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Fiorencio, Luiza; Oliveira, Fabrício; Nunes, Paula; Hamacher, Silvio
Investment planning in the petroleum downstream infrastructure. (English) Zbl 1312.90029
Int. Trans. Oper. Res. 22, No. 2, 339-362 (2015).
Summary: The Brazilian oil industry has gained new momentum after the discovery of large oil reserves in deep under-water. Numerous investments in the oil production chain are expected to support the scale of this operation. Given this context, the use of a decision support system (DSS), which encompasses the complexity of the oil supply chain to support investment decisions, becomes crucial. This paper proposes a DSS that is based on a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model that allows the evaluation of different investment alternatives in logistics networks, such as expanding the capacity for transport, handling, and/or storage. Additionally, the DSS is composed of a database structure, business intelligence environment, and graphical visualization tool. The features of the proposed system were evaluated in two case studies. The first case study assesses the synergies between two projects: specifically the expansion of the berthing capacity of vessels in a marine terminal, and the increase in the transport capacity of the pipeline that connects the marine terminal to a distribution base. The second case study evaluates the dependency of the investment in sections of a pipeline that connects a refinery to several distribution bases. These case studies demonstrate the potential use of a DSS that currently optimizes investments in the Brazilian petroleum supply chain.
90B50 Management decision making, including multiple objectives
90B05 Inventory, storage, reservoirs
90B90 Case-oriented studies in operations research
optimization; supply chain design; oil; decision support system
\textit{L. Fiorencio} et al., Int. Trans. Oper. Res. 22, No. 2, 339--362 (2015; Zbl 1312.90029)
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"Some Gigantic Phantasy"
This week in the history of the R. M. S. Queen Mary:
3,000 Men Preparing New Liner for Maiden Trip
'Queen Mary' Rapidly Reaching Completion In Large Dockyard
GLASGOW, March 15.--What is going on inside the Cunard-White Star Queen Mary, largest liner in the world? She lies in her fitting out basin at Clydebank. What kind of a scene is there behind the grey wall of her massive hulk?
The ship was launched last September. Ever since then an army of men, varying between 1,000 and 3,000 according to changing requirements, has labored, sometimes in night shifts as well as day, to prepare the Queen Mary for her maiden voyage next year. What progress has been made?
All the 27 enormous boilers are in position. As they tower among the steel ladders of their boiler-rooms they appear as some gigantic phantasy. In comparison, the men working about them resemble trivial insects.
The boilers are still red-leaded outside. Their interiors are being blackleaded. Fire bricks are being placed beneath, under th eyes of inspectors. Beneath each boiler a charcoal fire burns. These fires will be kept continuously alight until the time comes for the boilers to be used.
There is a light overhead railway running around the side of the engine-room, to aid the adjustment of machinery. A good deal of the lighter portions of machinery affixed to the sides of the engine-room--"hanging stuff," as it is called--has been put into position already.
Food of the Gods
Another prominent feature of the engine-room is the propeller gears surrounded by casings. The propeller shafts appear like the barrel of some Big Bertha gun of the future. They, too, seem to have eaten the food of the gods.
The electric steering gear is completely installed. The various portions of plant and gear stand waiting: like squat searchlights in appearance, until the day when they will guide the great ship on her course. The electrical apparatus for pulling up the anchors is also installed.
Throughout the ship there are apparently limitless vistas of corridor, lit by the glimmer of temporary lamps. Along some of the corridors are walls of plywood, and doors to cabins are making their appearance.
Scores of workmen are busy painting great piles of planking with a fire-resisting preparation. Everywhere, too, is to be seen a new type of automatically-working steel door, which completely isolates any portion of the ship against a threat of either fire or sea.
Just a slight push and the door, working on elaborate ball-bearings, swings to. A row of hooks snaps home and a steel bar falls into place.
All the floors throughout the ship are of a new patent cement-like material, which will be covered with rubber tiles. Unlike wood floors, which deteriorate sooner or later, the cement-like base is virtually everlasting.
Repeatedly among the naked red-painted steel plating there appear neatly stencilled directions, such as "Tourist Quarters F Deck," "Crew's Quarters," "Petty Officers Here," and "Stores" and the like. Amid the present rough surroundings these notices have rather the effect of the "Piccadilly Circus" or "Leicester Square" which the Tommy stuck up in the trenches during the war.
Two Swimming Pools
Stacks of piping stand in corners and are being fitted by an army of plumbers. Every pipe in this vast ship is of copper. There is not a single piece of lead pipe. Lift shafts gapingly await their lifts.
There are two swimming pools. Both are well advanced. The first-class pool is contained on one of the highest rooms known either ashore or afloat. There are two galleries, one above the other, and a great staircase with two side staircases leading down to the diving board.
Already workmen are putting the tiling in the pool itself, and the familiar marks of the depth--3ft., 6in., 4ft., etc.--appear amid the rough concrete of the bath's surroundings.
The Tourist Class pool, though not so lofty in its surroundings as the other, is still markedly sumptuous. The decoration promises well. Bright blue pillars edged with polished steel surround the bath, and the walls are of an attractive grey stone, flecked with mother-of-pearl.
A reminder of the vast appetites that the Queen Mary will cater for is afforded by the extent of the space set aside for cold storage rooms. In room after room men are busy packing a kind of cork composition into the thick walls that will house the refrigerators. There is a whole string of laconic indications stencilled along the storage room, "Ripening Fruit," "Green Vegetables," "Kosher Meat," and so on.
In the crew's quarters neat rows of wooden lockers are in place while in the store rooms are sheet-metal cupboards and drawers. The dining room soars loftily. No fitting of any kind has yet appeared in it. Piles of planks which are being treated with fire-resisting paint are piled on its floor. Near by the "writing-room" remains a name only. "Hospital," too, exists only in outline and in title.
Down in the bowels of the ship a deep tank where the water ballast will be stored has been exhaustively tested for weeks on end.
The main promenade deck, wide and stately as a miniature Champs Elysees, is taking shape. The sun windows are in and the crew are laying planking.
On the quay near the ship lie her two masts. When it is said that a rivetter can sit almost bolt upright at his work inside the mainmast, it gives an idea of its size. They are vast cylinders of steel tapering gracefully.
When they are installed, the liner will have to be taken into the river. It is likely that all the Clyde traffic will be held up for half a day or so while this is done.
The scene from the towering bridge: Glasgow and the countryside fall away remotely, like London seen from the Monument; great warehouses and ships nearby are dwarfed as if they were viewed from a cliff top.
On the upper decks lie great circular irons. They are intended for the boiler rooms, and will be installed in the next few days.
The cylinder through which the anchor chains run gapes in the deck like a shell hole. "The largest ever," it is several feet in diameter. Near by are the capstans, on she same heroic scale as all else.
A minor exterior alteration has been decided upon. The lettering of the name Queen Mary which was first placed on the vessel's bows, was too large. The letters have been removed and smaller ones are now being substituted.
Day and night a man is stationed in the stern of the ship, where she juts out to the Clyde. He rings a warning bell at the approach of any ship as a sign for it to reduce speed.
-The Calgary Daily Herald, March 15, 1935
British Pathe film from March 14, 1949:
"WE'LL SHOW 'EM HOW" SAYS MR SKIDMORE.
WINNIPEG, March 14--Two Winnipeg girls, bored with office work, last night left on the first leg of a round-the-world trip.
Off to satisfy wanderlust are Amelia Zurick, 26, and Nancy Halford, 28. They plan to travel by thumb, bicycle and luck. They did not disclose how much money they are taking.
The aspiring globe-trotters, who Friday quit their jobs as record clerks at the unemployment insurance commission, sail March 23 on the Queen Mary for England, their first stop.
-Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, March 14, 1950
Sir Norman and Lady Martin, of South Yarra, will be guests of honor at several farewell parties before they leave for London in the Himalaya next month.
While in London they will make their headquarters at The Whitehouse, Regent's Park.
After a tour of the Continent they will travel in the Queen Mary to New York, then travel overland to Miami. They will return to Melbourne in the Oriana.
- The Age, March 17, 1965
Labels: Clydebank, Cunard, cunard white star, maiden voyage, RMS Queen Mary
Footage from British Pathe, March 11, 1935:
BRITAIN'S MONSTER LINER
"Sleeping Beauties" Of Maritime Social Set Piling Up Charges
New York, March 7, (AP)--Three "sleeping beauties" of the barnacled maritime social set representing more than $100,000,000 in Allied merchant tonnage, drowsed side by side tonight under a heavy and presumably inviolate guard.
The protection thrown over them as gargantuan refugees from the horrors of war was tightened upon the arrival of the new British liner Queen Elizabeth.
[The Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Normandie] sleep in peace, though, at Pier 90 in the North River, nosed into neutrality "for the duration"--and obviously out of the oceanic "carriage trade" for some time to come.
You have less chance of getting aboard any of the three than you have of getting a bid to the coming-out party a year or so hence for Gloria Vanderbilt. Unless you have official business aboard--and there isn't any--or bona fide credentials signed by persons bearing such names as Churchill, Chamberlain and Daladier, it's no go. Sorry, you can't go aboard. You can't even get near the pier. You can't do anything except keep walking right on down under the West Side elevated highway. Get along, now. No loitering.
...but suppose you do get on the pier and up the gangplank. A peep-hole remindful of the old speakeasy days slides back and if the eye sees your companion is a part of the ship's company and you have papers bearing the proper seals and such the hatch swings open.
The inside isn't pretty. Paintings--and a good part of the Normandie's $60,000,000 cost went for art works--are covered, furnishings are stowed away and it smells musty.
The skeleton maintenance crews eat in and keep up steam to give the engines occasional turnovers. The crews go out when off duty to the bars along 10th and 11th avenues. They talk of war, naturally, in the bars, and argue somewhat more amiably than formerly over the relative merits of their respective ships.
- The Palm Beach Post, March 8, 1940
On March 8, 1950 The Washington Observer reported on the arrival of British-born actress Greer Garson in New York aboard the Queen Mary. She was on her way to Hollywood to film a new picture.
After being guests of the British government at a Robert Browning commemoration in Westminster Abbey, Fatty Arbuckle's former wife, Minta Durfee, 74, and Flobelle St. John, 65, widow of Arbuckle's slap-stick comic nephew, Al St. John, "were sent home from a 'triumphal tour' of France and Britain in a 1st class cabin of the Queen Mary as guests of the Cunard Line," according to The Evening Independent on March 12, 1964. Minta Durfee was Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in his first film.
www.queenmarystory.com


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An act relating to the Political Reform Act of 1974. to amend Section 7216 of the Elections Code, relating to elections.
06/21/18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
05/30/18 Referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
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Nail-on-head! I'm a mum, but I like to think I still empathise with non parents.
We purposely had our kids after 5 years of marriage because we wanted to remember what life was like pre kids, instead of rushing into nappies, poverty and (admittedly) heart bursting delight.
We spent those 5 years listening to boring stories of other people's kids – let's face it, only your own kids are interesting.
I vowed never to be one of those selfish mums and respect that perhaps childless women (through choice/nature/circumstances) do not want to hear me banging on about my two boys.
I loved this skit – I know these mothers!
I thought it was pretty funny! Glad you agree.
Nice one. She won me as soon as she said "I don't actually have any children, there's no sad story, I just don't like them." That's me all over.


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Q: Spring Autowiring issue - "required a bean that could not be found" I am new to spring and am attempting to use autowire an instance of a crudrepository (from spring data) into another class (for testing purposes only, I will autowire this into my service layer after).  However, spring cannot find an instance of the bean to autowire.
Here is the error message:
Field repository in com.connor.ConnorApplication required a bean of type 'com.connor.dao.UserRepository' that could not be found.

Action:
Consider defining a bean of type 'com.connor.dao.UserRepository' in your     configuration.

Here is my code for the class that runs my spring application:
package com.connor;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.CommandLineRunner;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
//import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.domain.EntityScan;
//import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
//import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.config.EnableJpaRepositories;

import com.connor.dao.UserRepository;

@SpringBootApplication
public class ConnorApplication /*begin addition*/implements CommandLineRunner /*end addition*/{

//begin addition code
@Autowired
private UserRepository repository;

@Override
public void run(String... args) throws Exception
{
   System.out.println("-------------------------------------");
   long numEntries = repository.count();
   System.out.println("There are " + numEntries + " entries in the user table");
   System.out.println("-------------------------------------");
}

//end addition code

public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(ConnorApplication.class, args);
}

}
Code for the crudrepository
package com.connor.dao;

import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;

import com.connor.model.User;

@Repository
public interface UserRepository extends CrudRepository<User, Integer>{

}

Finally, here is a picture of my folder structure:
folder structure

A: It depends on the spring-data project you are using (look for a dependency in pom.xml like spring-boot-start-data-* ) but probably you need to enable your repositories.
In spring-data-mongodb for example you would need @EnableMongoRepositories annotation or the equivalent configuration in application.properties or spring.xml.

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- Boom inlet mates to IAP fume arms. Order mating arms in desired length to get toal distance required.
- Recomend to subtract 3' of total equipment lengths to compensate for installation height variances. For example, if 30' is desired order 20' boom with 14' arm.


This carrot fudge recipe by Vineet Bhatia is a delightful after-dinner sweet with the spicy notes of cardamom. Use young carrots as they are sweeter. Khoya is often used in Indian or Pakistani cuisine and is made by either drying or reducing milk. You can buy khoya and ghee from good Indian grocery stores or online.


Meeting regarding enrollment, salaries, sabbaticals and campus master plan.
Remarks, delivered at the Memorial Service for Sibert Martens on December 7, 1992 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.
Finding aid only for Manuscript Small Collection 1429. Paper written by WKU student Sandra E. Guy for a history class, based on memories of her mother Genevieve Baxter Geary. She recalls her early teaching career in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, in the 1940s.


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Subject: Deadly rules (Wild & Timid) Sun Mar 23, 2014 1:52 pm
It was pitch black, and quiet. Only a musty smell kept company for the ones occupying the room. Both trapped in a metal cage, just large enough to give them a respectful space.
The air was thick and foul, and it felt oddly heavy. It was like an unseen threat.
Wild was the first one to wake up, he at first did not realize what was happening, but after feeling the cold metal floor against his legs, he jumped up, and yelped, only to hit his head against the metal bars. ''fuck!, ow.. oww..what the hell! '' he cried.
This all soon woke up the other unlucky colt, Timid.
Subject: Re: Deadly rules (Wild & Timid) Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:55 pm
(Heeeere we go...)
Timid woke up in the pitch black cage. He sprung up and hit his hind against the bars. He kept backing away into the cage's corner and squeezed against it. "Wha-Who's!?" Timid looked around but couldn't see anything. He immediately felt like sinking into the floor. "Oh... no..." He was almost one with the bars as he was squeezing himself against one of them from the back of his head to his shaking torso. He asked into the darkness: "Who are you? Why am I here?..." The pony was already extremely frightened by the situation.
Subject: Re: Deadly rules (Wild & Timid) Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:39 pm
(it's gonna get worse!)
Wild heard the familiar voice from somewhere close. He felt the ponys precence. and it first creeped him, but after a minute, he calmed down. He was not alone. ''H-hey- Timid?, it-it's me here. Wild.- '' The unicorn fell silent again, but soon a small light lit up the room, as Wilds magic sparked to life. ''..'' He first noticed Timid, at the other end of the cage, looking terrified. The next thing he saw was the old dusty look of the wooden room they were in.
there were some tools hanging from the walls, and they seemed much more clean than the other stuff around the place, wich chilled him to the bone. ''- doesn't .. this.. seem a bit familiart.. I mean.. th-the situation...'' Wild slowly asked, without turning his gaze from the shiny objects.
Subject: Re: Deadly rules (Wild & Timid) Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:13 am
The voice of the unicorn gave Timid a bit more courage: He was not alone in this dark cage. That feeling of slight courage faded away very fast in the dark room. Timid started to tremble as he noted the tools on the walls. They were indeed in a situation like this again. Timid's broken voice ceased to work and he backed away from the walls at Wild. He didn't even notice that he was quickly leaning on the unicorn. He was scanning the frightning walls and the tools on the walls with a terryfied look on his face. What hell was he in this time?
Wild quickly glanced at Timid, as he felt the pony lean against him. ''.. urgh- it's- all fine, like- this might still be a joke, or something?'' Wild felt very uncomfortable, but saw the amount of fear the pony was in, it kept him form pushing Timid away. ''.. Maybe we could break the cage-..'' He said, trying to sound as calm as he could. He scanned the bars, but it seemed like there was no door, nothing. Weird, he thought. There had to be another way out, what it was he could not tell. ''I see- someone has actually used some time-to- do this..'' He mumbled.
Wilds attention was soon turned back to the tools, they could probably use them to brake the cage. ''We could- use those things to open this shit- .. hold on- it's going to get darker.'' wild said with a sigh. He frowned and wrapped one hoof around Timid, then focusing his magic to grasp a hammer and screwdriver. Everything instantly turned darker, and Wild had hard time getting the tools from the wall. The shiny things were almost like glued on their places. ''what the fuck- ''
A cyan glow, crept form under the rooms door.
(I don't like that glow... go awaiii... no? Well F U then!)
As the light went off Timid shivered. The hoof around him reminded that he wasn't alone in there. Timid was selfish enough to regard that as a good thing. He just wanted to blink the dark away. Of course he couldn't. It would still be there when he opened his eyes.
Hoping that Wild might just get a tool to open the cage, Timid was waiting for him to go "Got it!" or "Here, hold this". If only there would be light. Any kind as soon as possible. Then he indeed saw light: the only kind not welcomed by his anxiety. Timid tried to whisper to Wild but his throat was dry and blocked by terror. He grabbed Wild's hoof and patted on it nervously. After that he just waited for Wild to see that hellish shade of green he himself was stairing at.
( not your time yet )
Wild pulled his head back slightly to increase the magical power. And eventually the tools were forced out of their places, and levitated towards the cage. ''phew.. I think I -'' That's when Timid patted his hoof. ''What's wrong?'' He asked before noticing the light. ''shit!'' he cursed in hushed voice. The door creaked. And Wild turned slowly very pale. He placed the tools on the floor, and hoped that the room was dark enough to hide them.
The glow under the door remained still, and only the one creak of the door was there to prove that something indeed was there.
The unicorn felt his heart beat faster, that was the color the alicorn fuck had. But he didn't want to believe it. That would be worse possible fate. Wild almost felt like slapping himself to check if he was sleeping, but it all felt too real to be dream, and he on the same time didn't want it to be dream, for if that was the case he should probably re think some stuff, and that was not exactly pleasant either.
Moments passed, and nothing happened. Wild turned his head to face Timid, but just as he did so, the light started moving again, it moved further away, with heavy hoofsteps accompanying it.
That something had been standing there, maybe listening.. or letting them know it was there.
Wild shook his head, how could this be happening. how and why. why again.
Something inside him told him to give up, and the feeling grew very strong. just the lights presence had killed all of his hope, and the change was indeed sudden.
A door slammed shut somewhere in the distance.
Subject: Re: Deadly rules (Wild & Timid) Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:21 am
(Angh! Painnn! It stretches before it even started!)
After the door slammed Timid let out a frantic, shaky, incredibly stressful whimper. His hind legs were shaking. He had been .this. close to peeing himself.
It was all wrong: How could they be in this situation again? Would the alicorn hold grudge untill the end of time? It wouldn't matter. In the end they had no power over the doings of an alicorn. No matter how wrong it might get, no matter what twisted things would soon take place, one thing was certain: the alicorn would preveil and mold a hell for both of them.
Thus a part of Timid knew his actions were for naught. He could only try to delay the enivetable doom... or hasten it. His cowerdise left him no choise: he had to try and get out but was now nailed to the floor by realization and silenced by the grip of terror, choking him like a digusting set of iron claws.
( oh, that bothers you that much, I expected less, ... hm.. this will be something you won't be liking then.. I have a really evil plan, and I think you might figure it out before I start!.)
Wild was hanging his head, motionless, and breathing heavily. He wanted to stop thinking, for the situation had started to clear for him, and he did not like it the slightest. ''no...'' he mumbled but the words were barely audible.
Two options were open to him, give up, or give in. He felt the force in the pit of his mind, growing stronger, he could block it, or let it go free. Letting his mind in that particular state, would at lest allow his last moments to be painless, though the adrenaline caused by his anger, but as well, he could have change, but Timid on the other ..hoof, would not be very safe.
So he only kept staring down and sometimes twitching slightly.
A blue pony smiled to himself, putting on a clean west, and glasses. It was perfect. He had his revenge now, and he planned to enjoy it. He was heading towards the town to get the last thing to get his plan to action.
Subject: Re: Deadly rules (Wild & Timid) Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:16 pm
(It bothers .Timid. that much... I'm anchiously waiting for this plan of yours to unfold.)
The heavy breathing cought Timid's attention. He turned to look at Wild.
He twitched.
If that pony would go berzerc... He would be caged with him... Timid pushed those thoughts aside. Wild was his friend. He wouldn't do anything to harm him. That was a silly thought. Now was not the time for those. Timid really didn't know what to say but the silence made the dark seem darker. He had to occupy himself somehow or he might just burst. Not like that would've been something Wild hadn't seen happen before though. "Can-*coughing, wheeze*... Wild, could you... do something with those?..." Timid referred to the tools Wild had picked up from the wall. He knew what they could try to use them for and wanted Wild to continue levitating them to the cage.
(we'll see.)
Wild jumped slightly as Timid broke the silence. Slowly the unicorn glanced at the other colt. Look in his eyes was off; cold, and distant. ''..yeah.. I could.'' He said, yet revealing no emotion in his voice. He did not look away from Timid as he piced the tools with his magic. ''...'' He seemed like he wanted to say something, but nothing came out.
After a short while, Wild got the tools lifted to the cage, and he slammed them on the metallic floor.
The pony whistled, making his way past the old nice houses, and the ponies still hanging on the streets. He stopped on Timids door.
Subject: Re: Deadly rules (Wild & Timid) Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:34 pm
The sound of the tools hitting the floor was very loud compared to the speech the two briefly had exchanged. Timid jumped a bit. His pose was stiff. The first thing to change was his ears: they dropped. Then the head was lowered to get the screwdriver Wild had slammed on the floor. Timid could feel how Wild had distened from the situation. Had he given up? Timid lift the screwdriver with his mouth and looked at the cage's corners for possible weak spots. Every now and then he would glance at Wild's empty expression.
The door had a sign lifted next to it. It was the sign of Timid's business. It said with swirly medival letters: "Wisdom-Cottage" And below that with smaller, less fancy letters: "Problemsolver's office" The place was still not in its previous glory where Timid had moved from, but it was starting to look like something by now.
and everyone fucking died . the end. fuck yea.
oh... ok... :(
Wld kept staring at Timid, no movement, no expression. he only sat there. Only as to play non existing.
The alicorn smirked, and unlocked the door with his magic. ''Dear Timid.. I hope you don't mind.. the little .. research I did..'' He giggled ''To make it more fun.. of course..'' .. ''Let's see if the house is empty..'' He sighed, smiling, and walked further in.
Timid was planning to stuck the screwdriver into the lower corner of the cage. He quickly noticed that the edges running around the cage's lid and bottom were not holding the bars. They were merely covering the seams and welds. He frowned. It wasn't as simple. It even started to seem impossible to break out.
(Hahaaa! Candle! Assist the shit out of that alicorn!)
Candle was dusting an old, iron, 20x20 puzzlecube when he heard the pony enter. Hadn't he locked the door? Apparently he had forgotten. He walked up to this pony who had entered. He was even taller than him. "I-I'm sorry, Timid isn't here. I could... I could leave a message." Candle was assuming that the tall pony was looking for Timid.
After a while, the unicorn turned to look away, his eyes settled on the tools. They looked pretty nice.
( : D )
The alicorn smiled, and nodded. ''What a pity.'' He said in his usual soft tone. ''But. I'm afraid I have bad news... We, believe that.. Timid has been. kidnapped.''
"Ummm... I don't think we can break free with these... hmm..." Timid looked down at the bottom of the cage, then at the floor of the room. Could they...? "Wild, I need your help. Lean on these bars." Timid's command was a bit blunt. He was pointing at the bars on the door's side.
The pegasus' eyes opened wide and his long line-like smile was turned into an open frown of shock. "W- What!? Kindn-... What do we-!? What should I do!?" Candle was waiting for the pony to give him a command or something. An instruction.
The unicorn remained silent but did just as he was told.
The stranger smiled calmly. ''Close your eyes, I'm going to use teleprtation spell. There's a reason to belive you too might be in danger. I will take you to the safe house.'' The he sighed, ''We will explain it all to you there... so. are you ready?.''
Subject: Re: Deadly rules (Wild & Timid) Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:43 am
Timid went to the other side of the cage and jumped hard against the bars on the same side as Wild was leaning. He did this to get the cage to fall over, towards the door.
Candle shook his head. "No- Timid said to stay. In. Here, the office." Then he thought about the gravity of the situation. The office might as well burn if Timid would end up being... What kidnappers did to victims. So, after a brief moment of staring at the ground Candle walked to the door and locked it. After that he took a key with chain and put it around his neck. "Ok... You can-... telp- uhm..." Candle settled to answer to the alicorn with a nod after a small stagger of words.
''..what .now. '' wild said quietly, lookin up at Timid. He did not say more but his eyes were basically so empty one could tell he had no more hope.
The alicorn nodded, and in seconds, they appeared again, in front of a big house. It looked normal, but it was surrounded by big forest. ''Here we are, follow me.'' The alicorn said with a warm smile. He unlocked the door.
Wild fliched, as the cold noise echoed trough the room. Their possible kidnapper. had returned. ''no-...'' He whispered, and buried his head to his hooves. ''.. what the fuck does that douche want?!, why us... why.. Why?!''
"Now we do that two more times to-... *the sounds* ...Shit..."Timid had tried to get to the door in hopes of blocking it with the cage its self. So that they would get more time and a better angle to possibly break the cage with the tools. Now it was useless.
Candle didn't suspect anything and as the pony held the door open for him he waited. It was the awkward moment when two ponies are waiting for the other one to enter first. "...oh!" Candle finally noted and went inside. He was usually the one holding doors. "Have-... Does the kidnapper hold a- a ransom. of. some kind?"
Riki smirked as he locked the door behind them. ''ransom -eh.. no no, I believe the kidnapper has other motives... Now, should we take a look around the house?, you must stay here for a while anyway,...- so we can be sure you will be safe.'' The cyan light of his horn flashed to life, and lit the room. ''Follow me.'' With those words he walked towards the hallway.
''why why why why...'' Wild kept repeating. The first time he faced the alicorn he almost died, and while after he had done very unpleasant things. That he did not want to happen again, but there was almost nothing to be done.
The alicorn happily walked forward, and knew what was soon to come. ''Oh, and your name is Lemon Candle, am I right?''
The speech caught the unicorns attention. He did not hear what the pony was saying, but the voice was familiar. There was no doubt who had caught them. again. The last color faded from Wilds face. ''... it's that alicorn fuck... dude- what the fuck do we do- I don't wanna die- .. no..no.. not this way...'' he looked at Timid. Wild for a moment seemed like a different pony, as he was not the one trying to fight back, and his voice was choked like any others in the particular situation.
"Yea, I am. Just Candle. What's-... your name?" Candle replied merrily. He hadn't forgotten the situation but he was happy whenever he met new ponies.
The speech of the alicorn was muffled by the door but it was definantly familiar. It got Timid to feel that horrible feeling of panic and despair. He turned to look at the unicorn beside him and the site didn't ease his state one bit: Fear in Wild's eyes was something Timid wasn't prepared for. "I- I don't-... I don't want to die here either... Just be brave like last time, you even fought the alicorn. No-one is as brave as that!" Timid was reminding Wild of the courage he had. He wished that his own already tearing up face wouldn't empty his words. If Wild was scared like that, there would be no chance for Timid to try and toughen up if the alicorn started at something.
''Cold Rain.'' Riki replied. They were getting closer to their destination. And his smile stretched. ''..You - can call me ..Rain..'' There was no reason to let Candle know the name he himself used. ''...Do you miss him.. Timid..'' the alicorn quickly asked., loudly enough to both Wild and Timid to hear it.
Wild was about to hug Timid, even though he usually hated that kind of things, but the voice made him again look at the door. The steps were getting closer. ''....wait--... that's not just a ...one... pony..''


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Stoats are generally carnivorous with their preferred prey species being rabbit even though they are much smaller in size. There have been some records of Stoats eating fruit although this has only been seen in captivity.
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Jewish World Review Feb. 29, 2008 / 23 Adar I 5768
Obama Nation
By Greg Crosby
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Now that Hillary Rodham Clinton has all but gone down in flames, it appears that Barak Hussein Obama is a sure bet to get the Democratic presidential nomination. Widely popular with Democrats in just about every demographic, I wonder how much they really know about the guy? I mean besides the fact that he has great presence at the podium and is an accomplished orator. The fact is, he talks in sweeping generalities and platitudes. "Change" is his big word, but it doesn't tell you anything. Change can be either good or bad. It's like saying "fire." Fire can be good if used correctly or it can be devastatingly bad. Hitler brought change to Germany, right? So if you're saying change, well, what kind of change? Be specific.
But therein lies a problem for the Obama campaign. When he gets specific, people will start to understand just what kind of a guy Obama is - which is fine, if you happen to like far-left liberals. As a matter of fact, Obama has the most liberal voting record in the Senate - that is when he actually voted at all. During his Senate career, he avoided 17 percent of the votes and sponsored only one bill that became law. That bill was to promote "relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo."
He has said that he wants to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens, and he is against making English the official language of America. He favors open boarders. He wants to initiate cradle to grave entitlements such as a national health care program, which is another name for socialized medicine, all of which would cost taxpayers billions. I could go on, but basically every one of his domestic policies is geared toward increasing federal government programs, raising taxes, and building up the welfare state. It's tax and spend in the grand old style of Eugene McCarthy liberalism.
What troubles me most about Obama, however, concerns one particular area of foreign policy, and it is something that, interestingly, the mainstream media has not brought to light. It is his pattern of behavior toward America's one and only true ally in the Middle East, Israel. Throughout his political career Obama has aligned himself with staunch anti-Israel advocates.
For more than two decades, Obama's personal minister, friend, and confidant has been the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a former Black Muslim who has been a severe anti-Israel advocate. Wright's church is a member of a denomination whose governing body has taken a series of anti-Israel actions. Among the many anti-Semitic rants that Wright has engaged in, he has said that the Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for almost 40 years now.
A radical America hater, on the first Sunday following 9/11, Wright characterized the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington as a consequence of violent American policies. Four years after that, Wright said that the attacks were retribution for America's racism.
Rev. Wright has been a key supporter of Louis Farrakhan, and just last December he honored the Nation of Islam leader for lifetime achievement, saying he "truly epitomize[s] greatness." Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews, whites, America, and homosexuals.
Obama's foreign policy advisers have suggested that a President Obama would likely have an approach towards Israel radically at odds with those of previous Presidents (both Republican and Democrat). A group of experts collected by the Israeli liberal newspaper Haaretz deemed him to be the candidate likely to be least supportive of Israel. He is the candidate most favored by the Arab-American community.
We've been told by Obama that if president, he would visit with the leaders of Syria and Iran - two countries that sponsor terrorism, have called for the destruction of Israel, and have engaged in the killing of our soldiers in Iraq. Obama would welcome open talks with these enemies of America and Israel. Obama has called for withdraw from Iraq, which would destabilize the region and lead to a further expansion of Iranian power.
So when a candidate for president starts using terms like "change," it's a really good idea to ask, "What kind of change? Senator, please define the change you have in mind." Or if that candidate says he is for "hope," well, who isn't? But, again, hope for what? Hope for whom? Let's get specific.
Senator Barak Hussein Obama will change things, all right. Of that, I have no doubt. If he becomes president, America will definitely become an Obama nation.
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package com.modeln.build.ctrl.charts;

import com.modeln.testfw.reporting.CMnDbBuildData;
import com.modeln.testfw.reporting.CMnDbHostData;
import com.modeln.testfw.reporting.CMnDbBuildStatusData;
import com.modeln.testfw.reporting.CMnDbMetricData;

import java.util.Enumeration;

import org.jfree.chart.ChartFactory;
import org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart;
import org.jfree.chart.plot.PiePlot;
import org.jfree.data.general.DefaultPieDataset;

/**
 * The build chart contains methods for rendering charts which present
 * various aspects of a single build.
 *
 * @author             Shawn Stafford
 *
 */
public class CMnBuildChart {

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     * @param   req     HTTP request
     * @param   res     HTTP response
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     * @return  Error code if any errors were found.
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        JFreeChart chart = null;

        DefaultPieDataset pieData = new DefaultPieDataset();
        if ((build.getMetrics() != null) && (build.getMetrics().size() > 0)) {
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            while (metrics.hasMoreElements()) {
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                String name = currentMetric.getMetricType(currentMetric.getType());

                // Get elapsed time in "minutes"
                Long value = new Long(currentMetric.getElapsedTime() / (1000*60));

                pieData.setValue(name, value);
            }
        }

        // API: ChartFactory.createPieChart(title, data, legend, tooltips, urls)
        chart = ChartFactory.createPieChart("Build Metrics", pieData, true, true, false);

        // get a reference to the plot for further customization...
        PiePlot plot = (PiePlot) chart.getPlot();
        chartFormatter.formatMetricChart(plot, "min");

        return chart;
    }

}

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How to keep emotion out of managing your money
By Phil Slade
It's the oldest parenting trick in the book. Your child looks at you and says, "I'm hungry!", usually after seeing an ad for junk food. If you ask them what they want, they are unlikely to choose something healthy.
So instead, you say, "Would you like an apple or a banana?" If they protest at the choices you offer, you say, "That's all we've got right now, an apple or a banana."
They think for a second, and usually choose one and then go about things happily again. No fight, and they feel like they've made their own choice. But have they?
Clearly, they didn't come to us wanting fruit, but they've walked away feeling more in control of their choice than they really are. We wanted them to eat healthily so allowed only healthy options to choose from.
They didn't even think there might have been chocolate biscuits, cake, chips or any manner of confectionery in the cupboard; they just accept what is presented and then feel a sense of agency and control because they got to make a decision. We, as parents, have activated a hidden persuasion technique.
As we become adults, we're still susceptible to these hidden persuaders. Look at choosing a bank, for instance. The thought of losing money is painful and scary, so in a state of fear many people immediately exclude any brand that isn't big or immediately recognisable.
Your brain thinks, "A lot of other people have their money there, and this bank has been around longer so they're likely to do better with my cash."
But do they? If anything, as the royal commission proved, longevity does not always equal better outcomes - often the exact opposite.
But our brain doesn't want to know this, so it takes a mental shortcut, which reduces our options from 30-plus unknowns to four or five familiars. This feels much easier and safer. But at no point in the decision-making process have we asked, "Where is the best place to put my money?"
Scientifically, hidden persuaders are things that trigger mental shortcuts, that help bypass parts of our rational thinking brain to jump to a conclusion rather than think it through.
They activate different cognitive biases or rules of thumb that we have built up over time to make life feel safer and less complicated.
The process of jumping to a conclusion is so strong that even when we're researching something, we're often more attentive to evidence that supports the decision we've already made (confirmation bias).
Further, the more confirming information we gather, the stronger our initial position becomes, irrespective of the weight of information to the contrary (information bias). We'll even disregard options or evidence that advises against doing what we want, and hang our hat on any evidence that supports our initial snap judgement.
You also tend to find you make different decisions depending on where you are and who you're with.
This is partly because your identity shifts (am I a father, a professional, a mate, a lover of art, a sporting nut, a philosopher?), which changes what you think is important at the time, and because our immediate environment is often full of subtle cues pointing us towards different choices.
So, what can we do to help ourselves withstand the negative influences of these hidden persuaders?
After years of research, advising and personal practice, I think there are three things you can do that dramatically improve financial decision making.
Recognise and better manage your emotions, increase your rational awareness of different biases that might be relevant to you, and design your physical environment to prompt you to make better choices when the pressure is on.
How to fight the negative influences
1. Understand and manage your emotions
Recognise fear, impatience, frustration, excitement or loss, put them in a mental box and leave them there.
Highly reactive emotions are not helpful when trying to make responsive rational decisions.
2. Learn more about decision influences
Try to make the implicit explicit.
By knowing more about what makes you tick, and by increasing awareness of how you make choices, you help your brain focus on influences that might be leading you up the garden path.
3. Design a better environment for making financial decisions
I call this the chocolate cake rule.
Remove temptation from your environment and make the right choices as easy as possible. This way when you're tired or under pressure the right choice becomes the easiest one.
Wall Street Bets picked more losers than winners
By Elizabeth McArthur
New data has found that in 2021 stocks recommended by Reddit's popular WallStreetBets community resulted in more losses than returns.
Seven ways to save on back-to-school shopping
By Serina Bird
Shoes, bags, books - back-to-school shopping never ends! Here's how to get your kids ready for the school year without blowing the budget.
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Phil Slade is a behavioural economist and psychologist and the author of Going Ape S#!t! and founder of Decida. He works across digital innovation, strategy and cognitive bias.


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In coming months, downtown Wheaton is going to get a little more crowded, and Jim Mathieson, president of the Downtown Wheaton Association, can hardly wait.
His eyes are on Wheaton 121 — an upscale apartment complex at 121 N. Cross St., just steps away from the train station, public library and Illinois Prairie Path — that will see its first tenants in September.
"We are anxious for it to be completed," said Mathieson, adding that the association is working with the developer on incentives from downtown merchants to get tenants better acquainted with the restaurants and shops.
Officials say it may take up to a year to fully lease the building that has 306 units that include townhomes, studios and one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Monthly rents start at $1,265 for a 558-square-foot studio.
Besides the granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, tenants have access to a heated swimming pool, fire pit, fitness and yoga center and a heated indoor parking garage. There's even a dog run and a dog washing station.
"There has never been any building like this built in DuPage County, and we feel there are people out there who want that product," said Mary Ellen Martin, senior vice president at Chicago-based Morningside Group.
She sees "pent-up demand" because of the housing market crisis that scared some people away from buying real estate, she said. Morningside changed direction after 15 years in the condo development market and began offering rentals five years ago. Its next project is a proposed 400-unit rental community in Northbrook.
"This concept of wanting the granite and high-end features but not being tied to a mortgage, and the recognition that a mortgage is not liquid worked to our favor," said Martin.
Construction on Wheaton 121 is expected to be completed by January, with most of the work being done now on the north building. Two model apartments are available for viewing, while the townhome model is expected to be open Aug. 12. A recent open house attracted more than 300 people, many of them single professionals and empty nesters looking to downsize.
Downtown businesses have waited for a project to revitalize the area, and the apartments may be it. Just down the street from Wheaton 121, a grocery store is being built at the corner of Naperville and Roosevelt roads. Also, DuPage Medical Group will be moving into a new office building next spring at the corner of Main Street and Willow Avenue, while existing shops such as Jeans and a Cute Top Shop will be expanding.
"We're just excited at the prospect of that many people moving into the downtown, and that creates a lot of appeal," said Jim Kozik, director of economic development for the city.


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Merriam-Webster chooses 'vaccine' as 2021 word of the year
3:34 PM EST, Wed December 01, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) — Merriam-Webster has chosen its 2021 word of the year: vaccine.
"This was a word that was extremely high in our data every single day in 2021," Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor-at-large, told The Associated Press ahead of Monday's announcement.
"It really represents two different stories. One is the science story, which is this remarkable speed with which the vaccines were developed. But there's also the debates regarding policy, politics and political affiliation. It's one word that carries these two huge stories," he said.
Those who publish the Oxford English Dictionary chose "vax" as their word of the year. "Pandemic" was one of the top searches last year on Merriam-Webster's website.
"The pandemic was the gun going off and now we have the aftereffects," Sokolowski said.
Over 2020, lookups for "vaccine" increased 601% at Merriam-Webster.
Compared to 2019, when there was little urgency or chatter about vaccines, Merriam-Webster logged an increase of 1,048% in lookups this year. Debates over inequitable distribution, vaccine mandates and boosters kept interest high, Sokolowski said. So did vaccine hesitancy and friction over vaccine passports.
The word "vaccine" wasn't birthed in a day, or due to a single pandemic. The first known use stretches back to 1882 but references pop up earlier related to fluid from cowpox pustules used in inoculations, Sokolowski said. It was borrowed from the New Latin "vaccina," which goes back to Latin's feminine "vaccinus," meaning "of or from a cow." The Latin for cow is "vacca," a word that might be akin to the Sanskrit "vasa," according to Merriam-Webster.
Inoculation, on the other hand, dates to 1714, in one sense referring to the act of injecting an "inoculum."
Earlier this year, Merriam-Webster added to its online entry for "vaccine" to cover all the talk of mRNA vaccines, or messenger vaccines such as those for COVID-19 developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.
While other dictionary companies choose words of the year by committee, Merriam-Webster bases its selection on lookup data, paying close attention to spikes and, more recently, year-over-year increases in searches after weeding out evergreens.
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Chesapeake teachers were told not to show Biden's inauguration live in case violence erupted
Northam to rename Virginia Beach's Camp Pendleton, which honors Confederate general
Steve Bannon, Lil Wayne and more than 140 others pardoned by Trump
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Outer Banks photographer records 'flying object' near Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Editorial: Surviving a powerful hurricane depends on resilience investment now
By The Virginian-Pilot & Daily Press Editorial Board
This Aug.25, 2020, satellite image released by NASA shows Hurricane Laura churning in the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasters say Laura is rapidly intensifying and will become a "catastrophic" Category 4 hurricane before landfall. (NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) via AP) (AP)
Hampton Roads has in recent years been spared the effects of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes, a trend the region should hope continues in a very active season for storms.
We know a big one will come — and the region remains unprepared, with carefully crafted resilience plans still waiting to be put in motion due to a lack of funding and, frankly, a lack of commitment.
Without a cooperative partnership between federal, state and local governments, Hampton Roads will continue to remain vulnerable, even as the seas rise, the land sinks and the Atlantic spins off more powerful storms that threaten widespread devastation.
This week marks the 15th anniversary of one of the deadliest hurricanes in modern history. Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,800 people and caused an estimated $125 billion in damage. Some communities along the Gulf Coast, which took the brunt of that storm, have yet to recover.
In New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina was a revealing moment for this nation, a catastrophic national disaster made worse by a failure to protect the city before the storm and an inability to effectively aid its suffering residents in the aftermath.
Levees and flood walls intended to keep water from inundating a city that is mostly at or below sea level suffered more than 50 breaches, leaving 80% of the city flooded. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers led its redesign and reconstruction, a project that cost $14.6 billion, and plans to request an additional $3.2 billion next year to make improvements.
Still, residents are concerned that protection from a 100-year event, which the defenses are designed to withstand, isn't sufficient. Those will be tested this week. Tropical Storm Marco passed through without much fuss, but eyes are on Hurricane Laura as it could strengthen to Category 4 before making landfall.
Worries about how the barriers will protect the city should be shared here and anywhere else already in desperate need of stronger coastal defenses to protect against storms.
The Army Corps has plans to build four storm surge barriers, nearly eight miles of flood wall, one mile of levee, 11 tide gates and seven pump and power stations in Norfolk, at a total estimated cost of $1.4 billion. But that won't stop the so-called nuisance flooding occurring in greater frequency and severity with each passing year.
A multi-year study by an engineering firm mapped out what Virginia Beach needs to do to protect its residents — including engineered defenses, adapted structures, natural mitigation and prepared communities — estimating the cost at more than $2 billion.
Hampton is moving on pilot projects outlined in its citywide "Resilient Hampton" plan, which includes landscape redesign to mitigate recurrent flooding and storm water runoff to manage the encroaching tides but faces an enormous cost to realize the full approach.
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This is happening in every Hampton Roads community. But none of those initiatives is complete, or even close to it. All told, the region will need an estimated $40 billion for short-term coastal defense, to say nothing about the potential long-term investment that will be needed to protect neighborhoods and hold back the water.
If that seems like a staggering amount of money, consider the cost of inaction.
Last year, researchers at Old Dominion University calculated the potential cost of a major hurricane such as Katrina striking the region, concluding the total impact "could approach, or even exceed, $40 billion in the first year after landfall — equating to 40% of the Hampton Roads gross domestic product and nearly 10% of Virginia's GDP."
Essentially, it's a question of whether to pay now or pay dearly later. And for a region defined by water, there's only one correct answer.
Big infrastructure projects, the sort Hampton Roads needs, take time to complete, but the region can ill afford further delays. Funding these initiatives should be the top priority of our elected leadership, knowing that the luck we've enjoyed in recent years will eventually run out.
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Just before dawn on June 29, a Norman man called 9-1-1 to report that his daughter had been shot in the face. He told the dispatcher that his daughter was "gone."
When the dispatcher asked if the young woman had shot herself, the man hesitated briefly before saying, "Yes."
Norman police arrived at the scene to find Kailee Jo McMullen, 22, critically injured with a gunshot wound to the face. Her father, Ronald Lee McMullen, 43, was covered in blood and kept trying to wipe it off of himself. The young woman's mother, whom Ronald McMullen apparently called before calling 9-1-1, was trying to perform CPR on her daughter.
Emergency workers continued to perform CPR on the woman until it became clear that she had succumbed to her injury and was dead at the scene.
Although Ronald McMullen told the 9-1-1 dispatcher that Kailee had shot and killed herself, police say evidence at the scene contradicted his story. On July 5, nearly one week after Kailee's death, Norman police arrested her father on a complaint of first degree murder. He is held without bond in the Cleveland County Jail.
Police say their investigation could reveal motive in the young woman's killing. They say that in 2004, when Kailee was only 14, Norman Public Schools and the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) received a report that the girl's father had touched her inappropriately. However, no charges were ever filed in connection with that report.
Witnesses testify that in recent weeks, Kailee told them that her father had once again begun touching her inappropriately while he believed her to be asleep. They said the woman told them in April that her father had slapped her across the face and that her mother had pointed a gun at him.
Beyond allegations of sexual abuse, police have revealed no other motive or the situation immediately preceding Kailee's shooting. They say that when they arrived and asked Ronald McMullen what happened, he gave them a "blank stare" and said he did not know where the gun was.
Investigators say that it appeared that the woman's body had been moved and that McMullen had attempted to clean up the blood. They noted finding bloody towels in the kitchen. They noted that the man was covered in blood, even under his shirt, and that despite being warned not to wipe it off, he kept trying to remove the blood. At one point, officers had to physically restrain him from wiping the blood with his hands so they could photograph the evidence.
If ultimately charged and convicted of first degree murder, the father faces life in prison or life without parole.


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Once upon a time, there were two children who had the same nanny: Azur, blonde and blue-eyed, son of the lord of the castle, and Asmar, dark-skinned and black-eyed, the nurse's child. Brought up like brothers, the children are suddenly torn apart. But Azur, haunted by the legend of the Djinn the nanny used to tell him, intends to find it in lands beyond the seas. When they grow up, the two foster brothers each go separate ways in search of the fairy. Daring rivals, they find magic lands in a medieval Maghreb, full of dangers and enchantments.


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The Brigham Surname and Homeopathy
The Brigham surname contributed some orthodox doctors who converted to homeopathy.
Gersham Nelson Brigham 1820-1886 was another orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy and published a book on the homeopathic treatment of tuberculosis and the catarrhal diseases of the nose and respiratory organs.
of Montpelier, Vt., was born in Fayston, Washington county, Vt., March 3rd, 1820. His father, Elisha Brigham, removing from Marlborough, Mass., to Fayston, was active in the organization and prosperity of the township, then but recently settled. He taught several district schools, and was considered well educated. His fondness for books has been inherited by his children.
His mother (Miss Sophronia Ryder), a near relative of the Hon. Dudley Chase, of Vermont, and a connection of the late Chief Justice of the United States, inherited from her parents a robust constitution, along with quick and active mental powers. Filial regard attributes to her the transmission of the tact and judgment for which she was considered remarkable.
The subject of this sketch, the eldest son and second child of a family of twelve children, grew up amid the hardships and toil of a pioneer life, cherishing an ambition for a condition superior to mere physical labor. His father was unable to defray the expenses of his education beyond the meagre one to be had from the public schools ; but resolved upon success, he taught school in the winter, and worked upon the farm in the summer, in order to provide the means for his attendance upon the spring and fall terms of the Washington County Academy, and the Academy at Poultney, Vt., in which he received his preparatory education.
About to enter college, a severe attack of typhoid fever, from which he did not recover for many months, induced a change in his plans, and he decided to commence the study of medicine.
In 1842, he entered the office of Dr. Joslyn, of Waitsfield, Vt., subsequently studied under Dr. S. W. Thayer, late Professor in Burlington University, and lastly under Dr. B. W. Palmer, Professor in the Vermont Medical College in Woodstock.
He graduated from this college in 1845, and soon after married Miss Laura E. Tyler, of Fayston, and settled in Warren, Vt. While practicing there, he was led to investigate the principles of homœopathy ; and, having matriculated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, in 1849, he learned of Teste's experiments in St. Margarette's Hospital in Paris, and of the eminent success of Dr. John Franklin Gray and others in New York.
He gave to the system his thorough adhesion, and in the year following earnestly embraced it. He was the second person in Middle Vermont to espouse the cause, and one of the little band of six who founded the Vermont State Homœopathic Society, of which he is now the President.
Leaving Warren, where he had secured a large practice, he removed to Waitsfield, where his duties were still more laborious, and finally settled in Montpelier. He was here associated for one year, with Dr. Taplin, and since then has secured an extensive practice for himself.
Dr. Brigham has had remarkable success attendant upon his labors, seldom losing a patient of whom he has had the exclusive charge. He has acquired a reputation for skill, which calls for his services at times seventy and more miles from his home.
In addition to his professional labors, he has served as Postmaster and Town Superintendent, has lectured on education, temperance, and sundry scientific subjects ; and has contributed to the secular press for twenty-five years.
He has contributed to medical literature in addresses before various societies, and to the Boston Homœopathic Medical Journal. He prepared the history of Washington county for the "Vermont Historical Magazine," and delivered the class poem before the Norwich University, in 1870.
He published, in that year, a volume of poems, entitled, "The Harvest Moon, and Other Poems," which has received flattering notices from the press ; and has other volumes in preparation, soon to be published.
In 1869, he was elected a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy. He has instructed a large number of students, who have graduated at the homœopathic colleges in Philadelphia and New York ; his eldest son, Dr. H. C. Brigham, graduating in 1872, from the New York Homœopathic College ; and Dr. W. W. Porter, now occupying the chair of Clinical Medicine and Obstetrics in the University of Syracuse, N. Y., both having received their preparatory education under his direction.
Dr. Brigham has been a diligent laborer in the cause of popular education ; is a member of the Citizen's Lecture Committee, and his adopted home is largely indebted to him for the organization of a public reading room, to which it is now proposed to add a public library.
Brigham wrote Catarrhal Diseases of the Nasal and Respiratory Organs, Phthisis pulmonalis, or, Tubercular consumption. Brigham considered that his practice was 'weighed down with Phthisis'.
Homer C Brigham 1851 -
Homer C. Brigham, M. D., was born July 10, 1851, at Waitsfield, Vt.; obtained his academic education at Montpelier-, began the study of medicine with his father, Gershom N. Brigham, M. D., and attended courses of lectures at the Philadelphia Homeopathic Medical College and New York Homeopathic Medical College, taking his degree from the latter in 1872.
For merit, immediately after Graduation, he was appointed assistant to Dr. William Tod Helmuth, the celebrated surgeon of New York, remaining there one year, and then returned to his native State, where he practiced at North field two years, and at Montpelier eleven years.
While in practice at Montpelier he took a clinical course at the New York Post Graduate Medical School. In 1885 lie re moved to New York city, but had practiced there less than a year when he was called to Grand Rapids to take the extensive practice left by his father, who died in 1886.
While in New York city he received an appointment to the staff of Ward's Island Homeopathic Hospital. He was a member of the New York Homeopathic Medical Society, was President of the Vermont Homeopathic Medical Society, was a member of the U. S. Pension Examining Board for Central Vermont, and is now a member of the Michigan Homeopathic Medical Society.
Reeder Brigham 1832 -
of Cairo, Ills., is a native of Bradford county, Pa., where he was born on the 16th of June, 1832.
The very moderate means of his father, who was a farmer, would not permit his son's wishes for an early classical education to be followed out, but by dint of the small advantages held out by the common school, supplemented by hard study in leisure hours, he so far prepared himself as to pass a satisfactory examination previous to admission into Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pa., at the age of nineteen years.
For some time after leaving that seminary he was occupied in teaching school, intending at some future day to devote himself to the study and practice of the law ; but upon recognizing the fact that law and politics were almost always inseparably connected as regards a country practitioner, and as this latter adjunct had no charms for him, he changed his plans, and resolved to adopt the profession of medicine.
Accordingly, in 1856, he attended a course of lectures in the Ohio Medical College, an allopathic institution.
During the war of the rebellion Dr. Brigham was enlisted on the side of the Union, and was promoted to the rank of Acting Assistant Surgeon, serving in the United States Navy for the period of one year.
Having formed the acquaintance of Dr. L, Grosmuck, of Fort Scott, Kansas, he changed his views, and shortly after entered the Homœopathic Medical College of Missouri, whence he obtained his degree of M. D., and since this time he has been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession, mostly in the neighborhood of Cairo, Ills., to which city he removed in the year 1868.
Dr. Brigham is strictly temperate in all his habits, and has ever been a hard student, earnestly endeavoring, as far as lay in his power, to extend the great blessing of homœopathy to his fellow men. He has occasionally contributed original articles to the several medical journals, etc., which have attracted considerable attention. Dr. Brigham was married, in 1868, to Mary Goe, of Xenia, O.


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Elon Musk sells 19.5 million Tesla shares worth almost $4 billion • TechCrunch
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is selling millions of Tesla shares again. The celebrity executive disposed of 19.5 million shares Tuesday, which is worth about $3.95 billion, according to three filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Musk did not take to Twitter to explain why he sold shares, but it's possible the money will go towards his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform, which went through last month.
In April, Musk also sold around 9.6 million shares of Tesla stock, which at the time was worth $8.5 billion. Those shares were sold at around $885.42. Since then, Tesla has issued a three-for-one stock split, bringing the cost of each share down.
Musk sold shares Tuesday at an average price of $202.56 each.
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With less than two weeks to go, Caron said they would need a corporation or two to step in with a generous donation to meet their goal. With only 24 hours left before the volunteer deadline, Marli Riggs of Truckload Carriers Associaton said that 11 full loads were still in need of a carrier or owner-operator to pick up.
Despite falling short of donations and volunteers in the days leading to the ceremony, people across the country stepped up to the plate and hit a homerun, allowing WAA to walk off with a huge victory. Maine First Lady Ann LePage led the charge when she challenged WAA founder Morrill Worcester to match every incoming $15 donation. Through national media appearances, LePage garnered enough support to allow WAA to hit their goal with only one day to spare.
In addition to the Arlington ceremony, volunteers across the country held their own local services. A total of 1,015 locations participated to lay 700,000 wreaths.


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E-briefing: Update on Resolving Uncertainties in Arbitration Clauses – What will be the Governing Law of the Arbitration Agreement and Seat of Arbitration if it is not expressed?
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Why is this important: The Court of Appeal disagreed with the findings of the High Court on the governing law of the arbitration and the seat of the arbitration. Why did the Court of Appeal arrive at a different finding? What are the implications of a vague arbitration agreement that does not expressly identify the governing law of the arbitration agreement and the seat of arbitration?
Key things to note
What does "arbitration in Shanghai" mean? In BNA v BNB [2019] SGHC 142, the Singapore High Court interpreted this as a Singapore seated arbitration with the physical hearing to be held in Shanghai. However, the Singapore Court of Appeal in BNA v BNB [2019] SGCA 84 took a different approach and held that Shanghai was the seat of arbitration.
The background to this appeal can be found in our previous briefing on the Singapore High Court's decision on this matter. Essentially, the issues turned on the interpretation of the arbitration agreement which provided that the dispute shall be "submitted to the SIAC for arbitration in Shanghai, which will be conducted in accordance with its Arbitration Rules".
The High Court found that:
The proper law of the arbitration agreement is Singapore law. This is notwithstanding the fact the proper law of the underlying agreement is PRC law.
The seat of the arbitration is Singapore. This is because parties had expressly referred to the SIAC Arbitration Rules. Under the SIAC Rules 2013 which was applicable at the material time, the seat shall be Singapore if parties do not agree on the seat of the arbitration. Having selected the SIAC Rules, parties must have agreed that the seat of the arbitration is Singapore. This is because the arbitration cannot be seated in two jurisdictions.
Dissatisfied with the outcome, the appellant brought an appeal on the basis that the proper law of the arbitration agreement should be the law of the People's Republic of China ("PRC Law"). Consequently, the arbitration agreement was invalid because under PRC Law, the dispute would be a domestic dispute. A foreign arbitration institution (SIAC) is prohibited from administering an arbitration of a domestic dispute.
Summary of the Singapore Court of Appeal findings
Seat of arbitration
The Court of Appeal disagreed with the High Court and held that the seat was Shanghai.
The Court of Appeal held that the natural meaning of the phrase "arbitration in Shanghai" is most naturally construed as the seat of arbitration. Notwithstanding this, the Court of Appeal qualified this by stating that this natural construction can be displaced by contrary indicia.
Two examples were raised by the respondents as contrary indicia. However, these were rejected:
Parties' concerns that the arbitration should be seated in a neutral forum as expressed in their pre-contractual negotiations: This was rejected on the basis that the courts were bound by the parol evidence rule under the Evidence Act and its exceptions. Pre-contractual negotiations could not be admissible as evidence of contrary indicia because such evidence was not reasonably available to all the contracting parties. It also did not relate to a clear and obvious context.
The invalidating effects of PRC Law on the arbitration agreement: there was no evidence to suggest that parties were alive to the interplay between PRC Law and SIAC as the arbitral institution in charge of administering the arbitration (i.e. if the arbitration agreement were governed by PRC Law, selecting SIAC as the arbitral institution to administer a domestic dispute was illegal under PRC Law).
The fact that Shanghai was a city and not a law district did not persuade the Court of Appeal otherwise. This is because it was common for parties to specify either a city or country in the arbitration agreement.
Proper law of the arbitration agreement
On appeal, parties accepted that the BCY framework to determine the proper law of the arbitration agreement was the proper framework. This is a three-stage framework which can be summarized as follows:
Have parties expressly chosen the governing law of the arbitration agreement?
If there is no express choice of law, is there an implied choice of law for the arbitration agreement?
In the absence of an express or implied choice of law, what is the law with which the arbitration agreement has the closest and most real connection?
Parties also accepted that the governing law of the underlying agreement is generally the governing law of the arbitration agreement. However, this can be displaced, especially if the seat is different from the place of the governing law of the contract. This was not the finding of the Court of Appeal.
The Court of Appeal concurred with the High Court and affirmed that the parties had not made an express selection of the governing law of the arbitration agreement. The Court of Appeal proceeded to consider if there was an implied choice of law of the arbitration agreement. This largely turned on the seat of the arbitration. Since the Court of Appeal has determined that the arbitration is seated in Shanghai, it follows that PRC Law is the proper law of the arbitration agreement.
Implications of the Court of Appeal's findings
The Court of Appeal did not go so far to decide on whether the tribunal had jurisdiction. This is because having determined that Singapore was not the seat, the Singapore courts will have no supervisory jurisdiction over the arbitration. The Court of Appeal took the view that this was a matter to be determined by the PRC Court as the seat court applying PRC Law.
Was the appellant correct in bringing a jurisdiction challenge before the Singapore courts when it was ultimately decided that the Singapore is not the seat? The Court of Appeal took a practical approach and observed that given the tribunal had earlier determined that Singapore was the seat, the appellant was correct in bringing its application before the Singapore High Court. The Court of Appeal clarified that it is unnecessary and unworkable for the court hearing the jurisdictional challenge to be the seat court, especially when the seat was precisely the subject of the dispute.
The Court left it open for parties to decide what further actions they wish to take.
What this means for parties
It is imperative for parties to ensure that its dispute resolution clauses are watertight. It is important to consider the implications of the governing law of the underlying agreement, the governing law of the arbitration agreement and the seat of the arbitration holistically and how they interplay with each other. Failing which, parties could end up in a long-drawn jurisdictional battle that will serve to impede an efficient resolution of the matter.
The full text of the decision may be accessed here.
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