One day soon, the Earth would hit its halfway point of global oil production -- its "peak" -- and thereafter, it would see a steady decline. Those behind the concept called it "peak oil."
Others tend to call it... petroleum engineering. Oil fields rise in production and then decline - that sure is a radical concept, said no one ever.
The theorists wrote books and rose high in academic departments. One of them, M. King Hubbert, had a famous bell curve named after him and discovered disciples willing to follow.
This, friends, is a common tactic, you'll sometimes see people referred to as oracles, acolytes, disciples, or cultists. They want to convince the reader that "those people" are into some crazy & spooky religion and are best ignored.
They found themselves at the vanguard of a movement that essentially said, "Oil is finite, so pay attention!"
Last time we checked... oil is finite.
...It was a good time to be a peak-oil adventurer.
Ok, now Sullivan is just making stuff up.
In lectures, talks and congressional hearings, the peak oilers insisted the denouement would start anytime, be it 1989 or 1997 or 2005, bringing with it dangerous crude prices and economic collapse unless a substitute was brought to market posthaste.
Clearly Sullivan missed all of 2008 and hasn't been told about current oil price highs. He also doesn't bother to link the reader to any of these "lectures, talks, and congressional hearings" he's referring too. Why let people make up their own minds when you're happy to tell them what they should think.
But here again is another tactic, here Sullivan is trying to convince the reader that ALL Peak Oilers think the same and that all of them think the world is going to end tomorrow. Opinions about Peak Oil are not homogeneous. This is Robert Rapier's second misconception in his article "Five Misconceptions about Peak Oil."
People make bad predictions. The EIA does it all the time. Pointing out that someone made a bad prediction does not invalidate Peak Oil - oil is still finite, production still rises, reaches a peak or plateau, and declines. That's how things work yesterday, today, tomorrow, and forever.
A much-quoted study released by Harvard University's Kennedy School last summer tells a tale that directly counters the peak-oil concept.
Because the truthiness of a study is in direct proportion to the amount of times it's quoted - obviously (obvs for the cool kids). Nevermind the numerous articles that question the study like this one from Dave Summers or this one from Richard Heinberg or this one from Chris Nelder - heck, even James Hamilton thinks Maugeri is overstating the case for optimism.
Economist cover story in 1999, predicting an oil price drop from $10 to $5. Whoops.
Fantastic! This is going to be just like that time 13 years ago when all those Wall Street Journal and CNBC types told us that we were awash in oil and that our new-found oil bounty would lead prices in a laser-like fashion to $5/barrel. Wait, as I seem to recall, that didn't actually happen did it? I wonder if Sullivan will write an article about how bad those predictions were.
This is one of the things that's so maddening about energy over-optimism. These stories will spend pages on pages covering new technology and breathless reports of new oil finds - but they never actually discuss what it means for you and me - regular everyday people.
The truth? It doesn't mean much for regular people. We're paying record high prices for gasoline today - and we'll be paying record high prices for gasoline tomorrow. This is because high oil prices are a REQUIREMENT to attack this new oil. If some glut of production happens, the additional supply would force prices down temporarily - under the necessary level - then either new projects would halt or OPEC would cut production - sending prices back up again.
This is why they just avoid discussing gasoline prices completely. It's tough to sell the story of a new great energy boom when you have to turn right around and tell someone that they still have to cough up more cash for gasoline. In fact, Americans now spend a bigger share of their income on gasoline than at any time since the early 1980s. This trend, and the dangerous squeeze this puts on the economy, will continue.
Luckily, this part of the story is being told in a few corners of the media. Like this story by Brad Plumer in the Washington Post, based off of another post by James Hamilton. Jonathan Fahey of the Associated Press recently penned a similar story on why gasoline prices are still high despite the "boom".
The peak-oil concept is increasingly out of date less than a decade after its proponents said global output would surely hit the halfway mark.
Oil supply has been pretty flat since 2005, despite high prices, despite increased worldwide demand. Does it mean we've reached the all-time peak? No. But it does mean we're in interesting times.
Several peak oil founding figures were contacted for this article. They either didn't return calls or emails or were followed into a maze of shut-down websites and disconnected phone numbers.
Sullivan suggests he tried to contact Colin Campbell, Jean Laherrere, Ken Deffeyes, and others. All great Peak Oil names... if the date was 2003. He attempted to find people long retired from this business and was SHOCKED when he couldn't get a hold of them.
Sullivan DID speak to three ASPO-USA Board of Directors members, Art Berman, Ron Swenson, and Jeffrey Brown. We found out about this after the fact, only because Art happened to mention it to us in an email.
ASPO-USA has a fairly obvious contact page on the website - and ASPO-USA is ready and willing to direct reporters to Peak Oil experts here at home and around the globe. But you know what... Sullivan NEVER contacted us directly. He also never contacted the Post Carbon Institute - even though they just released their new website/report Shalebubble.org that examines the diminishing returns of shale plays. Sullivan never contacted the editors of The Oil Drum, one of the best known websites and forums on these issues.
In an article I wrote last year, I noted that one thing you often see in this type of misinformation is a form of "arguing against the past" - they love to bring up M. King Hubbert and other figures from years ago. But this isn't 1975 or 1999 or 2003, this is 2013. Peak Oil thought didn't just end with M. King Hubbert. And if Sullivan was truly sincere (doubtful), then he should have done a better job contacting notable and current experts.
Jeff Rubin, former chief economist at CIBC World Markets and author of "The End of Growth"
Bob Hirsch, best known for the report for DOE: "Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management" also known as the Hirsch Report.
Michael Klare, author of "The Race for What's Left"
The list goes on and on of credible, data-driven experts all of whom Sullivan could have had access too if he simply called ASPO-USA, the main US organization on Peak Oil matters. But he didn't.
I don't know what Sullivan's biases are or his reasons for writing the article. But if he really took "several weeks" looking for leads for the article, and in that time it never crossed his mind to directly contact the Association for the Study of Peak Oil while doing an article on Peak Oil - using the obvious contact info... it just doesn't come across looking good.


Double-platinum flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert draws upon a lot of sources for inspiration, though his sound is entirely his own. Listening to a track like "Night Exhales" or "Le Café," there's almost a rock-inspired force embedded within the manic flamenco vibe. It's really something special.
With Ottmar and his band Luna Negra performing at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Saturday, June 15, those in attendance will be getting a taste of Liebert's latest album Dune, which continues the artist's flamenco-inspired musical journey by incorporating Algerian-inspired folk music. I chatted a bit with Liebert about his career and his upcoming performance. I'm always curious what it is that inspires a musician to pick up their chosen instrument.
"Well, I picked up the guitar when I was 11, so that's a fair amount of time ago. I can't tell you the exact reasons, but my family didn't have a TV at home. Every weekend, we'd visit my grandparents and there was a show called Beat Club and I think I really liked a lot of the electric guitar stuff. Somehow, my 11-year old mind developed this notion of playing classical guitar, even though I had never heard classical guitar. I figured that was a nice stepping-stone to playing electric guitar. I concentrated on playing classical guitar for a few years and around 16 or so, I bought an electric guitar. At the time, I think my favorite guitar player was Carlos Santana," Liebert says, adding "I went to a concert and it was the opening group, whom none of my friends and I had heard of, which absolutely blew us away.
Liebert toured with Santana back in 1996 and brought up his childhood memory to the legendary guitarist. "He had been on a two-year tour, he had arrived straight from Japan, but towards the end of his show, three or four guys from Earth, Wind And Fire joined his band and Carlos [Santana] found extra energy and just played unbelievable," Liebert said. "Later on, I got into Wah Wah Watson, who played on 'Papa Was A Rolling Stone,' very funky. Somewhere along that time, I also found a solo flamenco guitar recording in the bargain bin of a supermarket. Those two elements, funk and flamenco, early on, meshed and mixed in my mind.," said Liebert.
"Flamenco is much more rhythm-oriented than any classical guitar. There are things in flamenco technique that involve really fast triplets.
Flamenco has that thing where the guitar is just a hair ahead of everybody else." Liebert said.
"The other project is about reducing the music to its barest elements. We're re-recording some of what I believe to be my best songs of the last 10 years and we're doing it with upright bass, cajon and guitar. No electric guitar, no synthesizer. Just those three elements," Liebert said.
"I've always found the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center to be a very relaxed, beautiful experience," Liebert said. He's performed there a number of times and is looking forward to his performance on Saturday.
"We're going to have a really fun evening. It'll be a nice cross-section of old and new, maybe some things I haven't even recorded yet. I think people will see and hear how much we love performing." Concluded Liebert.
Don't miss the King of Flamenco, Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on June 15 at 8 p.m. For tickets and more information, call 631-288-1500 or visit whbpac.org.


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  A tool for managing JavaScript projects with multiple packages.

## About

Splitting up large codebases into separate independently versioned packages
is extremely useful for code sharing. However, making changes across many
repositories is *messy* and difficult to track, and testing across repositories
gets complicated really fast.

To solve these (and many other) problems, some projects will organize their
codebases into multi-package repositories (sometimes called [monorepos](https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/master/doc/design/monorepo.md)). Projects like [Babel](https://github.com/babel/babel/tree/master/packages), [React](https://github.com/facebook/react/tree/master/packages), [Angular](https://github.com/angular/angular/tree/master/modules),
[Ember](https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/tree/master/packages), [Meteor](https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/devel/packages), [Jest](https://github.com/facebook/jest/tree/master/packages), and many others develop all of their packages within a
single repository.

**Lerna is a tool that optimizes the workflow around managing multi-package
repositories with git and npm.**

### What does a Lerna repo look like?

There's actually very little to it. You have a file system that looks like this:

```
my-lerna-repo/
  package.json
  packages/
    package-1/
      package.json
    package-2/
      package.json
```

### What can Lerna do?

The two primary commands in Lerna are `lerna bootstrap` and `lerna publish`.

`bootstrap` will link dependencies in the repo together.
`publish` will help publish any updated packages.

## Getting Started

> The instructions below are for Lerna 2.x which is currently in beta.
> We recommend using it instead of 1.x for a new Lerna project. Check the [wiki](https://github.com/lerna/lerna/wiki/1.x-Docs) if you need to see the 1.x README.

Let's start by installing Lerna globally with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/).

```sh
# install the latest 2.x version using the `prerelease` dist-tag
$ npm install --global lerna@prerelease
# install version directly
$ npm install --global lerna@^2.0.0-beta
```

Next we'll create a new [git](https://git-scm.com/) repository:

```sh
$ git init lerna-repo
$ cd lerna-repo
```

And now let's turn it into a Lerna repo:

```sh
$ lerna init
```

Your repository should now look like this:

```
lerna-repo/
  packages/
  package.json
  lerna.json
```

This will create a `lerna.json` configuration file as well as a `packages` folder.

## How it works

Lerna allows you to manage your project using one of two modes: Fixed or Independent.

### Fixed/Locked mode (default)

Fixed mode Lerna projects operate on a single version line. The version is kept in the `lerna.json` file at the root of your project under the `version` key. When you run `lerna publish`, if a module has been updated since the last time a release was made, it will be updated to the new version you're releasing. This means that you only publish a new version of a package when you need to.

This is the mode that [Babel](https://github.com/babel/babel) is currently using. Use this if you want to automatically tie all package versions together. One issue with this approach is that a major change in any package will result in all packages having a new major version.

### Independent mode (`--independent`)

Independent mode Lerna projects allows maintainers to increment package versions independently of each other. Each time you publish, you will get a prompt for each package that has changed to specify if it's a patch, minor, major or custom change.

Independent mode allows you to more specifically update versions for each package and makes sense for a group of components. Combining this mode with something like [semantic-release](https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release) would make it less painful. (There is work on this already at [atlassian/lerna-semantic-release](https://github.com/atlassian/lerna-semantic-release).

> The `version` key in `lerna.json` is ignored in independent mode.

## Commands

### init

```sh
$ lerna init
```

Create a new Lerna repo or upgrade an existing repo to the current version of Lerna.

> Lerna assumes the repo has already been initialized with `git init`.

When run, this command will:
1. Add `lerna` as a [`devDependency`](https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#devdependencies) in `package.json` if it doesn't already exist.
2. Create a `lerna.json` config file to store the `version` number.
3. Create a `packages` directory if it hasn't been created already.

Example output on a new git repo:

```sh
> lerna init
$ Lerna v2.0.0-beta.18
$ Creating packages directory.
$ Updating package.json.
$ Creating lerna.json.
$ Successfully created Lerna files
```

#### --independent, -i

```sh
$ lerna publish --independent
```

This flag tells Lerna to use independent versioning mode.

### bootstrap

```sh
$ lerna bootstrap
```

Bootstrap - or setup - the packages in the current Lerna repo.
Installs all of their dependencies and links any cross-dependencies.

When run, this command will:

1. Link together all Lerna `packages` that are dependencies of each other.
  2. This doesn't currently use [npm link](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/link) and instead uses a proxy to the actual package in the monorepo.
2. `npm install` all external dependencies of each package.

Currently, what Lerna does to link internal dependencies is replace the
`node_modules/package-x` with a link to the actual file in the repo.

`lerna bootstrap` respects the `--ignore` flag (see below).

#### How `bootstrap` works

Let's use `babel` as an example.

- `babel-generator` and `source-map` (among others) are dependencies of `babel-core`.
-  `babel-core`'s [`package.json`](https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/13c961d29d76ccd38b1fc61333a874072e9a8d6a/packages/babel-core/package.json#L28-L47) lists both these packages as keys in `dependencies`, as shown below.

```js
// babel-core package.json
{
  "name": "babel-core",
  ...
  "dependencies": {
    ...
    "babel-generator": "^6.9.0",
    ...
    "source-map": "^0.5.0"
  }
}
```

- Lerna checks if each dependency is also part of the Lerna repo.
  - In this example, `babel-generator` is a dependency, while `source-map` is not.
  - `source-map` is `npm install`ed like normal.
- `babel-core/node_modules/babel-generator` is replaced with two files:
  - A `package.json` with keys `name` and `version`
  - An `index.js` file with the contents `module.exports = require("relative-path-to-babel-generator-in-the-lerna-repo")`
- This links the `babel-generator` package in `node_modules` with the actual `babel-generator` files.

### publish

```sh
$ lerna publish
```

Publish packages in the current Lerna project. When run, this command does the following:

Creates a new release of the packages that have been updated.
Prompts for a new version.
Creates a new git commit/tag in the process of publishing to npm.

More specifically, this command will:

1. Publish each module in `packages` that has been updated since the last version to npm with the [dist-tag](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/dist-tag) `lerna-temp`.
  1. Run the equivalent of `lerna updated` to determine which packages need to be published.
  2. If necessary, increment the `version` key in `lerna.json`.
  3. Update the `package.json` of all updated packages to their new versions.
  4. Update all dependencies of the updated packages with the new versions.
  5. Create a new git commit and tag for the new version.
  6. Publish updated packages to npm.
2. Once all packages have been published, remove the `lerna-temp` tags and add the tags to `latest`.

> A temporary dist-tag is used at the start to prevent the case where only some of the packages are published; this can cause issues for users installing a package that only has some updated packages.

#### --npm-tag [tagname]

```sh
$ lerna publish --npm-tag=next
```

When run with this flag, `publish` will publish to npm with the given npm [dist-tag](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/dist-tag) (defaults to `latest`).

This option can be used to publish a [`prerelease`](http://carrot.is/coding/npm_prerelease) or `beta` version.

> Note: the `latest` tag is the one that is used when a user runs `npm install my-package`.
> To install a different tag, a user can run `npm install my-package@prerelease`.

#### --canary, -c

```sh
$ lerna publish --canary
```

When run with this flag, `publish` publishes packages in a more granular way (per commit). Before publishing to npm, it creates the new `version` tag by taking the current `version` and appending the current git sha (ex: `1.0.0-alpha.81e3b443`).

> The intended use case for this flag is a per commit level release or nightly release.

#### --skip-git

```sh
$ lerna publish --skip-git
```

When run with this flag, `publish` will publish to npm without running any of the git commands.

> Only publish to npm; skip committing, tagging, and pushing git changes (this only affects publish).

#### --skip-npm

```sh
$ lerna publish --skip-npm
```

When run with this flag, `publish` will update all `package.json` package
versions and dependency versions, but it will not actually publish the
packages to npm.

This is useful as a workaround for an [npm
issue](https://github.com/npm/newww/issues/389) which prevents README updates
from appearing on npmjs.com when published via Lerna.  When publishing with
README changes, use `--skip-npm` and do the final `npm publish` by hand for
each package.

This flag can be combined with `--skip-git` to _just_ update versions and
dependencies, without comitting, tagging, pushing or publishing.

> Only update versions and dependencies; don't actually publish (this only affects publish).

#### --force-publish [packages]

```sh
$ lerna publish --force-publish=package-2,package-4
# force publish all packages
$ lerna publish --force-publish=*
```

When run with this flag, `publish` will force publish the specified packages (comma-separated) or all packages using `*`.

> This will skip the `lerna updated` check for changed packages and forces a package that didn't have a `git diff` change to be updated.

#### --yes

```sh
$ lerna publish --canary --yes
# skips `Are you sure you want to publish the above changes?`
```

When run with this flag, `publish` will skip all confirmation prompts.
Useful in [Continuous integration (CI)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration) to automatically answer the publish confirmation prompt.

#### --repo-version

```sh
$ lerna publish --repo-version 1.0.1
# applies version and skips `Select a new version for...` prompt
```

When run with this flag, `publish` will skip the version selection prompt and use the specified version.
Useful for bypassing the user input prompt if you already know which version to publish.

### updated

```sh
$ lerna updated
```

Check which `packages` have changed since the last release (the last git tag).

Lerna determines the last git tag created and runs `git diff --name-only v6.8.1` to get all files changed since that tag. It then returns an array of packages that have an updated file.

### clean

```sh
$ lerna clean
```

Remove the `node_modules` directory from all packages.

### diff

```sh
$ lerna diff [package?]

$ lerna diff
# diff a specific package
$ lerna diff package-name
```

Diff all packages or a single package since the last release.

> Similar to `lerna updated`. This command runs `git diff`.

### ls

```sh
$ lerna ls
```

List all of the public packages in the current Lerna repo.

### run

```sh
$ lerna run [script] # runs npm run my-script in all packages that have it
$ lerna run test
$ lerna run build
```

Run an [npm script](https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts) in each package that contains that script.

`lerna run` respects the `--concurrency` flag (see below).

`lerna run` respects the `--scope` flag (see below).

```sh
$ lerna run --scope my-component test
```

### exec

```sh
$ lerna exec -- [command] # runs the command in all packages
$ lerna exec -- rm -rf ./node_modules
$ lerna exec -- protractor conf.js
```

Run an arbitrary command in each package.

`lerna exec` respects the `--concurrency` flag (see below).

`lerna exec` respects the `--scope` flag (see below).

```sh
$ lerna exec --scope my-component -- ls -la
```

> Hint: The commands are spawned in parallel, using the concurrency given.
> The output is piped through, so not deterministic.
> If you want to run the command in one package after another, use it like this:

```sh
$ lerna exec --concurrency 1 -- ls -la
```

### import

```sh
$ lerna import <path-to-external-repository>
```

Import the package at `<path-to-external-repository>`, with commit history,
into `packages/<directory-name>`.  Original commit authors, dates and messages
are preserved.  Commits are applied to the current branch.

This is useful for gathering pre-existing standalone packages into a Lerna
repo.  Each commit is modified to make changes relative to the package
directory.  So, for example, the commit that added `package.json` will
instead add `packages/<directory-name>/package.json`.

## Misc

Lerna will log to a `lerna-debug.log` file (same as `npm-debug.log`) when it encounters an error running a command.

Lerna also has support for [scoped packages](https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scope).

Running `lerna` without arguments will show all commands/options.

### lerna.json

```js
{
  "lerna": "2.0.0-beta.18",
  "version": "1.1.3",
  "publishConfig": {
    "ignore": [
      "ignored-file",
      "*.md"
    ]
  },
  "linkedFiles": {
    "prefix": "/**\n * @flow\n */"
  }
}
```

- `lerna`: the current version of Lerna being used.
- `version`: the current version of the repository.
- `publishConfig.ignore`: an array of globs that won't be included in `lerna updated/publish`. Use this to prevent publishing a new version unnecessarily for changes, such as fixing a `README.md` typo.
- `linkedFiles.prefix`: a prefix added to linked dependency files.

### Flags

#### --concurrency

How many threads to use when Lerna parallelizes the tasks (defaults to `4`)

```sh
$ lerna publish --concurrency 1
```

#### --scope [glob]

Scopes a command to a subset of packages.

```sh
$ lerna exec --scope my-component -- ls -la
```

```sh
$ lerna run --scope toolbar-* -- ls -la
```

#### --ignore [glob]

Excludes a subset of packages when running a command.

```sh
$ lerna bootstrap --ignore component-*
```

The `ignore` flag, when used with the `bootstrap` command, can also be set in `lerna.json` under the `bootstrapConfig` key. The command-line flag will take precendence over this option.

**Example**

```javascript
{
  "lerna": "2.0.0-beta.16",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "bootstrapConfig": {
    "ignore": "component-*"
  }
}
```

> Hint: The glob is matched against the package name defined in `package.json`,
> not the directory name the package lives in.

#### --only-explicit-updates

Only will bump versions for packages that have been updated explicitly rather than cross-dependencies.

> This may not make sense for a major version bump since other packages that depend on the updated packages wouldn't be updated.

```sh
$ lerna updated --only-explicit-updates
$ lerna publish --only-explicit-updates
```

Ex: in Babel, `babel-types` is depended upon by all packages in the monorepo (over 100). However, Babel uses `^` for most of it's dependencies so it isn't necessary to bump the versions of all packages if only `babel-types` is updated. This option allows only the packages that have been explicitly updated to make a new version.

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The Gate of Bani Ghanim, (Arabic: Bab al-Ghawanima), is located on the north-western corner of Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount) and it is just underneath the al-Ghawanima Minaret.
Gate of Bani Ghanim, as seen from within the Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount). The Gate was last renovated in 1308 CE (707 Hj.). It is a relatively small gate named after the Old City's Bani Ghanim Quarter to which it leads. In the past, the Gate was called Al-Khalil (Hebron) Gate after Prophet Ibrahim Al-Khalil (Abraham).
Bab al-Ghawanima as seen from outside the Haram al-Sharif, modern day street level on this side of Temple Mount is several feet higher than the Temple Mount platform it self. It provides access from Muslim Quater of Old city. The Islamic Waqf Directorate has renovated this gate after an Israeli extremist burnt it in 1998 CE.


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If you ever wanted to know how weak your willpower is, try to not click 'Next Episode' on Netflix. Or wherever you've downloaded it on your computer. Or if you watch TV series online for free, try not to go to the next episode after you go through closing all the pop-ups. Try, just try.
Well, most of us fail. Unless we need to pass the exams or not get fired from work. So, if you're one of those people who spend most of their time looking for something to watch on Netflix and rest of time Netflix and chilling alone, here's a ranked list of netflix original web series of what to watch next.
Category: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Plot: A horribly titled program that follows a couple who must navigate the exhilaration and humiliations of intimacy, commitment and other things they were hoping to avoid.
Watch it?: Yes if you don't mind feeling too messed up or too real after watching it.
Marvel's Jessica Jones
Category: Action, Crime, Drama
Plot: Ever since her short-lived stint as a superhero ended in tragedy, Jessica Jones has been rebuilding her personal life and career as a hot-tempered, sardonic private detective in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Plagued by self-loathing and a wicked case of PTSD, Jessica battles demons from within and without, using her extraordinary abilities as an unlikely champion for those in need… especially if they're willing to cut her a check.
Watch it?: Cool show. Watch it.
Category: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Plot: Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the '90s – 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show "Horsin' Around," but today he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful sweaters.
Watch it? Yes if you really really like animal puns and frank comedies.
Category: Drama, Thriller
Plot: An intriguing story of a well-off family in the Florida Keys that have many dark secrets. The siblings are heirs of a beautiful inn that has been in their family for 50 years. It is their childhood home with many great memories, but the deep dark past holds many untold tales. All combined makes the future very uncertain.
Watch it? Thrillers are always amazing.
Category: Action, Adventure, Crime
Plot: As a child Matt Murdock was blinded by a chemical spill in a freak accident. Instead of limiting him it gave him superhuman senses that enabled him to see the world in a unique and powerful way. Now he uses these powers to deliver justice, not only as a lawyer in his own law firm but also as a vigilante at night, stalking the streets of Hell's Kitchen as Daredevil, the man without fear.
Watch it? Yes…ninja stuff. And Lawyers! Any Suits fans over here?
Netflix's best series is also one of its most underrated. Set in a world where anthropomorphic animals and humans live side-by-side, BoJack Horseman is about a horse named Bojack (Arnett), the washed-up star of the 1990s sitcom Horsin' Around. After a decade boozing on his couch and sleeping around, Bojack tries to resurrect his celebrity relevance with decidedly mixed results. His agent and on-again, off-again girlfriend is a Persian cat (Amy Sedaris); his rival (Paul F. Tompkins) is a golden labrador; he's in love with a human woman who works as a ghostwriter (Alison Brie); and he has a layabout roommate (Aaron Paul) with whom Bojack has a co-dependent relationship. On the face of it, it's a zany satire of Hollywood and celebrity culture. What's unexpected, however, is that Bojack Horseman may be television's most honest and thorough examination of depression. The writing is sharp, the jokes are layered, and the situations are hilarious, but there's a melancholy undercurrent to the series. Despite being a horse, Bojack is also one of the most human characters on television. It takes two or three episodes to hook viewers into its world, but once it does, it's an impossible series to stop watching.
A throwback and love letter to the early 1980s movies of Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter, the Duffer Brothers Stranger Things feels both familiar and new. The first season is about a boy named Will (think E.T.'s Elliot) who is captured by a The Thing-like creature and trapped in a Poltergeist-like world. His mother (Winona Ryder) recruits the local sheriff to investigate Will's disappearance. Meanwhile, Will's dorky, Goonies-like best friends take to their bikes to do some sleuthing of their own and eventually befriend an alien-like girl with telepathic powers (the E.T. of the series). Season two continued that vibe as the show dove deeper into government conspiracies and alien monsters intent on wreaking havoc on small-town Indiana while the show's latest season let its magnetic young cast grow up a bit, giving them more complicated villains to fight and a Soviet conspiracy to uncover. It's great PG horror/sci-fi, like the blockbusters of the early '80s, and even if you didn't come of age in the era, there's something for everyone to enjoy.
Ozark, from part of the team behind Ben Affleck's The Accountant, is an example of what we call stress-watching television. A combination of Breaking Bad and Bloodline, Ozark sees a money launderer (Jason Bateman) and his wife (Laura Linney) move from Chicago to backwoods Missouri in an effort to clean $8 million in three months, lest their entire family be killed by a Mexican drug cartel. It's not a fun show, and it's barely entertaining, but like Bloodline, it's the kind of series where the viewer is anxious to binge through it just to see if the antagonists will survive and how. It's a seedy, well-written, well-acted series, and Bateman is terrific, but the entire point of Ozark is to put the viewer through the wringer.
When They See Us
Director Ava DuVernay's limited series about the wrongfully accused men in the Central Park Five case is an emotionally heavy reimagining of a truly tragic event in our history. The series sheds light on racial profiling and corruption in the NYPD as a group of young Black men are targeted for a heinous crime and put on trial with little evidence. It's a gripping, heartbreaking retelling, but one that feels sadly relevant.
At once intimate and sweeping, The Crown presents an inside view of the ascension of Queen Elizabeth II, played by Claire Foy, and the first few years of her reign. John Lithgow is featured as the indomitable Winston Churchill, struggling with the ignominy of age at the end of his career. Churchill's support and mentorship of Elizabeth, despite his limitations, creates an important emotional center around which various historical events turn. Elizabeth's relationship with her husband, Prince Phillip (Matt Smith) is also wonderfully explored; his role as consort is one that he by turns delights in and rebels against. And because the show has committed to exploring Elizabeth's length reign, we're treated to different versions of these characters throughout their lives. In season 3, Olivia Colman picks up the crown while Tobias Menzies plays Prince Phillip and Helena Bonham Carter comes on board as Princess Margaret.
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Martin Mititrov Dachenski was arrested on board a cruise ship which docked in Bridgetown.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Wednesday April 11, 2018 – The search for a Bulgarian man, who had been on the run after skipping bail in Antigua and Barbuda on electronic fraud and larceny charges, has ended in Barbados.
Martin Mititrov Dachenski, 39, was arrested around 8 a. m. yesterday on board the cruise ship MSC Fantasia which docked in Bridgetown.
He had been on bail from the court in Antigua, having been arrested and charged for electronic fraud and larceny in December 2017. The foreigner allegedly hacked into several ATMs and defrauded a local bank, and faced three additional counts of larceny in February.
Dachenski fled the island and headed to Guadeloupe, before later journeying to St. Lucia and then to Barbados on board the cruise ship.
"As investigations continue, it is anticipated that this fugitive will be repatriated to authorities in Antigua and Barbuda," the police in Barbados said.


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Q: Problems with intention of using Android API 10 I'm about to build a new app. I'm just making an alarm and I'm aiming to help old people mainly (I assume they don't follow technology as geeks and they can use old phones like 5-6 years old) and max user count not shiny new features. So I can ignore API 8's 0.1% according to Android Dev but I don't want to ignore API 10-15's ~5%.
So I decided to use API 10 as min SDK level. While downloading API 10 inside Android Studio I encountered with Obsolete warning as shown in the image:

Okay maybe it's shown here wrong and better to do this directly from Android SDK Manager. It was same and I had an extra warning for SDK platform is not compatible with Windows:

If I remember right it was not obsolete in late of 2015. Google confused me with API levels since they are refusing to be backwards compatible. Anyway here is my pile of questions inside my head:

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*Does this mean Google doesn't care that ~5% (API 10-15 users and developers) anymore?

*What does obsolete mean? Just not supported by Google anymore?

*Is it a bad idea to use this API for new projects? What are the problems I can face if I use it now and future?

*If I choose a newer API like level 18+, what I'm gonna do after 5 years until API become obsolete? If I won't add any new functionality except basic things and fixes, do I have to upgrade API that time?

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*It says the "Google APIs" is obsolete, not the platform.

*Yes, it is not supported anymore. (Once again, not the platform)

*Yes, do not use anything that is deprecated or obsolete.

*Most likely you Android application will still work but it is important that you update is periodically in order to keep/retain and grow your users.

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10/04 Wpg L 1-5 0 0 0 -1 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 14:27
10/06 Chi OTL 4-5 0 0 0 -2 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 11:24
10/11 Cgy W 5-3 3 0 3 1 0 3 100.0% 2 0 0 0 1 16:43
10/13 @ Chi OTL 3-4 1 0 1 -1 0 4 25.0% 1 0 0 0 0 19:46
10/14 Anh L 2-3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 19:58
10/17 @ Mon L 2-3 0 1 1 0 0 1 - 0 1 0 0 0 13:40
10/20 @ Tor W 4-1 0 2 2 2 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 15:05
10/22 @ Wpg OTL 4-5 1 1 2 2 0 5 20.0% 0 0 0 0 0 16:06
10/25 Cls L 4-7 0 0 0 1 2 3 - 0 0 0 0 0 15:09
10/27 Chi W 7-3 0 1 1 1 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 17:29
11/01 VGK W 5-3 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 15:33
11/03 Min L 1-5 0 0 0 -2 0 3 - 0 0 0 0 0 14:16
11/06 Car W 4-1 0 1 1 1 2 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 14:55
11/09 SJ W 4-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 15:41
11/14 @ Chi L 0-1 0 0 0 0 0 3 - 0 0 0 0 0 14:49
11/16 @ VGK W 4-1 0 0 0 0 2 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 15:36
11/17 @ SJ L 0-4 0 0 0 0 2 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 15:12
11/19 LA L 0-2 0 0 0 -2 0 2 - 0 0 0 0 0 18:26
11/21 @ Nsh L 1-4 0 0 0 -1 2 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 17:06
11/23 Nsh W 6-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 - 0 0 0 0 0 17:53
11/24 Wpg L 4-8 1 1 2 -2 2 2 50.0% 0 1 0 0 0 15:46
11/28 @ Det L 3-4 2 0 2 1 0 6 33.3% 1 0 0 0 0 16:31
11/30 @ Col W 3-2 0 0 0 -1 2 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 15:15
12/01 @ Ari L 1-6 0 0 0 -2 2 2 - 0 0 0 0 0 16:31
12/05 Edm L-SO 2-3 0 0 0 1 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 17:05
12/07 @ Wpg W 1-0 0 1 1 0 2 0 - 0 1 0 0 0 13:26
12/11 Fla W 4-3 2 0 2 2 0 4 50.0% 0 0 0 0 0 19:08
12/14 Col W 4-3 0 0 0 -1 4 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 13:13
12/16 Cgy L 2-7 0 0 0 -1 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 16:20
12/18 @ Edm W 4-1 1 0 1 1 2 2 50.0% 0 0 0 0 0 14:34
12/20 @ Van L 1-5 0 0 0 -1 2 3 - 0 0 0 0 0 19:55
12/22 @ Cgy W 3-1 1 1 2 1 2 2 50.0% 0 1 0 0 0 19:43
12/27 Buf W 4-1 0 2 2 2 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 17:39
12/29 Pit L 1-6 1 0 1 0 0 3 33.3% 0 0 0 0 0 19:15
12/31 NYR L 1-2 0 1 1 1 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 19:51
01/03 Was W 5-2 0 2 2 1 2 1 - 0 1 0 0 0 20:58
01/05 NYI L 3-4 0 1 1 1 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 20:04
01/07 @ Phi W 3-0 1 0 1 1 0 2 50.0% 0 0 0 0 0 21:21
01/08 Dal L 1-3 1 0 1 -1 0 3 33.3% 0 0 0 0 0 21:04
01/10 Mon W 4-1 0 1 1 1 2 4 - 0 0 0 0 0 17:20
01/12 @ Dal W 3-1 0 1 1 0 0 1 - 0 1 0 0 0 19:09
01/14 @ Was W 4-1 1 0 1 1 0 7 14.3% 0 0 0 0 0 20:47
01/15 @ NYI OTL 1-2 1 0 1 0 0 5 20.0% 0 0 0 0 0 18:17
01/17 @ Bos L 2-5 0 1 1 0 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 22:28
03/16 @ Pit W 5-1 0 1 1 1 2 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 14:58
03/17 @ Buf L-SO 3-4 1 0 1 0 2 5 20.0% 0 0 0 0 0 19:33
03/19 Edm W 7-2 2 1 3 2 0 4 50.0% 1 0 0 0 0 19:22
03/21 Det W 5-2 0 1 1 0 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 16:27
03/23 TB W 4-3 0 0 0 -2 2 2 - 0 0 0 0 0 15:46
03/29 @ NYR L 2-4 1 0 1 0 2 5 20.0% 0 0 0 0 0 18:03
03/30 @ NJ W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 18:22
04/01 Col W-SO 3-2 0 1 1 1 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 15:17
04/03 @ Chi L-SO 3-4 1 0 1 -1 0 2 50.0% 1 0 0 0 0 18:12
04/04 Phi W 7-3 1 1 2 -1 2 1 100.0% 1 1 0 0 0 16:55
04/06 Van W-SO 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 3 - 0 0 0 0 0 15:20
04/10 @ Wpg W 2-1 1 0 1 0 0 2 50.0% 0 0 0 0 0 16:35
04/20 Wpg W 3-2 0 0 0 -1 0 2 - 0 0 0 0 0 18:30
04/25 Dal W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 - 0 0 0 0 0 17:54
04/27 Dal L 2-4 0 1 1 0 4 4 - 0 0 0 0 0 20:34
04/29 @ Dal W 4-3 0 0 0 -1 0 3 - 0 0 0 0 0 18:32
05/01 @ Dal L 2-4 0 0 0 0 0 4 - 0 0 0 0 0 17:17
05/05 @ Dal W 4-1 1 0 1 2 0 3 33.3% 0 0 0 0 1 16:55
05/07 Dal W 2-1 0 0 0 -1 0 5 - 0 0 0 0 0 27:09
05/13 @ SJ W 4-2 0 1 1 0 0 1 - 0 0 0 0 0 17:19
05/15 SJ L 4-5 2 0 2 1 2 3 66.7% 1 0 0 0 0 17:01
05/21 SJ W 5-1 1 1 2 2 0 1 100.0% 0 0 0 0 0 18:21
05/27 @ Bos L 2-4 0 0 0 -1 2 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 16:31
05/29 @ Bos W 3-2 0 0 0 -1 0 4 - 0 0 0 0 0 17:24
06/01 Bos L 2-7 0 0 0 -1 4 2 - 0 0 0 0 0 19:34
06/03 Bos W 4-2 0 0 0 2 0 3 - 0 0 0 0 0 16:32
06/06 @ Bos W 2-1 1 0 1 1 2 2 50.0% 0 0 0 0 1 15:02
06/09 Bos L 1-5 0 1 1 0 0 5 - 0 0 0 0 0 19:01
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Perennials, (10–)15–60 cm (taprooted). Stems 1(–4), erect, simple, glabrous or sparsely tomentose. Leaves sessile; blades ovate, 1.5–3 cm × 10–15 mm, 1–2-pinnately lobed, (bases auriculate, slightly clasping) faces ± hairy. Heads 30–100+, in simple or compound, corymbiform arrays. Phyllaries 10–13+ in (1–)2 series, (midribs light green) oblong (apices papillose, translucent), abaxial faces glabrous. Receptacles flat to slightly convex; paleae narrowly oblong, 2–2.5 mm. Ray florets 8–10(–13), pistillate, fertile; corollas white, laminae 1–1.5 × 2–2.5 mm. Disc florets 10–25+; corollas grayish white, 1.5–2.5 mm. Cypselae 0.75–1 mm. 2n = 18, 27.
Achillea nobilis was introduced in the flora area through cultivation. It has been reported in Minnesota, Massachusetts, and New York; herbarium sheets indicate that those reports were based on cultivated specimens. It was first collected in Montana in 1902; it appears to have become established in that state, where it is known from Lake and Flathead counties.


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My top ten children's book heroines
So, it was International Women's Day last week. That apparently triggered this article in the Guardian, lamenting the sad lack of adventurous, swashbuckling heroines in adult fiction. I agree, and it's an ambition of mine to write something that makes a tiny attempt at helping to redress this balance. After all, I grew up reading children's books that were full of inspiring female characters, and I am firmly convinced that those girls helped me become the woman I am today. So, in the spirit of it being, er, just-over-a-week-since-International-Women's-Day, here's my Top 10 female characters in children's literature.
1. Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Longstocking,by Astrid Lindgren)
When I was about five or six, my mother and I used to read Pippi Longstocking together, and Pippi immediately became my idol. A little girl with superhuman strength, she lives alone with her horse (which she can lift with one hand) while her pirate father sails the seven seas, and her presence invariably invokes anarchy wherever she goes. I loved her sense of humour, her outrageous lies and her cheerful ease with her own outlandish appearance - unmatched stockings, a patchwork dress and bright red hair in plaits that protrude horizontally from either side of her head. I particularly loved the scene in one chapter where she sees a sign in a pharmacy window asking 'Do you have a problem with freckles?' and marches into the shop to say that she doesn't. 'But... but... you're absolutely covered in freckles,' the assistant points out. Yes, Pippi agrees... but she likes them, thanks, and thinks it's terribly rude that anyone might suggest they were a problem.
Pippi's refusal to be patronised, sidelined or controlled made me love her then and I still love her now. A cracking role model for all little girls who want to live alone and be a pirate when they grow up.
2. Nancy Blackett (Swallows & Amazons by Arthur Ransome)
Swallows & Amazons always strikes me as being the thinking child's Famous Five. Much like the Famous Five, the Walker children are allowed absurd freedom, and sail their own boat, the Swallow, to an island in Windermere and camp there alone for the entire summer; their father having given his permission for this in a telegram that reads "BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS. IF NOT DUFFERS, WON'T DROWN", and to put this into perspective, the youngest Walker is six years old. Unlike the Famous Five, however, they make their own entertainment rather than stumbling across some nasty unshaven working class men who are up to no good - and that's where the Blacketts, Nancy and Peggy come in. The Walkers see themselves as empire-building explorers or Royal Naval officers, but under Nancy's captaincy the Blacketts have positioned themselves firmly as pirates. Nancy is tougher, stronger, more dynamic than John, the captain of the Swallow. Her boat, the Amazon, flies the Jolly Roger and, taking control of her own identity, she refuses to be known by her real name, Ruth - pirates, of course, must be 'ruthless'. Nancy is the daring one, the decision-maker, self-reliant and independent. John Walker, ever-sensible, dismisses her suggestion that they could live on Wildcat Island all year round, but as a reader, I always got the impression that Nancy could manage it perfectly well. Apparently Ransome named one of his own yachts The Nancy Blackett, as she was his favourite of all his characters. I say good call.
3. Mildred Hubble (The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy)
Clumsy, untidy, hapless and rarely in the correct school uniform, Jill Murphy's Worst Witch and I had rather a lot in common when I first encountered her as a little girl. Attending the cold, blustery mountaintop boarding school, Miss Cackle's Academy For Witches, Mildred and her plump tabby cat, clinging spreadeagled and yowling to her broom like a furry limpet while the other cats sit upright with elegance and poise, stumble from catastrophe to disaster on an almost daily basis. Inept though Mildred is, she always does her best, always sticks up for her mates and loves her ridiculous cat to bits. The splendid illustrations of Mildred, dark hair escaping from its plaits, shoelaces trailing and a perpetually worried expression on her face could easily be me aged nine; like Mildred, no matter how hard I tried, I was a dyspraxic klutz who tripped, dropped things, got lost in corridors, was incapable of holding on to my own possessions and looked like a Victorian urchin by morning play-time. Mildred helped me remember that there's more to being a girl than neat hair and dainty deportment... and that you don't necessarily have to be Little Miss Sporty or Action Girl either. And for that, I am forever grateful.
4. Mary Lennox (The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Small, thin, sour-faced, spoilt and 'as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived', Mary Lennox might not seem like an appealing character in the least at the start of The Secret Garden. Her sense of entitlement is high and, orphaned in India after the death of her frivolous and largely uninterested parents, she struggles to adjust when she is dispatched to the crumbling Gothic manor house on the Yorkshire Moors under the 'care' of her mostly absent uncle Archibald Craven, a widowed hunchback rendered helpless with grief by the death of his wife some years previously. But her tight-lipped stubbornness gives her a natural survival instinct, and her curiosity about the odd goings-on in the house and the walled-up, overgrown secret garden she discovers, abandoned for a decade, shape the rest of the story and ultimately, repairs the relationship between a neurotic, emotionally-neglected, hypochondriac little boy and his father. Mary herself learns many a lesson during the course of the story, thanks to the kindness and patience of some of the people she meets, but this contrary, obstinate little girl also changes life at Misselthwaite Manor for the better.
I must give Mary extra credit, too, for appearing in one of the most terrifying opening chapters to any children's book I've ever read. All credit to the Edwardians: I can't imagine a book aimed at nine-year -olds today opening with a little girl discovered waiting patiently for someone to come and look after her in a house populated solely by the dead victims of cholera.
5. Cassandra Mortmain (I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith)
I was not a teenage girl who read romance. Ever. If more romances were like I Capture The Castle, I might have, though, because from the very first line ('I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...') I was charmed and captivated by this novel's cast of well-meaning eccentrics. But it was Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, who really won me over. Cassandra loves her unconventional family but never shies away from their many flaws - and she rarely shies away from her own, either. She's practical and resourceful and not above scheming, but ultimately, her heart is in the right place. When I was her age, I felt like I could be friends with her; now, in my 30s, I feel like I want to look after her, to give her a break from her endless quest to keep her impoverished family's heads above water. Either way, I admire her, and the dignity with which she accepts the bittersweet ending to her story is admirable and touching.
6. Jo March (Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys by Louisa M Alcott)
I'll admit right now that I ploughed my way through Little Women wanting to slap three out of the four March sisters. Meg is a boring goody-goody, Beth is a saintly invalid and Amy is a spoilt brat. Jo, on the other hand, is another matter. A cheerful tomboy who hides in the attic and writes stories wearing a special hat on which to wipe her leaky fountain-pen, she's the only sister with an ounce of personality, turns down a marriage proposal from a rich and handsome young neighbour, and sells her own hair ('her one beauty', as Amy points out) to a wig-maker when the family is short of money. When she eventually agrees to marry, it's to a stocky middle-aged German academic who can darn his own socks. I couldn't fail to salute her.
7. Sally Lockhart (The Ruby In The Smoke, The Shadow In The North, The Tiger In The Well and The Tin Princess by Philip Pullman)
OK, so I wasn't a child when I discovered Sally Lockhart; I was well into my 20s. That didn't stop me wanting to be her. Aged 'sixteen or so' at the beginning of the first book, Sally doesn't let patriarchal Victorian society get the better of her. She makes an independent living as a sort of financial advisor; she forms lasting and loyal friendships with men and women alike and most importantly, swashbuckles with the best of them. Never far from intrigue and adventure, Sally is clever, tough and resolute, occasionally unscrupulous and refuses to be bound by the conventions of her time - she bears an illegitimate child by her murdered lover, for instance, and goes on to marry a Hungarian-Jewish socialist. That's pretty much where Sally's story ends... but you just know that she has more adventures to come.
8. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter series by JK Rowling)
If I'd had Hermione in my life when I was eight, I'd have been a happier girl. Not only a strong female character, but also a nerd? Why, JK Rowling, you are really spoiling us. I doubt there's much to say about Hermione that hasn't already been said, but she's one of those children's characters that I can absolutely believe in. Fascinated by everything around her and always wanting to know more, Hermione is, of course, known for her intelligence, but there's so much more to her than that. She has a natural and admirable tendency to root for the underdog, a dry sense of humour and a wholly realistic vulnerability with which she fights a constant battle. When girls are being presented with the hideously anti-feminist Bella Swan as a role model in popular literature, we need more Hermiones in our multi-million-selling book franchises, please.
9. Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables is my mum's favourite book and I always associate it with her, so I'm a little biased towards it for that reason, but I must say, Anne is a cracking heroine. Without parents, she spends the first 12 years of her life half-starved in an orphanage or neglected in foster care, but her spirit remains unbroken. Perhaps it's this resilience that persuades Marilla and Matthew, the middle-aged brother and sister who think they are about to adopt a boy to work on their farm, not to return her on the grounds of her gender. Anne has an unfortunate tendency to get into scrapes, a raging temper - in one of my favourite moments, she breaks a slate over her rival's head in the schoolroom when he laughs at her red hair - and an appealing tendency to daydream with which I could always identify. What she lacks in foresight, however, she makes up for in brains - she ultimately goes on to win a scholarship to a prestigious university.
Cheerful though she is, she's certainly no Pollyanna. She's just as prone to moods as the rest of us, and her tearful despair when she inadvertently dyes her hair a fetching shade of green (lesson: do not buy beauty products from door-to-door salesmen) is convincing to any teenager who's ever thought their life would be ended by a bad haircut.
10. Bonnie Green (The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken)
Well, yes, she's a bit spoilt and stroppy. She is also, however, feisty, adventurous, sharp, determined, protective and cunning, is chased by wolves, and spends months surviving with her adored but frailer cousin Sylvia in their friend Simon's goose-cart in this atmospheric alternate-history tale of villainy and adventure. Frankly, what's not to like?
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Nintendo announces new Switch OLED model Heres whats been upgraded
On Nintendo, you're the king of unorthodox announcements. The Japanese gaming giant has just announced the launch of the new Nintendo Switch model that comes with an OLED screen. For now, we're calling it the Switch OLED, just to avoid confusion. The announcement was made via a tweet that we've embedded below and it is already up for pre-order on the official Nintendo website. Earlier, we reported that Nintendo was working on the "Switch Pro" but it looks like there are just a few minute changes to the console as a whole to really give it the Switch Pro tag.
Meet the newest entry to the #NintendoSwitch family! Nintendo Switch (OLED model) brings the versatility of the Nintendo Switch experience with a vibrant 7-inch OLED screen, a wide adjustable stand, and more. Nintendo Switch (OLED model) releases on 10/8.https://t.co/zRpGxakJDn pic.twitter.com/Tsc55r35ay
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) July 6, 2021
So, what's really changed from the base Switch? Well, for one the new Switch OLED comes with a 7-inch OLED screen, an adjustable stand that looks to be a significant improvement over the flimsy stand on the original Switch. It also comes with a wired LAN port, 64 GB of storage and enhanced audio capabilities. While all of this is great and dandy, where's the improved internals and hardware? We're hoping that Nintendo isn't hiding the Switch Pro somewhere, waiting to pounce on unsuspecting customers come the holidays. Oh, and it also comes in a white colour that is sure to be a stain machine over time.
Let's take a deeper look at what's on offer on the Switch OLED model, shall we?
First off is the improved 7-inch OLED screen. So obviously the OG Switch didn't have the best display out there with a multi-touch capacitive touch screen with a 720p resolution. Sure, it did the job but with the new OLED screen, at the very least, playing games portably will look much, much better.
The wide adjustable stand is also an upgrade over the flimsy toothpick of a stand on the OG Switch. From the image, you can clearly see that it had a wider base of support. But, without really putting it through the paces, we can't tell if it is functionally better than the OG Switch's stand.
The Switch OLED also comes with 64 GB of internal storage (cue the world's weakest Hurray), so yeah, you can maybe store 6 more games on the Switch OLED. The addition of a wired LAN port is very confusing but Nintendo are always old-school with their consoles, and maybe it's a Japanese thing.
The final addition seems to be enhanced audio from the onboard speakers. While this is a good upgrade, it really is only superficial as I have yet to meet anyone who plays their Switch without headphones on portable mode.
Look, as much as the new Switch OLED makes us feel, it really is just a superficial update. The promised internal upgrade hasn't been implemented so we're stuck with 4-year-old hardware. And, even though games like Doom Eternal have been successfully ported over to the console, the Switch can't go on for the next few years without a chip upgrade, at the very least. But, for now, the new Switch OLED is what we have.
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A review of this week's Watchmen, "An Almost Religious Awe," coming up just as soon as I'm strapped to a chair in an abandoned JC Penney…
Dr. Manhattan, I presume?
It's easy to understand why some fans of the Watchmen comic were skeptical of this show's existence and its structure when it debuted. Yes, it existed in the same universe as the comic, and treated everything that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons did as sacrosanct(*), but in addition to having a wildly different setting and subject matter, it also barely featured any characters from the comic. Adrian Veidt wasn't explicitly identified as such until the third episode, which is also when we finally met Laurie Blake. Even if the Seventh Kavalry members wore masks inspired by Rorschach's, it started off as a version of Watchmen pretty light on people from the original story.
(*) Well, mostly sacrosanct. Hooded Justice wasn't black in the comic, but as my colleague Brian Hiatt deftly pointed out a few days ago, two of Alan Moore's most famous early works — Marvelman and Swamp Thing — involved him playing the "everything you thought you knew about this hero is wrong" card. Each time, he didn't invalidate the previous stories told about those characters, but he completely recontextualized them. That's exactly what Lindelof did with Hooded Justice.
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Or not, it turns out.
Last week, "This Extraordinary Being" upended our perceptions about the origins of superheroism by revealing Hooded Justice's true identity. "An Almost Religious Awe," meanwhile, concludes by upending our perceptions about this Watchmen as a whole. Occasional Europa interludes aside, the series' physical scale seemed relatively small, and the thought of Dr. Manhattan — omnipotent, omniscient, naked, blue, capable of going anywhere and doing anything — being a significant part of this story about America's ugly history of race relations seemed almost laughable. When "An Almost Religious Awe" opened with a videotaped biography of Manhattan, I took the shot of his gigantic form striding over the Vietnamese countryside (his face just out of frame) as the closest we would ever get to seeing him in this series, because how on Earth — or Mars, or Europa — could this version of Watchmen have room for the naked blue god?
Unlike Damon Lindelof — or this episode's writers, Stacy Osei-Kuffour & Claire Kiechel — I wasn't thinking nearly big enough. Not only does it turn out that we've been seeing Dr. Manhattan from the very first episode — down here in Tulsa, and not just in that satellite image from the Martian surface(*) — but his current state of being gets even deeper into this show's primary area of interest. Because if the first superhero of the Watchmen universe could be black, why can't God be black, too?
(*) As Will noted to Angela in the second episode (more on that in a moment), among Manhattan's powers is the ability to create duplicates of himself, so he can be two places at once. Could Manhattan be Cal, but also be on Mars? Stay tuned — same Nite Owl time, same Nite Owl channel!
The internet being the internet, some already put this puzzle piece together weeks ago, because Watchmen laid out enough clues here and there. In hindsight, among the hints or potential hints:
* In the second episode, Will jokes that he is really Dr. Manhattan, to which Angela replies that the ability to appear like a normal person isn't one of Manhattan's powers. When Angela tells Cal about Will's assertion that Manhattan can shape-shift, Cal is almost too quick to reply, "No he can't. And he's on Mars."
* In the third episode, Laurie tells Angela, "Your husband's fucking hot." Which… yes, obviously he is. But also, Laurie spent two decades in a relationship with Dr. Manhattan, so on some subconscious level, she may have been attracted to Cal for reasons that go deeper than however his skin currently looks.
* In that episode's framing device with the phone call to Mars, Laurie also says, "You're probably never gonna hear this, anyway." Which could mean that she knew he wasn't on Mars at all. (Or maybe she also knows that Cal is her ex?)
* In the fourth episode, Cal is very adamant and no-nonsense in telling the kids that heaven is pretend — which in hindsight is very much the kind of thing a rigidly scientific being like Dr. Manhattan would think and say. To him, matter is only matter, just taking different forms along the way.
* And in one of my favorite Easter eggs ever (albeit as part of the show's supplemental materials), Peteypedia reveals that Laurie's space dildo was designed by Laurie's ex-boyfriend, Dan "Nite Owl" Dreiberg, who was also hugely into Camelot lore, and who named this particular device Excalibur.
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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Cal a.k.a. Dr. Manhattan. Photo credit: Mark Hill/HBO
Most of the dogged Reddit sleuths, though, seemed to think that the twist would be that Angela was blind to her husband being Dr. Manhattan. Instead, the episode's riveting closing moments — scored to a piano cover of David Bowie's "Life on Mars," of course — reveal the opposite to be true: Angela has known all along, but for reasons yet to be explained, Cal has no idea who and what he really was. Angela literally has to break his skull open — and pull out a metal object shaped like a hydrogen atom (Dr. Manhattan's forehead logo), glowing blue — to start bringing him back to who and what he was.
Yet if unmasking our heroine's spouse as the deity of the Watchmen universe makes the story much bigger in some ways, it makes it a lot smaller in others. Now, Angela Abar is not only the granddaughter of the most important figure from the first age of heroes, but the wife of the most important figure of the second age. It's all tied very tightly together, down to the role Dr. Manhattan plays in her own origin story, which takes up the great majority of the episode.
The hour functions as a companion to "This Extraordinary Being" — and features periodic flashes to that episode. As Angela gets the Nostalgia leeched from her bloodstream, her memories become tangled up in Will's, so that we get a glimpse of the Greenwood massacre right before Angela's own parents are murdered, or see a young June hugging Angela-as-Will right after we see a very old June(*) die of a heart attack on the same day she meets her granddaughter for the first time.
(*) Grandmotherly June, now played by Valeri Ross, appeared briefly last week right before Angela woke up at Lady Trieu's facility. That was the first sign that her memory was regaining prominence over Will's.
Dr. Manhattan is a character who exists independent of linear time. He experiences every moment of his life all at once, meaning his personal history constantly repeats itself. And as his wife's origin plays out, we see that her family history keeps repeating, too. Laurie pointed out that superheroic identities are inspired by childhood trauma. For Will Reeves, it was losing his parents right after watching Trust in the Law. For Angela, it's seeing her parents killed by a bomb moments after she pleaded with them to let her watch Sister Night: The Nun With The Motherf%&$ing Gun, a delightfully-titled blaxploitation movie featuring an actress made up very much like the adult Angela in her costumed identity. It's all obvious linkage, but no more than Bruce Wayne modeling his costume after the bat that randomly crashed through his mansion's window.
So Hooded Justice's granddaughter is set on a path to join the family business — both kinds of uniformed crimefighting, in fact — because her world blows up just like his did. In this case, it's not racism that leads to parents dying, but anti-colonialism. Because of Dr. Manhattan, America won the Vietnam War and turned Vietnam into a state. For as much as Manhattan was treated with the awe of the episode's title by many Vietnamese, there are plenty who resent the intrusion of him and his country onto their soil (we see a Manhattan mural covered in "MURDERER" graffiti at one point), and several of those malcontents conspired to attack representatives of that occupation, which tragically included Angela's parents, Marcus and Elise. Marcus, when we briefly see him as an adult, is still scarred by the memories of Will angrily wiping the makeup off his face, inspiring him to warn his daughter, "People who wear masks are dangerous." Yet his death leads Angela to putting on a mask. All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again, and a lot of it is Dr. Manhattan's fault.
Because Angela is less under the influence of the drug this week, "An Almost Religious Awe" gets to spend a lot more time in the show's present than "This Extraordinary Being" did. This includes a return trip to Europa, after Veidt and the clones got last week off, but also a chance to check in with other corners of the series. Wade doesn't appear, but it's implied that he killed all of the Seventh Kavalrymen who arrived at his house at the end of the fifth episode, and that he is now impersonating one of them. (One of the corpses that Petey finds is missing a mask.) Laurie has finally — with help from listening to Angela's end of the Nostalgia-induced memory trip — pieced together the interlocking conspiracy involving 7K, Cyclops, and the costumed policing initiative, which she neatly lays out to a completely unimpressed Jane Crawford. But Laurie's Columbo routine gets foiled when it turns out the Crawfords have a freaking trap door with a remote control in their living room, and soon she's on the receiving end of a monologue from our story's true villain, Joe Keene Jr. He may look handsome and act genial, but he's seething with privileged resentment at having to even slightly inconvenience himself to make the world fairer for people who don't look like him.
Jeremy Irons as Adrian Veidt on trial (with Tom Mison and Sara Vickers). Photo credit: Colin Hutton/HBO
"The scales have tipped way too far," he argues, in phrasing that is sadly too familiar from our world these days, "and it is extremely difficult to be a white man in America right now. So I'm thinking… I might try being a blue one."
And with that, followed by Angela taking a hammer to Cal's skull, the season's endgame is finally revealed. Keene thinks he can somehow duplicate or steal Dr. Manhattan's powers for himself, and it will be up to some coalition of Angela, Cal, Lady Trieu, and Will to stop the creation of an all-powerful bigot.
The elephant in the room has been revealed — both the metaphorical one (Manhattan), and the very literal one that is in the room next to Angela's at Lady Trieu's compound. The great beast, not Will, is soaking in the Nostalgia being extracted from Angela's body, because, of course, an elephant never forgets. It feels like another prank, akin to Laurie seeing the car drop in front of her at the end of the third episode. But if that joke's on Angela, the bigger one has been on her husband, who has apparently lived a long time oblivious to his true nature.
"Hey, baby," Angela tells him after violently waking him up. "We're in fucking trouble."
Hopefully, Seventh Kavalry will be in much more now that Manhattan has finally, fully come to Tulsa.
* Family history repeats itself even more literally with Lady Trieu: Bian isn't Lady Trieu's daughter, but a clone of her mother, who is being gradually fed Nostalgia so that Lady Trieu can have her mother present if/when she succeeds in saving the world.
* Speaking of Lady Trieu's mother, a Peteypedia entry on Lady Trieu describes her mom (also named Bian) as a "pachyderm mom." Always comes back to elephants.
* Even more than usual, the trips to Europa are played for pure comedy. We find out that Veidt has been silently enduring a yearlong trial for his abundant sins (murdering clones, trying to escape his confinement, transmitting obscene satellite imagery). In the end, his only arguments in his defense are a fart, followed by a stampede of pigs. Why is he not doing better to save himself? Perhaps the wink that the Crookshanks prosecutor gives him right before he breaks wind is a sign that the whole thing is yet another sham, like this whole English countryside existing on a moon hundreds of million miles away from the actual UK.
* Laurie Blake, again summing up a key aspect of superheroics: "White men in masks are heroes. But black men in masks? Are scary."
* Finally, without spoiling anything that happens next week, I will tell all of you to watch through the end credits of that episode.
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This article presents integer programming formulations for finding interesting patterns in Conway's game of Life, with accompanying exercises and solutions.
Bosch, Robert. 1999. "Integer Programming and Conway's Game of Life." SIAM Review 41(3): 594-604.


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Cemal Gürsel (13. listopada 1895. – 14. rujna 1966.), turski časnik, predsjednik Republike Turske.

Dolazi na vlast nakon državnog udara 27. svibnja 1960. i svrgavanja s vlasti predsjednika Republike Celala Bayara i predsjednika Vlade Adnana Menderesa. Iako nije izravno sudjelovao u organizaciji državnog udara, zbog velike popularnosti među narodom, pučisti ga predlažu za šefa države i vlade.

Zbog zdravstvenih razloga Turska velika nacionalna skupština utvrdila je njegovu nesposobnost za obnašanje dužnosti predsjednika Republike, te ga je razriješila dužnosti 28. ožujka 1966. Umro je nekoliko mjeseci potom, 14. rujna 1966.

Turski predsjednici
Političari 1945. – 1989.
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Q: Basic GPU Architecture I have been using CUDA for a few weeks, but I have some doubts about the allocation of blocks/warps/thread.
First of all, I would like to understand if I got these facts straight:

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*GPU has some streaming processors that can work in parallel.

*Every SM, has Blocks, and every Block has it's own shared memory.

*Inside Blocks we have CUDA cores.

*And inside each SM we also have Warp schedulers.

*Every warp consist of 32 threads. and warps inside a Block working in serial.
It means one Warp should finish and then next Warp can start.

*All Block in GPU cannot run in parallel at the same time. and the number of Blocks that run in parallel is limited.(But I do not know how and how many)

Now my main question is:
Assume we have 2 different situation:

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*First we have 32 Threads per block(1 warp) and we have 16384 objects(or operands).

*Second we have 64 Threads per block(2 warps) with the same amount of objects.
Why does the first one take more time to run the program?(Other conditions are same, and even when we have 128 threads per block, it is faster than those two)
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Lockheed XR6O Constitution
The Lockheed XR6O was a massive transport aircraft that was produced for the US Navy during the Second World War, but that had a low priority and wasn't completed until after the end of the war.
Lockheed began work on the Model 89 early in 1942 in response to a suggestion from Pan American. The airline was able to get the US Navy to sponsor the design, and two prototypes were ordered as the XR6O-1.
The Model 89 was designed by a team led by Willis Hawkins and W.A. Pulver. Work began in earnest in June 1942, and twenty eight different layouts were considered before they settled on a largely conventional four engined mid wing aircraft. The most unusual feature was its double-deck layout, which gave the fuselage a figure of 8 profile, looking like two standard aircraft were stacked on top of each other. Each deck was pressurized, and could carry 204 passengers in maximum military density or 168 passengers in normal military density. A planned post war version would have carried 51 seated passengers and 58 sleeper passengers, along with 11 crew members. The two decks were linked by circular staircases at each end. The lower deck could also be used for cargo, including vehicles up to the jeep.
The two prototypes weren't completed until fifteen months after the end of the war. The first prototype, powered by four 3,000hp R-4360-18 engines, made its maiden flight on 9 November 1946. Soon after this the engines were replaced with water injected R-4360-22W engines, each providing 3,500hp.
The second prototype was given the new engines before its maiden flight of June 1948.
The two aircraft were delivered to Transport Squadron VR-44 at Alameda in 1949. In service the aircraft was something of a disappointment. It was underpowered and suffered from engine cooling problems that meant that it often had to be flown with the cooling gills on the engines open, which increased drag and reduced range. It also lacked range, and could only reach Hawaii from California with a reduced payload.
The two aircraft were redesignated as the XR6V-1 in 1950. They underwent a major overhaul at Lockheed in 1951-52, but despite this they were retired in 1953 and placed into storage. They were sold off in 1955, and were soon scrapped by their new owners. Lockheed attempted to produce more commercially viable civilian versions, but the promising Model 289 had to be abandoned after the planned Wright Typhoon engines were scrapped.
Engine: R-4360-18 or R-4360-22W
Power: 3,000hp or 3,500hp each
Wing span: 189ft 1.25in
Height: 50ft 4.5in
Empty weight: 114,575lb
Maximum weight: 143,600lb
Maximum speed: 303mph at 20,000ft
Rate of climb: 1,010ft/ min
Normal range:
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NSW ambos win $275,000 class action payout
A $275,000 class action payout to NSW Ambulance workers will serve as a "lesson to all businesses" about private data breaches, their solicitor says.
In an Australian first, Justice Julie Ward on Monday accepted a settlement of a class action led by Tracy Evans against the NSW Ambulance Service over a major data breach.
Justice Ward said Ms Evans would receive three times as much as the average claimant in the class action, with 108 workers in total receiving payment.
"I think this is a fantastic result for 108 NSW ambulance workers who have had their workers' compensation files unlawfully accessed and extracts of it sold to at least one law firm," solicitor George Newhouse told reporters outside the Law Courts Building on Monday.
Mr Newhouse, from firm Centennial Lawyers, said the "reasonable" payout also had broader implications.
"This is the first privacy class action in Australia - it's the first to go to court and it's the first to settle in this way," he said.
"Employers need to be extremely careful with the data that they collect on their employees and they need to maintain privacy.
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"I think this is a lesson to all businesses and people who collect data."
NSW Ambulance contractor Waqar Malik was convicted of unlawfully disclosing personal information in 2016 after he sold the worker's compensation files of 130 former and current employees to personal injury lawyers.
The files included medical records such as psychiatric assessments and details of injuries.


summary : The Miami Heat are searching for potential free agents to fill the void left by LeBron James when the latter left to rejoin the Cleveland Cavaliers. While two of the Big Three stars remained, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, it quickly became apparent that more star power is needed to push the rankings of the Hassan Whiteside team higher in the Eastern Conference. With the Kevin Durant free agency in full force this NBA offseason, the Miami Heat is said to be looking into cheap deals with veteran stars to compete with the likes of the Golden State Warriors and San Antonio Spurs for the OKC star.
summary : The Los Angeles Clippers have been one of the most notable NBA teams in the basketball community. Although the Chris Paul squad lucked out in the previous NBA season, it looks like fans and followers of the Los Angeles Clippers could look forward to a strong showing from the team this time around. With the noteworthy addition of Paul Pierce in the NBA team, along with the re-signing of DeAndre Jordan, the Los Angeles Clippers are considered strong contenders in the Western Conference - with some sports analysts going as far as claiming that the group could dethrone the Golden State Warriors. However, one of the veteran NBA stars in the Los Angeles Clippers has been the topic of trade rumors since the offseason started: Jamal Crawford.
summary : The rumors surrounding the potential transfer of Los Angeles Clippers star Jamal Crawford to another NBA team have been making the rounds online and offline as of late. While no official statement had been provided by the Los Angeles Clippers or Jamal Crawford himself, it appears that the speculations are still rife. Two of the most widely talked about potential NBA teams that could welcome the Los Angeles Clippers star soon are the New York Knicks and the Miami Heat.


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Leaving Thailand - Departure Point: Choam Sa-Ngam
There are many things that define a country and whilst we can't claim to be living like locals, at one with the people or even taking the time to consciously examine cultural norms anywhere, it is impossible not to be able to get a sense of how one country differs from another. Obviously, within countries there are also differences between regions that shape the tourists overall view of a country and what defines these regions and countries can be so subtle and sometimes so dramatic. I love the way nature provides a ready warning that change is likely to be coming. Crossing mountain ranges, obvious changes to land use and vegetation all tend to signal a change to who the people are and what they are doing.
We left Surin in a space-cab Hilux with Molly and Julia on the workman's bench crammed behind the front seats, made that little bit more luxurious with an extra foam cushion.
The road out of Surin was quiet and well maintained but as we moved south, the roads became less trafficked and narrower. As we turned east and left Surin province the road deteriorated significantly and for about 5-10 km crawled along, bouncing in and out of gaping potholes at about 10 km/hr. Hitting a T-intersection we were surprised that only 90 minutes out of Surin we were finding road signs to the border - Choam Sa-Ngam only 13km away!
For the last 20 minutes we had seen jungle clad hills raising to the south and running east west. All that we really knew about the border area was that from just on the other side of the border there were escarpment views out over the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />North West corner of Cambodia so it was a fair assumption that the range of hills was the border.
The last couple of km wound uphill to the border post on the Thai side – suddenly the tar road was left to itself, heading into the jungle and Cambodia on it's own whilst we diverted down a dirt track to a couple of bamboo shacks and a gate house. We pulled up, had an ice coffee with the driver and he headed over the border to "do some shopping" – for what we weren't sure. We sat around just taking in where we were.
There was a small camp close to us, we assumed it was military as there was no other reason for people to be there – there was one drinks hut and there had been a few empty shacks back where we left the tar but on this day, things were pretty quiet.
We headed over to the gate house, noting it was staffed by two soldiers and passed a few people walking in the other direction. As we walked down the dirt road some people pushing trolleys with hay and coconuts overtook us when we stopped to take photos. Then up to Thai immigration, stopping at the departures window of a tiny portable office.
A lady road past, giggling and babbling at us and then someone yelled out in Thai – it would appear that not many people actually visit immigration and that most people who were either Thai or Cambodian had a fair amount of freedom to come and go across the border.
A very animated man turned up and said welcome to Cambodia – he was the Thai Immigration officer. He quickly burst out laughing and then declared that this was still Thailand. I pointed to the other side of the border and said Laos in a questioning voice…….he said no, Cambodia, looking very worried that we really didn't know what was going on. Then we all laughed. He didn't stop there though, thumbing through the passports he questioned Julia's photo page, asking whether it was really her or not – when she nodded yes he shook his head, looked at her and said woo, very pretty eh?
And so our time in Thailand ended with the smiles and laughs that the country is famous for. We walked on and wondered what reception awaited us in Cambodia.
Sounds exciting! I'm planning to send a friend to cross at that border and pick him up on the Choam side which I have been to before...any further advice about the Thai side? They will be going by Public Transport/sawgthaew.