers were reliable.
– Laurens Siroux, CEO Bodhi
The duo behind Bodhi decided to progress the development in collaboration with Comate. 'For me, it was the first time I had taken on the challenge of developing a physical product. Working with an experienced team meant we could reduce the risks considerably. There was a lower risk of errors and time-wasting, and the extensive experience of the Comate team meant we knew which suppliers were reliable', says Laurens Siroux. 'We could rely on good supervision and gained an ever-clearer overview of the next steps to be taken'. The combination of engineers and designers in one team allowed Comate to consider practicality issues, a smart mechanical system and also the required look & feel, user-friendliness and styling.
Iteration, iteration, iteration
A pill dispenser can work in a thousand different ways and come in a variety of designs. The analysis phase served to create direction for the project and create a clearly defined concept. It is vital to choose the right concept, which offers the best chance of success in the market. Comate specialises in this selection. Using several cardboard prototypes, foam models and 3D-prints, the concept was visualised quickly and in a cost-friendly manner, and Laurens Siroux and Laurens Vanpoucke could provide direct feedback.
The various iterations take place in a cost-friendly way, using various models made out of card and foam, and then testing basic functionality. You then move onto 3D prints to evaluate further functionality.
The Comate design differs from other pill dispensers in various ways. The available systems often involve extensive electronics however this dispenser is purely mechanical which significantly reduces the chance of failures. Bodhi's dispenser can also hold 35 pills, without having to sort them for each day. This was one of the design challenges. The unoriented pills had to be organised in such manner that a press of the button would push out just 1 pill from the dispenser.
Once the design was more refined, Comate moved onto system design. At this point, the first functional prototypes were made to carry out testing. Working with prototypes means iteration. When developing and creating new products, it is important to constantly test and improve the system in order to come up with the best possible result.
The mechanical system was further refined and elaborated during the industrial design phase. The technical development stage has to take the desired design into account. This often imposes a range of limitations. The dispenser, for example, should fit in your hand easily so the size of the device had to be limited. Styling was even more important. 'The styling bar was set high', explains Laurens Siroux. 'The Bodhi dispenser had to be 'Instagram-worhty' and good enough to sit in the kitchen, next to the Nespresso machine for example. Comate immediately understood and raised the bar too. As far as I'm concerned it's 'mission accomplished'. I absolutely love the end result!'
The last stage in the process was the industrialisation of the pill dispenser. In this phase, it was important to select the best materials and production techniques, on the basis of quantities, the desired COGS (Cost of Goods) and the future vision. There were still a few trade-offs that had to be made. It was then crucial to find the right production supplier who could cope with the requirements and also deliver the expected quality. The necessary files were supplied, the most suitable suppliers were selected and Bodhi's dispenser was ready for production. Together with the Comate team, the production of the first batch of 500 items began.
As of today, you can buy the Bodhi dispenser via their website. Their future plans? 'There are certainly other variants and expansions which could apply to the dispenser', explains Laurens Siroux. 'I am already looking into these with Comate.'
Sander Van den dries, Director of Comate Engineering & Design
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Short & Sweet (?) for Mama Zen's Words Count in the Imaginary Garden.
smiles...funny experience it would be.
I've never tried this, but when I do, I'll be sure to make it a party! The poem is fun, empowering!
i was trying (not very successfully) to make a comment about aging without using booze to get through moments like this, but acknowledging that it was more fun to do it when booze-fueled. now, it's just a chore. MAINTENANCE. gah.
oh, well. hits and misses.
Filling in the blank(s) definitely more fun than trying to reach those steely grays!!
Alcohol... that's what I was doing wrong. The resultant levity would certainly improve the experience.
I turned my self coloring over to the professionals. Hadn't tried the booze though ;-O Fun read and giggly memories of that balancing act reaching for things and trying to read directions without bending.
Not even booze helps me. When I'm done, it always looks like a crime scene!


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Name: Peter 'Darling' Darling
Instruments: Guitar, Bass, Vocals
Qualifications & Place of Study: BA (Hons) Popular Music Studies at Leeds College of Music
Favourite show played: My mate's mum's 50th birthday – got to play 'Mamma Mia', what a tune!
Desert Island Disc: Paul Simon – Graceland
What you love about music: That I've been playing it all my life and it's still a big mystery to me.
Motto: When in doubt, add more cheese.
Biography: Originally from Kent, I came up north to study at Leeds College of Music and stayed. I write and release my own music, and play bass for Jack Edwards and Laura Oakes. I also write music for TV, film and advertising with production company WMP.
Website links:
peterdarling.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/peter-darling
twitter.com/petermdarling