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Author: Asbjørnsen & Moe - 1841
Translated into English
by George Dasent - 1859
Original title (Norwegian):
Følgesvennen
Country of origin: Norway
Story type: The Monster's Bride (ATU 507A)
English - aligned
The Companion
Asbjørnsen & Moe / George Dasent
Once on a time there was a farmer's son who dreamt that he was to marry a princess far, far out in the world. She was as red and white as milk and blood, and so rich there was no end to her riches. When he awoke he seemed to see her still standing bright and living before him, and he thought her so sweet and lovely that his life was not worth having unless he had her too. So he sold all he had, and set off into the world to find her out. Well, he went far, and farther than far, and about winter he came to a land where all the high-roads lay right straight on end; there wasn't a bend in any of them. When he had wandered on and on for a quarter of a year he came to a town, and outside the church-door lay a big block of ice, in which there stood a dead body, and the whole parish spat on it as they passed by to church. The lad wondered at this, and when the priest came out of church he asked him what it all meant.
'It is a great wrong-doer,' said the priest. 'He has been executed for his ungodliness, and set up there to be mocked and spat upon.'
'But what was his wrong-doing?' asked the lad.
'When he was alive here he was a vintner,' said the priest, 'and he mixed water with his wine.'
The lad thought that no such dreadful sin.
'Well,' he said, 'after he had atoned for it with his life, you might as well have let him have Christian burial and peace after death.'
But the priest said that could not be in any wise, for there must be folk to break him out of the ice, and money to buy a grave from the church; then the grave-digger must be paid for digging the grave, and the sexton for tolling the bell, and the clerk for singing the hymns, and the priest for sprinkling dust over him.
'Do you think now there would be any one who would be willing to pay all this for an executed sinner?'
'Yes,' said the lad. 'If he could only get him buried in Christian earth, he would be sure to pay for his funeral ale out of his scanty means.'
Even after that the priest hemmed and hawed; but when the lad came with two witnesses, and asked him right out in their hearing if he could refuse to sprinkle dust over the corpse, he was forced to answer that he could not.
So they broke the vintner out of the block of ice, and laid him in Christian earth, and they tolled the bell and sang hymns over him, and the priest sprinkled dust over him, and they drank his funeral ale till they wept and laughed by turns; but when the lad had paid for the ale he hadn't many pence left in his pocket.
He set off on his way again, but he hadn't got far ere a man overtook him who asked if he did not think it dull work walking on all alone.
No; the lad did not think it dull. 'I have always something to think about,' he said.
Then the man asked if he wouldn't like to have a servant.
'No,' said the lad; 'I am wont to be my own servant, therefore I have need of none; and even if I wanted one ever so much, I have no means to get one, for I have no money to pay for his food and wages.'
'You do need a servant, that I know better than you,' said the man, 'and you have need of one whom you can trust in life and death. If you won't have me as a servant, you may take me as your companion; I give you my word I will stand you in good stead, and it shan't cost you a penny. I will pay my own fare, and as for food and clothing, you shall have no trouble about them.'
Well, on those terms he was willing enough to have him as his companion; so after that they travelled together, and the man for the most part went on ahead and showed the lad the way.
So after they had travelled on and on from land to land, over hill and wood, they came to a crossfell that stopped the way. There the companion went up and knocked, and bade them open the door; and the rock opened sure enough, and when they got inside the hill up came an old witch with a chair, and asked them, 'Be so good as to sit down. No doubt ye are weary.'
'Sit on it yourself,' said the man. So she was forced to take her seat, and as soon as she sat down she stuck fast, for the chair was such that it let no one loose that came near it. Meanwhile they went about inside the hill, and the companion looked round till he saw a sword hanging over the door. That he would have, and if he got it he gave his word to the old witch that he would let her loose out of the chair.
'Nay, nay,' she screeched out; 'ask me anything else. Anything else you may have, but not that, for it is my Three-Sister Sword; we are three sisters who own it together.'
Very well; then you may sit there till the end of the world,' said the man. But when she heard that, she said he might have it if he would set her free.
So he took the sword and went off with it, and left her still sitting there.
When they had gone far, far away over naked fells and wide wastes, they came to another crossfell. There, too, the companion knocked and bade them open the door, and the same thing happened as happened before; the rock opened, and when they had got a good way into the hill another old witch came up to them with a chair and begged them to sit down. 'Ye may well be weary,' she said.
'Sit down yourself,' said the companion. And so she fared as her sister had fared, she did not dare to say nay, and as soon as she came on the chair she stuck fast. Meanwhile the lad and his companion went about in the hill, and the man broke open all the chests and drawers till he found what he sought, and that was a golden ball of yarn. That he set his heart on, and he promised the old witch to set her free if she would give him the golden ball. She said he might take all she had, but that she could not part with; it was her Three-Sister Ball. But when she heard that she should sit there till Doomsday unless he got it, she said he might take it all the same if he would only set her free. So the companion took the golden ball, but he left her sitting where she sat.
So on they went for many days, over waste and wood, till they came to a third crossfell. There all went as it had gone twice before. The companion knocked, the rock opened, and inside the hill an old witch came up, and asked them to sit on her chair, they must be tired. But the companion said again, 'Sit on it yourself,' and there she sat. They had not gone through many rooms before they saw an old hat which hung on a peg behind the door. That the companion must and would have; but the old witch couldn't part with it. It was her Three-Sister Hat, and if she gave it away, all her luck would be lost. But when she heard that she would have to sit there till the end of the world unless he got it, she said he might take it if he would only let her loose. When the companion had got well hold of the hat, he went off, and bade her sit there still, like the rest of her sisters.
After a long, long time, they came to a Sound; then the companion took the ball of yarn, and threw it so hard against the rock on the other side of the stream that it bounded back, and after he had thrown it backwards and forwards a few times it became a bridge. On that bridge they went over the Sound, and when they reached the other side, the man bade the lad to be quick and wind up the yarn again as soon as he could, for, said he:--
'If we don't wind it up quick, all those witches will come after us, and tear us to bits.'
So the lad wound and wound with all his might and main, and when there was no more to wind than the very last thread, up came the old witches on the wings of the wind. They flew to the water, so that the spray rose before them, and snatched at the end of the thread; but they could not quite get hold of it, and so they were drowned in the Sound.
When they had gone on a few days further, the companion said, 'Now we are soon coming to the castle where she is, the princess of whom you dreamt, and when we get there, you must go in and tell the king what you dreamt, and what it is you are seeking.'
So when they reached it he did what the man told him, and was very heartily welcomed. He had a room for himself, and another for his companion, which they were to live in, and when dinner-time drew near, he was bidden to dine at the king's own board. As soon as ever he set eyes on the princess he knew her at once, and saw it was she of whom he had dreamt as his bride. Then he told her his business, and she answered that she liked him well enough, and would gladly have him; but first he must undergo three trials. So when they had dined she gave him a pair of golden scissors, and said,--
'The first proof is that you must take these scissors and keep them, and give them to me at mid-day to-morrow. It is not so very great a trial, I fancy,' she said, and made a face; 'but if you can't stand it, you lose your life; it is the law, and so you will be drawn and quartered, and your body will be stuck on stakes, and your head over the gate, just like those lovers of mine, whose skulls and skeletons you see outside the king's castle.'
'That is no such great art,' thought the lad.
But the princess was so merry and mad, and flirted so much with him, that he forgot all about the scissors and himself, and so while they played and sported, she stole the scissors away from him without his knowing it. When he went up to his room at night, and told how he had fared, and what she had said to him, and about the scissors she gave him to keep, the companion said,--
'Of course you have the scissors safe and sure.'
Then he searched in all his pockets; but there were no scissors, and the lad was in a sad way when he found them wanting.
'Well! well!' said the companion; 'I'll see if I can't get you them again.'
With that he went down into the stable, and there stood a big, fat Billygoat, which belonged to the princess, and it was of that breed that it could fly many times faster through the air than it could run on land. So he took the Three-Sister Sword, and gave it a stroke between the horns, and said,--
'When rides the princess to see her lover to-night?'
The Billygoat baaed, and said it dared not say, but when it had another stroke, it said the princess was coming at eleven o'clock. Then the companion put on the Three-Sister Hat, and all at once he became invisible, and so he waited for her. When she came, she took and rubbed the Billygoat with an ointment which she had in a great horn, and said,--
'Away, away, o'er roof tree and steeple, o'er land, o'er sea, o'er hill, o'er dale, to my true love who awaits me in fell this night.'
At the very moment that the goat set off, the companion threw himself on behind, and away they went like a blast through the air. They were not long on the way, and in a trice they came to a crossfell. There she knocked, and so the goat passed through the fell to the Troll, who was her lover.
'Now, my dear,' she said, 'a new lover is come, whose heart is set on having me. He is young and handsome but I will have no other than you,' and so she coaxed and petted the Troll.
'So I set him a trial, and here are the scissors he was to watch and keep; now do you keep them,' she said.
So the two laughed heartily, just as though they had the lad already on wheel and stake.
'Yes! yes!' said the Troll; 'I'll keep them safe enough.
And I shall sleep on the bride's white arm,
While ravens round his skeleton swarm.'
And so he laid the scissors in an iron chest with three locks; but just as he dropped them into the chest, the companion snapped them up. Neither of them could see him, for he had on the Three-Sister Hat; and so the Troll locked up the chest for naught, and he hid the keys he had in the hollow eye-tooth in which he had the toothache. There it would be hard work for any one to find them, the Troll thought.
So when midnight was passed she set off home again. The companion got up behind the goat, and they lost no time on the way back.
Next day, about noon, the lad was asked down to the king's board; but then the princess gave herself such airs, and was so high and mighty, she would scarce look towards the side where the lad sat. After they had dined, she dressed her face in holiday garb, and said, as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth,--
'May be you have those scissors which I begged you to keep, yesterday?'
'Oh, yes, I have;' said the lad, 'and here they are,' and with that he pulled them out, and drove them into the board, till it jumped again. The princess could not have been more vexed had he driven the scissors into her face; but for all that she made herself soft and gentle, and said,--
'Since you have kept the scissors so well, it won't be any trouble to you to keep my golden ball of yarn, and take care you give it me to-morrow at noon; but if you have lost it, you shall lose your life on the scaffold. It is the law.'
The lad thought that an easy thing, so he took and put the golden ball into his pocket. But she fell a-playing and flirting with him again, so that he forgot both himself and the golden ball, and while they were at the height of their games and pranks, she stole it from him, and sent him off to bed.
Then when he came up to his bedroom, and told what they had said and done, his companion asked,--
'Of course you have the golden ball she gave you?'
'Yes! yes!' said the lad, and felt in his pocket where he had put it; but no, there was no ball to be found, and he fell again into such an ill mood, and knew not which way to turn.
'Well! well! bear up a bit,' said the companion. 'I'll see if I can't lay hands on it;' and with that he took the sword and hat and strode off to a smith, and got twelve pounds of iron welded on to the back of the sword-blade. Then he went down to the stable, and gave the Billygoat a stroke between his horns, so that the brute went head over heels, and he asked,--
'At twelve o'clock,' baaed the Billygoat.
So the companion put on the Three-Sister Hat again, and waited till she came, tearing along with her horn of ointment, and greased the Billygoat. Then she said, as she had said the first time,--
'Away, away, o'er roof-tree and steeple, o'er land, o'er sea, o'er hill, o'er dale, to my true love who awaits me in the fell this night.'
In a trice they were off, and the companion threw himself on behind the Billygoat, and away they went like a blast through the air. In the twinkling of an eye they came to the Troll's hill; and, when she had knocked three times, they passed through the rock to the Troll, who was her lover.
'Where was it you hid the golden scissors I gave you yesterday, my darling?' cried out the princess. 'My wooer had it and gave it back to me.'
'That was quite impossible,' said the Troll; 'for he had locked it up in a chest with three locks and hidden the keys in the hollow of his eye-tooth;' but, when they unlocked the chest, and looked for it, the Troll had no scissors in his chest.
So the princess told him how she had given her suitor her golden ball.
'And here it is,' she said; 'for I took it from him again without his knowing it. But what shall we hit upon now, since he is master of such craft!'
Well, the Troll hardly knew; but, after they had thought a bit, they made up their minds to light a large fire and burn the golden ball; and so they would be cocksure that he could not get at it. But, just as she tossed it into the fire, the companion stood ready and caught it; and neither of them saw him, for he had on the Three-Sister Hat.
When the princess had been with the Troll a little while, and it began to grow towards dawn, she set off home again, and the companion got up behind her on the goat, and they got back fast and safe.
Next day, when the lad was bidden down to dinner, the companion gave him the ball. The princess was even more high and haughty than the day before, and, after they had dined, she perked up her mouth, and said, in a dainty voice,--
'Perhaps it is too much to look for that you should give me back my golden ball, which I gave you to keep yesterday?'
'Is it?' said the lad. 'You shall soon have it. Here it is, safe enough;' and, as he said that, he threw it down on the board so hard, that it shook again; and, as for the king, he gave a jump high up into the air.
The princess got as pale as a corpse, but she soon came to herself again, and said, in a sweet, small voice,--
'Well done, well done!' Now he had only one more trial left, and it was this:
'If you are so clever as to bring me what I am now thinking of by dinner-time to-morrow, you shall win me, and have me to wife.'
That was what she said.
The lad felt like one doomed to death, for he thought it quite impossible to know what she was thinking about, and still harder to bring it to her; and so, when he went up to his bedroom, it was hard work to comfort him at all. His companion told him to be easy, he would see if he could not get the right end of the stick this time too, as he had done twice before. So the lad at last took heart, and lay down to sleep.
Meanwhile, the companion went to the smith and got twenty-four pounds of iron welded on to his sword; and, when that was done, he went down to the stable and let fly at the Billygoat between the horns with such a blow, that he went right head over heels against the wall.
'When rides the princess to her lover to-night?' he asked.
'At one o'clock,' baaed the Billygoat.
So, when the hour drew near, the companion stood in the stable with his Three-Sister Hat on; and, when she had greased the goat, and uttered the same words that they were to fly through the air to her true love, who was waiting for her in the fell, off they went again, on the wings of the wind; and, all the while, the companion sat behind.
But he was not light-handed this time; for, every now and then, he gave the princess a slap, so that he almost beat the breath out of her body.
And when they came to the wall of rock, she knocked at the door, and it opened, and they passed on into the fell to her lover.
As soon as she got there, she fell to bewailing, and was very cross, and said she never knew the air could deal such buffets; she almost thought, indeed, that some one sat behind, who beat both the Billygoat and herself; she was sure she was black and blue all over her body, such a hard flight had she had through the air.
Then she went on to tell how her lover had brought her the golden ball too; how it happened, neither she nor the Troll could tell.
'But now do you know what I have hit upon?'
No; the Troll did not.
'Well,' she went on; 'I have told him to bring me what I was then thinking of by dinner-time to-morrow, and what I thought of was your head. Do you think he can get that, my darling?' said the princess, and began to fondle the Troll.
'No, I don't think he can,' said the Troll. 'He would take his oath he couldn't;' and then the Troll burst out laughing, and scunnered worse than any ghost, and both the princess and the Troll thought the lad would be drawn and quartered, and that the crows would peck out his eyes, before he could get the Troll's head.
So when it turned towards dawn, she had to set off home again; but she was afraid, she said, for she thought there was some one behind her, and so she was afraid to ride home alone. The Troll must go with her on the way. Yes; the Troll would go with her, and he led out his Billygoat (for he had one that matched the princess's), and he smeared it and greased it between the horns. And when the Troll got up, the companion crept on behind, and so off they set through the air to the king's grange. But all the way the companion thrashed the Troll and his Billygoat, and gave them cut and thrust and thrust and cut with his sword, till they got weaker and weaker, and at last were well on the way to sink down into the sea over which they passed. Now the Troll thought the weather was so wild, he went right home with the princess up to the king's grange, and stood outside to see that she got home safe and well. But just as she shut the door behind her, the companion struck off the Troll's head and ran up with it to the lad's bedroom.
'Here is what the princess thought of,' said he.
Well, they were merry and joyful, one may think, and when the lad was bidden down to dinner, and they had dined, the princess was as lively as a lark.
'No doubt you have got what I thought of?' said she.
'Aye; aye; I have it,' said the lad, and he tore it out from under his coat, and threw it down on the board with such a thump that the board, trestles and all, was upset. As for the princess, she was as though she had been dead and buried; but she could not say that this was not what she was thinking of, and so now he was to have her to wife as she had given her word. So they made a bridal feast, and there was drinking and gladness all over the kingdom.
But the companion took the lad on one side, and told him that he might just shut his eyes and sham sleep on the bridal night; but if he held his life dear, and would listen to him, he wouldn't let a wink come over them till he had stripped her of her troll-skin, which had been thrown over her, but he must flog it off her with a rod made of nine new birch twigs, and he must tear it off her in three tubs of milk: first he was to scrub her in a tub of year-old whey, and then he was to scour her in the tub of buttermilk, and lastly, he was to rub her in a tub of new milk. The birch twigs lay under the bed, and the tubs he had set in the corner of the room. Everything was ready to his hand. Yes; the lad gave his word to do as he was bid and to listen to him. So when they got into the bridal bed at even, the lad shammed as though he had given himself up to sleep. Then the princess raised herself up on her elbow and looked at him to see if he slept, and tickled him under the nose; but the lad slept on still. Then she tugged his hair and his beard; but he lay like a log, as she thought. After that she drew out a big butcher's knife from under the bolster, and was just going to hack off his head; but the lad jumped up, dashed the knife out of her hand, and caught her by the hair. Then he flogged her with the birchrods, and wore them out upon her till there was not a twig left. When that was over he tumbled her into the tub of whey, and then he got to see what sort of beast she was: she was black as a raven all over her body; but when he scrubbed her well in the whey, and scoured her with buttermilk, and rubbed her well in new milk, her troll-skin dropped off her, and she was fair and lovely and gentle; so lovely she had never looked before.
Next day the companion said they must set off home. Yes; the lad was ready enough, and the princess too, for her dower had been long waiting. In the night the companion fetched to the king's grange all the gold and silver and precious things which the Troll had left behind him in the Fell, and when they were ready to start in the morning the whole grange was so full of silver, and gold, and jewels, there was no walking without treading on them. That dower was worth more than all the king's land and realm, and they were at their wits' end to know how to carry it with them. But the companion knew a way out of every strait. The Troll left behind him six billygoats, who could all fly through the air. Those he so laded with silver and gold that they were forced to walk along the ground, and had no strength to mount aloft and fly, and what the billygoats could not carry had to stay behind in the king's grange. So they travelled far, and farther than far, but at last the billygoats got so footsore and tired they could not go another step. The lad and the princess knew not what to do; but when the companion saw they could not get on, he took the whole dower on his back, and the billygoats a-top of it, and bore it all so far on that there was only half a mile left to the lad's home.
Then the companion said: 'Now we must part. I can't stay with you any longer.'
But the lad would not part from him, he would not lose him for much or little. Well, he went with them a quarter of a mile more; but farther he could not go and when the lad begged and prayed him to go home and stay with him altogether, or at least as long as they had drunk his home-coming ale in his father's house, the companion said, 'No. That could not be. Now he must part, for he heard heaven's bells ringing for him.' He was the vintner who had stood in the block of ice outside the church door, whom all spat upon; and he had been his companion and helped him because he had given all he had to get him peace and rest in Christian earth.
'I had leave,' he said, 'to follow you a year, and now the year is out.'
When he was gone the lad laid together all his wealth in a safe place, and went home without any baggage. Then they drank his home-coming ale, till the news spread far and wide, over seven kingdoms, and when they had got to the end of the feast, they had carting and carrying all the winter both with the billygoats and the twelve horses which his father had before they got all that gold and silver safely carted home.


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text:
package opts

import (
    "testing"
    "reflect"
    "syscall"
    "github.com/jessevdk/go-flags"
)

var errorMsg = "Expected %v for %v but got %v"

func TestDefaultOptions(t *testing.T) {
    args := []string{}
    opts := Options{}
    args, err := flags.ParseArgs(&opts, args)

    if err != nil {
        t.Errorf("unexpectedf error %v", err)
    }
    if opts.Address != "0.0.0.0" {
        t.Errorf(errorMsg, "0.0.0.0", "Address", opts.Address)
    }
    if opts.Port != 6666 {
        t.Errorf(errorMsg, 6666, "Port", opts.Port)
    }
    if !reflect.DeepEqual(opts.Pids, []int{1}) {
        t.Errorf(errorMsg, []int{1}, "Pids", opts.Pids)
    }
    if !reflect.DeepEqual(opts.Signals, []string{"TERM","KILL"}) {
        t.Errorf(errorMsg, []string{"TERM","KILL"}, "Signals", opts.Signals)
    }
    if opts.Delay != 20 {
        t.Errorf(errorMsg, 20, "Delay", opts.Delay)
    }
    if !opts.Suicide {
        t.Errorf(errorMsg, true, "Suicide", opts.Suicide)
    }
}

func TestAddressAndPort(t *testing.T) {
    opts := Options{}
    opts.Address = "0.0.0.0"
    opts.Port = 6666
    if opts.AddressAndPort() != "0.0.0.0:6666" {
        t.Errorf(errorMsg, "0.0.0.0:6666", "AddressAndPort", opts.AddressAndPort())
    }
}

func TestConvertedSignals(t *testing.T) {
    opts := Options{}
    opts.Signals = []string{"TERM","KILL"}
    expected := []syscall.Signal{syscall.SIGTERM,syscall.SIGKILL}
    if !reflect.DeepEqual(opts.ConvertedSignals(), expected) {
        t.Error(errorMsg, expected, "ConvertedSignals", opts.ConvertedSignals())
    }
}

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Big labor renews calls for immigration reform
A coalition of top labor unions on Monday called on Congress to pass expansions on programs to protect immigrants with temporary permits.
In a letter to Congress, more than 30 labor unions led by the AFL-CIO and Working Families United asked for protections for "Dreamers" — immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as minors — and beneficiaries of two humanitarian immigration programs, temporary protected status (TPS) and deferred enforced departure (DED).
"For the labor movement, these programs have been vital in ensuring that thousands of working people have rights on the job and the freedom to negotiate together for fair pay and working conditions," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
More than 300,000 people from 10 countries have TPS protections, which allow them to legally live and work in the United States; some have had those protections for more than two decades.
TPS grants immigration benefits to people from countries undergoing man-made or natural disasters.
"As labor organizations representing millions of workers in the U.S., we urge you to renew Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations and pass legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives as soon as possible, but no later than the first 100 days of the 116th Congress, to provide permanent protection and a path to citizenship for Dreamers and individuals with TPS or Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)," the union leaders wrote.
The Trump administration has steadily cut back on TPS designations, parting from previous Republican and Democratic administrations, who more or less summarily renewed those designations.
The administration also let DED expire, sitting down a program that gave benefits to thousands of people displaced from war-torn Liberia.
Trump's orders on TPS and DED have been blocked by courts, as has his order to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects up to 800,000 Dreamers.
Democratic Reps. Lucille Roybal-Allard (Calif.) and Nydia Velázquez (N.Y.) are expected to present a bill to protect all three populations on March 12.
The union leaders said their sectors would be severely impacted if immigrants in those three categories do not receive permanent immigration benefits.
"Dreamers, TPS and DED recipients have, for decades, done the work that that American industries and our local economies rely on, and they deserve to stay," said Painters Union General President Ken Rigmaiden.
New court docs implicate Trump in the illegal hush-money scheme that landed Cohen in jail
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Mitch McConnell Is The Only Senator More Unpopular Than Susan Collins
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House Passes Bill to Raise Minimum Wage to $15, a Victory for Liberals
House passes bill to hike the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour
Giants CEO Larry Baer will take leave of absence after public altercation with wife
New Downtown movie theater to open Thursday

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An Overview Of Procedure
Subject Matter Jurisdiction Of The Federal Courts
The Erie Problem
Incentives To Litigate
Resolution Without Trial
Identifying The Trier
Respect For Judgments
Joinder
Plant v. Blazer Financial Services 598 F.2d 1357, 1979 U.S. App. 12976
Mosley v. General Motors Corp. 497 F.2d 1330, 1974 U.S. App. 8388
Price v. CTB, Inc 168 F. Supp. 2d 1299, 2001 U.S. Dist. 17076
Kroger v. Omaha Public Power District 523 F.2d 161, 1975 U.S. App. 12820
Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger 437 U.S. 365, 98 S. Ct. 2396, 57 L. Ed. 2d 274, 1978 U.S. 114
Temple v. Synthes Corp 498 U.S. 5, 111 S. Ct. 315, 112 L. Ed. 2d 263, 1990 U.S. 5672
Helzberg's Diamond Shops v. Valley West Des Moines Shopping Center 564 F.2d 816, 1977 U.S. App. 10831, 24 Fed. R. Serv. 2d (Callaghan) 528
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission 578 F.2d 1341, 1978 U.S. App. 10699
Martin v. Wilks 490 U.S. 755, 109 S. Ct. 2180, 104 L. Ed. 2d 835, 1989 U.S. 2849
Cohen v. The Republic of the Philippines 146 F.R.D. 90, 1993 U.S. Dist. 1412, 26 Fed. R. Serv. 3d (Callaghan) 84
Communities for Equity v. Michigan High School Athletic Assn 192 F.R.D. 568, 1999 U.S. Dist.43 Fed. R. Serv. 3d (Callaghan) 1078
Heaven v. Trust Company Bank 118 F.3d 735, 1997 U.S. App. 38 Fed. R. Serv. 3d (Callaghan) 387 11 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. C 328
Phillips Petroleum v. Shutts 472 U.S. 797, 105 S. Ct. 2965, 86 L. Ed. 2d 628, 1985 U.S. 104
Hansberry v. Lee 311 U.S. 32, 61 S. Ct. 115, 85 L. Ed. 22, 1940 U.S. 108
AmChem Products, Inc. v. Windsor 521 U.S. 591, 117 S. Ct. 2231, 138 L. Ed. 2d 689, 1997 U.S. 4032
Frier v. City of Vandalia 770 F.2d 699 (7th Cir. 1985)
Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore 439 U.S.322 (1979)
Searle Brothers v. Searle Utah Sup. Ct., 588 P.2d 689 (1978)
State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. v. Century Home Components Or. Sup. Ct., 275 Or. 97, 550 P.2d 1185 (1976)
Abdouch v. Lopez
Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Cunningham
Atlantic Marine Construction Co. v. United States District Court
Cerrato v. Nutribullet, LLC
Cordero v. Voltaire, LLC
Epic Systems v. Lewis
Favale v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport
Ferguson v. Countrywide Credit Industries, Inc.
Fisher v. Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.
Gordon v. T.G.R. Logistics, Inc.
Haddle v. Garrison (11th Cir. 1997)
Haddle v. Garrison (S.D. Ga. 1996)
In re Ameriquest Mortgage Co. Mortgage Lending Practices Litigation
Ison v. Thomas
Lind v. Schenley Industries
Lucy Webb Hayes Natl. Training School v. Geoghegan
Monfore v. Phillips
Mueller v. Swift
Pennoyer v. Neff
Pennsylvania Railroad v. Chamberlain
Peterson v. Wilson
Reise v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin
Rengifo v. Erevos Enterprises, Inc.
Civil Procedure > Civil Procedure Keyed to Yeazell > Joinder
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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Citation. 578 F.2d 1341, 1978 U.S. App. 10699
Citation578 F.2d 1341, 1978 U.S. App. 10699
Brief Fact Summary. The underlying action was instituted by the Plaintiff, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc (Plaintiff). Plaintiff sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the Defendants, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Agency (Defendants), prohibiting these agencies from issuing licenses for the operation of uranium mills in New Mexico without first preparing environmental impact statements. The Movants, American Mining Congress and Ker-McGee Nuclear Corporation (Movants), then also filed a motion to intervene as a matter of right or on a permissive basis, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (FRCP) 24(a)(2) and (b).
Synopsis of Rule of Law. In order to intervene under FRCP Rule 24, a movant need not have a direct interest in the outcome of the lawsuit. Instead a genuine threat to the movant to a substantial degree is a sufficient interest to satisfy FRCP Rule 24.
A court may consider any significant legal effect in the applicant's interest and is not restricted to a rigid res judicata test.
Facts. The Plaintiff instituted the underlying action. Plaintiff, sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the Defendants, prohibiting the agencies from issuing licenses for the operation of uranium mills in New Mexico without first preparing environmental impact statements. United Nuclear Corporation filed a motion to intervene, which was not opposed by the parties and was thus granted. Movants then also filed a motion to intervene as a matter of right or on a permissive basis, pursuant to FRCP Rule 24(a)(2) and (b). Movants were not potential recipients of the licenses in the underlying action. The district court denied the motion
Issue. This case concerns how much interest a person not a party to an action must have in the stake of the action in order to be allowed to intervene in the action under FRCP Rule 24(a).
Held. The Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that the interests of Movants in the subject matter was sufficient to satisfy the requirements of Rule 24 and the threat of loss of their interest and inability to participate is of such magnitude as to impair their ability to advance their interest. The Court observed that strictly to require that the movant in an intervention have a direct interest in the outcome of the lawsuit is too narrow a construction of FRCP Rule 24(a)(2). Instead, the interest must be a significantly protectable interest. The interest asserted on behalf of the Movants is one, which is a genuine threat to Kerr-McGee and the members of the American Mining Congress to a substantial degree.
Discussion. Essentially here the court is laying down a framework regarding when to allow an unwanted party to force his way into a lawsuit. Where the party appears to have an identifiable and specific interest in the outcome and the outcome will affect the party on an individual level, the court will allow the party to intervene if intervention is the only way for the party to protect his rights.
Study Assets: Multiple Parties


As is a small town of about 8,200 people in the province of Limburg in Belgium. As is also the home of PresentationPoint.
The town hall of As helps clients every day. They used to have an "open" waiting room concept but this didn't offer much privacy for their clients. To create more privacy, they created a separation between the help desks and waiting room.
With this separation, they needed a better solution for managing the waiting room to let people know which desk was free to take clients.
So they contacted us for this.
The system is brilliant in that the staff don't have to mess with computers at all. They have a simple, physical button they can push to indicate when they are available. The staff push the button once to indicate their desk is open (green) and twice for when they have a client (red). If they push and hold the bluetooth button for 2 seconds, their desk is marked closed (black).
The monitor shows the 4 desks, indicating which are open, busy with clients, or closed.
So, how did we set this up?
Here is how the components were used.
The physical bluetooth button has no computing power of its own, but connects via bluetooth to a bluetooth-enabled smart phone that knows when and how the button is pushed (1x, 2x or 2 second hold). Each desk has its own bluetooth button in a convenient spot so the staff member can push it when they are free.
The smartphone receives the signals from the bluetooth buttons and runs a small php script that updates a database. The smartphone used in this case was inexpensive – about $99.
The waiting room availability screen is a simple design set up using PowerPoint.
Each of the numbers on the PowerPoint sign (1 through 4) are each connected to a field in the database updated by the smartphone.
DataPoint automatically updates the PowerPoint availability screen every few seconds from the database to change the colour of the number from green (available) to red (unavailable) to black (desk closed).
Once set up, staff have a very simple physical button system they can use without having to mess with software.
Are you interested in setting up physical buttons or other waiting room options for your office? Contact us and we would be happy to help.


CLEVELAND — When a gas hire clerk got sleepy of people hidden with no consequences, he had an surprising thought to reason them accountable.
He combined "Gas Station Encounters," a YouTube channel that uses notice footage from a preference store to contrition shoplifters and perform a public.
Local military have not helped a gas hire stop shoplifters, according to a clerk, so he motionless to make a footage open online. A local TV station in Cleveland spoke with a clerk, who asked to be identified usually as Brandon.
"A lot of people will straight-up distortion to you," he said.
Brandon edited videos with fun music, stupid sound effects and impertinent narration. The videos been noticed millions of times, and a channel has gained some-more than 453,000 subscribers.
To perspective some "Gas Station Encounters," click here.


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// Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#include "ui/events/ozone/evdev/input_injector_evdev.h"

#include <utility>

#include "ui/events/event.h"
#include "ui/events/event_modifiers.h"
#include "ui/events/event_utils.h"
#include "ui/events/keycodes/dom/dom_code.h"
#include "ui/events/ozone/evdev/cursor_delegate_evdev.h"
#include "ui/events/ozone/evdev/device_event_dispatcher_evdev.h"
#include "ui/events/ozone/evdev/keyboard_evdev.h"
#include "ui/events/ozone/evdev/keyboard_util_evdev.h"

namespace ui {

namespace {

const int kDeviceIdForInjection = -1;

}  // namespace

InputInjectorEvdev::InputInjectorEvdev(
    std::unique_ptr<DeviceEventDispatcherEvdev> dispatcher,
    CursorDelegateEvdev* cursor)
    : cursor_(cursor), dispatcher_(std::move(dispatcher)) {}

InputInjectorEvdev::~InputInjectorEvdev() {
}

void InputInjectorEvdev::InjectMouseButton(EventFlags button, bool down) {
  unsigned int code;
  switch (button) {
    case EF_LEFT_MOUSE_BUTTON:
      code = BTN_LEFT;
      break;
    case EF_RIGHT_MOUSE_BUTTON:
      code = BTN_RIGHT;
      break;
    case EF_MIDDLE_MOUSE_BUTTON:
      code = BTN_MIDDLE;
      break;
    default:
      LOG(WARNING) << "Invalid flag: " << button << " for the button parameter";
      return;
  }

  dispatcher_->DispatchMouseButtonEvent(MouseButtonEventParams(
      kDeviceIdForInjection, EF_NONE, cursor_->GetLocation(), code, down,
      false /* allow_remap */, PointerDetails(EventPointerType::kMouse),
      EventTimeForNow()));
}

void InputInjectorEvdev::InjectMouseWheel(int delta_x, int delta_y) {
  dispatcher_->DispatchMouseWheelEvent(MouseWheelEventParams(
      kDeviceIdForInjection, cursor_->GetLocation(),
      gfx::Vector2d(delta_x, delta_y), EventTimeForNow()));
}

void InputInjectorEvdev::MoveCursorTo(const gfx::PointF& location) {
  if (!cursor_)
    return;

  cursor_->MoveCursorTo(location);

  dispatcher_->DispatchMouseMoveEvent(MouseMoveEventParams(
      kDeviceIdForInjection, EF_NONE, cursor_->GetLocation(),
      PointerDetails(EventPointerType::kMouse), EventTimeForNow()));
}

void InputInjectorEvdev::InjectKeyEvent(DomCode physical_key,
                                        bool down,
                                        bool suppress_auto_repeat) {
  if (physical_key == DomCode::NONE)
    return;

  int native_keycode = KeycodeConverter::DomCodeToNativeKeycode(physical_key);
  int evdev_code = NativeCodeToEvdevCode(native_keycode);

  dispatcher_->DispatchKeyEvent(KeyEventParams(
      kDeviceIdForInjection, ui::EF_NONE, evdev_code, 0 /*scan_code*/, down,
      suppress_auto_repeat, EventTimeForNow()));
}

}  // namespace ui


David De Gea seems to have it all going for him. Twice Manchester United's player of the season and he's also pretty nifty on the drums.
He's lit up the Premier League on countless occasions, winning the Match of the Day 'Save of the Season' four times and we've now all finally figured out how the Spain international spends his time off the pitch. Rocking out.
The adidas spot showcases the keeper under the lights tearing away on his kit, where he certainly looks and sounds the part.
Perhaps he could have a drum-off with Petr Cech? We'd tune in.


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Spotlight On: Saint Michel
Versailles gave us Daft Punk, Air and Phoenix. Now meet its newest export: Philippe Thuillier and Emile Larroche, whose new band is quickly becoming one to watch.
We first met…
In another band Milestone, like three years ago. It was more pop music with guitars, a little bit like Radiohead, maybe too much — at least that's what everybody was telling us. But this band stopped with the beginning of Saint Michel.
We chose this name because…
First, we wanted our band name to have something particularly French, historical and spiritual. It's also Michelle, ma belle from The Beatles' song and Jules Verne's boat. And it's a beautiful place in Normandy and a famous biscuit brand — St. Michel galettes.
Our music is…
Sexy electro-pop and romantique. It's a binary beat with a groovy bass and warm synths. We love all the stuff from the Eighties, all the synthesizers and beat machines.
And we write about…
Girls and love stories. Sometimes it's sad and sometimes not.
Our fashion style is…
We wear jeans and a chemise most of the time. We have a straight, classic style but love to wear colorful clothes.
Our musical influences include…
Radiohead and The Beatles for the classic pop side. Also: folk musicians like Nick Drake and Simon & Garfunkel; electronic music from Modeselektor, Flying Lotus and Aphex Twin; old reggae music, and Grizzly Bear and Tame Impala.
Right now, we're listening to…
Kurt Vile.
The music scene in New York vs. the music scene in France…
Oh! I think you have much music in NYC. We listen to more of the NYC scene than the French scene. But we have great bands, too — all the ones from Versailles, like Daft Punk or Phoenix. We don't listen to a lot of classic French music, but we love people like Léo Ferré.
A good introduction to our music is the song…
Katherine, which tells the story of a girl, once again. It's the first single we did and the most powerful — but many more cool ones are coming. :)
And the story behind that music video…
We went to New York for only two days and shot on a roof under the rain all night long. Louis De Caunes directed the video. We really like what he does and became friends with him. The light effects were made by his crew and they did a wonderful job!
We're going to work on an album. It's the next big thing for us. Then we'll go back on tour and maybe we'll go back to New York.
Philippe Thuillier (left) and Emile Larroche photographed by Elina Kechicheva
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Q: laravel/cashier v7.0.5 requires stripe/stripe-php ~4.0 -> satisfiable by stripe/stripe-php I'm having a Laravel 5.5 project and trying to run this command from my terminal
composer require laravel/cashier

but I'm getting this Problem:
Problem 1
  - stripe/stripe-php v3.9.2 requires ext-curl * -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
- stripe/stripe-php v3.9.1 requires ext-curl * -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
- stripe/stripe-php v3.9.0 requires ext-curl * -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
- stripe/stripe-php v3.8.0 requires ext-curl * -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
- stripe/stripe-php v3.7.1 requires ext-curl * -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
- stripe/stripe-php v3.7.0 requires ext-curl * -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
- stripe/stripe-php v3.6.0 requires ext-curl * -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
- stripe/stripe-php v3.5.0 requires ext-curl * -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
- stripe/stripe-php v3.4.0 requires ext-curl * -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
- stripe/stripe-php v3.3.0 requires ext-curl * -> the requested PHP extension curl is missing from your system.
...
To enable extensions, verify that they are enabled in your .ini files:
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/php.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/10-mysqlnd.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/10-opcache.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/10-pdo.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/15-xml.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-calendar.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-ctype.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-dom.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-exif.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-fileinfo.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-ftp.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-gettext.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-iconv.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-json.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-mbstring.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-mcrypt.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-mysqli.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-pdo_mysql.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-phar.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-posix.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-readline.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-shmop.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-simplexml.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-sockets.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-sysvmsg.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-sysvsem.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-sysvshm.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-tokenizer.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-wddx.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-xmlreader.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-xmlwriter.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-xsl.ini
    - /etc/php/7.1/cli/conf.d/20-zip.ini
  You can also run `php --ini` inside terminal to see which files are used by PHP in CLI mode.

From a google research I did I tried sudo apt-get install php-curl as one possible solution, but didn't work for me.
Anyone know how can I fix this issue?
EDIT This is my composer.json file
{
    "name": "laravel/laravel",
    "description": "The Laravel Framework.",
    "keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=7.0.0",
        "fideloper/proxy": "~3.3",
        "laravel/framework": "5.5.*",
        "laravel/tinker": "~1.0"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "filp/whoops": "~2.0",
        "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
        "mockery/mockery": "~1.0",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "~6.0",
        "symfony/thanks": "^1.0"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            "database/seeds",
            "database/factories"
        ],
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/"
        },
        "files": [
            "app/helpers.php"
        ]
    },
    "autoload-dev": {
        "psr-4": {
            "Tests\\": "tests/"
        }
    },
    "extra": {
        "laravel": {
            "dont-discover": [
            ]
        }
    },
    "scripts": {
        "post-root-package-install": [
            "@php -r \"file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "@php artisan key:generate"
        ],
        "post-autoload-dump": [
            "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump",
            "@php artisan package:discover"
        ]
    },
    "config": {
        "preferred-install": "dist",
        "sort-packages": true,
        "optimize-autoloader": true
    }
}

A: As error message suggests you to install curl extension on your PHP. Please install curl and restart your web server.
You need to make sure that you are installing correct version of curl extension for your PHP.
In your case:
sudo apt-get install php7.1-curl

To list out the loaded extensions/modules on your php
Run following command on your terminal
$ php -m

A: Try running composer require "laravel/cashier":"7.0" instead of just composer require laravel/cashier. Laravel got updated to 5.6 so you are pulling the wrong version for 5.5

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Among those to snap a photo with the mural was Fresno City quarterback Jonah Johnson.
Still runnin laps #TMC pic.twitter.com/FdVnf1WXd0
— Jonah Johnson (@CallMeHots) April 5, 2019
"Long live Nip," several people wrote on social media, and often accompanied their posts with #NipseyForever.
A prayer vigil in honor of Hussle will be held around 7 p.m. Friday in downtown Fresno, at the Cultural Arts District park along Fulton Street.
The mural in northwest Fresno depicts Hussle wearing a do-rag and with his eyes closed.
Local artist Don Parske also highlights Hussle's tattoo near his right eye that reads "God Will Rise."
Time to go. It's raining #graffbat #graffiti #nipseyhussle
A post shared by Don Parske (@the_real_par1) on Apr 2, 2019 at 3:59pm PDT
A second mural of Hussle, whose real name is Ermias Asghedom, is located near downtown Fresno in an alley near Belmont and Blackstone avenues.
Painted by local artist Daniel Munoz, the Hussle mural is around the corner from murals of boxing champion Jose Ramirez and former Oakland Raiders coach Tom Flores.
"I commend anyone who can use such a high platform to make a genuine difference in his community," Munoz said in an Instagram message. "When I found out he had been killed, I definitely felt the need to commemorate him."
The downtown Fresno mural shows the rapper with a full beard and cornrows on his head.
Both murals are about six feet tall.
This mural of rapper Nipsey Hussle is located in an alley way near Belmont and Blackstone avenues. Photographed Thursday, April 4, 2019 in Fresno. Larry Valenzuela lvalenzuela@fresnobee.com
A third mural is set to be painted Sunday in central Fresno at the House of Ink Tattoo at 725 N. Fresno St.
It'll be painted by Omar "Super" Huerta, who has painted more than 200 murals around the Fresno area, including the ones of Ramirez and Flores.
"He was a prolific artist who deserves a memorial mural," Huerta said of Hussle. "I am definitely inspired and I'm looking forward to it."
Hussle, 33, might've been best known for his music. He was, after all, nominated for a Grammy.
But it was his commitment to helping rebuild South Los Angeles — the troubled area he grew up in — that seemed to impact many of his followers.
Hussle had been working to provide youths with alternatives to the hustling he did when he was younger.
Professional basketball player Quincy Pondexter, a Fresno native who has been in the NBA since 2010, acknowledged he was inspired by Hussle's community involvement.
Nip has me motivated to do even more for Fresno.. We gotta carry his legacy by putting our heart in our own communities
— Quincy Pondexter (@QuincyPondexter) April 1, 2019
Hussle was fatally shot Sunday outside his clothing store in his Crenshaw neighborhood.
The man suspected of shooting Hussle was charged Thursday with murder.
Police said Hussle and suspected shooter Eric Holder knew each other and had several conversations Sunday outside the rapper's South Los Angeles store prior to the shooting.
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A mural of rapper Nipsey Hussle was painted on a wall located at Shaw and Forestiere avenues by artist Don Parske to honor the rapper who was killed in a shooting on March 31, 2019. Photographed Thursday, April 4, 2019 in Fresno. LARRY VALENZUELA lvalenzuela@fresnobee.com
A mural of rapper Nipsey Hussle, right, by artist Don Parske, located on a wall next to the High City Smoke Shop, seen to the left. The mural was painted to honor the rapper who was killed in a shooting on March 31, 2019. Photographed Thursday, April 4, 2019 in Fresno. LARRY VALENZUELA lvalenzuela@fresnobee.com
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Russian design studio BIO Architects recently completed yet another beautiful modular home, the latest from their DublDom series of prefabricated homes that are both modern and budget-friendly. Installed in the Eco-park "Yasnopole" in the Russian countryside, the DublDom 2.65 was commissioned by the Eco-park founder, who will use DublDom as the first example of the homes he hopes to install in the region. The contemporary timber home was prefabricated off-site in a month and placed on site in just one week.
Completed for a budget of $42,500, this particular DublDom 2.65 model offers 65 square meters of space with enough room for two spacious bedrooms, a veranda, and common areas. Like all of BIO Architects' modular homes, the EcoPark home was built mostly from wood for a cozy and welcoming feel. Large double-glazed windows let in natural light and frame panoramic views of the outdoors.
The light-filled gabled home is minimally decorated with black metal and unpainted larch that line the exterior and parts of the interior. BIO Architects offers five different configurations of the DublDom 2.65; the Eco-Park client chose DublDom 2.65-01, which includes a spacious front veranda that wraps around the sides of the home and includes a small terrace in the rear; an open-plan kitchen, living, and dining area; a bathroom; and two equal-sized bedrooms. The house is elevated on stilts and was installed on site in seven days.
Completed for a budget of $42,500, this particular DublDom 2.65 model offers 65 square meters of space with enough room for two spacious bedrooms, a veranda, and common areas.
Like all of BIO Architects' modular homes, the EcoPark home was built mostly from wood for a cozy and welcoming feel.
Large double-glazed windows let in natural light and frame panoramic views of the outdoors.
The light-filled gabled home is minimally decorated with black metal and unpainted larch that line the exterior and parts of the interior.
The house is elevated on stilts and was installed on site in seven days.


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Republican KKK Candidate Is Running For Congress
HELENA, Mont. — A former organizer for the Ku Klux Klan says he is running as a Republican for Montana's representative in the U.S. House.
John Abarr says he believes he will fare better than people might expect because of a backlash against President Barack Obama.
The 42-year-old tried to run for the state Legislature in 2002 but lost in a GOP primary after Republicans actively worked against his candidacy.
Abarr works nights as an auditor a Great Falls motel. He says he no longer organizes for the KKK but is still on its mailing list.
Leading state Republicans are backing Bozeman businessman Steve Daines in 2012. Party leaders believe he'll be able to win the House seat being vacated by Republican U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, who is running for U.S. Senate.
Teacher's Mailbox Spray Painted With "KKK"
Cops Say School Janitor Is Hitler Loving, Gun Packing KKK Member
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it measures about 18-20″ around the chest so, HOPEFULLY, it will fit the new baby when he's about 6 months. it stretches a bunch, so I'm hopeful it will fit in november/december. even if it isn't cold outside, babies could always use extra warmth, right?
next up are some pants and maybe some more booties.
when I soaked/washed this one, I also FINALLY washed/blocked the pink sweater I knit a long time ago. it's the basic top-down raglan I made with some yarn I kool-aid dyed.
this one is a little bit bigger. I'm not quite sure what to do with it. over-dye it with some red to make it more masculine? try and sell it? it's so soft! I have 2 balls of fisherman wool (over 800yds!) that I want to dye and make something out of. maybe a blanket for the boys. speaking of blankets, I should probably make one for le fetus, so that I can cuddle with it and make it smell like me. you know, to become like a security blanket for him or something.


In 1978, swindler Ned Warren was convicted of 20 counts of fraud for selling land in Arizona without access to water. Two years later, the drafters of the 1980 Arizona Groundwater Management Act decided to put an end to that practice by requiring that an "assured water supply" must be demonstrated in advance of selling subdivision lots. Ironically, Ned Warren died in prison that same year.
In 1980, an assured water supply meant a renewable surface water supply, such as Central Arizona Project water from the Colorado River or water from the Salt and Verde Rivers. It did not mean groundwater. That's because the Groundwater Management Act aims to halt the over-use of groundwater that plagued the state for decades.
The requirement to use renewable supplies encouraged cities to make investments in surface water treatment plants and to store excess surface water underground for use in times of surface water shortages. It drove them to clean their customers' wastewater so that it could be used instead of drinking water to irrigate turf in parks and on golf courses, and to restore riparian habitats. The result is that 34 years after passage of the Groundwater Management Act, the major cities in the Phoenix area rely on groundwater for only 7 percent of their water, and can boast of redundant, stable and secure water supplies for today and tomorrow. Take a look at California where landowners are racing to drill ever-deeper wells at the cost of $250,000 each and you see the nightmare central Arizona would be in without the Groundwater Management Act.
But there were some interest groups who did not like the assured water supply restrictions on groundwater pumping. So in 1993, the Arizona legislature created an exception. The exception allows houses to be built on raw desert land and their owners to use groundwater on the assumption that the government will purchase water supplies to replenish the groundwater that is pumped. The government agency in this case is the same entity that operates the Central Arizona Project.
These new desert developments are permitted to use groundwater, but pumping this resource creates problems for homeowners and others. Over-pumping groundwater causes land subsidence as the earth literally sinks. This shifting of the ground can crack foundations and damage buildings and roads. Energy and maintenance costs go up as groundwater is pumped from deeper depths. Groundwater quality may worsen, resulting in even higher costs. Add to this the fact that the Central Arizona Project is not required to replenish (put water back in the ground) in the areas where groundwater is pumped. Inevitably, the groundwater will run out. Who will rescue these homeowners if groundwater is no longer usable or available?
It is cheaper to develop desert land and use groundwater, so the 1993 exception to the assured water supply requirement is now the major vehicle for residential growth. The Central Arizona Project currently has the obligation to replenish for 100 years the groundwater pumped for 1,094 subdivisions, about 264,000 houses. This obligation will continue to grow because the Central Arizona Project lacks authority to say no to new subdivisions. Drought and shortages of Colorado River water will increase competition for water supplies that can be purchased for replenishment. Subdivision developers are not required to pay the full cost of the water needed for replenishment and, ultimately, homebuyers will foot the bill not only for the groundwater they actually use, but for replenishment water as well.
On December 4, 2014, the Central Arizona Project approved a Plan of Operation for the next ten years to meet its expected replenishment obligations. The Plan will now be submitted to the Arizona Department of Water Resources for review and approval. The Arizona Municipal Water Users Association believes the Plan falls short of mitigating the risks posed by continued growth before renewable supplies are in hand.
We need to get back to the model envisioned by the 1980 Groundwater Management Act where sustainable water supplies are developed in advance of growth. Unfortunately, it appears that changes to state law will be necessary to ensure this result.


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With crops springing back to life after a long winter, many farmers will be spending time behind the tractor wheel and thoughts may turn to the future. A few brave souls may also think this is a great opportunity to open discussions with the children about the succession of the family farm, but with 53% of farmers having no plan in place for transferring the farm between generations, it seems many are ignoring this issue, says Michael Mack of Savills.
The older generation brings a lot to a business: stability, experience, continuity to name a few attributes. However, if a sector is dominated by older business leaders it can experience limitations to growth, or, simply put, a lack of entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship at a sector level represents the attitude of the businesses to taking on risk. In farming this could be about adopting new production technologies, implementing new governance approaches, or the adoption of diversification and environmental systems.
Research undertaken by Lincoln University concluded that farmers between 35 and 45 years old showed the highest level of productivity; however, to achieve this the group run their businesses with higher levels of liabilities and will spend the most on asset purchasing. Data from the Government's Farm Business Survey shows that the farmers in the younger age group achieve an average gross profit 88% higher than farmers over 75. Additionally it also shows that the use of labour on the farm was 39% more productive. It's also worth noting that the HSE has identified that farmers who are over 65 are twice as likely to be subject to a fatal farm accident.
In all of the above we have not thought about the fact that behind most farming businesses is a family. It's all too common for farming families to fall apart through conflict generated by the process of welcoming the next generation into the business. Very often it is the fear of this conflict and the repercussions which prevents the older generation from addressing the thorny issue of succession planning.
In the workshops and conferences I run on succession planning I will usually ask the attendees about how they feel about the process and what is stopping them. The same answers come up: fear of change, fear of failure, fear of stopping, fear of not being able to treat all the children equally. Interestingly, the issues of tax planning and legal matters do not raise their head.
To maximise the uptake of new innovations into farming there is a need to provide the farming community with the support and skills needed to implement the process of succession change. The changes coming to farming through Brexit may instigate the process for some businesses and families. However, we as industry professionals, supporters and commentators also need to step up to support each of these families to initiate the process of introducing the next generation of farmers to the roles and responsibilities of business managers and leaders.


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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! The 3 R's of Sustainability is the starting point for every organization that seeks to reap the financial, social, and economic benefits associated with adopting environmentally friendly policies and practices.
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5 Questions Every Leader Must Ask
Engaging Your Team to Achieve Any Goal Today's leaders face tremendous pressure to solve problems, achieve goals, manage change and improve productivity. This program illustrates how solutions can easily present themselves when leaders ask team members the right questions.
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with Ben and Roz Zander The Art of Possibility Series contains the top selling Ben Zander training programs Leadership: The Art of Possibility and Attitude: Radiating Possibility.
with Ben and Roz Zander The Art of Possibility Series contains both the top selling Ben Zander training programs Leadership: The Art of Possibility and Attitude: Radiating Possibility. Leadership consultants Ben Zander, the charismatic conductor of the Boston Philharmonic, and bestselling author Roz... read more
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Tom Peters takes us to The Container Store and shows us how this corporate leader thrives with great customer service, a culture of sales and the strategy that comes from hiring terrific people.
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Berlin is a city filled with history and lots of places to visit and explore. But, it seems to us that most people come to Berlin and visit all the same places. This is why we decided to come up with this alternative Berlin free tour article. Because Berlin is more than the Brandenburger Tor and the TV Tower in Alexanderplatz and this is why we are writing this article.
We have been writing about different places to see in Berlin since the beginning of 2013 and it made us see the city we chose to live in a completely different way. We walk around the streets of Berlin looking for amazing places that most people don't know. And below you can see some of these places we found throughout Berlin.
An Easy Alternative Berlin Free Tour
Our focus here was to show you that, even close to the most famous places, Berlin has something hidden. It can be a War Memorial, it can be a concrete cylinder from the 30's. It can even be a tower left from the Berlin Wall, this city has a lot of hidden treasures and Fotostrasse is here to show you some of these places.
The Giant Penis next to Checkpoint Charlie
Most of the tourists that take the U-Bahn to Kochstraße go there to see Checkpoint Charlie but they are missing one of the most bizarre landmarks in Berlin just a block away.
On the side wall of the Tageszeitung Building on Rudi Dutschke Straße there is a sculpture called Peace be With You, created by Peter Lenk and erected in 2009. This weird sculpture has a giant penis spreading across a few floors and an uncanny resemblance to Bild's editor Kai Diekmann, whose offices are located across the street.
Most people don't even see this piece of art when they walk by. The ones that see it, scratch their heads wondering what does it mean. but to explain the meaning behind the artwork, we have to go back some years in the past and understand that the street where this artwork can be found hosts a long battle between the left wing scene and the newspaper Bild, the most sold newspaper in Europe with a circulation of more than 3 million issues a day.
The battle started in the 1960s when student activists held Bild and its headlines responsible for the death of Benno Ohnesorg and the attempted assassination of the student leader Rudi Dutschke. But this was a long time ago and we imagined that this sculpture has nothing to do with what happened. This is a dispute between Bild editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann and the legendary left-wing Tageszeitung newspaper. But how does this sculpture adds anything to the dispute? We don't know but we love to walk by the building and see the weird faces some people do when they see this for the first time.
If you want to see one of the bizarre landmarks of Berlin in all its glory, go to the corner of Rudi Dutschke Straße and Charlottenstraße and look beyond the trees. There you will be able to see how weird Berlin streets can be.
East German Watchtower on Potsdamer Platz
Sometimes we think to ourselves that we know Berlin and that this city cannot surprise us that easily anymore. But, of course, we are always wrong. Berlin surprises us almost everyday and this is how we felt when we realized that, hidden in plain sight, there is a East German Watchtower on Potsdamer Platz.
This observation tower used to stand between the Brandenburg Gate and Leipziger Platz and it was used as a base for border guards to monitor the area at the former House of Ministries. It was only in 2001 that this tower was moved to its present location near Stresemannstraße on Potsdamer Platz.
The construction of this BT 6 watchtower, the technical name for this East German Watchtower, began in 1966 and, by the end of the GDR era, there were more than 200 of them following the Berlin Wall. This one is the only one that still stands and it's quite weird to visit the place where so much had happened before.
When you go visit the East German Watchtower, avoid wet days since there is not much space protect the guys that keep the watchtower open. Opening hours are, normally set between 11:00 and 15:00, from monday to sunday. We paid €3,50 for the 20 minutes we stayed there taking pictures and listening to the history behind this Cold War relic and it was way worth it.
Schwerbelastungskorper
When you are walking around Tempelhof, a concrete cylinder isn't the first thing that crosses your mind as a place to visit. But the Schwerbelastungskörper is more than just a bunch of concrete and a really scary german name. The Schwerbelastungskörper is one of the few structures that survived to tell the story of Welthauptstadt Germania, the capital of the new german world that never survived the Second World War.
The history says that back in the 1920's, Adolf Hitler was using his artistic skills to sketch what he saw as the future capital of the upcoming German Empire. This city would be a improved version of Berlin and it would be called Welthauptstadt Germania. This would be the megalomaniacal dream of a crazy dictator but we will never see this outside of the history books. The only thing we can see, and visit, is the concrete cylinder that was built by the orders of Albert Speer, the First Architect of the Third Reich, to see if it was possible to built the mega city.
Right now all you can do is visit the Schwerbelastungskörper, do the historical tour and climb on the platform above it and see the great view from the top. This is the best way to understand the massive size of this concrete structure.
The guided tours happen between April and October and are held by Berliner Unterwelten e.V. every sunday at noon. If you don't want to do the tour, just go to the corner of Dudenstrasse and General-Pape-Strasse and you will find everything you need. The site is only open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.
Parliament of Trees against War and Violence
The Parliament of Trees against War and Violence can be found hidden close to where the Reichstag is. In german, this place is called Parlament der Bäume gegen Krieg und Gewalt and is a memorial for the people who died trying to cross the Berlin Wall. Ben Wagin, a performance artist that lives in Berlin since 1957, is the person responsible for creating this memorial at the border strip.
The installation was created back in 1990, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and it's made of trees, memorial stones, some parts and pieces of the border fortifications and the names of the 258 people that died trying to cross the Berlin Wall.
The Parliament of Trees stands in the former no-man's land and is made of 58 pieces of the Berlin Wall. But this is not the centre piece here. Everything in this memorial is about the trees. Trees planted by the prime ministers of the sixteen states that formed the unified Germany. Sixteen trees stand there today and are the foundation for this environmental art piece.
You can reach the Parliament of Trees and the Wall Memorial from the Schiffbauerdamm promenade from 11:00 to 17:00 and admission is free.
Rosenstrasse Protest Memorial on Alexanderplatz
Rosentrasse runs between Hakescher Markt and Alexanderplatz. It is one of these small roads and you walk by without knowing what happened there before. But this street is the place where the Old Synagogue used to stand before the Second World War.
Also, this is the place where a street protest in 1943 showed that resistance against Nazism was possible and that it could be successful.
Let's go back to 1943 when hundreds of unarmed German women stood day and night for a week doing something unheard of in Nazi Germany. They stood close to Gestapo agents armed with machine guns and demanded the release of their Jewish husbands that were locked up in a Jewish community center close to Alexanderplatz.
After a few days of struggles, their men were freed, and today we remember their stand with the Block der Frauen.
Block der Frauen, Block of Women in German, is the work of Ingeborg Hunzinger, a East German sculptor that created the memorial to those women who took a part in the Rosentrasse Protest. It was erected back in 1995 not far from the site of where the protest happened in 1943.
Ingeborg Hunzinger first proposed the memorials to the city councils of East and West Berlin in the late 1980s. But, even though the boards agreed with the helping out with a portion of the construction cost, Ingeborg Hunzinger bore most of the expense herself. And she is glad that she did the memorial since the Rosentrasse Protest was such an critical facet of the history of Berlin and most people don't even know it happened.
You can find the Rosentrasse Protest Memorial close to Alexanderplatz on Rosentrasse. If you are coming from Alexanderplatz, you're going to see it on your left side inside a small park.
Most people would say that the history of Berlin is filled with tragic events and there is no way of saying this is a lie. Berlin was the center of most of the history in the last century and it paid a high price for everything that happened.
It is better to visit the city trying to understand how the city copes with its past than to just ignore it. This is why we write about these places on Fotostrasse and this is why you should see them as well.
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The Organizing Group (TOG) is a for-profit political consulting firm founded by former AFL-CIO political director Steve Rosenthal, who serves as its president.  It leverages the labor union and other left-wing contacts of its founder and staffers to provide consulting, field organizing, voter outreach and other services to left-of-center political organizations, candidates, and labor unions. Rosenthal is a prominent practitioner of direct voter contact and canvassing, a particular area of expertise TOG promotes to prospective clients.
Founded in 2005, TOG's business model was built upon the premise that competition from widely-dispersed audience options in the information age was causing mass media advertising (such as traditional radio and television) to rapidly lose its standing as the ideal voter communication tool. The alternative TOG sells is direct voter contact and canvassing, with traditional mass media advertising as a supplement.
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My question is - am I abusing too much? Can I use the Entity Framework for modeling queries and just that? Should I? I know I can write my own custom LINQ to SQL provider, but that is just not possible to handle in the time spans I have.
What is the best approach to model complex T-SQL queries? How do you handle conditional group byes, orders, joins, unions etc in the OOP world? Using StringBuilders for this kind of job feels too ugly and harder to maintain given the possibilities we have with Expression Trees.
When I use StringBuilder to model a complex SQL Query I feel kind of guilty! I feel the same way as when I have to hard code any number into my code that is different than 0 or 1. Feeling that makes you ask yourself if there is a better and cleaner way of doing it...
I must mention that I am using C# 4.0, but I am not specifically looking for an answer in this language, but rather in the domain of CLR 4. Are there any real enterprise libraries that can help with constructing complex SQL at runtime?

A: If you find it easier (not to mention less error prone) to compose a query in LINQ rather than T-SQL, then why not?
There is no law written that says you can't use EF or L2S to help you write T-SQL, and then just go off and execute the T-SQL directly yourself.
In fact I think this makes a lot of sense.
Don't feel guilty!


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Nomad Health opens online job board to telehealth providers
By Dave Muoio
Nomad Health's online freelance marketplace for healthcare professional staffing now includes postings for telehealth positions alongside traditional healthcare roles.
With the updated service, doctors interested in telehealth practice will be able to view and apply to open position listings from several telehealth service providers, including American Well and First Stop Health. Current telemedicine openings include specific areas such as tele-urgent care, teledermatology, and telepsychiatry, according to a statement from the company.
"Thanks to modern technology, doctors are returning to their roots and seeing patients at home. The comfort of easy access to high quality care is leading to extraordinarily high satisfaction for telemedicine doctors and their patients," Dr. Alexi G. Nazem, CEO and cofounder of Nomad Health, said in a statement. "Telemedicine is a win-win, and Nomad is so pleased to help drive this medical technology revolution forward."
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Sam Toole, strategic sales manager at Nomad, explained that much of the infrastructure and interface developed for the telehealth postings were similar to those already in place for in-person positions. Still, he said that Nomad "worked closely with all of our clients" through an early limited release of the functionality, and incorporated the telemedicine providers' feedback into the final system.
"On the telemedicine side it's more of just making sure that the platform worked well in terms of their model and how they hire doctors," Toole told MobiHealthNews. "It's a little bit different, obviously, than bringing in a full-time doctor to be working in a hospital, so we just worked with our early clients to make sure that we built the system in a way that was easy and intuitive for them to use, for both in tracking of time they were working with doctors and then posting those jobs so it was clear to the clinician what the opportunity was."
Now that the telehealth posting functionality has been fully released, Toole said that the service is enjoying a warm reception from employers and jobseekers alike.
"We see that the providers on Nomad are extremely excited about these roles, and it is evident in terms of the activity the jobs do get when they are posted on the platform," he said. "It is very common for telemedicine roles to be posted and get a massive amount of interaction, excitement, number of applications, inquiries about the role very quickly. So as we on-board telemedicine companies around the United States, we continue to see the providers be very, very excited."
The inclusion of telemedicine is the latest in a stream of service expansions for the company, which was founded in 2015 and initially served the east coast. After raising $4 million for the platform from First Round Capital, RRE Ventures, and .406 Ventures last year, the platform opened its doors to nurses in July and has steadily introduced itself to a number of new states including Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and California. Last month, Nomad's platform was also officially endorsed by the Texas Hospital Association.
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