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New Titans #85 (1992)
New Titans #85 (April, 1992)
"Dirge"
Writer - Marv Wolfman
Pencils - Tom Grummett
Inks - Al Vey
Letters - John Costanza
Colors - Adrienne Roy
Editor - Jonathan Peterson
Ya know... I was planning on just leaving Titans Hunt behind. However, the more I thought about it... the more annoyed I became that the final part didn't give us a single bit of closure.
I mean, let's be honest... that ending was less "cliffhanger" and more "entrapment". After investing so much time and money into an arc... having it end so flatly and without resolution... what Titans fan wasn't going to come back for #85?
Let's look at this... New Titans #71 (Part One) shipped September 18, 1990. New Titans #84 (Part the Final) shipped January 21, 1992. That's a whole lot of time and energy to expect a fan to dedicate to a story without giving them an ounce of closure.
Whatta greedy arc.
We open at the Titans Graveyard, where services are being held for Jericho (and maybe Golden Eagle too, there are two coffins). We join our solemn Titans as they discuss the finer points of whether or not Joe's spirit still existed inside his Azarathian-possessed body at the end. I think that was made crystal clear a couple of issues back, but what do I know? In the distance, Slade Wilson... the man who was forced to kill Joey (to save him from further corruption and/or corrupting) watches the proceedings... alone. He approaches the casket after everyone leaves. I always thought the casket went into the ground after everyone left... again, what do I know?
The next stop for the Titans is S.T.A.R. Labs to check on Vic. Garfield is especially anxious to see his pal. He is, of course, pretty shaken when he finds him. Vic is being worked on by S.T.A.R. staff, led by his sorta-kinda squeeze Dr. Sarah Charles. Logan looks into Vic's dead eyes, and kinda loses it for a bit!
He flips out, yelling at his fellow Titans for not believing him when he accused Jericho (the son of the Terminator, of course) of being a traitor. Donna responds by reminding him of just how many times the Titans have been turned on by one of their own... either via wicked deception, or mind-control. It's sobering... and one of those things that sounds absolutely ridiculous when you stop and think about it! Gar apologizes for lashing out, though... if you ask me, the real crime is his mullet. We also get a run-down on the Titans Hunt casualties:
Joey-Dead
Golden Eagle-Dead
Aqualad-Coma
Raven-Missing/Presumed Dead
Danny Chase-Missing/Presumed Dead
Arella-Missing/Presumed Dead
...and of course, Vic.
Dr. Charles informs the Titans that there has been advances in Aqualad's treatment. She guides them (sans Gar) into another area of the Labs, to show them what she means. Looks like Garth is on-ice... sorta. It's a super-cold liquid cryogenic thingie... to hold him over for now. Just then, Aquaman shows up... annnnnnd, really doesn't seem all that bothered seeing his sidekick in such a state. He also figures that Atlantis ain't gonna help him, at least at the moment. Thanks for comin', Artie.
Back at Dick's apartment, he and Kory are watching soap operas... Kory can't stand them because the people in them are "far too unreal"... nyuk nyuk, ya get it? Anyhoo, the program cuts away to a special news report, featuring our least-favorite "thorn in the side" Elizabeth Alderman. She's ticked at the Titans and all that jazz.
Just then... a weird... object appears at the ruins of the Wildebeest Warehouse (where Alderman is being interviewed). It looks... I dunno, kind of like an electrified clump of dryer lint? It begins spinning out of control... and actually draws the Titans to it!
From it springs forth... Phantasm! And he's holding that weird canister he picked up last issue. He tries to make it clear from the get-go, that he is no longer "the boy"... which is to say, he ain't Danny Chase no mo. This, naturally, doesn't stop everyone from referring to him as such.
Elsewhere, the Team Titans (who, for the moment are being called the "Teen Titans") are also watching this all go down via the news. Upon seeing Troia, they figure this might be a great opportunity to take 'er out.
Back on the street, Phantasm starts spillin' the beans. Danny's gone, Arella's gone... and in the best news ever, Azarath is gone! Whoo-hoo! Haven't felt this relieved since reading "The Last Morlock Story" in Uncanny X-Men #291(ish)! I'd hope Azarath would stay gone at least as long as the Morlocks did... but, we all know better than that.
While the Teamsters look on (Mirage drooling over Di.. err, Nightwing), the Titans are approached by Elizabeth Alderman. She's blibbuh blabberin' about her lawsuit, and her injunctions against them using their powers within the city limits. Yadda yadda yadda. Phantasm tires of her bellyaching, and ports the team away so they might continue their chat. This of course, only makes them look guilty as hell, right?
Upon arriving... elsewhere, Dick tells the team about how everything came together. The Wildebeest who attacked him... died, and so, Dick took his costume. Later, Danny was attacked... and Dick-the-Beest tossed him a Nightwing Tracer as a "calling card". This was, apparently "hidden in plain sight" during that issue... which, uh, congrats? You got me... by dropping a hint in a scene I couldn't care less about... you slid one past the goalie, Marv!
After a little more chatter, Phantasm gets weary of dealing with the team... and so, he leaves. However... he doesn't take that canister with him... and, just then... it opens! Deep breaths, everybody... it's time to meet: Baby Wildebeest!
Well, we actually do get a bit more closure here. It's funny, today Titans Hunt would have been an event miniseries unto itself... and this would probably be issue #12.1 or some such nonsense.
It was nice to have the opportunity to see the Titans walk that tightrope of licking their wounds and reflecting while at the same time, attempting to move forward. It's probably an understatement to suggest that this is a very different team compared to the one that was about to celebrate their anniversary a year and a half back (in real time).
Some have changed physically... others emotionally. Some ain't there anymore... and we have a few newbies to boot. Even if I didn't enjoy Titans Hunt in full... there was still a good story worth being told hidden betwixt all of the exposition, tie-ins, and flashbacks. There was definitely a plan here to upend and update the franchise... and, at the end of the day... that's exactly what they did.
I feel like this sort of thing is missing from comics these days. I'm not talking about over-stretched arcs, because we've got those in spades. I'm talking about actually sitting down and writing a story to facilitate and explain changes. Nowaways, we'd just get a new #1... with an all-new team, and hopes that maybe, somewhere down the line, we'd get an explanation of how we got here.
Let's take a look at the lettercol... it's funny, I was just chatting with my pal Tom Panarese (name drop!) about the delays Titans Hunt experienced... and he mentioned that it was so out of wack that the climax was spoiled in another book. Sure enough, one of the letters mentions just that very thing! Here, take a look (As always, full Lettercol below, including the cop-out response from the Editor):
Overall... I gotta say, if you read through Titans Hunt... you're going to want to read this too. It might not rock your socks, but it does help to put a "cap" on the event.
Letters Page:
Labels: 1992, marv wolfman, new titans, tom grummett
Ted Kilvington November 16, 2018 at 3:52 PM
I've never read Titans Hunt, but I did cover this and the next few issues on my podcast earlier this year. During this transition period between TH and Total Chaos, I thought these were, um, bad. Very bad.
RICHB November 16, 2018 at 5:47 PM
Not gonna like I was stunned that I missed the Nightwing tracer in that earlier issue, it really was right there, but of course it had been year by then who'd have remembered ?
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package org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.irsbroker;

import java.net.URL;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;
import java.util.concurrent.FutureTask;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.Header;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.common.asynctasks.AsyncTaskCreationInfo;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.common.asynctasks.AsyncTaskType;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.common.businessentities.VdsStatic;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.common.config.Config;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.common.config.ConfigValues;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.common.errors.VDSError;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.common.errors.VdcBllErrors;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.common.utils.Pair;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.common.vdscommands.ImageHttpAccessVDSCommandParameters;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.compat.Guid;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.utils.threadpool.ThreadPoolUtil;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.ResourceManager;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.VdsManager;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.StatusOnlyReturnForXmlRpc;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.VDSErrorException;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.VdsBrokerCommand;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.vdsbroker.VdsServerWrapper;
import org.ovirt.engine.core.vdsbroker.xmlrpc.XmlRpcUtils;

public abstract class HttpImageTaskVDSCommand<T extends HttpMethodBase, P extends ImageHttpAccessVDSCommandParameters> extends VdsBrokerCommand<P> {
    private T method;

    public HttpImageTaskVDSCommand(P parameters) {
        super(parameters);
    }

    @Override
    protected void executeVdsBrokerCommand() {
        logExecution();
        prepareMethod();
        addHeaders();
        try {
            executeHttpMethod(getMethod());
        } finally {
            try {
                getMethod().releaseConnection();
            } catch (RuntimeException releaseException) {
                log.error("failed when attempting to release connection", releaseException);
            }
        }
    }

    private void addHeaders() {
        getMethod().setRequestHeader("connection", "close");
        getMethod().setRequestHeader("Storage-Pool-Id", getParameters().getStoragePoolId().toString());
        getMethod().setRequestHeader("Storage-Domain-Id", getParameters().getStorageDomainId().toString());
        getMethod().setRequestHeader("Image-Id", getParameters().getImageGroupId().toString());
        getMethod().setRequestHeader("Volume-Id", getParameters().getImageId().toString());
    }

    protected void executeHttpMethod(final T method) {
        int responseCode = -1;
        VdsManager manager = ResourceManager.getInstance().GetVdsManager(getParameters().getVdsId());
        final HttpClient httpclient = ((VdsServerWrapper) manager.getVdsProxy()).getHttpClient();
        try {
            FutureTask<Integer> futureTask = new FutureTask(new Callable<Integer>() {
                @Override
                public Integer call() throws Exception {
                    return httpclient.executeMethod(method);
                }
            });
            Future<Integer> f = ThreadPoolUtil.execute(futureTask);
            if (f.get(Config.<Integer> getValue(getConfigValueTimeLimitForOperation()), TimeUnit.MINUTES) == null) {
                responseCode = futureTask.get();
            }
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            log.debug(e);
            throw createNetworkException(e);
        }

        if (responseCode == getSuccessCode()) {
            Guid createdTask =
                    Guid.createGuidFromString(processResponseHeaderValue(getMethod(), "Task-Id", null));
            getVDSReturnValue().setCreationInfo(
                    new AsyncTaskCreationInfo(createdTask, getCreatedTaskType(), getParameters()
                            .getStoragePoolId()));
            handleOkResponse();
            getVDSReturnValue().setSucceeded(true);
            return;
        }

        processResponseHeaderValue(getMethod(), "Content-type", "application/json");

        String response;
        try {
            response = getMethod().getResponseBodyAsString();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw createNetworkException(e);
        }

        Map<String, Object> resultMap = null;
        try {
            resultMap = new ObjectMapper().readValue(response, HashMap.class);
            status = new StatusOnlyReturnForXmlRpc(resultMap);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throwVdsErrorException("failed to parse response " + response, VdcBllErrors.GeneralException);
        }

        proceedProxyReturnValue();
    }

    protected void handleOkResponse() {}

    protected String processResponseHeaderValue(HttpMethodBase method, String headerName, String expectedValue) {
        Header header = method.getResponseHeader(headerName);
        if (header == null) {
            throwVdsErrorException("response was missing the following header: "
                    + headerName, VdcBllErrors.GeneralException);
        }

        if (expectedValue != null && !expectedValue.equals(header.getValue())) {
            throwVdsErrorException("response header value unexpected for header: "
                    + headerName, VdcBllErrors.GeneralException);
        }

        return header.getValue();
    }

    protected T getMethod() {
        if (method == null) {
            VdsStatic vdsStatic = getAndSetVdsStatic();

            Pair<String, URL> urlInfo = XmlRpcUtils.getConnectionUrl(vdsStatic.getHostName(),
                    vdsStatic.getPort(),
                    "",
                    Config.<Boolean> getValue(ConfigValues.EncryptHostCommunication));

            method = concreteCreateMethod(urlInfo.getFirst());
        }

        return method;
    }

    private void logExecution() {
        log.info("-- executeVdsBrokerCommand: ");
        log.infoFormat("-- parameters:" + "\r\n"
                + "                spUUID={0}" + "\r\n"
                + "                sdUUID={1}" + "\r\n"
                + "                imageGUID={2}" + "\r\n"
                + "                volUUID={3}" + "\r\n"
                + "                size={4}" + "\r\n",
                getParameters().getStoragePoolId().toString(),
                getParameters().getStorageDomainId().toString(),
                getParameters().getImageGroupId().toString(),
                getParameters().getImageId().toString(),
                getParameters().getSize());
    }

    protected void throwVdsErrorException(String message, VdcBllErrors error) {
        VDSErrorException outEx = new VDSErrorException(message);
        VDSError vdsError = new VDSError();
        vdsError.setCode(error);
        vdsError.setMessage(message);
        outEx.setVdsError(vdsError);
        throw outEx;
    }

    protected void prepareMethod() {}

    protected abstract ConfigValues getConfigValueTimeLimitForOperation();

    protected abstract AsyncTaskType getCreatedTaskType();

    protected abstract T concreteCreateMethod(String url);

    protected abstract int getSuccessCode();
}

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Conspecific aggression has been extensively studied in growing pigs, and to some extent in sows, as it can negatively impact productivity. More disastrous situations can occur when the aggression is directed towards humans.
Group housed sows will, similar to growing pigs, need to establish a dominance hierarchy when they first encounter. Although body weight or size does not always predict who the dominant animal will be, it is most likely that the heavier one will win the dispute. With the weight differences between sows of different parities, gilts are easy victims. Due to the heavier weight of sows as compared to growing pigs, aggression can be more severe. To minimise costs in terms of injuries, sows will aim to avoid direct aggression by showing agonistic behaviour such as threat and withdraw.
Signs of avoidance behaviour and fear in the low ranked sows and gilts should be taken seriously to avoid production losses. For example, fear of entering the feeder space due to attacks of a dominant sow may cause the low ranked animal to miss out on meals. In addition, the stress associated with direct or indirect aggression results in a poorer feed conversion and can lead to abortion. Agonistic behaviour in the first 24-48 hours after regrouping is normal but should rapidly decline thereafter. If agonistic behaviour remains frequent then it is best to take action (Tips to reduce aggression between sows) to avoid production losses and to improve the welfare of the sows.
Conspecific aggression is largely unrelated to aggression towards humans. Therefore sow aggression at regrouping is not a good predictor of sows attacking humans. Especially during lactation, sow aggression towards the workers can make handling complicated. Considering that most sows are kept in farrowing crates, workers are relatively protected from the attacks. Sows can bite though the bars when piglets are being caught, and may even attempt to jump out of the crate. This extreme behaviour of sows indicates a high level of stress that is best to avoid even if worker safety is guaranteed. The distress vocalisations likely disturb the resting pattern of the other sows in the area and this may, in turn, lead to increased crushing of piglets. It can also disrupt suckling patterns and thus affecting piglet growth. Vocalisations are however not necessarily a sign of attack (Figure 1). Signs that can indicate an attack are biting in the bars of the crate and biting in the feed through.
Sows that are not confined in farrowing crates (free farrowing) can more easily attack to defend their piglets. In such systems it is best to select sows on calm behaviour, to adjust management practices to reduce interference, and to create a good human-animal relationship preferably already at gilt rearing. At freefarrowing.org more tips are given, for example to let sows associate human contact with food by hand-feeding some silage or straw at inspection. For tips on managing loose-housed sows visit Free Farrowing.org.
Boars show as growing pigs already substantially more aggression than gilts or barrows. Boars are also more persistent in their aggression against another male and may continue fighting even if they are exhausted and injured. Aggression and mounting behaviour in boars therefore more easily results in lameness, injury and a reduced feed conversion. Avoiding a slippery floor is one of the main aspects to be aware of when housing entire males.
Providing distraction material at the peak of activity (depending on the season and feeding system, usually in the morning and afternoon) can reduce aggression as well. Distraction materials can be anything novel that is safe for the pigs to consume, such as straw, branches, jute sacks, non-printed paper, card board etc. When providing something it is important to give at least two items to avoid fighting over the resource.
Removing pigs at slaughter weight to increase space allowance per pig will increase opportunities to avoid aggression or mounting behaviour when the sexual behaviour starts to increase. The removal of animals from the group may however lead to some aggression as dominance relationships will be re-established.
Boars that are kept for mating or to assist at AI can become unpredictable in their behaviour as they mature. Already from six weeks of age boars show ritualised agonistic behaviour before they attack another pig. In their preparation to attack, they may start foaming (see image below), raise the neck hairs, or start chomping with their jaw. These behaviours are usually to signal their intent. Because fights between males can be very injurious, boars have evolved to show these signals. Although the moment that a boar may attack may be unpredictable, due to for example a change in hormone levels, the attack itself is likely preceded by one of those signals ('Tips to avoid attacks from boars'). In that case, never stand between the animal and the resource it wants to obtain (feed, female, space).
It is best to select boars at an early age (even from birth) based on good body type, strong legs and calm but playful/curious behaviour. Do not select piglets from sows that show excessive aggression, as the behaviour can be inherited by the offspring. Also avoid alpha males that may show already dominant behaviour and aggression towards other pigs in early life.
Have frequent interactions with the boar, preferably when he is young, for example by feeding it some treats by hand. Let the animal get acquainted to your speaking voice so that it later on can recognise you even in situations where you may be less visible. Pigs perceive their environment best through smell, and letting the animal smell your hand before handling gives another cue for recognition. In contrast to smell, pigs have poor vision and this may even be more so for boars with the longer hair that covers their eyes. Take this into account when handling; sometimes attacks may be out of uncertainty about the situation rather than aggression per se.
Being predictable by having a routine in the handling and mating procedures can make animals calmer. Despite this, always take safety measures such as a pig board and have easy to open gates to avoid accidents. When boars come from a different farm or AI station it may take more effort to build a trusted relationship. In those situations it is even more important to familiarise yourself with the boar and to take extra safety measures.
Irene Camerlink is a researcher at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna (Vetmeduni) where she works on social behaviour in pigs and its relationship to neurobiology and animal welfare.
She obtained a PhD in Animal Sciences (animal genetics and adaptation physiology) from Wageningen University, Netherlands, in 2014.
From 2014 to 2018 she worked as postdoctoral researcher at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) in Edinburgh, UK, on aggressive behaviour between pigs and how this influences their welfare. She collaborates across Europe and Asia (including China) on topics related to pig behaviour and welfare.


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Apmer Akely-akely is the local community board for the Stronger Communities for Children program in the Utopia region, Northern Territory. Apmer Akely-akely sets the program priorities, endorses a community plan and works with partner organisations to contract services and infrastructure for the benefit of young people and families in the region. At the start of the program, consultations were conducted in local language with family groups across the region, at meetings of local organisations and through talking to staff of partner organisations. These informed development of the Apmer Akely-akely governance model and processes.
The case study identifies some key tips for developing a localised governance model, including:
Be pragmatic about participation commitments
Ask the people who you want to be involved if there are any barriers to their participation
Talk to different stakeholders when setting up your governance arrangements
Customise your governance arrangements, there isn't a one size fits all solution
To read the full case study, check out Exceptional Governance: Stories of Success from the 2018 Indigenous Governance Awards on the Australian Indigenous Governance Institute website.
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Il Governo de Villèle fu in carica nel Regno di Francia dal 14 dicembre 1821 al 4 gennaio 1828, per un totale di 2212 giorni, ovvero 6 anni e 21 giorni. L'incarico di primo ministro fu affidato a Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, conte di Villèle.

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Il precedente governo del duca di Richelieu cadde a seguito del rafforzamento del 'partito' ultra-realista, alle elezioni del novembre 1820, favorita dalla legge, un provvedimento tanto osceno e singolare da passare alla storia del diritto costituzionale.

Richelieu aveva concluso la sua missione: la casa dei Borbone appariva assai rafforzata, la morte di Napoleone toglieva molti alibi alla ingerenza delle potenze straniere. Le conseguenze nefaste della sua politica anti-costituzionale di là da venire. Ma si era trattato di una politica decisamente ultra. E, se essa aveva portato tanti vantaggi, non v'era più motivo perché Luigi XVIII non incaricasse direttamente il capo della maggioranza ultra alla Camera, conte di Villèle (peraltro con molti amici a corte, da Rochefoucauld a Madame du Cayla, l'amante del re).

Il nuovo governo era frutto di una decisa 'svolta a destra', ed incoronò il potere degli ultra-realisti: vennero sostituiti quasi tutti i ministri del governo Richelieu II e Decazes, gli interni andarono al Corbière, gli esteri (dal 1822) al Chateaubriand (un fior di realista).

In politica estera, de Villèle poté capitalizzare sui successi del Richelieu, coronando il reingresso della Francia nel consesso delle grandi potenze, al Congresso di Verona del 9-14 ottobre 1822, quando, nonostante il dissenso inglese, Vienna, San Pietroburgo e Berlino autorizzarono i ministri di Luigi XVIII ad una grandiosa spedizione militare in Spagna, per restaurare il governo assoluto di Ferdinando VII di Borbone.

Pare che il primo ministro fosse stato, inizialmente, contrario alla spedizione, probabilmente per timore di contraccolpi interni (una preoccupazione, peraltro, condivisa, su fronti opposti, dallo zar Nicola I di Russia e dal barone di Méchin). Di fronte al successo cambiò, però idea, tanto da ritentare l'avventura anni più tardi, quando la sua popolarità stava declinando. La nuova occasione venne offerta dalla guerra d'indipendenza greca, contro l'Impero ottomano: de Villèle cominciò sottoscrivendo, con Gran Bretagna e Impero russo, il 6 luglio 1827 una Convenzione che imponeva alla cosiddetta Sublime Porta il rispetto della autonomia della Grecia, pur nel quadro della sovranità turca.

Questi, forte dei successi ottenuti dal fedele Ibrahim Pacha che aveva riconquistato e messo a ferro e fuoco l'intera Morea, rifiutò. Le tre potenze decisero, allora, di inviare una forte squadra navale la quale, il 20 ottobre 1827, condusse una dimostrazione di fronte alla flotta musulmana nella baia di Navarino. La inattesa reazione turca diede loro l'occasione per iniziare una grande battaglia, e distruggere l'intera armata nemica.

Si trattava, d'altra parte, di un intervento bipartisan, in quanto sostenuto tanto da Carlo X (il quale considerava suo dovere di sovrano cristiano soccorrere i Greci ridotti, letteralmente, in schiavitù) che dai liberali più radicali (che vedevano nella guerra d'indipendenza greca l'affermazione del principio di nazionalità, di ascendenza rivoluzionaria e napoleonica). Tant'è che, l'ultimo atto politico rilevante del successivo governo Martignac, liberale, fu l'invio di un nutrito corpo di spedizione francese, che diede un decisivo contributo alla liberazione della Grecia.

In politica interna si ricorda, in particolare, le Ordinanze del 27 febbraio 1821, emesse dal Corbière, che parificano le scuole ecclesiastiche ed introducono un potere di sorveglianza dei vescovi per quel che concerne la religione. Eppoi due provvedimenti che fecero scandalo fra i liberali: la legge sul sacrilegio e la Legge del miliardo agli emigrati. Il primo, un provvedimento ideologico, di bandiera, reso, per di più, sostanzialmente inapplicabile nel corso del dibattito parlamentare; il secondo un provvedimento che riconosceva il debito dello Stato, verso gli espropriati dalla Grande rivoluzione e lo consolidava, tramite l'emissione di titoli di stato per ben 630 milioni di franchi, al 3%. Essi vennero resi possibili dall'ascesa al trono Carlo X, fratello minore di Luigi XVIII, quindi anche del decapitato Luigi XVI e padre dell'assassinato duca di Berry. Egli aveva un approccio assai reazionario, pur restando sempre fedele alla lettera della Carta del 1814.

Nel 1827 propose nuove restrizioni alla libertà di stampa, respinto nell'aprile 1827 dalla Camera dei Pari. Ciò che lo spinse a chiedere a Carlo X nuove elezioni: celebrate nel novembre 1827, esse produssero una maggioranza liberale. La Carta del 1814 non costringeva affatto il re a mutare governo al mutare delle maggioranze parlamentari, ma Luigi XVIII aveva sempre seguito tale prassi come buona regola di comportamento e, per l'ultima volta, Carlo X decise di seguirne il saggio esempio.
Carlo X cercò, quindi, un ministero più liberale: al Villèle successe, quindi, il 4 gennaio 1828, il governo del visconte di Martignac.

La vigente Carta del 1814 non prevedeva fiducia parlamentare, né la figura del primo ministro: i singoli ministri erano emanazione del potere esecutivo, strettamente identificato con la persona del sovrano e, quindi, le date di entrata in carica e dimissioni dei singoli ministri, differiscono, talvolta, leggermente le une con le altre.

Consiglio dei Ministri
Il governo, composto da 8 ministri (oltre al presidente del consiglio), vedeva partecipi:

Tra il 4 e l'8 agosto 1824, prevedendo la prossimità della morte di Luigi XVIII e l'adesione del reazionario Carlo X, Villèle predispose un grande rimpasto di governo. Di conseguenza, i nuovi componenti furono:

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US president sues California over tax return law
US President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are suing California over recent legislation requiring presidential candidates to file tax returns to stand in primaries.
Gavin Newsom, the state governor, a democrat, signed the law last week.
The accusers said in two cases :"It was unconstitutional as it affixed an extra requirement to run for president."
Mr Trump has refused to release his tax returns, saying that they are under audit.
California is the first state to succeed in passing such a law, though others under Democratic control have tried.It would apply to ballots for primary elections but not the general election.
The state is involved in more than 40 lawsuits against the Trump White House on issues such as environmental regulation and immigration.
In the first lawsuit, the Republican National Committee said the law was "a naked political attack against the sitting president of the United States".
It argues that the law would "directly impede" Mr Trump's chances of gaining the Republican nomination. California provides 14% of delegates needed to win.
A second lawsuit by the Trump campaign argues that states do not have the power to supplement qualifications for president set out by the US Constitution.
Currently there are only three requirements for presidential candidates – to be natural born citizens, over the age of 35 and resident in the US for at least 14 years.
Mr Trump's counsel, Jay Sekulow, described the law as an "attempt to circumvent the US Constitution". He said voters had already spoken about whether Mr Trump should release his tax returns.
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The Fountain of Life may refer to:

 The Fountain of Life (film), a 2012 fan film based on the Masters of the Universe franchise
 The Fountain of Life (painting), a 1432 painting attributed to Jan van Eyck and others
 The Fountain of Life (sculpture), a 1905 sculpture by Ivan Meštrović

See also
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Parelii ( ) ist ein Gemeindebezirk auf der griechischen Insel Korfu. Er wurde 1997 als Gemeinde geschaffen, ging 2010 in der Gemeinde Kerkyra auf und kam 2019 zur Gemeinde Kendriki Kerkyra ke Diapondia Nisia.

Lage
Der Gemeindebezirk Parelii erstreckt sich entlang der Westküste der Ionischen Insel Korfu über nahezu 49 km². Benachbarte Gemeindebezirke sind Paleokastritsa im Norden, Kerkyra im Nordosten und Osten sowie Achillio im Südosten und Süden.

Verwaltungsgliederung
Die Gemeinde Parelii () wurde im Zuge der Gebietsreform 1997 durch die Fusion von zehn Landgemeinden geschaffen. Gemäß der Verwaltungsreform 2010 ging Parelii als einer von 15 Gemeindebezirken in der Gemeinde Kerkyra auf. Nach deren Auftrennung kam Parelii 2019 zur neu gebildeten Gemeinde Kendriki Kerkyra ke Diapondia Nisia.

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Gemeinde in der Region Ionische Inseln (Kapodistrias-Programm)
Ort in Kendriki Kerkyra ke Diapondia Nisia


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LA Sparks at Minnesota Lynx 9/2/21 - WNBA Picks & Predictions
The Sparks are continuing their road trip in this game. On Tuesday night the Sparks ended up playing against the struggling Fever in their last game and ended up losing the game by a score of 74-72.
The Dream are coming here after losing in their last game to the Aces. The loss for the Dream came with a score of 78-71 on the day. With the loss Atlanta ended up dropping to a record of 6-19 on the year so far.
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The Chicago Sky look for their fourth consecutive victory when visiting Phoenix on Tuesday.
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The New York Liberty look to snap a four-game losing streak when visiting the Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday. New York is 11-16 following an 80-64 loss to the Phoenix Mercury on Saturday.
Connecticut Sun at Washington Mystics 8/31/21 - WNBA Picks & Predictions
The Sun are coming here after getting a nice win in their last game. The win came against the Sparks by a score of 76-61.
Los Angeles Sparks at Indiana Fever 8/31/21 - WNBA Picks & Predictions
The Sparks are coming here after losing in their last game. The Sparks ended up dropping the game to the Sun by a score of 76-61. The loss dropped the Los Angeles team to a record of 10-16 on the year overall.
Chicago Sky at Seattle Storm 8/29/21 - WNBA Picks & Predictions
The Chicago Sky look for their third consecutive victory and second straight over Seattle when visiting the Storm on Sunday in the second consecutive game between the two in the last three days.
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The WIngs are coming here after picking a win in their last game against the Mystics. The game seen the Wings score a total lof 82 points in the game.
Los Angeles Sparks at Connecticut Sun 8/28/21 - WNBA Picks & Predictions
The Los Angeles Sparks look to snap a two-game losing streak when visiting the Connecticut Sun on Saturday.
Las Vegas Aces at Indiana Fever 8/28/21 - WNBA Picks & Predictions
On Saturday, the Las Vegas Aces look for their second consecutive victory when visiting the Indiana Fever. Las Vegas is 18-7 following a 78-71 victory over the Atlanta Dream On Thursday.
Fri 27 Aug, 2021, 10:00 PM (EDT)
On Friday the Chicago Sky looks for its second consecutive victory when visiting the Seattle Storm. Chicago improved to 12-12 following an 86-79 victory over the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday.


Sarah Burton has been the Deputy Programme Director for Greenpeace International since March 2009. Sarah is an experienced Human Rights Lawyer and her first role at Greenpeace was as the UK office's in-house lawyer. She later became Greenpeace UK's Campaign Director where she was responsible for high level lobbying and advocacy with Government officials, Ministers and international business leaders. Before her current position Sarah was the Campaign Programme Director of Amnesty International and directed global campaigns, including against gender based violence, promotion of arms control and its Counter Terror with Justice Campaign.


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Australian labour law
Australian labour law has had a unique development that distinguishes it from other English speaking jurisdictions.
In 1904 the Conciliation and Arbitration Act was passed mandating "Conciliation and Arbitration for the Prevention and Settlement of Industrial Disputes extending beyond the Limits of any one State". In 2005, the WorkChoices Act removed unfair dismissal laws, removed the "no disadvantage test", and made it possible for workers to submit their certified agreements directly to Workplace Authority rather than going through the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. There were also clauses in WorkChoices that made it harder for workers to strike, made it easier for employers to force their employees onto individual workplace agreements rather than collective agreements, and banning clauses from workplace agreements which supported trade unions.
In the case of disputes involving a company in a single state either, a union or industrial organisation will rope them into a federal award by arguing that they are part of an industry in which a dispute extending beyond the limits of any one state exist. (This can be done by finding another company which did similar work and serving them with a log of claims concurrently or by virtue of a company's membership of a peak industry body.) Alternatively, if the company was not covered by a federal Award it would be covered by the various States' industrial relations systems, and disputes are conciliated or arbitrated by the state industrial relations commissions which would create an industry rule Award.
Since 1993 the Australian federal government has increasingly used the corporations power contained in s51 (20) [ [http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/general/constitution/par5cha1.htm Parliament of Australia: Senate: Constitution - Chapter 1 part V ] ] to enact labour law legislation. This power allows the federal parliament to make laws with respect to "trading and financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth", as well as 'foreign' corporations. The Coalition Government of John Howard announced plans in 2005 to further use this power to override State systems and unify the industrial relations system under the Federal umbrella. The proposed changes also included the introduction of an independent Australian Fair Pay Commission to set wages, and enhanced powers for the Office of the Employment Advocate and a corresponding lesser role for the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
WorkChoices 2006
WorkChoices came into operation in 2006, it gave effective control of 85% of the Australian labour law system to the Federal Government. The constitutional validity of the legislation was challenged in the High Court of Australia in "New South Wales & Ors v Commonwealth" [ [http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2006/52.html The full judgment is at Austlii "New South Wales & Ors v Commonwealth"] ] . The Court decided by a majority of 5-2 (Kirby and Callinan JJ dissenting) in November 2006 that all of the reforms were valid, The case was also a significant constitutional law decision in the area of Federal-state relations.
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*Australian Council of Trade Unions
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The twisted remains of a building crane hang off a construction project in Halifax Nova Scotia in the wake of Dorian, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. The storm that has already walloped the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and North Carolina brought hurricane-force winds to far-eastern Canada on Sunday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Trudeau, ministers to visit Halifax and survey Dorian recovery efforts
PM, Ralph Goodale and Harjit Sajjan to meet with local officials and Armed Forces representatives
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and two federal cabinet ministers will visit the Halifax area on Tuesday to survey the damage caused by Dorian, the hurricane-strength post-tropical storm that slammed into the Maritimes on the weekend.
Trudeau, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan are scheduled to meet with local officials and Armed Force representatives at a Halifax armoury for a briefing on relief efforts.
Goodale and Sajjan will later visit Herring Cove, N.S., a coastal community south of Halifax near where Dorian made landfall on Saturday night.
As the storm approached the coastline, it lashed the area with driving rain and gusts reaching almost 150 kilometres per hour — approaching the power of a Category 2 hurricane.
There have been no reported injuries, but roofs were torn off and trees were snapped like twigs, pulling down power lines across a wide swath of the Maritimes.
At one point, more than 500,000 electricity consumers in the region were without power, representing 80 per cent of the homes and businesses in Nova Scotia and 75 per cent in Prince Edward Island.
In New Brunswick, about 80,000 homes and businesses — 20 per cent of NB Power's customers — were left in the dark at the height of the storm.
As the recovery effort entered Day 3, those numbers have dropped considerably. However, more than 100,000 Nova Scotia Power customers were still without electricity Tuesday morning, and the company said it would be Thursday before everyone is reconnected.
The company says it has found about 3,700 trees on power lines that stretch across 32,000 kilometres, and repairs are being made to 300 broken or leaning utility poles.
As well, about 4,500 outages across Nova Scotia represent individual customers, which means one repair will bring electricity back to only one customer.
"We know this is frustrating and customers want their power back as soon as possible. That's what we want, too," Nova Scotia Power CEO Karen Hutt said in a statement.
"Complex outages must be pushed back in a number of cases."
Meanwhile, about 300 soldiers from Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in New Brunswick showed up in the Halifax region on Monday to help with the cleanup.
Light armoured vehicles were spotted patrolling the streets as soldiers with chainsaws were ready to clear the streets of fallen trees.
However, they were prevented from removing some trees because limbs were still tangled in power lines, which meant an electrician was needed to ensure safety.
Power crews from Quebec, Ontario, Florida and Maine have been called in to help.
Public schools in Nova Scotia remained closed Tuesday.
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Here is one thing I've learned: when you are asking yourself the question, "Should I go to the hospital?", 99% of the time the answer is YES. I'm sure there are many doctors who would disagree with me, having had their time wasted by too many kooky hypochondriacs, but in general only good can come from making the decision to go.
So. I've had to make the decision to go twice in a 24-hour period.
Our Three Year Celebration was not quite as I'd envisioned. We went to the cottage for the weekend, and on Saturday Gavin was out-of-sorts and a bit moody. Sunday morning dawned and all was well, but by 11:00 he was sitting on the couch, and the barfing began.
He has now been officially diagnosed with Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome. I have met with a GI specialist and she has confirmed this. She prescribed a daily medication to try to control it, and we also have in our pocket ondansetron to try to shut down an episode at the first dry heave. This syndrome is related to migraine, and strikes just as randomly, but is also believed to be related to anxiety. It can be triggered by emotional stress or certain foods. It usually starts in children aged 3 and up, but adults can suffer too. Many kids grow out of it, as they learn to manage their emotions and stress levels. And my kid suffers from anxiety. So does his mummy. I wonder why?
Coming to the realization that all of the times that Gavin has been sick since October have been due to this rare, inexplicable and incurable syndrome has been difficult for me. We've spent so much time looking for underlying causes, fearing the shunt, fearing relapse, wondering what kind of crazy virus this could be. Dosing him with totally useless antibiotics but being deluded into thinking they were working. And all of that worry and speculation was meaningless, because this condition is what it is.
Here are the beliefs that I'm now throwing out the window: my son has a weak immune system due to treatment that leaves him exposed to every bug going, my son is prone to ear infections, my son must have some undiagnosed food allergy.
None of the above are true, and now we need to come to grips with how to manage this sickness so it doesn't take over our lives anymore. Two weeks ago, an episode arose, and using ondansetron, hydration and rest, I managed to shut it down the same day. It was back four days later, and two days after that, but we kept it under control and had two weeks of wonderful good health.
This episode we haven't been so lucky. We tried to shut it down, with no success, and yesterday, after 24 hours of barfing, I took him to emerge for IV fluids. If you have never seen anyone truly dehydrated, here is what it looks like: drowsiness, irritability, skin hot and dry to touch, heightened heart rate, sunken eyes, dry tongue. It is not pretty and very dangerous.
I have seen my son look like this too many times to count. I have measured his ins and outs. I have fussed over him for endless hours, offering sips of water, juice, and freezies. I have noted each and every vomit and tried every voodoo- witch-doctor-home-remedy in the book. I wish there was a word in English that expressed the level of my frustration, because frustrated doesn't begin to cut it.
We were let go yesterday after Bean had had some fluids, some freezies and biscuits. He was back to his usual chatty self. On the way home he vomited again in the car. We crossed fingers that it was the last hurrah. But no. This syndrome, which seems to be a live entity, is never done in less than 3-4 days. It is always 3 to 4 days, and nothing that we do can stop that.
This morning he seemed lively, drank water and ate a Popsicle. I held my breath. By 9:00 it had started again. By midday he was listless. I packed another bag, grabbed the umbrella stroller that he is now far too big for, and put him in the car. On the way there I tried to keep it light, but when I asked him if he was okay, he replied in a stony little voice, No, I'm sad.
And he has a right to be sad. The sh*t this child must endure isn't fair. He knew he was going to get another IV and he was not happy about it. Who would be?
Today was a wild day in the ER. It took more than an hour to get in a room. We saw a doctor two hours after arrival, the nurses came to do the IV an hour after that. They tried two pokes with no joy. They left and called IV team. IV team came 45 minutes after that. They tried two pokes with no joy. On the fifth, count it, FIFTH try, they got a decent site. Gavin was desperate and exhausted. The fluids finally started running at around 5:15. I'd arrived at the hospital at 1:30.
It just seems ridiculous to me that there are days that the hospital can't seem to get an IV started for at least four hours after arrival. But there's no point in complaining, because it's just a reality we have to deal with. But still.
The end result was that he was admitted for overnight hydration and observation. We got into a room at around 6:30, and he was still very sleepy and feeling unwell after I left him with Hospital Daddy.
I'm so saddened for him that this is the routine of his childhood. That he has to miss school. That he is going to miss the year-end picnic with his class tomorrow. That he may miss the last day of school altogether!
I am attempting to put myself in rally mode, to try to figure out how to beat this f**ker. I want for my son to never have to spend another night in hospital or endure five needles to get an IV. I am open to any and all suggestions you may have as to how to do this!
p.s. Excuse my language today, given the circumstances, I think a little profanity is warranted.
Oh yes, curse as much as you want!! Totally warranted. I think you said it, "it is what it is". The word "chronic' comes to mind , which means a continuing malady of some sort. I personally think that Gav will grow out of this syndrome, but of course I have no evidence for this. What a little trooper Gavin is, and you and Craig are too. Think of an ocean wave….up and down up and down…you are going with it…when you are up you can see land and when you are in the trough, you can't see anything. It doesn't mean the land has disappeared. You have to maintain the faith in that 'land'. It's there, and waiting for you. All will be well. Breathe deeply and trust in miracles and love. sending you a 'raft' of love..hang on.
Once again, sorry to read of more vomiting. I hope that somehow he can just outgrow this? There is nothing more frustrating than having a serious problem with no solution. I can't even begin to imagine. Chin up. If anything, with the lows there are always highs.
So sorry,Erica, to hear about unrelenting vomiting that turns your life upside down. There has to be another approach and cure for this, Perhaps there are parents out there to help, who have children going through the same thing. Perhaps they could share helpful advice with you. Please ask for help, put it out there, and hopefully you will receive answers to your questions, and at the same time receive much needed comfort and support.
Thinking of you, with love, and wishing I could be more helpful.
So sorry to hear about poor Gavin's illness. Caitlin, Liam and Allanah have all been sick recently with a stomach bug. It hasn't been nice but it has been nothing in comparison.
We are always thinking of you guys and send you all our love.
As for advice, I wonder if a naturopath might be able to help out?
Hi again, Erica – hopefully Gavin is recovering and you are on your way to your parents cottage this weekend. I decided to google CVS in children, and because there are milk allergies in our family, including Evelyn & Lauren, I wonder if Gavin's condition is triggered by cheese and chocolate. Supposedly, these favourite foods of the population can trigger an episode of CVS, besides other triggers,that you already are aware of, stress, etc. Erin has found many delicious substitues for Evelyn – ice cream, yogurt, that are dairy free. I have faith, Erica, that you will explore every avenue, and eventually with the help of the medical community, including a naturopath, you will find a way of controlling this. Hoping this info will help.
Hi Erica. Sending you all our thoughts, love and prayers. Hang in there, Sweetie.


The Arabian Peninsula, where Sufi mystics drank their coffee, was the center of international trade in the medieval world, and by the 17th century, merchants had introduced the drink to Europe, where coffeehouses became places for social gathering and for discussing world politics and local gossip.
For the price of a penny, customers purchased a cup of coffee and admission. These spaces are closely associated with the intellectual and cultural history of the Age of Enlightenment. They acted as a secondary sphere to the University, and in contrast to the Alehouse, they fostered serious conversations about everything from politics to natural science.
Newspapers even sprang up around the coffeehouse culture. One notable example was The Athenian Mercury. Starting in 1691, bookseller and publisher John Dunton commissioned a fake history of the Athenian Society, as a way to bolster his latest publication, The Athenian Mercury. He even drew up an emblem, which showed a philosopher, a physician, a poet, a mathematician, a lawyer, a civilian, and a 'chirurgeon' (surgeon) and others — all gathered around with coffee pots, quill pens, and blank sheets of paper.
Information sources: The London Journal, Study.com, & Wikipedia Source 1 and Source 2.


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Book Reviews, Historical Fiction
A review of The Bright Eyed Mariner by William Lambe
Reviewed by Robin Landry
The Bright Eyed Mariner
by William Lambe
DL096, e-booksonline
(e-book format)
185 pages, RRP £3.50
William Lambe's new novel, The Bright Eyed Mariner is a treat for those who enjoy both a good adventure yarn and a moving love story. Based loosely on the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, Lambe's new book adds modern twist to the classic poem of a sailor who must pay for the crime of killing an albatross. In Lambe's story, the captain doesn't kill his wife but feels utterly responsible for her death and so we start off the story with the captain taking his sailing yacht out into a storm to let them both sink into a watery grave. The yacht that the captain now lives aboard is a testament of the love he and his wife once shared. After four years of passionate labor, the Bolero is ready for a cruise into the sunset of life. The captain has retired from his job of running commercial ships and looks forward to retiring and sailing the seven seas with his wife. Fate decides otherwise. On their maiden voyage into the South Seas, the Bolero is beset by pirates. The captain decides to let the pirates steal what they may instead of taking a chance of going to battle. His gamble doesn't pay off and his wife loses her life instead.
Without his beloved wife, the captain decides that life holds no more mystery for him and plans to end it all during a raging storm. He unties Bolero and attempts to take her out to sea. Again, fate has other plans. As the ship slips from her ties, the captain loses control and swings the bow sprint across the stern of a nearby power yacht. The frightened woman on board the yacht tries to fend off the huge sail boat but ends up grabbing onto the bow sprint and being dumped unceremoniously onto the deck of the Bolero. The captain regains just enough control to head Bolero out to sea, only now he has to fight for his life because of his unwanted passenger.
With the addition of an innocent woman on board, the captain can no longer afford to sink his ship at sea. Now he must fight the storm with every ounce of skill he possesses. Together the captain and his red-hair, green-eyed beauty, Gerda, do battle with nature. Gerda handles the storm better than the captain who his knocked down by the swinging boom and nearly thrown overboard. With his ribs broken, the captain now must depend on the kindness of the stranger he's taken aboard his vessel. Gerda, a nurse, nearly half his age, learns quickly. After getting the boat under control, Gerda tends to the captain and his broken ribs, and for a man who prides himself on his own self-reliance the captain is now in living hell.
Stranded in his bunk with all his needs being met by a beautiful woman, the captain tries to hide his feelings of lust for the Gerda. Gerda had no such inhibitions. Greedy, after a long dry spell with an inadequate former husband, Gerda nurses the captain back to health both mentally and physically.
Wrapped up in the pride of his manhood, the captain carries a torch for his dead wife, daring Gerda to try and replace his memories. Gerda accepts the unspoken challenge and gives herself to the captain with a vengeance. Like the dying man he supposed himself to be, the captain responds to Gerda and so awakens to life once again. With his awakening, the captain must now confront his wife's tragic end and must decide what he's going to do differently this time.
The captain decides to fight pirates this time. Dropping Gerda off in a safe port the captain sets off to find like-minded souls for his revenge of his wife's brutal rape and murder.
To say anymore, would give away the story, so I'll stop now and encourage readers to learn for themselves the fate of these rich and varied characters. The author could have let the captain slide in a one-dimensional character but instead shows the man with all his doubts and his extreme wonder at how his life unfolds. Gerda too, is more than just a lusty female bent on conquering her man. Her delightful personality unfolds like a flower under the attention of a man finally worth of her charms. The story is told in the first person and so we never learn the captain's name, but this fact in no way spoils the novel. Sprinkled throughout the book are lines from the poem The Ancient Mariner. It's as if you get two stories from the price of one. The poem is a wonderful device, which adds a new dimension to this exciting story.
This is William Lambe's fourth novel. He's also written a novel called Hymen The God and Inapatua, the story of an Australian aboriginal.
About the Reviewer: Robin Landry started her career as a singer/muscian and played professionally for nearly ten years. Two unsuccessful albums later, the band broke up and she married and had a child. She then started writing first children's short stories and then as her son and two step children grew, she started writing young adult novels and then some adult suspense novels. She is currently writing a screenplay for her step-daughter who's in college to become a director. She is still looking for a publisher but stays busy in community service organizations and writing film and book reviews.
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Q: R notation for declaring vectors - Axioms of Probability We have this homework assignment.
Problem 1: Suppose we are interested in the buying habits of shoppers at a particular grocery store with regards to whether they purchase apples, milk, and/or bread. Now suppose 30% of all shoppers at this particular grocery store buy apples, 45% buy milk, and 40% buy a loaf of bread. Let  be the event that a randomly selected shopper buys apples,  be the event that the same randomly selected shopper buys milk, and  the event that they buy bread. Suppose we also know (from data collected) the following information:
The probability that the shopper buys apples and milk is 0.20. The probability that the shopper buys milk and bread is 0.25. The probability that the shopper buys apples and bread is 0.12. The probability that the shopper buys all three items is 0.07. Use this information to answer the following questions.
a) For our purposes, we will use a numeric representation for each event. For example, (010) would be an event in the sample space where a zero in the first place represents no apples were bought while a 1 means they were. Similarly, the second place is the presence of milk and the third place of bread. The example given (010) represents the purchase of milk but not apples or bread.
Insert into vector S the events that belong to the sample space. Then insert the events from the sample space that would correspond to  occuring into vector A. Repeat this with vector B for  and vector C for .
According to set notation, the sample space should look like this: ={…}. However, due to data storage syntax in R, we will be storing these events in vectors. For example, for some arbitrary event  would be stored as follows =(010). c() is a command we can use to construct a vector where commas separate each entry. Complete the code below. Do not worry about the order in which events are placed in vector.
My answer: (Obviously wrong)
S = c(111) A = c(100) B = c(010) C = c(001)
To clarify my answer (As specified above):
S (Sample space)
A (Apples)
B (Milk)
C (Bread)
Is anyone able to assist me with how we are meant to declare these variables in R?
I am new to this language and cannot seem to figure out the correct notation for this question.
Thanks.

A: Admittedly the question and instructions are incredibly unclear, but here's a shot:
There are 3 possible events. However, multiple events can happen simultaneously. The sample space is the set of all possible combinations of events that (do not) happen. Each element of the sample space is a 3-digit scalar (i.e., a 3-digit numeric value) ### where each # can be either 1 or 0.
To get the sample space, you'd want something like this:
# Create sample space vector
S <- c(111, 110, 101, 011, 100, 001, 010, 000)

Once you have the sample space, you're supposed to pull out the elements of the sample space (subspaces, technically) and assign them to other vectors. It looks like they want you to not simply create a new vector but rather to use the existing vector to do so. Accordingly, that would look something like this:
# Create sample space vector
S <- c(111, 110, 101, 011, 100, 001, 010, 000)

# Create new vectors by removing elements of the sample where the event does not happen from the sample space vector and assigning it to a new vector.
A <- S[c(1,2,3,5)]
B <- S[c[1,2,4,7)]
C <- S[c(1,3,4,6)]

# This is equivalent to e.g.
A <- c(111, 110, 101, 100)

Here's what's happening:

*

*Everything to the right of <- constructs a vector. You construct vectors by adding values (numeric values like 039498 or string/character values like "foo")  between the parentheses in c(). The commas indicates that the values represent distinct elements of the vector. Think of the vector with K elements as a train with K total train cars where each car holds a value/person. It's all one train/vector (the length of the train/vector is K), but each element of the train is a single value/train car that might have any number of digits/persons. We can find out how many cars/elements are in our vector using length() per below:

S <- c(111, 110, 101, 011, 100, 001, 010, 000)
length(S)

*

*The <- is telling R to take the vector/train you just created and store it in an object S. Any time you want to look at or do something with (e.g., add or multiply) the elements of the vector/cars, you can work with the S object to do so. For example, we can now pull out the first element of S and print it to see that it's the same as the first element we included within c().

*The S[] extract any elements of S for which the index is specified. In other words. If we're going to extract multiple elements of the vector...well, we need to put those indices in the vector as well! This is why you see c() within that code.
# Print the first element of the vector S
S <- c(111, 110, 101, 011, 100, 001, 010, 000)
S[1]

# Let's add 8 to it now!
S[1] + 8


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So, it's vanilla Prusa i3 with working space 180x160x180mm, with heated bed, E3D v6 0.4mm nozzle hot end, controlled by Arduino Mega + RAMPS 1.4 with Marlin firmware (https://github.com/3cky/Marlin).
Some words about endstops. I'm using three-wire Makerbot Mech Endstops 1.2 with LED indicators.


Eventually, event organizers handed the pair a microphone that they used to discuss the issues they saw missing in Bernie's economic populism — namely, police violence and a focus on systemic racial injustice. As they challenged Bernie and his supporters to prioritize these problems, they were boo'ed down aggressively by a mostly white crowd. Johnson, Willard and other members of the movement for black lives have continued to face slurs and insults on social media throughout the week, along with accusations of being plants from either the right wing or the Clinton campaign. Was the interruption messy? Yes. Did it warrant the vitriol from white, largely progressive audiences that followed? No.
Among many useful perspectives, Van Jones penned five lessons from the uproar for CNN last week. Nation editor Kai Wright offered another helpful rejoinder: "Successful movements have always discomfited those invested in the status quo, including progressives," he wrote. "White people of all political stripes will be challenged, even shaken by this movement." By interrupting Sanders, Johnson and Willaford clearly struck a nerve with Sanders' base.
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Days after she took the stage, Johnson went on the radio show This Week In Blackness. She explained to host Elon James White that, "My gaze is not toward politicians in getting them to do something in particular. I think they will change what they do based off of what I do, but that's not my center. My center is using electoral politics as a platform." Given its adoption of "Shut It Down," as modus operandi, supporters of the movement for black lives should welcome the fact that protesters are throwing a wrench in the presidential election circuit.
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These rules don't actually change that much when you start talking about politics or log on to Facebook, no matter how progressive your views. You may even be right. It still doesn't give you license to berate anyone, let alone black organizers with whom you theoretically share a commitment to racial justice. And, if you do share that commitment, denouncing the movement for black lives because it did something that made you uncomfortable probably means you weren't all that supportive in the first place.
At their best, movements are big, complicated hordes of activity. The movement for black lives is no different, and supporting this or any movement — especially as white organizers — means being comfortable with a certain level of discomfort and loss of control, both in terms of the tactics activists are using and the challenges they pose to their targets. For all their messiness, movements make our politics better. Sanders is already a better candidate and should be pushed to be even more accountable to the causes he claims to support. So, if you really want to see Bernie succeed, keep calm, show up, and support the movement for black lives.
This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence and appears here courtesy of a Creative Commons license.


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Taylor Miles advanced to second; Miranda Wagner advanced to third.
Emma Robinson singled, RBI; Alexis Smith scored.
Emma Robinson advanced to second on a fielding error by rf.
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Riley Fleming to p for Emma Byford.
Tara Cates singled; Riley Fleming advanced to third.
Ma'Liya Stone singled, RBI; Tara Cates advanced to second; Riley Fleming scored.
Tara Cates reached first on a fielding error by lf; Riley Fleming advanced to second.
Hannah Marlar to rf for Rebecca Perry.
Hannah Marlar singled; Tara Cates advanced to second; Riley Fleming advanced to third.
Ma'Liya Stone reached first on a fielding error by ss; Hannah Marlar advanced to second; Tara Cates advanced to third; Riley Fleming scored, unearned.
Jaylin Mabry reached on a fielder's choice, RBI; Ma'Liya Stone advanced to second; Hannah Marlar advanced to third; Tara Cates scored, unearned.
Kennedy Acklin grounded out to 2b, RBI; Jaylin Mabry advanced to second; Ma'Liya Stone advanced to third; Hannah Marlar scored, unearned.


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Mous was founded in 2014 by a group of twenty-somethings with experience across design, engineering and product. Their mission was to engineer tech accessories trusted to protect and enhance everyday experiences. Following tireless product testing and both an award-winning and record-breaking crowd-funding campaign, Mous brought their first iPhone case to market in 2017, raising a total of $2.5 million in pre-orders. Their commitment to quality materials, design and innovation has seen the company grow from a team of five to a team of over 70 in their four years of operation, covering concept to design and manufacture; from content creation to getting behind and in front of the camera (sometimes even chartering cherry pickers, cranes and helicopters to test product resilience).
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