We received a sample in exchange for a honest an unbiased review.
We had the opportunity to facilitate a review for the myPad Touch from Patch Products.
The Mirari Pad Touch from Patch Products is a durable play tablet that features light up images and over 50 fun sounds and phrases that will activate when children press the touch screen.
The iPad Touch helps children develop cognitive learning: understanding the cause and effect relationships. They will explore with their hands and eyes, experiencing sounds, lights and use their imagination.
Mirari gives children toys without unnecessary features to overwhelm them. Children deserve engaging and entertaining toys. Mirari, from the Latin word for "wonder" and "amaze" delights children with classic play in an innovative way with stimulating quality toys that provide children with the tools they need to grow, thrive and learn.
My grandson loves the myPad Touch from Patch. He loves the sounds and colors. I also know he now thinks he's a big boy with his own iPad like his mommy, in fact no one is allowed to touch his mommy's, so no one is allowed to touch his! His very first favorite on his myPad is the A,B,C song - YAY! I love watching him play and pretend, it does my heart good.
The Mirari myPad Touch is recommended for ages 12 months and up. This is a durable, high quality toy that I'm sure any toddler would enjoy. All they need to do is touch one of the pictures on the screen to enjoy the excitement.
Patch began with two brothers in 1971, Fran and Bryce Patch. They started a commercial printing company in their hometown of Beloit, Washington. Their business was built printing products for other companies such as Trivial Pursuit game board and the Cabbage Patch doll sticker books were brought to life within the patch facility.
In 1985, Patch took a leap forward, Patch Products Inc, was formed. They begin printing their own fun products, creating a line of PuzzlePatch puzzles. These puzzles grew in popularity and the foundation of Patch products grew. Success with puzzle Patch line prompted Patch into the toy industry and take on the competitive board game market in 1992. It obtained the license to the board game Tribune, and built a line of family friendly board games that included Blurt and Mad Gab. They've had much success in the years following entering the world of brand liscensing in 2000. For over 25 years, Patch has continually built on its early success leading the toy industry in design, manufacturing and marketing of high-quality award-winning products that enrich lives by providing fun and interaction.
Patch games can be found in the iTunes App Store.
This is such a cute toy and I know my grandson would love having one. It's amazing how toys have changed over the years!
This would be a really nice gift. I have 3 grand kids that could benefit from it.
No grandkids but I like this. Big buttons for little fingers.
This would be great for toddlers! They love playing with tablets & pushing buttons, lol. And they might learn something, too.
This sure is a sign of the times! I can see my cousin's daughter loving this to learn and play!
I love that it has built in family games - it would be a welcome addition to our road trips and vacations!
My granddaughter always wants to play with our phones/tablets ect. So I think this would be a fabulous toy to get her for Christmas!
My grandson would love this. It is just the right size and lights up! I'm glad it is not too over whelming. Thanks!
This looks great. My grandson loves sounds. And the big keys make it easy to use.
This looks like a great match for my grandson. He will be 2 in January. Love the big keys and sounds.
My grandsons are a little old for this toy but they sure would have loved it when they were younger! They love playing a real iPad now, but this is a great learning tool for younger kids!
I love to see children working with educational products and technology. It is a necessary skill they must acquire in this day and age so the sooner they can learn the better.
I love any toy that is really a learning device! In today's age of technology, all of the little ones want to be big and have their own gadgets- this is a great solution!!!
I would love to give the iPad Touch that helps children develop cognitive learning. I know he would enjoy using it.
This is amazing! I would love to get my daughter one of these. She loves looking at all the pictured on instagram and fascebook.
That is great that there is a toddler version of the iPad. I remember my grand nephew playing with his mom's iPad when we all went out to dinner when he was about 2. It helped keep him occupied but there was a little bit of anxiety that he didn't throw it down on the floor or open something up that wasn't for him to play with. This would of been great for that.
This toy rocks. I know my daughter and her cousins would love to play and learn with this one!
(myPad Touch from Patch Products Review) I liked reading the review on this nice tablet. Might help me make a choice on buying one for my grandson for Christmas.
I think my kids would love this. I like that it has built in family games - perfect for vacations!
I love this awesome product for the little guys who so much want to be on the devices that mom and dad have! I love that it is so full of learning opportunities- great product!
Super cute!! I love that its not overly intimidating for younger kiddos!! Just plain old fun and just like the adults!! Plus educational!!
I love that it helps children develop cognitive learning skills. This would be great for my grandchildren!
My grandson would love this. I think it would be great for developing fine motor skills!
This would be a wonderful toy to introduce my son to learning how to use an ipad! With technology nowadays, that's a need-to-know skill!
I love that it is colorful and has great sounds. My grandson would love it and I know he would learn from it.
Magformers are fantastic toys for playing and learning. Kids and adults love playing with Magformers.
My kids would love this! I think it is a great learning tool! Thanks for sharing it with us! I love learning about new products, especially around Christmas for gift giving!
My little grandson could really learn for this. Thank you for the review.
This looks like a great toy for young kids. Maybe it could help parents avoid having to share their electronics?!
I love this toy. My kids are crazy about playing with our phone & tablet. It would be so cool for them to have their own.
features this pad has for the little ones..
My oldest grandson could really use this. He has been talking about wanting something like this, so I know this would make him very happy.
My toddler is always trying to play on my laptop. I think he'd really like this.
What a great product for little kids. I think that kids now need to learn technology.
I think that it is great that kids are getting included in the tech items. We live in a tech world!
I'm sure my son would love this. He will be 2 in a couple of weeks and he loves playing games on my phone.
I think my sweet baby niece would appreciate this as she is so smart and curious about the world. She sees use on our phones and always wants to play with it.
What an awesome product, and such a great review! Thank you for such an amazing opportunity and good luck to all that enter!
My granddaughter would really like this. We had to get a non working remote for her to play with from the cable repair man. It is amazing how tech savvy children are now.
Wow, what a toy this is amazing. My children would have so much fun learning with this.
This product is too cute! My little siblings would love this!! They would have their own tablet!
This looks perfect for toddlers. We have an Ipad mini and it is so small compared to this, this item would work much better for the younger ones for sure!
I think that the myPad Touch is a very respectable and powerful , yet cute gadget to help the young kids be into schooling and homework. I give thumbs up for education.
This is awesome! The young ones will get their own tablet!!


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Search Records by Subject: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL)
Found 256 items on 11 pages.
Frankenstein's Creature on Film in the Twenty-first Century: Posthuman Monster, Saviour, and Victim Narratives
Mitchell, Paul
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 23(3): 1-23. 2021.
Subjects: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); MOTION PICTURES; SHELLEY, MARY
Frankenstein's Dream and the Politics of Death
Black, Jeff J. S.
In: Picariello, Damien K. ed. The Politics of Horror. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 267-278.
Subjects: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); HORROR GENRE; SHELLEY, MARY
Frankenstein's Embodied Imagination: Or, the Limits of Embodied Cognition
Sha, Richard C.
In: Wang, Orrin N. C., ed. Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. p. 47-64.
Subjects: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); SHELLEY, MARY
Frankenstein's Journeys
Wiedemann, Julia
In: Petzold, Dieter and Seibel, Klaudia, eds. Inklings Jahrbuch fur Literatur und Asthetik: Frankenstein 1818 · 2018 Parabel der Moderne / Parable of the Modern Age. Symposium 2018 in Ingolstadt. Inklings Jahrbuch No. 36. New York: Peter Lang, 2018. p. 59-72.
Frankie and Johnny: Shelley, Gibson, and Hollywood's Love Affair with the Cyborg.
Austin, Andrea
Romanticism on the Net, Numero 21, fevrier 2001. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ron/2001-n21-ron433/005958ar/
Subjects: CYBORGS; FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); GIBSON, WILLIAM; JOHNNY MNEMONIC (1995) (FILM); JOHNNY MNEMONIC (STORY); MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN (1994) (FILM); MOTION PICTURES; SHELLEY, MARY
From Bubbling Cauldrons to Iron Wombs: The Influence of Audience on Dramatizations of Frankenstein in Theater and Film.
Blair, Tara
Master's Thesis, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, 2003. iv, 120 p.
Subjects: ADAPTATIONS; AUDIENCES; FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); MOTION PICTURES; PLAYS; SCREENPLAYS; SHELLEY, MARY; THEATER
From Frankenstein to Ex Machina: Recovering the Frankenstein Myth in Today's Science Fiction Films and TV Series
Lesa, Tomas
Master's Thesis, Masaryk University, 2016. 78 p.
Subjects: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); MOTION PICTURES; SHELLEY, MARY; TELEVISION
From Heidegger to Horror: The Defiguration of the Machine in Romantic Literature and Cultural Theory.
Hansen, Mark B. N.
Ph. D. Dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 1994. 440 p. (DAI-A 55(3): 557, September 1994)
Subjects: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); HORROR GENRE; KLEIST, HEINRICH VON; ROMANTICISM; SHELLEY, MARY; TECHNOLOGY IN LITERATURE
Future for Hopeful Monsters, A: Gender, Disability, Race, and Embodiment in Science Fiction.
Li, Amy S.
Ph. D. Dissertation, Emory University, 2020. 310 p. (DAI-A 82(5)(E).)
Subjects: BLACK MIRROR (TV); BODY; BURNING CHROME (STORY); DISABILITIES; DISABILITY STUDIES; DU BOIS, W. E. B.; EX MACHINA (2014) (FILM); FANON, FRANTZ; FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); GENDER; GET OUT (2017) (FILM); GIBSON, WILLIAM; IDENTITY; MONSTERS; ORPHAN BLACK (TV);
Gender and Pedagogy: The Questions of Frankenstein
Veeder, William
in: Behrendt, Stephen C. and Mellor, Anne K., eds. Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein,. New York: MLA, 1990. p. 38-49.
Subjects: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); GENDER; SHELLEY, MARY
Gender, Authorship and Male Domination: Mary Shelley's Limited Freedom in Frankenstein and The Last Man.
Eberle-Sinatra, Michael
in: Eberle-Sinatra, Michael, ed. Mary Shelley's Fictions: From Frankenstein to Falkner. London: Macmillan, 2000/New York: St. Martin's, 2000. p. 95-108.
Subjects: AUTHORSHIP; FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); GENDER; LAST MAN, THE (SHELLEY) (NOVEL); SHELLEY, MARY
Ghost of a Self, The: Female Identity in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Dickerson, Vanessa D.
Journal of Popular Culture 27(3): 79-91. Winter 1993.
Subjects: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); IDENTITY; SHELLEY, MARY
Gothic Fiction and Folk-Narrative Structure: The Case of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Aguirre, Manuel
Gothic Studies 15(2): 1-18. November 2013.
Gothic Heroines: Their Journey to Leadership
Turney, Hailey
Master's Thesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2021. 69 p. (MAI 83(2)(E).)
Subjects: BRONTE, EMILY; DRACULA (NOVEL); FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); GOTHIC GENRE; HEROINES; LEADERSHIP; LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY; MONK, THE (NOVEL); MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO, THE (NOVEL); POWER; PROPERTY; RADCLIFFE, ANN; SHELLEY, MARY; STOKER, BRAM; WUTHERING HEIGHTS (NOVEL)
Gothic Image and the Quandaries of Science in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The.
Hogle, Jerrold E.
in: Davison, Carol M and Mulvey-Roberts, Marie, eds. Global Frankenstein. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 21-36.
Subjects: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); GOTHIC GENRE; SCIENCE IN SF; SHELLEY, MARY
Gothic Science: The Era of Ingenuity & The Making of Frankenstein,
London: André Deutsch, 2019. 208 p.
Subjects: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); SCIENCE IN SF; SHELLEY, MARY
Gothic to Fantastic: Readings i Supernatural Fiction.
Lea, Sydney L. W., Jr.
Ph. D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1972. 210 p. (DAI-A 34(1).)
Subjects: BRETON, ANDRE; FANTASY; FAULKNER, WILLIAM; FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); GOTHIC GENRE; HOFFMANN, E. T. A.; LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY; MONK, THE (NOVEL); POE, EDGAR ALLAN; RADCLIFFE, ANN; SHELLEY, MARY; SUPERNATURAL; TODOROV, TZVETAN
Gothic Transformation, The: Developments in the British Gothic Romance, 1764-1887.
Bassin, Henry Alan
Ph. D. Dissertation, Indiana University, 1974. 207 p. (DAI-A 35(10).)
Subjects: AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON; BULWER-LYTTON, EDWARD; CASTLE OF OTRANTO, THE (NOVEL); COLLINS, WILKIE; DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN; FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); GOTHIC GENRE; LE FANU, JOSEPH SHERIDAN; MOONSTONE, THE (NOVEL); MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO, THE (NOVEL); RADCLIFFE, ANN; ROOKWOOD (NOVEL);
Hail the Monster and Fie the Man: The Construction of Monstrosity in Frankenstein
Mondal, Shirsendu
In: Mukherjee, Rupayan and Sarkar, Jaydip, eds. Popular Literature: Texts, Contexts, Contestations. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2022. p . 101-116.
Subjects: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); MONSTERS; SHELLEY, MARY
Hideous Progenitors: Queer Reproduction from Frankenstein to Fan Fic.
Heggestad, Jon
Ph. D. Dissertation, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2021. 250 p. (DAI-A 82(12)(E).)
Subjects: FAN FICTION; FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); GRAY, STEPHEN; JUNIOR (MOTION PICTURE); MAGRS, PAUL; MALE PREGNANCY; QUEER THEORY; REPRODUCTION; SHELLEY, MARY
Hideous progeny and reproductive futurity.
Hollinger, Veronica
Science Fiction Film and Television 11(2): 166-167. Summer 2018.
Subjects: BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) (FILM); FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); REPRODUCTION; SHELLEY, MARY
Hideous Progeny: 'Frankenstein' and the Female Monster in Science Fiction.
James, Cara L.
Master's Thesis, Dalhousie University, 1996. 123pp. (MAI 35(5).)
Subjects: ALIENS; FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); GENDER; MONSTERS; OTHER; ROBOTS; SHELLEY, MARY; WOMEN
Hiding Under the Covers: Representations of Diversity in Horror Fictions.
Anderson-Lopez, Jonina
Ph. D. Dissertation, Union Institute and University, 2019. 296 p. (DAI-A 81(7)(E).)
Subjects: AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) (FILM); BEUKES, LAUREN; BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) (FILM); BROKEN MONSTERS (NOVEL); BUTLER, OCTAVIA E.; CASTLE OF OTRANTO, THE (NOVEL); CASTLE ROCK (TV); DIVERSITY; EXORCIST, THE (TV); FEAR THE WALKING DEAD (TV); FEMINIST THEORY; FLEDGLING (NOVEL)|
Homosexual Calm: Pausing to Listen to Queer Shame in Frankenstein
Bagocius, Benjamin
Studies in the Novel 54(1): 1-25. Spring 2022.
Subjects: FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); HOMOSEXUALITY; SHELLEY, MARY
Horror Play, The: Its Transition from the Epic to the Dramatic Mode.
Partin, Bruce Lynn
Ph. D. Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1976. 256 p. (DAI-A 37(8).)
Subjects: ADAPTATIONS; CASTLE OF OTRANTO, THE (NOVEL); CASTLE SPECTRE, THE (PLAY); DRACULA (NOVEL); DRAMA; FRANKENSTEIN (NOVEL); GOTHIC GENRE; KELLY, TIM; LEWIS, MATTHEW GREGORY; MILNER, H. M. (HENRY M.); MONK, THE (NOVEL); MYSTERIOUS MOTHER, THE (PLAY); NODIER, CHARLES;
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Meet Sarbans Kaur: The 1st Punjabi Speaking Turbaned Robot
Harjit Singh has made this robot out of basic household items and its database can be equipped with innumerable knowledg...
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Today's age is known as the age of science. It is no exaggeration to say that the inventions of science are currently playing a huge role in human life. Many of the current discoveries are astonishing, including the discovery of the human robot, one of the most important and revolutionary discoveries in this field. The 'human robot' is also a modern type of robot whose body is designed to resemble a human body. It is a matter of great pride for our Punjabis that 'Sarbans Kaur' is also going to be a part of this Series of inventions.
'Sarbans Kaur' is the first turbaned Sikh robot to speak and understand Punjabi, It is developed by Harjit Singh, the Jalandhar based software programmer and computer teacher by profession. This robot works with the help of artificial intelligence, communication and the database fed into it. The most important aspect is that Harjit Singh has made this robot out of basic household items and its database can be equipped with innumerable knowledge, questions and answers.
Key Features of this Robot: -
The First Turbaned Sikh robot.
The First robot that can speak and understand Punjabi and Gurbani.
It can be used in Teaching also.
Sarbans Kaur can be used as a guide at religious places.
Its database can be updated as time demands.
It would be used for the Pormotion of Punjabi Language.
Further General knowledge, social knowledge, arithmetic, history, entertainment etc. can be fed into the Sarbans Kaur to Enhance its ability to react, understand and respond which is in the process of further improvement. Building a robot's torso, arms, and legs requires a great deal of investment, time and effort, and it is hoped that this work, initiated by Harjeet Singh, will met the overwhelming response from the government or a research institute to reach its destination. Harjit Singh's goal in building this robot is to serve the Punjabi mother tongue and keep it alive in the race of globalization.
Sardar Harjit Singh, who has been working tirelessly to develop talent in government schools and is working as a computer teacher in Government High School Rohjari, District Jalandhar, came up with the idea of inventing a programming language called 'Sarbans' six months ago. The main purpose behind creating this software was to provide computer programming coding in Punjabi language to the students studying in the schools. In 'Sarbans' students can easily learn the basics of programming by working in graphics and paint tools. The biggest feature is that the software can be downloaded for free from the Sarbans website.
This robot needs a quiet environment to communicate through facial expressions like closing eyes, laughing, crying, spreading mouth etc. need to be worked on. Equipping Sarbans Kaur with complete artificial intelligence is also an important part of the next phase of its preparation. Harjeet Singh is soon going to launch an online campaign 'Teach Sarbans' to expand its database with the help of the general public. It is hoped that this research initiated by Harjit Singh will reach its destination and raise the heads of Punjabis all over the world with pride. But for all this, this Punjabi language advocate needs the cooperation of all of us so that he be able to present this robot on the world map as a state-of-the-art robot.
Jagjit Singh Ganeshpur,
Computer Faculty ,
GHS Laksihan,
Hoshiarpur,
M-94655-76022


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Wrecking Ball: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (14) (Hardback)
By Kinney, Jeff
An unexpected inheritance gives the Heffley family a chance to make major improvements to their home. But they soon find that construction isn't all it's cracked up to be. When things get rough, will the Heffleys be able to stay ... or will they be forced to move?
5 November 2019 by Penguin
47 Degrees (Paperback)
By D'Ath, Justin
Zeelie wonders if they?re in danger. When temperatures soar to 47 degrees one hot summer day, 12-year-old Zeelie hopes the nearby bushfires everyone?s talking about aren?t heading towards her family?s new home. What will they do if the wind changes direction? What about their bel ...
8 January 2019 by Penguin
The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe (Paperback)
By Condie, Ally
Who do you become when you have nothing left to lose? Poe Blythe, the seventeen-year-old captain of the Outpost's last mining ship has revenge on her mind as she and her crew voyage up the Serpentine River in search of gold. But there is something Poe wants even more than gold, h ...
2 April 2019 by Penguin
Bridge to Terabithia (Paperback)
By Paterson, Katherine
Jess Aarons wants to be the fastest boy in the class, but when a girl named Leslie Burke moves into the neighbouring farm his life changes forever. Even though she runs faster than him, Jess begins to think Leslie might be okay - she's clever and funny and not a bit soppy.
19 August 2015 by Penguin
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Wonder (Paperback, Media tie-in)
By Palacio, R. J.
'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.' Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordi ...
2 October 2017 by Penguin
Wildlife of Aotearoa (Hardback)
By Bishop, Gavin
A spectacular illustrated picture book exploring New Zealand's unique landscapes and its incredible wildlife by the award-winning author of Aotearoa- The New Zealand Story. Long before waka touched Aotearoa's shores, the land of the long white cloud was home to an array of creatu ...
Crossfire (Paperback)
By Blackman, Malorie
Perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and The Power, Crossfire is the incredible new novel in iconic author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking Noughts & Crosses series - over 1.7 million copies sold. Praise for Noughts & Crosses: 'The most original book I've ever read' Benjamin ...
Showtym Adventures 6: Pepe, the Beach Stallion (Paperback)
By Wilson, Kelly
In the sixth Showtym Adventure, Vicki will stop at nothing to save a crippled beach-racing stallion. When Vicki and her sisters discover that horses are roaming on country roads because the locals can't afford to fences contain them, their eyes are opened to a whole new world of ...
The Night Diary (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
By Hiranandani, Veera
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
7 May 2019 by Penguin
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Mao's Last Dancer: Young Readers Edition (Paperback, Young readers' ed)
By Cunxin, Li
The extraordinary biography of a young Chinese peasant boy who emerged from abject poverty, defected to the USA, and became principal dancer for the Houston ballet, a star in the US, friend to George and Barbara Bush, and a star of the Australian ballet as well. Is a condensed ed ...


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Recently, our youngest granddaughter arrived for the day, complete with swimming gear galore—enough for half a dozen children! I had promised to take her to the heated pool and spa in our village complex and she was more than a little excited at the prospect.
At top speed, she changed into her cute, little swimming costume, squeezed herself into her brightly-coloured, plastic, inflatable donut ring, strapped a little foam floating device to her back and perched her pink goggles on her head. So, thus attired, off we marched to the pool! While we adults are not allowed to walk through our complex in our swimming costumes, I figured four-year-old Maxine could get away with it. And she did, in the process bringing delighted smiles to the faces of so many who stopped to say hello to her.
'Guess where we're going?' I said, laughing, to each one of them!
We arrived at the pool to find one or two others already there—but they informed us that, while the spa was hot, the water in the main pool was too cold for them. Something had gone wrong with the heating—but that was no deterrent for Maxine. In a trice, she was bobbing around in that water, while her poor nanna stood waist-deep beside her, feeling a little sorry for herself and wishing she was back home getting those various Christmas jobs done!
We stayed for two hours in the end, chatting away and playing all sorts of games I had to try hard not to win. And from time to time, Maxine would decide to climb out into the much warmer spa, closely followed by her nanna. While I did not mind doing this, it was the reverse that was much harder to take, moving from hot to cold in two seconds flat!
Once or twice, I hinted it might be time for us to head home, but Maxine was definite she had not had enough. So I continued chatting and playing, all the while still feeling a little hard done by. But then, just as I was holding Maxine while she floated on her back and pretended to fall asleep, I sensed God pointing out that this exact moment would never come again. Next year, Maxine will start school. And, while she will visit us these summer holidays, her brother will also be with her, which will change the dynamics considerably. What I needed to focus on at that point was the lovely memories we were making together and the deepening of a bond that will, I pray, last forever.
I'm so glad I heard that little prompt from God. It would have been easy to insist on doing what I wanted to do and cut short our pool time together. And it is sadly so easy, I find, to ignore God's gentle voice at other times in my life as well, choosing instead to forge ahead and do life in my own way.
Is that the case for you too? As this new year begins, may each of us resolve to choose to listen to those promptings from God more often and follow our Shepherd with our whole heart.


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A rallying cry for poetry
'The joy of creativity should be part of every day,' says Tony Hoagland, a past Guggenheim Fellow, who will make a stand for poetry and humanity April 16 in Portland as the inaugural speaker in a new visiting poets series.
By Bob KeyesStaff Writer
Tony Hoagland understands why you don't like poetry – or why you think you don't. It has to do with the way generations of Americans were introduced to poetry in school. It was boring and tedious and emphasized memorizing lines instead of figuring out what they meant.
It's only gotten worse, Hoagland said in a phone call from Texas. Education's results-oriented fixation on the Common Core curriculum has pushed poetry off the table. "People make the argument that if we teach math skills or science skills or computer skills, it will increase the lifetime earning potential of students by X amount," the poet said.
A MAINE POETRY PRIMER
HERE ARE FOUR POEMS worth reading, one by each of Maine's poet laureates:
Kate Barnes, "Where the Deer Were"
Baron Wormser, "My Wife Asks Me Why I Keep Photographs in a Drawer"
Betsy Sholl, "Gulls in Wind"
Wesley McNair, "My Town"
AND HERE ARE FOUR OTHERS we particularly like:
Megan Grumbling, "Booker's Point"
Elizabeth Bishop, "North Haven"
William Carpenter, "Rain"
Stuart Kestenbaum, "I Am Fishing for God"
POETRY EVENTS IN APRIL
POETRY DAY hosted by Maine poet laureate Wesley McNair, 2:30 p.m. April 7, Hall of Flags, State Capitol, Augusta; free. Readings by McNair and others.
TONY HOAGLAND, "The Words Matter Visiting Poets Series," 7 p.m. April 16, Hannaford Hall, USM Abromson Center, Portland; $25; 780-5960 or mainepoetrycentral.com
RICHARD BLANCO, 5:30 p.m. April 3, Bangor Public Library; free, but tickets required; 947-8336.
POETS/SPEAK FESTIVAL, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 4, University of Maine Museum of Art, 40 Harlow St., Bangor; 25 poets will perform, including Belfast poet laureate Touissant St. Negritude; free; 581-3845 or 947-8336
"The problem is, when you buy into that equation, everything else gets left out. We should not have to argue that creativity improves the quality of life, but in this era we are forced to argue things that are incredibly obvious. The joy of creativity should be part of every day. It's part of what makes us human. It improves everything."
Hoagland, a past Guggenheim Fellow, will make a stand for poetry and humanity April 16 in Portland as the inaugural speaker in a new visiting poets series, which organizers hope will continue the populist poetry agenda of Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair. McNair, a quiet, lanky man from Mercer, is in the final year of a five-year term as poet laureate. He's taken advantage of the soapbox that comes with the position, making it his goal to remove poetry from its ivy pedestal and return it to the daily lives of Mainers.
McNair's success will be measured with time, but there's no question that Hoagland comes to Maine during a time of renewed interest in and acceptance of poetry. In part because of its literary heritage and also because of the efforts of McNair and others, Maine is a place where poetry flourishes. "What I hope is that people are now more aware of poetry's presence in Maine and of the excellence of Maine poetry," McNair said. "And I hope that poetry has come to matter just a little more to people outside the poetry beltway."
On April 7, McNair will host Poetry Day at the Capitol in Augusta. Keeping with the "Poetry for the People" theme of his term, McNair moved the event from the Blaine House, where it was invitation-only, to the Hall of Flags, where it is free and open to everyone. As part of Poetry Day, McNair is inviting everyday Mainers to read their favorite poem. Among the readers will be a Sawn's Island lobsterman.
APRIL IS National Poetry Month, a time of mixed blessings for poets. The attention the month brings is nice, but poetry isn't synonymous with springtime bliss, said Joshua Bodwell, executive director of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. Poets worry the attention of April comes at a cost. "We're here the other 11 months of the year."
Maine is home to many poets who publish nationally, including most famously Richard Blanco of Bethel, who wrote and delivered a poem for President Obama's second inauguration in January 2013. Blanco filled Merrill Auditorium in Portland when he read a few weeks later, exhibiting celebrity star power among poets not seen in these parts since native son Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Maine also is home to many poetry presses – small niche publishers motivated by passion for language and hopeful for nothing more than breaking even. Communities from Portland to Belfast to Weld have municipal poet laureates, and Maine has a rich poetic legacy that extends beyond Longfellow's prodigious reach. Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote her first poems in Camden, and Gardiner's Edwin Arlington Robinson has the distinction of winning three Pulitzer Prizes.
It's not just a dusty history, Bodwell said. Every generation of Maine readers since can claim a poet of distinction.
Given all that, why does poetry remain a fringe art form? Why do poets attract friends and colleagues – as McNair puts it, "all the usual suspects" – to their readings, but not necessarily a general audience, with Richard Blanco being the exception?
HOAGLAND, WHO spent many years in Maine teaching at Colby College and the University of Maine at Farmington, thinks it comes back to how we teach poetry in schools. He thinks generations of Americans are "traumatized" from their experience with poetry when they were kids. By instinct, they find poetry intimidating and inaccessible because it conjures the worst of the leftover nightmares from school: standing in class, mouth agape with no words on your lips and none coming.
Standardized testing aside, Hoagland likes to teach poetry that is fun and full of humor and joy. He will promote contemporary American poems when he comes to Portland "that are full of the world, full of images and full of metaphors that are light on their feet."
As he does in his classroom, he will appeal to the integrity of the language and the satisfaction of a well-constructed sentence.
Our language has been broken by hucksters, he said. Twitter has reduced acceptable communication to run-on sentences and fragments.
It's time, Hoagland said, to "take the American language out for a run. That's worth doing." Next time you go to dinner at a friend's house, bring the gift of a poem in addition to a bottle of wine, he said. "It's a way of inseminating contemporary social life and culture with this thing called poetry. That's a civilized life," he said.
ALICE PERSONS is among the lucky ones. She began writing poetry in grade school and always seemed to find "saint-like teachers" who encouraged her interest in language. These days, the Westbrook woman publishes small books of poetry under the Moon Pie Press banner. She's been at it 12 years and considers her publishing career successful because she's helped many writers publish their poems for the first time.
It's never been about the money, she said. "The need is there. Zillions of talented poets have books and no place to publish them. It seems I will never run out of manuscripts."
For each one she publishes, she turns down 10. Persons fits publishing in among her other jobs, one of which is teaching. She agrees with Hoagland. Poetry's biggest obstacle is fear: People fear poetry because they don't understand it.
Emily Vail sees that fear or something like it on the faces of students and teachers at Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham. For six years, Vail has tried to persuade her English department colleagues to rally behind the statewide Poetry Out Loud recitation competition for Maine high school students. For the most part, her prodding hasn't worked. She's enlisted an enthusiastic teacher or two, but sometimes feels she's on a poetry island.
"It has bedeviled me," Vail said. "I think maybe some teachers are uncomfortable with poetry themselves. I think for some of them, poetry was ruined by their experience with poetry as kids."
THIS YEAR, Rose Horowitz is among Vail's students. Horowitz fears no poem.
The 16-year-old junior from Harpswell won the state Poetry Out Loud competition and will represent Maine in Washington, D.C., at the end of April. She will recite three poems: "Lovers' Infiniteness" by John Donne, "Discrimination" by Kenneth Rexroth and "Entirely" by Louis MacNeice. But she doesn't merely recite them. Horowitz performs them, infusing her language with drama that matches the lyrical complexity of the written words.
Horowitz said her closest friends understand her love of poetry. But most of her peers don't.
"When I say I recite poetry, I think they picture someone older saying a poem very slowly in a monotone. But that's not what Poetry Out Loud is about."
Poetry Out Loud is about finding the emotional core of a poem and expressing it physically and orally.
Poetry, she said, "is like the world without physics. There are no rules. You can express yourself however you want."
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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

/*============================================================
**
**
**
**
**
** Purpose: Abstract base class for all Streams.  Provides
** default implementations of asynchronous reads & writes, in
** terms of the synchronous reads & writes (and vice versa).
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using System;
using System.Buffers;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Runtime;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Runtime.ExceptionServices;
using System.Security;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Reflection;

namespace System.IO
{
    public abstract class Stream : MarshalByRefObject, IDisposable
    {
        public static readonly Stream Null = new NullStream();

        //We pick a value that is the largest multiple of 4096 that is still smaller than the large object heap threshold (85K).
        // The CopyTo/CopyToAsync buffer is short-lived and is likely to be collected at Gen0, and it offers a significant
        // improvement in Copy performance.
        private const int _DefaultCopyBufferSize = 81920;

        // To implement Async IO operations on streams that don't support async IO

        private ReadWriteTask _activeReadWriteTask;
        private SemaphoreSlim _asyncActiveSemaphore;

        internal SemaphoreSlim EnsureAsyncActiveSemaphoreInitialized()
        {
            // Lazily-initialize _asyncActiveSemaphore.  As we're never accessing the SemaphoreSlim's
            // WaitHandle, we don't need to worry about Disposing it.
            return LazyInitializer.EnsureInitialized(ref _asyncActiveSemaphore, () => new SemaphoreSlim(1, 1));
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        public abstract bool CanRead
        {
            get;
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        // If CanSeek is false, Position, Seek, Length, and SetLength should throw.
        public abstract bool CanSeek
        {
            get;
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        public virtual bool CanTimeout
        {
            get
            {
                return false;
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        public abstract bool CanWrite
        {
            get;
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        public abstract long Length
        {
            get;
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        public abstract long Position
        {
            get;
            set;
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        public virtual int ReadTimeout
        {
            get
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException(SR.InvalidOperation_TimeoutsNotSupported);
            }
            set
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException(SR.InvalidOperation_TimeoutsNotSupported);
            }
        }

        public virtual int WriteTimeout
        {
            get
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException(SR.InvalidOperation_TimeoutsNotSupported);
            }
            set
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException(SR.InvalidOperation_TimeoutsNotSupported);
            }
        }

        public Task CopyToAsync(Stream destination)
        {
            int bufferSize = GetCopyBufferSize();

            return CopyToAsync(destination, bufferSize);
        }

        public Task CopyToAsync(Stream destination, Int32 bufferSize)
        {
            return CopyToAsync(destination, bufferSize, CancellationToken.None);
        }

        public Task CopyToAsync(Stream destination, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            int bufferSize = GetCopyBufferSize();

            return CopyToAsync(destination, bufferSize, cancellationToken);
        }

        public virtual Task CopyToAsync(Stream destination, Int32 bufferSize, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            StreamHelpers.ValidateCopyToArgs(this, destination, bufferSize);

            return CopyToAsyncInternal(destination, bufferSize, cancellationToken);
        }

        private async Task CopyToAsyncInternal(Stream destination, Int32 bufferSize, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            byte[] buffer = ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Rent(bufferSize);
            try
            {
                while (true)
                {
                    int bytesRead = await ReadAsync(new Memory<byte>(buffer), cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
                    if (bytesRead == 0) break;
                    await destination.WriteAsync(new ReadOnlyMemory<byte>(buffer, 0, bytesRead), cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false);
                }
            }
            finally
            {
                ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Return(buffer);
            }
        }

        // Reads the bytes from the current stream and writes the bytes to
        // the destination stream until all bytes are read, starting at
        // the current position.
        public void CopyTo(Stream destination)
        {
            int bufferSize = GetCopyBufferSize();

            CopyTo(destination, bufferSize);
        }

        public virtual void CopyTo(Stream destination, int bufferSize)
        {
            StreamHelpers.ValidateCopyToArgs(this, destination, bufferSize);

            byte[] buffer = ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Rent(bufferSize);
            try
            {
                int read;
                while ((read = Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) != 0)
                {
                    destination.Write(buffer, 0, read);
                }
            }
            finally
            {
                ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Return(buffer);
            }
        }

        private int GetCopyBufferSize()
        {
            int bufferSize = _DefaultCopyBufferSize;

            if (CanSeek)
            {
                long length = Length;
                long position = Position;
                if (length <= position) // Handles negative overflows
                {
                    // There are no bytes left in the stream to copy.
                    // However, because CopyTo{Async} is virtual, we need to
                    // ensure that any override is still invoked to provide its
                    // own validation, so we use the smallest legal buffer size here.
                    bufferSize = 1;
                }
                else
                {
                    long remaining = length - position;
                    if (remaining > 0)
                    {
                        // In the case of a positive overflow, stick to the default size
                        bufferSize = (int)Math.Min(bufferSize, remaining);
                    }
                }
            }

            return bufferSize;
        }

        // Stream used to require that all cleanup logic went into Close(),
        // which was thought up before we invented IDisposable.  However, we
        // need to follow the IDisposable pattern so that users can write
        // sensible subclasses without needing to inspect all their base
        // classes, and without worrying about version brittleness, from a
        // base class switching to the Dispose pattern.  We're moving
        // Stream to the Dispose(bool) pattern - that's where all subclasses
        // should put their cleanup starting in V2.
        public virtual void Close()
        {
            // Ideally we would assert CanRead == CanWrite == CanSeek = false,
            // but we'd have to fix PipeStream & NetworkStream very carefully.

            Dispose(true);
            GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
        }

        public void Dispose()
        {
            // Ideally we would assert CanRead == CanWrite == CanSeek = false,
            // but we'd have to fix PipeStream & NetworkStream very carefully.

            Close();
        }

        protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            // Note: Never change this to call other virtual methods on Stream
            // like Write, since the state on subclasses has already been
            // torn down.  This is the last code to run on cleanup for a stream.
        }

        public abstract void Flush();

        public Task FlushAsync()
        {
            return FlushAsync(CancellationToken.None);
        }

        public virtual Task FlushAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            return Task.Factory.StartNew(state => ((Stream)state).Flush(), this,
                cancellationToken, TaskCreationOptions.DenyChildAttach, TaskScheduler.Default);
        }

        [Obsolete("CreateWaitHandle will be removed eventually.  Please use \"new ManualResetEvent(false)\" instead.")]
        protected virtual WaitHandle CreateWaitHandle()
        {
            return new ManualResetEvent(false);
        }

        public virtual IAsyncResult BeginRead(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
        {
            return BeginReadInternal(buffer, offset, count, callback, state, serializeAsynchronously: false, apm: true);
        }

        internal IAsyncResult BeginReadInternal(
            byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, AsyncCallback callback, Object state,
            bool serializeAsynchronously, bool apm)
        {
            if (!CanRead) throw Error.GetReadNotSupported();

            // To avoid a race with a stream's position pointer & generating race conditions
            // with internal buffer indexes in our own streams that
            // don't natively support async IO operations when there are multiple
            // async requests outstanding, we will block the application's main
            // thread if it does a second IO request until the first one completes.
            var semaphore = EnsureAsyncActiveSemaphoreInitialized();
            Task semaphoreTask = null;
            if (serializeAsynchronously)
            {
                semaphoreTask = semaphore.WaitAsync();
            }
            else
            {
                semaphore.Wait();
            }

            // Create the task to asynchronously do a Read.  This task serves both
            // as the asynchronous work item and as the IAsyncResult returned to the user.
            var asyncResult = new ReadWriteTask(true /*isRead*/, apm, delegate
            {
                // The ReadWriteTask stores all of the parameters to pass to Read.
                // As we're currently inside of it, we can get the current task
                // and grab the parameters from it.
                var thisTask = Task.InternalCurrent as ReadWriteTask;
                Debug.Assert(thisTask != null, "Inside ReadWriteTask, InternalCurrent should be the ReadWriteTask");

                try
                {
                    // Do the Read and return the number of bytes read
                    return thisTask._stream.Read(thisTask._buffer, thisTask._offset, thisTask._count);
                }
                finally
                {
                    // If this implementation is part of Begin/EndXx, then the EndXx method will handle
                    // finishing the async operation.  However, if this is part of XxAsync, then there won't
                    // be an end method, and this task is responsible for cleaning up.
                    if (!thisTask._apm)
                    {
                        thisTask._stream.FinishTrackingAsyncOperation();
                    }

                    thisTask.ClearBeginState(); // just to help alleviate some memory pressure
                }
            }, state, this, buffer, offset, count, callback);

            // Schedule it
            if (semaphoreTask != null)
                RunReadWriteTaskWhenReady(semaphoreTask, asyncResult);
            else
                RunReadWriteTask(asyncResult);

            return asyncResult; // return it
        }

        public virtual int EndRead(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
        {
            if (asyncResult == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(asyncResult));

            var readTask = _activeReadWriteTask;

            if (readTask == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException(SR.InvalidOperation_WrongAsyncResultOrEndReadCalledMultiple);
            }
            else if (readTask != asyncResult)
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException(SR.InvalidOperation_WrongAsyncResultOrEndReadCalledMultiple);
            }
            else if (!readTask._isRead)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException(SR.InvalidOperation_WrongAsyncResultOrEndReadCalledMultiple);
            }

            try
            {
                return readTask.GetAwaiter().GetResult(); // block until completion, then get result / propagate any exception
            }
            finally
            {
                FinishTrackingAsyncOperation();
            }
        }

        public Task<int> ReadAsync(Byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
        {
            return ReadAsync(buffer, offset, count, CancellationToken.None);
        }

        public virtual Task<int> ReadAsync(Byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            // If cancellation was requested, bail early with an already completed task.
            // Otherwise, return a task that represents the Begin/End methods.
            return cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested
                        ? Task.FromCanceled<int>(cancellationToken)
                        : BeginEndReadAsync(buffer, offset, count);
        }

        public virtual ValueTask<int> ReadAsync(Memory<byte> destination, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default(CancellationToken))
        {
            if (MemoryMarshal.TryGetArray(destination, out ArraySegment<byte> array))
            {
                return new ValueTask<int>(ReadAsync(array.Array, array.Offset, array.Count, cancellationToken));
            }
            else
            {
                byte[] buffer = ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Rent(destination.Length);
                return FinishReadAsync(ReadAsync(buffer, 0, destination.Length, cancellationToken), buffer, destination);

                async ValueTask<int> FinishReadAsync(Task<int> readTask, byte[] localBuffer, Memory<byte> localDestination)
                {
                    try
                    {
                        int result = await readTask.ConfigureAwait(false);
                        new Span<byte>(localBuffer, 0, result).CopyTo(localDestination.Span);
                        return result;
                    }
                    finally
                    {
                        ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Return(localBuffer);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        [MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)]
        private extern bool HasOverriddenBeginEndRead();

        private Task<Int32> BeginEndReadAsync(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
        {
            if (!HasOverriddenBeginEndRead())
            {
                // If the Stream does not override Begin/EndRead, then we can take an optimized path
                // that skips an extra layer of tasks / IAsyncResults.
                return (Task<Int32>)BeginReadInternal(buffer, offset, count, null, null, serializeAsynchronously: true, apm: false);
            }

            // Otherwise, we need to wrap calls to Begin/EndWrite to ensure we use the derived type's functionality.
            return TaskFactory<Int32>.FromAsyncTrim(
                        this, new ReadWriteParameters { Buffer = buffer, Offset = offset, Count = count },
                        (stream, args, callback, state) => stream.BeginRead(args.Buffer, args.Offset, args.Count, callback, state), // cached by compiler
                        (stream, asyncResult) => stream.EndRead(asyncResult)); // cached by compiler
        }

        private struct ReadWriteParameters // struct for arguments to Read and Write calls
        {
            internal byte[] Buffer;
            internal int Offset;
            internal int Count;
        }

        public virtual IAsyncResult BeginWrite(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
        {
            return BeginWriteInternal(buffer, offset, count, callback, state, serializeAsynchronously: false, apm: true);
        }

        internal IAsyncResult BeginWriteInternal(
            byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, AsyncCallback callback, Object state,
            bool serializeAsynchronously, bool apm)
        {
            if (!CanWrite) throw Error.GetWriteNotSupported();

            // To avoid a race condition with a stream's position pointer & generating conditions
            // with internal buffer indexes in our own streams that
            // don't natively support async IO operations when there are multiple
            // async requests outstanding, we will block the application's main
            // thread if it does a second IO request until the first one completes.
            var semaphore = EnsureAsyncActiveSemaphoreInitialized();
            Task semaphoreTask = null;
            if (serializeAsynchronously)
            {
                semaphoreTask = semaphore.WaitAsync(); // kick off the asynchronous wait, but don't block
            }
            else
            {
                semaphore.Wait(); // synchronously wait here
            }

            // Create the task to asynchronously do a Write.  This task serves both
            // as the asynchronous work item and as the IAsyncResult returned to the user.
            var asyncResult = new ReadWriteTask(false /*isRead*/, apm, delegate
            {
                // The ReadWriteTask stores all of the parameters to pass to Write.
                // As we're currently inside of it, we can get the current task
                // and grab the parameters from it.
                var thisTask = Task.InternalCurrent as ReadWriteTask;
                Debug.Assert(thisTask != null, "Inside ReadWriteTask, InternalCurrent should be the ReadWriteTask");

                try
                {
                    // Do the Write
                    thisTask._stream.Write(thisTask._buffer, thisTask._offset, thisTask._count);
                    return 0; // not used, but signature requires a value be returned
                }
                finally
                {
                    // If this implementation is part of Begin/EndXx, then the EndXx method will handle
                    // finishing the async operation.  However, if this is part of XxAsync, then there won't
                    // be an end method, and this task is responsible for cleaning up.
                    if (!thisTask._apm)
                    {
                        thisTask._stream.FinishTrackingAsyncOperation();
                    }

                    thisTask.ClearBeginState(); // just to help alleviate some memory pressure
                }
            }, state, this, buffer, offset, count, callback);

            // Schedule it
            if (semaphoreTask != null)
                RunReadWriteTaskWhenReady(semaphoreTask, asyncResult);
            else
                RunReadWriteTask(asyncResult);

            return asyncResult; // return it
        }

        private void RunReadWriteTaskWhenReady(Task asyncWaiter, ReadWriteTask readWriteTask)
        {
            Debug.Assert(readWriteTask != null);
            Debug.Assert(asyncWaiter != null);

            // If the wait has already completed, run the task.
            if (asyncWaiter.IsCompleted)
            {
                Debug.Assert(asyncWaiter.IsCompletedSuccessfully, "The semaphore wait should always complete successfully.");
                RunReadWriteTask(readWriteTask);
            }
            else  // Otherwise, wait for our turn, and then run the task.
            {
                asyncWaiter.ContinueWith((t, state) =>
                {
                    Debug.Assert(t.IsCompletedSuccessfully, "The semaphore wait should always complete successfully.");
                    var rwt = (ReadWriteTask)state;
                    rwt._stream.RunReadWriteTask(rwt); // RunReadWriteTask(readWriteTask);
                }, readWriteTask, default(CancellationToken), TaskContinuationOptions.ExecuteSynchronously, TaskScheduler.Default);
            }
        }

        private void RunReadWriteTask(ReadWriteTask readWriteTask)
        {
            Debug.Assert(readWriteTask != null);
            Debug.Assert(_activeReadWriteTask == null, "Expected no other readers or writers");

            // Schedule the task.  ScheduleAndStart must happen after the write to _activeReadWriteTask to avoid a race.
            // Internally, we're able to directly call ScheduleAndStart rather than Start, avoiding
            // two interlocked operations.  However, if ReadWriteTask is ever changed to use
            // a cancellation token, this should be changed to use Start.
            _activeReadWriteTask = readWriteTask; // store the task so that EndXx can validate it's given the right one
            readWriteTask.m_taskScheduler = TaskScheduler.Default;
            readWriteTask.ScheduleAndStart(needsProtection: false);
        }

        private void FinishTrackingAsyncOperation()
        {
            _activeReadWriteTask = null;
            Debug.Assert(_asyncActiveSemaphore != null, "Must have been initialized in order to get here.");
            _asyncActiveSemaphore.Release();
        }

        public virtual void EndWrite(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
        {
            if (asyncResult == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(asyncResult));

            var writeTask = _activeReadWriteTask;
            if (writeTask == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException(SR.InvalidOperation_WrongAsyncResultOrEndWriteCalledMultiple);
            }
            else if (writeTask != asyncResult)
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException(SR.InvalidOperation_WrongAsyncResultOrEndWriteCalledMultiple);
            }
            else if (writeTask._isRead)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException(SR.InvalidOperation_WrongAsyncResultOrEndWriteCalledMultiple);
            }

            try
            {
                writeTask.GetAwaiter().GetResult(); // block until completion, then propagate any exceptions
                Debug.Assert(writeTask.Status == TaskStatus.RanToCompletion);
            }
            finally
            {
                FinishTrackingAsyncOperation();
            }
        }

        // Task used by BeginRead / BeginWrite to do Read / Write asynchronously.
        // A single instance of this task serves four purposes:
        // 1. The work item scheduled to run the Read / Write operation
        // 2. The state holding the arguments to be passed to Read / Write
        // 3. The IAsyncResult returned from BeginRead / BeginWrite
        // 4. The completion action that runs to invoke the user-provided callback.
        // This last item is a bit tricky.  Before the AsyncCallback is invoked, the
        // IAsyncResult must have completed, so we can't just invoke the handler
        // from within the task, since it is the IAsyncResult, and thus it's not
        // yet completed.  Instead, we use AddCompletionAction to install this
        // task as its own completion handler.  That saves the need to allocate
        // a separate completion handler, it guarantees that the task will
        // have completed by the time the handler is invoked, and it allows
        // the handler to be invoked synchronously upon the completion of the
        // task.  This all enables BeginRead / BeginWrite to be implemented
        // with a single allocation.
        private sealed class ReadWriteTask : Task<int>, ITaskCompletionAction
        {
            internal readonly bool _isRead;
            internal readonly bool _apm; // true if this is from Begin/EndXx; false if it's from XxAsync
            internal Stream _stream;
            internal byte[] _buffer;
            internal readonly int _offset;
            internal readonly int _count;
            private AsyncCallback _callback;
            private ExecutionContext _context;

            internal void ClearBeginState() // Used to allow the args to Read/Write to be made available for GC
            {
                _stream = null;
                _buffer = null;
            }

            public ReadWriteTask(
                bool isRead,
                bool apm,
                Func<object, int> function, object state,
                Stream stream, byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, AsyncCallback callback) :
                base(function, state, CancellationToken.None, TaskCreationOptions.DenyChildAttach)
            {
                Debug.Assert(function != null);
                Debug.Assert(stream != null);
                Debug.Assert(buffer != null);

                // Store the arguments
                _isRead = isRead;
                _apm = apm;
                _stream = stream;
                _buffer = buffer;
                _offset = offset;
                _count = count;

                // If a callback was provided, we need to:
                // - Store the user-provided handler
                // - Capture an ExecutionContext under which to invoke the handler
                // - Add this task as its own completion handler so that the Invoke method
                //   will run the callback when this task completes.
                if (callback != null)
                {
                    _callback = callback;
                    _context = ExecutionContext.Capture();
                    base.AddCompletionAction(this);
                }
            }

            private static void InvokeAsyncCallback(object completedTask)
            {
                var rwc = (ReadWriteTask)completedTask;
                var callback = rwc._callback;
                rwc._callback = null;
                callback(rwc);
            }

            private static ContextCallback s_invokeAsyncCallback;

            void ITaskCompletionAction.Invoke(Task completingTask)
            {
                // Get the ExecutionContext.  If there is none, just run the callback
                // directly, passing in the completed task as the IAsyncResult.
                // If there is one, process it with ExecutionContext.Run.
                var context = _context;
                if (context == null)
                {
                    var callback = _callback;
                    _callback = null;
                    callback(completingTask);
                }
                else
                {
                    _context = null;

                    var invokeAsyncCallback = s_invokeAsyncCallback;
                    if (invokeAsyncCallback == null) s_invokeAsyncCallback = invokeAsyncCallback = InvokeAsyncCallback; // benign race condition

                    ExecutionContext.RunInternal(context, invokeAsyncCallback, this);
                }
            }

            bool ITaskCompletionAction.InvokeMayRunArbitraryCode { get { return true; } }
        }

        public Task WriteAsync(Byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
        {
            return WriteAsync(buffer, offset, count, CancellationToken.None);
        }

        public virtual Task WriteAsync(Byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            // If cancellation was requested, bail early with an already completed task.
            // Otherwise, return a task that represents the Begin/End methods.
            return cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested
                        ? Task.FromCanceled(cancellationToken)
                        : BeginEndWriteAsync(buffer, offset, count);
        }

        public virtual ValueTask WriteAsync(ReadOnlyMemory<byte> source, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default(CancellationToken))
        {
            if (MemoryMarshal.TryGetArray(source, out ArraySegment<byte> array))
            {
                return new ValueTask(WriteAsync(array.Array, array.Offset, array.Count, cancellationToken));
            }
            else
            {
                byte[] buffer = ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Rent(source.Length);
                source.Span.CopyTo(buffer);
                return new ValueTask(FinishWriteAsync(WriteAsync(buffer, 0, source.Length, cancellationToken), buffer));
            }
        }

        private async Task FinishWriteAsync(Task writeTask, byte[] localBuffer)
        {
            try
            {
                await writeTask.ConfigureAwait(false);
            }
            finally
            {
                ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Return(localBuffer);
            }
        }

        [MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)]
        private extern bool HasOverriddenBeginEndWrite();

        private Task BeginEndWriteAsync(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 count)
        {
            if (!HasOverriddenBeginEndWrite())
            {
                // If the Stream does not override Begin/EndWrite, then we can take an optimized path
                // that skips an extra layer of tasks / IAsyncResults.
                return (Task)BeginWriteInternal(buffer, offset, count, null, null, serializeAsynchronously: true, apm: false);
            }

            // Otherwise, we need to wrap calls to Begin/EndWrite to ensure we use the derived type's functionality.
            return TaskFactory<VoidTaskResult>.FromAsyncTrim(
                        this, new ReadWriteParameters { Buffer = buffer, Offset = offset, Count = count },
                        (stream, args, callback, state) => stream.BeginWrite(args.Buffer, args.Offset, args.Count, callback, state), // cached by compiler
                        (stream, asyncResult) => // cached by compiler
                        {
                            stream.EndWrite(asyncResult);
                            return default(VoidTaskResult);
                        });
        }

        public abstract long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin);

        public abstract void SetLength(long value);

        public abstract int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count);

        public virtual int Read(Span<byte> destination)
        {
            byte[] buffer = ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Rent(destination.Length);
            try
            {
                int numRead = Read(buffer, 0, destination.Length);
                if ((uint)numRead > destination.Length)
                {
                    throw new IOException(SR.IO_StreamTooLong);
                }
                new Span<byte>(buffer, 0, numRead).CopyTo(destination);
                return numRead;
            }
            finally { ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Return(buffer); }
        }

        // Reads one byte from the stream by calling Read(byte[], int, int).
        // Will return an unsigned byte cast to an int or -1 on end of stream.
        // This implementation does not perform well because it allocates a new
        // byte[] each time you call it, and should be overridden by any
        // subclass that maintains an internal buffer.  Then, it can help perf
        // significantly for people who are reading one byte at a time.
        public virtual int ReadByte()
        {
            byte[] oneByteArray = new byte[1];
            int r = Read(oneByteArray, 0, 1);
            if (r == 0)
                return -1;
            return oneByteArray[0];
        }

        public abstract void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count);

        public virtual void Write(ReadOnlySpan<byte> source)
        {
            byte[] buffer = ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Rent(source.Length);
            try
            {
                source.CopyTo(buffer);
                Write(buffer, 0, source.Length);
            }
            finally { ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Return(buffer); }
        }

        // Writes one byte from the stream by calling Write(byte[], int, int).
        // This implementation does not perform well because it allocates a new
        // byte[] each time you call it, and should be overridden by any
        // subclass that maintains an internal buffer.  Then, it can help perf
        // significantly for people who are writing one byte at a time.
        public virtual void WriteByte(byte value)
        {
            byte[] oneByteArray = new byte[1];
            oneByteArray[0] = value;
            Write(oneByteArray, 0, 1);
        }

        public static Stream Synchronized(Stream stream)
        {
            if (stream == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(stream));
            if (stream is SyncStream)
                return stream;

            return new SyncStream(stream);
        }

        [Obsolete("Do not call or override this method.")]
        protected virtual void ObjectInvariant()
        {
        }

        internal IAsyncResult BlockingBeginRead(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
        {
            // To avoid a race with a stream's position pointer & generating conditions
            // with internal buffer indexes in our own streams that
            // don't natively support async IO operations when there are multiple
            // async requests outstanding, we will block the application's main
            // thread and do the IO synchronously.
            // This can't perform well - use a different approach.
            SynchronousAsyncResult asyncResult;
            try
            {
                int numRead = Read(buffer, offset, count);
                asyncResult = new SynchronousAsyncResult(numRead, state);
            }
            catch (IOException ex)
            {
                asyncResult = new SynchronousAsyncResult(ex, state, isWrite: false);
            }

            if (callback != null)
            {
                callback(asyncResult);
            }

            return asyncResult;
        }

        internal static int BlockingEndRead(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
        {
            return SynchronousAsyncResult.EndRead(asyncResult);
        }

        internal IAsyncResult BlockingBeginWrite(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
        {
            // To avoid a race condition with a stream's position pointer & generating conditions
            // with internal buffer indexes in our own streams that
            // don't natively support async IO operations when there are multiple
            // async requests outstanding, we will block the application's main
            // thread and do the IO synchronously.
            // This can't perform well - use a different approach.
            SynchronousAsyncResult asyncResult;
            try
            {
                Write(buffer, offset, count);
                asyncResult = new SynchronousAsyncResult(state);
            }
            catch (IOException ex)
            {
                asyncResult = new SynchronousAsyncResult(ex, state, isWrite: true);
            }

            if (callback != null)
            {
                callback(asyncResult);
            }

            return asyncResult;
        }

        internal static void BlockingEndWrite(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
        {
            SynchronousAsyncResult.EndWrite(asyncResult);
        }

        private sealed class NullStream : Stream
        {
            internal NullStream() { }

            public override bool CanRead
            {
                get { return true; }
            }

            public override bool CanWrite
            {
                get { return true; }
            }

            public override bool CanSeek
            {
                get { return true; }
            }

            public override long Length
            {
                get { return 0; }
            }

            public override long Position
            {
                get { return 0; }
                set { }
            }

            public override void CopyTo(Stream destination, int bufferSize)
            {
                StreamHelpers.ValidateCopyToArgs(this, destination, bufferSize);

                // After we validate arguments this is a nop.
            }

            public override Task CopyToAsync(Stream destination, int bufferSize, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
            {
                // Validate arguments here for compat, since previously this method
                // was inherited from Stream (which did check its arguments).
                StreamHelpers.ValidateCopyToArgs(this, destination, bufferSize);

                return cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested ?
                    Task.FromCanceled(cancellationToken) :
                    Task.CompletedTask;
            }

            protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
            {
                // Do nothing - we don't want NullStream singleton (static) to be closable
            }

            public override void Flush()
            {
            }

            public override Task FlushAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
            {
                return cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested ?
                    Task.FromCanceled(cancellationToken) :
                    Task.CompletedTask;
            }

            public override IAsyncResult BeginRead(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
            {
                if (!CanRead) throw Error.GetReadNotSupported();

                return BlockingBeginRead(buffer, offset, count, callback, state);
            }

            public override int EndRead(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
            {
                if (asyncResult == null)
                    throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(asyncResult));

                return BlockingEndRead(asyncResult);
            }

            public override IAsyncResult BeginWrite(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
            {
                if (!CanWrite) throw Error.GetWriteNotSupported();

                return BlockingBeginWrite(buffer, offset, count, callback, state);
            }

            public override void EndWrite(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
            {
                if (asyncResult == null)
                    throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(asyncResult));

                BlockingEndWrite(asyncResult);
            }

            public override int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
            {
                return 0;
            }

            public override int Read(Span<byte> destination)
            {
                return 0;
            }

            public override Task<int> ReadAsync(Byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
            {
                return AsyncTaskMethodBuilder<int>.s_defaultResultTask;
            }

            public override ValueTask<int> ReadAsync(Memory<byte> destination, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default(CancellationToken))
            {
                return new ValueTask<int>(0);
            }

            public override int ReadByte()
            {
                return -1;
            }

            public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
            {
            }

            public override void Write(ReadOnlySpan<byte> source)
            {
            }

            public override Task WriteAsync(Byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
            {
                return cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested ?
                    Task.FromCanceled(cancellationToken) :
                    Task.CompletedTask;
            }

            public override ValueTask WriteAsync(ReadOnlyMemory<byte> source, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default(CancellationToken))
            {
                return cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested ?
                    new ValueTask(Task.FromCanceled(cancellationToken)) :
                    default;
            }

            public override void WriteByte(byte value)
            {
            }

            public override long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin)
            {
                return 0;
            }

            public override void SetLength(long length)
            {
            }
        }

        /// <summary>Used as the IAsyncResult object when using asynchronous IO methods on the base Stream class.</summary>
        internal sealed class SynchronousAsyncResult : IAsyncResult
        {
            private readonly Object _stateObject;
            private readonly bool _isWrite;
            private ManualResetEvent _waitHandle;
            private ExceptionDispatchInfo _exceptionInfo;

            private bool _endXxxCalled;
            private Int32 _bytesRead;

            internal SynchronousAsyncResult(Int32 bytesRead, Object asyncStateObject)
            {
                _bytesRead = bytesRead;
                _stateObject = asyncStateObject;
                //_isWrite = false;
            }

            internal SynchronousAsyncResult(Object asyncStateObject)
            {
                _stateObject = asyncStateObject;
                _isWrite = true;
            }

            internal SynchronousAsyncResult(Exception ex, Object asyncStateObject, bool isWrite)
            {
                _exceptionInfo = ExceptionDispatchInfo.Capture(ex);
                _stateObject = asyncStateObject;
                _isWrite = isWrite;
            }

            public bool IsCompleted
            {
                // We never hand out objects of this type to the user before the synchronous IO completed:
                get { return true; }
            }

            public WaitHandle AsyncWaitHandle
            {
                get
                {
                    return LazyInitializer.EnsureInitialized(ref _waitHandle, () => new ManualResetEvent(true));
                }
            }

            public Object AsyncState
            {
                get { return _stateObject; }
            }

            public bool CompletedSynchronously
            {
                get { return true; }
            }

            internal void ThrowIfError()
            {
                if (_exceptionInfo != null)
                    _exceptionInfo.Throw();
            }

            internal static Int32 EndRead(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
            {
                SynchronousAsyncResult ar = asyncResult as SynchronousAsyncResult;
                if (ar == null || ar._isWrite)
                    throw new ArgumentException(SR.Arg_WrongAsyncResult);

                if (ar._endXxxCalled)
                    throw new ArgumentException(SR.InvalidOperation_EndReadCalledMultiple);

                ar._endXxxCalled = true;

                ar.ThrowIfError();
                return ar._bytesRead;
            }

            internal static void EndWrite(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
            {
                SynchronousAsyncResult ar = asyncResult as SynchronousAsyncResult;
                if (ar == null || !ar._isWrite)
                    throw new ArgumentException(SR.Arg_WrongAsyncResult);

                if (ar._endXxxCalled)
                    throw new ArgumentException(SR.InvalidOperation_EndWriteCalledMultiple);

                ar._endXxxCalled = true;

                ar.ThrowIfError();
            }
        }   // class SynchronousAsyncResult

        // SyncStream is a wrapper around a stream that takes
        // a lock for every operation making it thread safe.
        internal sealed class SyncStream : Stream, IDisposable
        {
            private Stream _stream;

            internal SyncStream(Stream stream)
            {
                if (stream == null)
                    throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(stream));
                _stream = stream;
            }

            public override bool CanRead
            {
                get { return _stream.CanRead; }
            }

            public override bool CanWrite
            {
                get { return _stream.CanWrite; }
            }

            public override bool CanSeek
            {
                get { return _stream.CanSeek; }
            }

            public override bool CanTimeout
            {
                get
                {
                    return _stream.CanTimeout;
                }
            }

            public override long Length
            {
                get
                {
                    lock (_stream)
                    {
                        return _stream.Length;
                    }
                }
            }

            public override long Position
            {
                get
                {
                    lock (_stream)
                    {
                        return _stream.Position;
                    }
                }
                set
                {
                    lock (_stream)
                    {
                        _stream.Position = value;
                    }
                }
            }

            public override int ReadTimeout
            {
                get
                {
                    return _stream.ReadTimeout;
                }
                set
                {
                    _stream.ReadTimeout = value;
                }
            }

            public override int WriteTimeout
            {
                get
                {
                    return _stream.WriteTimeout;
                }
                set
                {
                    _stream.WriteTimeout = value;
                }
            }

            // In the off chance that some wrapped stream has different
            // semantics for Close vs. Dispose, let's preserve that.
            public override void Close()
            {
                lock (_stream)
                {
                    try
                    {
                        _stream.Close();
                    }
                    finally
                    {
                        base.Dispose(true);
                    }
                }
            }

            protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
            {
                lock (_stream)
                {
                    try
                    {
                        // Explicitly pick up a potentially methodimpl'ed Dispose
                        if (disposing)
                            ((IDisposable)_stream).Dispose();
                    }
                    finally
                    {
                        base.Dispose(disposing);
                    }
                }
            }

            public override void Flush()
            {
                lock (_stream)
                    _stream.Flush();
            }

            public override int Read(byte[] bytes, int offset, int count)
            {
                lock (_stream)
                    return _stream.Read(bytes, offset, count);
            }

            public override int Read(Span<byte> destination)
            {
                lock (_stream)
                    return _stream.Read(destination);
            }

            public override int ReadByte()
            {
                lock (_stream)
                    return _stream.ReadByte();
            }

            public override IAsyncResult BeginRead(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
            {
                bool overridesBeginRead = _stream.HasOverriddenBeginEndRead();

                lock (_stream)
                {
                    // If the Stream does have its own BeginRead implementation, then we must use that override.
                    // If it doesn't, then we'll use the base implementation, but we'll make sure that the logic
                    // which ensures only one asynchronous operation does so with an asynchronous wait rather
                    // than a synchronous wait.  A synchronous wait will result in a deadlock condition, because
                    // the EndXx method for the outstanding async operation won't be able to acquire the lock on
                    // _stream due to this call blocked while holding the lock.
                    return overridesBeginRead ?
                        _stream.BeginRead(buffer, offset, count, callback, state) :
                        _stream.BeginReadInternal(buffer, offset, count, callback, state, serializeAsynchronously: true, apm: true);
                }
            }

            public override int EndRead(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
            {
                if (asyncResult == null)
                    throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(asyncResult));

                lock (_stream)
                    return _stream.EndRead(asyncResult);
            }

            public override long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin)
            {
                lock (_stream)
                    return _stream.Seek(offset, origin);
            }

            public override void SetLength(long length)
            {
                lock (_stream)
                    _stream.SetLength(length);
            }

            public override void Write(byte[] bytes, int offset, int count)
            {
                lock (_stream)
                    _stream.Write(bytes, offset, count);
            }

            public override void Write(ReadOnlySpan<byte> source)
            {
                lock (_stream)
                    _stream.Write(source);
            }

            public override void WriteByte(byte b)
            {
                lock (_stream)
                    _stream.WriteByte(b);
            }

            public override IAsyncResult BeginWrite(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
            {
                bool overridesBeginWrite = _stream.HasOverriddenBeginEndWrite();

                lock (_stream)
                {
                    // If the Stream does have its own BeginWrite implementation, then we must use that override.
                    // If it doesn't, then we'll use the base implementation, but we'll make sure that the logic
                    // which ensures only one asynchronous operation does so with an asynchronous wait rather
                    // than a synchronous wait.  A synchronous wait will result in a deadlock condition, because
                    // the EndXx method for the outstanding async operation won't be able to acquire the lock on
                    // _stream due to this call blocked while holding the lock.
                    return overridesBeginWrite ?
                        _stream.BeginWrite(buffer, offset, count, callback, state) :
                        _stream.BeginWriteInternal(buffer, offset, count, callback, state, serializeAsynchronously: true, apm: true);
                }
            }

            public override void EndWrite(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
            {
                if (asyncResult == null)
                    throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(asyncResult));

                lock (_stream)
                    _stream.EndWrite(asyncResult);
            }
        }
    }
}


InSanity lurks Inside: Star Wars Land Announced for Disneyland and Disney World Hollywood Studios!
Star Wars Land Announced for Disneyland and Disney World Hollywood Studios!
Yep, you read that headline right. Just a short while ago, at Disney's annual D23 Expo, the announcement of the long anticipated Star Wars Land was finally made. It was never a matter of "if", but always when with this one.
Now, though? We have the details go along with it and just what guests will be able to expect from this massive new project that will be going on at not just Disneyland but also Disney World.
Since this is a breaking story, we don't have all the details yet, but here's what we do know!
So, just what can we expect? Well, here's the breakdown on things. Both parks will be a massive 14 acres in size. If that doesn't sound big, just think of the fact that this will be taking up most of the space in the existing Disney Hollywood Studios at Disney World for starters.
There's at least two new rides coming along with this, and one of them, you'll be able to pilot the Millennium Falcon in one of two new signature attractions coming to each land. The other attraction will put guests right in the middle of a climactic battle. I think the last pic is possibly from that? Hard to say.
Now, for a few more concept pieces to show off just what the future looks like in a park not so far far away.
More Star Wars Land Concept Art!
Possibly for the Millennium Falcon ride?
Stay tuned for more details as we get them on this monster announcement out of Disneyland and Disney World!
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…half of them, because we didn't manage to reach France or Monaco [did you even know that the principality is an Alpine Country?!], and I'll write about Italy and Slovenia in future posts.
There were unexpected [pleasant] surprises, validations, expected deceptions, neutral opinions. A healthy mix of feelings present in almost every trip.
Austria was something else coming south from Slovenia, different from what I had known this country to be in my trips throughout it. Wild, beautiful, and foggy, interrupted by milder sections as we kept crossing the border with Germany back and forth. Our short and colourful lunch break in Villach lightened our spirits and helped us reach the end of our longest day on the road during our 2015 summer adventure [all the members -Andra, Iulia, and Marcel- of our rafting team will agree]. There were glimpses of a travel TV show run during my teenage years by Romanian National Television portraying the picturesque villages and small towns of Alpine Austria on my mind all day and a feeling of cool yet eternal summer.
Germany was neat and green and probably too orderly for my tastes. Wild factor to be desired. Badly. Yes, everything felt romantic, restaurants looked inviting and locals friendly. Until we stepped out of the car. There was also the incident that we were part of at an upscale hostel, where we found our bathroom door locked and were requested to pay an extra fee for some 'en-suite' facilities that would have been shared anyway. Does that make any sense to you? Should I also add the fact that beer came at an overcharged price in the same Bavarian location of Füssen?
Liechtenstein – it happened to me once before, with Georgia and Armenia [when I fell for Armenia although I expected it to be the other way round]. This second time, I expected Switzerland to blow my mind and become the biggest competitor of Scotland, in my heart. It didn't [see below]. On the other hand, this small landlocked country did! Apart from the reserved locals and unfriendly prices in Vaduz, we had sunshine, we had water, we had mountains to marvel at! It seemed a condensed and much prettier version of its much larger neighbour.
Switzerland – this time, we drove the eastern part, from the Liechtenstein border down to the one with Italy. It was a pretty sight, don't get me wrong, but not the wows I heard and dreamt about. Actually, the cutest thing that stayed with me from Switzerland was a top-notch toilet, in the middle of nowhere, which had all sorts of facilities and purposes, illustrating Swiss cleanliness, style, and accuracy. Lugano ended our fast passage with crazy prices [I do think that with the rising of the Swiss Franc, Norway no longer is the most expensive country in the world] and decadence.
Passing the border into Italy was bliss and the wows continued well into the night, on the magnificent shores of Lake Como. De gustibus et coloribus non disputandum.


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Team Powers - Combo for M-Chassis - RC Maritime Norway RCMN - RC båter, RC Biler, Elektronisk utstyr og tilbehør. Raskt levert til fornuftige priser - RC Fjernstyrt, Radiostyrt.
Hardware design is same as Radon V2.0 series speed control except using plastic casing.
NB! If you experience that the motor runs faster in reverse, this ESC is programmed with Blinky just for forward. This is done from the fabric to save storage on the esc. The way you reduces the reverse speed is to adjust on your radio. We have got this information from Team Powers and we do our best to solve the issue.
So, there is nothing wrong with the ESC. It's in blinky as it should for forward driving.
When running the ESC in blinky mode (0 in timing), you will experience that the motor slightly will be faster in reverse. The reason is that the motor is set on -2 degree timing. This is to secure the reliability.