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Terror, trust deficit fuels trouble on Pakistan's borders with Afghanistan, India
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Pakistan's troubles along its border has increased amid tension with both Afghanistan and India.
The border trouble gives grave signals to its military-backed government that exporting terrorism would carry grave consequences, according to Al Arabiya.
Earlier, Pakistani Rangers exchanged mortar fire with the Taliban in eastern Nangarhar province after the latter ripped away the border fence being laid by the Pakistani personnel in the third week of December last year.
The local Taliban official followed it up by threatening 'a war' if the Pakistanis persisted with the border fencing.
Further, Pakistani soldiers unleashed artillery in Afghanistan's Kunar province following the incident in Nangarhar province's Gushta area. This indicates that both sides have upped the ante along the disputed Durand boundary.
The Durand Line forms the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, a 2,670-kilometre (1,660 mi) international land border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Further, the Taliban local affiliates mentioned that they have stopped the Pakistan military from erecting barbed wire fences and outposts in Afghanistan's Nimroz province, according to local media.
On the other hand, around the same time in the third week of December ( 2021), Pakistan soldiers clashed with India in Jammu and Kashmir on the border when the Indians thwarted efforts to infiltrate militants.
The Indian Army had formally raised the issue of Pakistan Rangers starting a construction project just across the Line of Control, opposite Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir union.
But the two incidents portray Pakistan image which is obsessed with the Kashmir border dispute with India and has sought to 'normalise' the border with successive governments in Afghanistan, according to Al Arabiya.
Earlier, Islamabad invested heavily in the Taliban in the mid-1990s when the latter took power in Afghanistan and, again, after they were pushed out of power following the US-led invasion in 2001. Nearly two- decades' sheltering and nurturing of the Taliban was meant to acquire "strategic depth" vis a vis the perennial enemy India.
However, the Taliban's return to power in Kabul in August 2021, from securing that 'depth', has denied it even the basic peace with Afghanistan. Although landlocked and dependent upon Pakistan for reaching out to the sea, the Afghans have doggedly refused to acknowledge the British-era defined Durrand Line border according to Al Arabiya. (ANI)
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I have owned pet mice for many years now and decided to compile some interesting facts about these adorable pets. Within the facts you will be able to gain a better understanding of how these rodents live, what they like to eat, behaviors that they display and reasons why I think they make good pets.
Whether you have owned pet mice yourself before, are thinking about owning some pet mice or are just interested to read this article, thanks and I hope you gain something from it. Please leave a comment below if you have any questions or feedback.
Mice are clean animals - This is sometimes a surprise to people who have never owned pet mice. You will need to clean out their cage once a week, replacing all the bedding and adding new cardboard or paper shredding to chews and nest in.
Mice eat little and often - Mice are very easy pets to care for when it comes to feeding. They will eat anywhere between 10-15 small meals in a 24 hour period. They are nocturnal animals to ideally you need to put some food in their cage in the evening, then they will eat throughout the night and sleep most of the day.
Mice are social animals - If you have ever tried to catch a wild mouse you will know how difficult it can be, especially if you are trying to rid your house of them. But pet mice kept in captivity and interacted with from a young age can be very social. Once they are familiar with you they will usually approach you to take food from your hand. You can handle them and they will happily run up and down your arms.
Mice can breed quickly - It is very important when buying mice that you take time to make sure you only have either males, or females. Never have a mix of both or you will end up with a litter in no time, followed by another litter, and maybe another! Female mice can give birth to a litter of a dozen or so mice every 3 weeks, so you can appreciate how quickly your mice numbers can increase.
Mice have poor eyesight - They have very bad eyesight and can barley see past the end of their noses. Therefore they rely on their other senses and tools to know what is around them. Their sense of smell is used to help find food, be aware of danger and recognize familiar things. Their whiskers help them to judge the size of gaps and distances, along with what type of surface they are standing on and the terrain.
Mice like repetition - In the wild it has been proven that mice will use almost the exact same path from day to day to gather food and return to their home. This information can prove particularly useful if you are trying to catch wild mice coming into your home.
Mice use both their tails and claws to climb - Not only do they have good claws for climbing but their tails have ridges on adding extra grip. Mice can grip well enough with their tails to hang off a ledge if needed.
If you are thinking about owning some mice there are plenty of helpful articles online to guide you through the care, feeding and maintenance, I personally would recommend mice as a beginner pet for children, or a fun project for adults with an interest in rodents.
In brief, you need to clean out their cage once a week, top up food and water once a day and play with them whenever you have time. They are really mow maintenance pets that offer a lot of fun and interest in return.
You should never mix different kinds of rodents. Rats get along with other rats, but putting a rat and a mouse together will end in death for the mouse. Female mice do well living in threes or more. Male mice must live alone. Even if you have male mice from the same litter, once they reach a certain age, they will fight, normally to the death. Having a male mouse, you just need to give them attention and lots of fun and enriching toys to play with and things to climb on.


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Q: gcc memory alignment using malloc I've the following struct:
#define M 3

#pragma pack(push)
#pragma pack(1)
struct my_btree_node {
    struct my_btree_node *pointers[M];
    unsigned char *keys[M - 1];
    int data[M - 1];
    unsigned char number_of_keys;
};
#pragma pack(pop)

The sizeof(struct my_btree_node) function returns a value of 49 byte for this struct. Does allocating memory for this struct using malloc return a 64 byte block because on 64 bit systems pointers are 16-byte-aligned or will it indeed be 49 bytes?
Is there a way to align memory with a smaller power of two than 16 and is it possible to get the true size of the allocated memory inside the application?
I want to reduce the number of padding bytes in order to save memory. My applications allocates millions of those structs and I do not want to waste memory.

A: malloc(3) is defined to

The malloc() and calloc() functions return a pointer to the allocated
         memory, which is suitably aligned for any built-in type.  On error,
         these functions return NULL.  NULL may also be returned by a
         successful call to malloc() with a size of zero, or by a successful
         call to calloc() with nmemb or size equal to zero.

So a conforming implementation has to return a pointer aligned to the largest possible machine alignment (with GCC, it is the macro __BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT__)
If you want less, implement your own allocation routine. You could for example allocate a large array of char and do your allocation inside it. That would be painful, perhaps slower (processors dislike unaligned data, e.g. because of CPU cache constraints), and probably not worthwhile (current computers have several gigabytes of RAM, so a few millions of hundred-byte sized data chunks is not a big deal).
BTW, malloc is practically implemented in the C standard library (but -on Linux at least- the compiler knows about it, thanks to __attribute__-s in GNU glibc headers; so some internal optimizations inside GCC know and take care of calls to malloc).

A: malloc uses internal heap-structure. It is implementation-dependent yet one may expect that the memory is allocated by a whole number of (internal) blocks. So usually it's not possible to allocate exactly 49 bytes by a single malloc call. You can build some subsystem of your own on top of malloc to do this, yet I see no reason why you may want it.
P.S. To reduce memory wasting, you can pre-allocate an array consisting of, say, 100 structs, when you need just one more, and return &a[i] until all free indexes are wasted. As arrays are never padded, the memory wasting would be reduced in about 100 times.

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Met future husband Ozzy Osbourne at age 17, when he was singing for Black Sabbath and she was working for her band-manager father, Don Arden.
Created the Ozzfest touring festival in 1996, an event usually headlined by Ozzy or a reunited Black Sabbath and featuring both established and up-and-coming metal bands.
Was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2002, undergoing successful chemotherapy while filming continued on popular MTV reality series The Osbournes.
Founded the Sharon Osbourne Colon Cancer Program through Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, with the goal of improving colon cancer education and screening.
Following The Osbournes, appeared as a judge on talent competitions The X Factor and America's Got Talent, and hosted British talk show The Sharon Osbourne Show.
Her memoir, Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography, was released in the fall of 2005.
Is an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.


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Q: Having clause not working i make this query in oracle 11g database
     SELECT   DISTINCT JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT.LOT_NO,
                    I.ISSUE_DATE,
                    R.PROC_DESC,
                    R.RECV_DATE,
                    M.DFCT_DATE,
                    JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT.FCD_MAIN_ID
    FROM   JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT,
           JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_MAIN M,
           JOC_DAILY_FABRC_RECV_FOLD R,
           JOC_LOT_ISSUE_REG I
   WHERE       M.FCD_MAIN_ID = JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT.FCD_MAIN_ID
           AND R.LOT_NO = JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT.LOT_NO
           AND I.LOT_NO = R.LOT_NO
           AND I.LOT_YEAR = R.LOT_YEAR
           AND JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT.LOT_YEAR = R.LOT_YEAR
           AND JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT.LOT_YEAR = '1213'
           AND JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT.FCDL_ID IN
                    (    SELECT   MIN (DFCT_LOT.FCDL_ID)
    FROM   JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT DFCT_LOT, JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_MAIN DFT_MAIN
   WHERE   DFCT_LOT.FCD_MAIN_ID IN (DFT_MAIN.FCD_MAIN_ID)
GROUP BY   DFCT_LOT.FCD_MAIN_ID)
ORDER BY   JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT.FCD_MAIN_ID

it retrieve data within 2 sec no. of rows=5100
but when i use this query in my front end application it takes too much times so after troubleshooting i find subquery cause problem when data retrieve so i simplify this query
  SELECT   DISTINCT DFCT_LOT.LOT_NO,
                    I.ISSUE_DATE,
                    R.PROC_DESC,
                    R.RECV_DATE,
                    M.DFCT_DATE,
                    DFCT_LOT.FCD_MAIN_ID
    FROM   JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT DFCT_LOT,
           JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_MAIN M,
           JOC_DAILY_FABRC_RECV_FOLD R,
           JOC_LOT_ISSUE_REG I,
           JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_MAIN DFT_MAIN
   WHERE       M.FCD_MAIN_ID = DFCT_LOT.FCD_MAIN_ID
           AND R.LOT_NO = DFCT_LOT.LOT_NO
           AND I.LOT_NO = R.LOT_NO
           AND I.LOT_YEAR = R.LOT_YEAR
           AND DFCT_LOT.LOT_YEAR = R.LOT_YEAR
           AND DFCT_LOT.LOT_YEAR = '1213'
           AND DFCT_LOT.FCD_MAIN_ID IN (DFT_MAIN.FCD_MAIN_ID)

GROUP BY   DFCT_LOT.FCDL_ID,
           DFCT_LOT.FCD_MAIN_ID,
           DFCT_LOT.LOT_NO,
           I.ISSUE_DATE,
           R.PROC_DESC,
           R.RECV_DATE,
           M.DFCT_DATE,
           DFCT_LOT.FCD_MAIN_ID
 HAVING   DFCT_LOT.FCDL_ID in MIN (DFCT_LOT.FCDL_ID)
ORDER BY   DFCT_LOT.FCD_MAIN_ID

this is simplified form of above query but number of rows increase
no.of rows=5578 but i know the actual no. of rows=5100
having clause not working here
kindly look into my query and guide me

A: In your second query you are joining the table JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_MAIN a second time, once as M and once as DFCT_LOT. In the second query's SELECT list you take the first column from M and the last one from DFCT_LOT.
But in the first query they are both from the same M table. When you have more than one record in JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_MAIN for the same FCD_MAIN_ID, then this will result in more combinations in the second query, and this explains why you have more results with it.
But there are several other differences. In the second query you group by many more columns than in the first. Moreover, MIN (DFCT_LOT.FCDL_ID) does not really make sense in the second query, as it is already grouped by, so it is exactly the same as just DFCT_LOT.FCDL_ID. As a consequence, the HAVING clause is just a plain tautology, and you could just as well leave it out and still get the same results.
If you are sure the first query gives the results you want, then I would suggest a different way to achieve a possible optimisation of it:
SELECT      DISTINCT
            L.LOT_NO,
            I.ISSUE_DATE,
            R.PROC_DESC,
            R.RECV_DATE,
            L.DFCT_DATE,
            L.FCD_MAIN_ID,
FROM        (SELECT     L.FCD_MAIN_ID,
                        L.LOT_NO,
                        L.LOT_YEAR,
                        M.DFCT_DATE,
                        ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY L.FCD_MAIN_ID
                                           ORDER BY L.FCDL_ID) AS RN
            FROM        JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT   L,
            INNER JOIN  JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_MAIN  M
                    ON  M.FCD_MAIN_ID = L.FCD_MAIN_ID
            ) L
INNER JOIN  JOC_DAILY_FABRC_RECV_FOLD R
        ON  R.LOT_NO = L.LOT_NO
       AND  R.LOT_YEAR = L.LOT_YEAR
INNER JOIN  JOC_LOT_ISSUE_REG I
        ON  I.LOT_NO = R.LOT_NO
        AND I.LOT_YEAR = R.LOT_YEAR
WHERE       L.LOT_YEAR = '1213'
        AND L.RN = 1
ORDER BY    L.FCD_MAIN_ID

Note that I have used the ANSI/ISO syntax for joins, which I would strongly advise you to do. Defining join conditions in the WHERE clause is something of the eighties; don't do it. Queries becomes much more readable once you are used to the ANSI/ISO syntax.
The suggested query selects all the columns that are needed from both JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_LOT and JOC_FIN_CLTH_DFCT_MAIN in the sub-query, that way you don't have to include those tables again.
The major trick is the use of the ROW_NUMBER window function, which gives an sequence number according to the PARTITION clause. The outer query then filters for only those records which got number 1, which are the records where the value of FCD_MAIN_ID is minimal for a given FCDL_ID.


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Strange Things About Jennifer Aniston And Justin Theroux's Marriage
By Rose Burke/Updated: Jan. 29, 2019 11:27 am EST
It's hard to believe that Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux tied the knot over a year ago, just as it's hard to imagine one without the other. The couple celebrated their one year anniversary in summer 2016, a celebration which they chose to keep low key, according to People. Theroux took a break from filming his hit HBO show The Leftovers in Australia to spend a week with his wife in Los Angeles where the two reportedly celebrated with a few close friends at home. While it's hard to imagine that this seemingly flawless couple could possibly have any strange skeletons in the closet, it seems that that's actually far from the truth. According to several sources, Aniston and Theroux have a few strict rules and strange quirks that keep things interesting and help to ensure the success of their marriage.
They were engaged for three years
When Theroux popped the question in 2012 after just 15 months of dating, most people expected him to walk down the aisle with Aniston just as quickly. It started out this way, as a source told People that just a few months into their engagement they had already picked out their wedding band designs, Aniston's dress was in the works, and that we could expect them to take the plunge that spring. However, 10 months after their engagement was announced, the couple made another announcement. According to People, they had allegedly decided to put things on hold after being overwhelmed with work and not having the time to plan. This resulted in rumors that there was trouble in paradise, and many began to wonder if the couple would ever get married. While some speculated that Theroux was getting cold feet or that he used Aniston to give his career a boost and never planned to marry the Friends star, they couldn't have been more wrong. After a three year-engagement, the two put all rumors to rest and finally tied the knot on August 5, 2015.
Their wedding was far from traditional
When Aniston and Theroux shared their vows, it wasn't quite the over-the-top celebrity spectacle many people expected. The simple ceremony was held in the couple's backyard, and was kept quiet by using Theroux's birthday as a coverup. Both of Aniston's female Friends costars Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox were in attendance, and Cox was even Aniston's maid of honor. Theroux told Good Morning America that Jimmy Kimmel not only officiated the wedding, but even choked up during the ceremony, saying, "It was exactly what you would want him to do. He was extremely funny, kept things extremely light, was extremely touching."
While it's not too strange to have a friend officiate a wedding, the couple also had Howard Stern and Robert Downey Jr. give toasts, which is definitely a bit weird. According to ABC News, Howard Stern poked fun at some of the wedding details on his radio show saying, "There was a table, and then you sit down and the chairs were called poufs, like little pillow poufs." He then complained about not being able to have his cellphone on him by teasing, "I don't want to take a picture of you two! I really don't. I want my cellphone so after I make this speech I can call my car and get ... out of here!" Since there's hardly a photo available of their wedding available for public eyes, it seems like the couple got the privacy they wanted by banning cellphones.
They celebrate their relationship milestones with friends
Most couples celebrate their anniversaries and honeymoons alone with their significant other, shacked up in a bedroom and enjoying some quality time in between the sheets. Theroux and Aniston certainly don't follow that tradition, though. Aside from having spent their first wedding anniversary at home with friends, they had also invited the gang along on their honeymoon. In August of 2015, soon after their top-secret wedding took place at their shared home in Bel Air, the newlyweds headed to Bora Bora for their not-so-private honeymoon.
According to an interview Theroux did with Extra, the couple was accompanied by some of their celebrity friends including Courteney Cox, Chelsea Handler, and Jason Bateman, which is strange to say the least. However, Theroux rationalized their decision in his interview saying, "We had thought about it; we could just do a normal honeymoon, or we could go with some friends, keep the party going, relax, and have fun. It was really special, it was really beautiful." Even though these two are far from being a traditional couple, it certainly sounds like they had a great time.
They make sure to spend time apart
For most couples, finding the time to spend together can be difficult, so making the time becomes a priority. However, it seems Aniston and Theroux might have the opposite problem. A source revealed to OK! magazine that while there certainly isn't trouble in paradise, the couple is sure not to spend too much time together. In fact, they reportedly try not to spend more than four hours together per day, which could limit the movies they go out to see together. The source revealed, "They just enjoy their own space too much. They actually get along better when they're on separate coasts. They flirt by text and love to send each other pictures of their wedding rings." As they say, distance makes the heart grow fonder! But sending each other photos of their wedding rings? That's just odd all by itself!
On the bright side, though: sources for People revealed that they never actually spend more than a few weeks apart from one another. Which, in Hollywood terms, is basically just a couple of days.
They often sleep separately
Instead of suffering through the night fighting for blankets and attempting to sleep through their partner's unforgiving snores, Aniston and Theroux instead choose to sleep separately on occasion, according to tabloid reports. A source revealed to OK! Magazine that the couple actually prefers to sleep apart, saying, "Justin likes to read in bed, watch TV, browse the Internet and send emails—often all at the same time. He drives Jen nuts when she's trying to get some sleep." Understandably, that kind of bedroom behavior would drive anyone crazy when they're trying to get some sleep, but it's still on the stranger side. Then again, if Aniston has an early morning appearance to make, the woman certainly needs her beauty sleep!
They eat dinner in the nude
Apparently girl talk isn't private anymore, as one of Aniston's gal pals spilled the beans to Star magazine about how Aniston and Theroux allegedly keep things steamy in the bedroom. According to the source the newlywed couple spice things up by eating dinner in their birthday suits. That's right, they eat naked! The source claims, "She says their sex life is off the charts and that Justin is very adventurous. Their new thing is eating dinner in the nude!" The source fails to explain how exactly eating in the nude is a turn on, but hey, to each their own. At the very least, it certainly sounds like it would be a great way to stay in shape and prevent overeating.
They have a marriage counselor
It seems Aniston's previous marriage to Brad Pitt may have inspired her to be a bit more proactive with her second husband, and their marriage counselor is certainly reaping the benefits. The same source who revealed that Aniston and Theroux enjoy their meals in the buff also told Star magazine that Aniston has a marriage counselor practically on speed dial, costing the couple approximately $5,000 a month. According to the source, "Jen asks for advice on all aspects of the relationship. She knows she has a tendency to be controlling, and having finally gotten Justin to the altar, she doesn't want to drive him away."
This one seems a little far fetched, making it sound like Theroux was practically forced down the aisle on his wedding day. Plus, it's the tabloids; take them for what you will. Still, considering Aniston's relationship history, it would certainly make sense that she seek advice from an objective third party, one she can pay and legally ensure to keep quiet about anything personal. Still, if true, it's strange that they'd need a marriage counselor just one year after exchanging vows!
They have some strange "collectibles"
More Theroux's collection than Aniston's as she refuses to let him bring these random objects anywhere near their shared home, it sure does say a lot about Theroux's personality and their relationship. He keeps his odd collectables in his Greenwich Village three bedroom that now serves as his east coast office. Some examples of the strange objects he has lying around were revealed in an interview he did with GQ, a collection he said he loves but "couldn't sell for ten cents at a flea market."
His collection includes an antique glass medical syringe, wooden tongue depressors decorated with googly eyes and furry beards, a photo of a man with reinforcement steel through his head after a car accident (seemingly still alive), and a candy dish full of human teeth. To that last item he said, "I know a dentist who saves those for me. People often think they're little mints. 'Don't eat the teeth!'"
While these might not seem too bad, the collection continues in his Los Angeles office where he keeps his diseased throats made of wax. No, this is not a joke. "I have these beautiful wax-museum pieces—handmade, from the 1800s—from a museum of curiosities. They're just these open mouths, with tongues, and in the throats are different stages, labeled, of syphilis and gonorrhea and whatever. Those definitely found a great place in my office in L.A. They weren't going to be above the fireplace anytime soon." Definitely can't blame Aniston for that one.
They 17 have pet chickens
Yes, that's 17 chickens! It seems that when Aniston and Theroux were in the market for a new house, the Bel Air home they still share practically came with an entire farm. Well, maybe not a farm, but a chicken coop. There were only six chickens when the couple first bought the place, but their farm family has certainly grown over time. Theroux divulged how the pair acquired the chickens in his GQ interview, saying, "We inherited the chickens from the previous owners. They were like, 'Of course we'll get rid of the chickens,' and we said, 'Are you crazy? Don't get rid of the chickens. That's half the reason we wanted this place.'"
Aniston spoke about their pets again just two years later with People, and that was all the time it took for their livestock population to nearly triple. The couple even got their own his and hers chicks as an adorable gift! When asked what the two do with presumably so many eggs, Aniston replied, "We use the eggs every day. We make frittatas, carbonara. Justin makes great pasta. I use the eggs in my salad or for snacks. They taste delicious!" Who knows how many chickens they have clucking around in their yard these days!
Aniston is still connected to their ex...
No one is linked to their ex in the media more often than Aniston, as every time a story about her ex-husband Pitt surfaces, her name manages to make its way into the press. This has never been more apparent since Pitt announced his split from wife and longtime partner Angelina Jolie, and the media seems to be desperate to know how Aniston feels about the whole debacle. While Aniston hasn't said much about her ex's split, that certainly doesn't mean the media has given up on trying to drag a statement out of her, hounding the Friends star every chance they get. Theroux adorably came to his wife's defense in an 2016 interview with Sunday Times magazine, saying, "She has lived through a lot of bullsh**. Many people would have crumbled under some of the stresses that have been put on her. I'm very proud of her for that, for the way she handles herself."
And as far as what Aniston feels about the end of Brangelina? BFF Chelsea Handler said it best in an interview with Grazia Daily when she said, "It's so stupid and pathetic. As if Jen cares – she doesn't care. It's ridiculous that people still drag her into this. Hello, as if she is sitting around even caring about this."
...And so is Theroux
Aniston isn't the only one in the marriage still being dragged into an ex's drama in the media. Husband Theroux, AKA Mr. Jennifer Aniston, was with celebrity stylist Heidi Bivens for 14 years prior to his relationship with Aniston, and the media just can't seem to get over how they split. While the timeline is iffy at best, some believe that Theroux and Aniston began their love affair while Theroux was still in a relationship with Bivens.
The timeline begins when the two first met. Many believe that the couple met on the set of Wanderlust, as they both appeared in the film; however they actually met several years earlier in 2007 on the set of Tropic Thunder according to US Weekly. Theroux co-wrote the movie and Aniston hung out with the cast every now and then as she was good friends with her Along Came Polly co-star, Ben Stiller, according to reports. While the two certainly didn't hit it off right away, they reconnected on the set of Wanderlust in 2010. It was during filming that rumors began to circulate that a romance was budding between the two, leaving Theroux's long-time girlfriend behind. In fact, some tabloids like the Daily Mail referred to Aniston as a "homewrecker," and even compared the start of their relationship to the way Brad Pitt got together with Angelina Jolie.
The media continues to stir up old drama between Theroux and his ex, even claiming Theroux was talking to Bivens regularly and that Aniston was devastated after catching the two together. These rumors hit tabloids as the couple was on their honeymoon.
Of course, given the media is still obsessed with Pitt and Aniston, it's unlikely that rumors about Aniston's marriage to Theroux will stop anytime soon. On the bright side: at least the two can be comforted by the fact that they have finally found the person they were meant to be with.


Traditional fax machines were great some years ago, but now things have changed and we are able to send faxes at the speed of light thanks to the use of the Internet. There are different ways to send a fax through the Web, one of them is making use of online fax software.
Contrary to what many people think, the use of fax software is a much more convenient way to send faxes. It has the major benefit of cutting costs greatly (no more fax machine, supplies and maintenance) and it provides speedy communications.
If you want to use online fax software you need to first have the program at hand, a computer to install it, and the Internet to send it. Modern software doesn't even need you to have a special kind of modem to send your faxes.
When deciding on a faxing program, you must first have very clear the way you intend to use it and the amount of faxing you'll be handling. You'll find that in the market there are various solutions designed with specific set of users in mind.
While a small business or individual can benefit from a simple program that let you send and receive faxes, a big business might need an enterprise solution that provides added benefit like heavy-faxing capabilities, detailed logs and fax broadcasting.
A great way to know if online fax software is good for you is by first giving it a "test drive". The majority of faxing companies are eager to let you try their products in the form of demos and shareware.
Optionally, you can also start sending free fax through the Internet with the use of freeware. However, keep in mind that this kind of online fax software is not 100% reliable and many of them have only sending capabilities.
Well, as you can see online fax is just for those who are willing to take advantage of speedy communication and who want to save money on sending documents, you can read more about your options online.


Shop front for A1 Barbers in Morecambe constucted in association with Lancaster and Morecambe Council project A View for Eric scheme.
Shop and apartment fronts on Morecambe promenade across from Eric Morecambe's statue for a local developer. All in mahogany and maufactured in our workshop.
It's been a busy year for kitchens and because we are independant we have a comprehensive list of suppliers. From budget kitchens to state of the art top of the range kitchens we do them all.
Traditional period facia on Lound Street Kendal replacing the original whilst restoring the cast iron guttering.
Installation of Velux windows are always on our books and if you are thinking of updating or installing into a new build why not have a row of three instead of one big one. Much more verstille and looks stunning.
Garden decking a firm old favorite and very popular especially as in this case your garden is on a hill.


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Review: Manuel Muzzu's "New Stories – Old Hands"
Dave George December 6, 2018 Reviews
Manuel Muzzu is an Italian bassist. His debut release was 2012's The Right Hand's Miracle, named for good reason. Manuel has a handicap of the right hand that enables only the use of his index finger and thumb. He uses this to his advantage, however, and has crafted a sound that makes his right hand a feature and not a bug. His latest album is New Stories – Old Hands, a tour-de-f... »
Russ Pettit: Travels of a Falling Leaf
Dave George November 20, 2017 Reviews
Russ Pettit hails from California and has been a serious guitarist for 30 years, and an instructor for more than 2 decades. This experience shows in his latest release, Travels of a Falling Leaf, which is a departure from his earlier work, as it is all acoustic instruments. Jeff Beck, Mike Stern, Robben Ford, and Joe Satriani, with whom he studied, are some of his listed heroes. His writing and pl... »
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Q: multiple records in one NDEF message on one NFC tag How many records can NDEF message encapsulate?
(for different NFC tag types - 1,2,3,4?)
And in general ...do I understand it right?  :
I can have one NFC message, which is basically an array(of what capacity?) of NFC records.
Each NFC record has its own MIME-type, which facilitates application recognition
<data android:mimeType="specific application MIME-type goes here"/>

so I can launch different applications even if I use just one tag.

A: The number of records in a NDEF message is limited by the memory of the tag. There is no difference in that for the various tag types.
When you tap a tag with the phone, the whole NDEF message is delivered to one app. Anything else you would need to program yourself after you received the message.


Nothing gets kids moving quite like the smell of freshly baked cinnamon rolls, and this sped-up version is perfect for an early school day morning. Crescent rolls serve as the foundation, while pecans, cinnamon, and sugar spark sweet nostalgia with each bite. A two-ingredient frosting completes this breakfast treat with ease.
Spray a 9-inch cake pan with cooking spray and set aside.
Separate the rolls into 4 rectangles. Use fingers to seal seams and flatten dough. Brush with melted butter or margarine and sprinkle gernerously with a mixture of the cinnamon and sugar and pecans.
Roll each rectangle from the short side and slice into five pieces (20 rolls total). Place rolls 1/2 inch apart in prepared pan; bake at 350 for 15-18 minutes or until lightly browned.
For Glaze: mix last 2 ingredients.
Remove rolls from oven and spoon glaze over top. Allow to cool in pan.


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Levn og beretning er et centralt begrebspar i historiefagets metode, der er kendt som kildekritikken. Begreberne bruges til at skelne mellem de forskellige måder, som historikere kan vælge at bruge deres kilder på. Hvor alle ting fra fortiden er levn, er det kun menneskeskabte fortællende tekster (skriftlige, lydlige eller audiovisuelle), der er såkaldte beretninger. Et levn vidner om den tid, som den er skrevet i. På den måde vidner et sværd fra jernalderen om, at man på den tid havde evnerne til at skabe og forarbejde jern og en bog fra 1300-tallet vidner om, at man på dette tidspunkt kun havde håndskrevne bøger. En beretning derimod er en tekst, der fortæller om udvalgte begivenheder. Fx kan en dagbog bruges til at finde ud af, hvordan bestemte begivenheder fandt sted. Her er det dog vigtigt, at man er opmærksom på, om der er tendens i kilden, fx at afsenderen prøver at sætte sig i et positivt lys eller måske udelader ting.

Hvor andre fag som fx sprogvidenskaben eller litteraturvidenskaben undersøger tekster for at forstå særegne træk ved selve teksten, er historikere snarere interesseret i at bruge kilder til at forstå virkeligheden uden for teksten selv og det er i forhold til denne ambition, at historikere bruger begreberne levn og beretning for at være systematisk omkring den måde, man prøver at opnå opnå viden om fortiden. Måden, begrebsparret bruges i dag, adskiller sig dog fra, hvordan det tidligere blev brugt. Da historikerne først begyndte at skelne mellem levn og beretning, kom dette til at udgøre grundlaget for professionaliseringen af historiefaget, men dengang blev skellet - ifølge visse historikere - dog overdrevet. Således arbejdede datidens historikerne ofte med et såkaldt materielt kildebegreb, hvor der var mere rigide rammer for, hvilke slags kilder man foretrak, hvor hovedtendensen i dag er, at man mest taler om det såkaldte funktionelle kildebegreb, hvor en kilde bruges enten som levn eller beretning afhængig af, hvilke spørgsmål historikeren har til kilden.  Når man arbejder med det funktionelle kildebegreb, handler spørgsmålet om en kildes værdi mere om, hvad man vil bruge den til.

Litteratur
 Steen Busck (2007) "Kildekritikken og dens begreber " i Kildekritisk tekstsamling. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
 Uffe Østergård (2015) "Historiefaget mellem samfundsvidenskab og kulturvidenskab" i Kampen om disciplinerne (red. David Budtz Pedersen, Frederik Stjernfeldt og Simo Køppe). København: Hans Reitzels Forlag.

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Australia leave out Pattinson for second Ashes test
LONDON: Australia dropped fast bowler James Pattinson from a 12-man squad for the second Ashes test against England starting at Lord's on Wednesday, with Josh Hazlewood coming in as likely replacement.
Fellow quick Mitchell Starc, the left armer who was also overlooked for the first test won by Australia at Edgbaston, also made the squad but could end up carrying the drinks once the playing lineup is named at the toss.
Spearhead Pat Cummins and Peter Siddle, who made up the pace trio with Pattinson in the 251-run opening victory, retained their places.
Captain Tim Paine told reporters Pattinson was left out as part of long-term planning, with the choice between Hazlewood and Starc.
"Whichever one of those two we unleash tomorrow, they are certainly ready to go," he said.
Hazlewood is seen as the likeliest replacement based on performances in a tour match against Worcestershire last week.
Edgbaston was Pattinson's first test in three and a half years, after he suffered back injuries and then underwent surgery, and he took two wickets.
"He's available for selection but we've decided to rest him for this game and make sure that his long term future is in really good shape," explained Paine.
"He's come back off a really long layoff, a really serious operation, and we want to make sure that he's truly right for the next three or four years.
The third Ashes test at Yorkshire's Headingley ground in Leeds comes as a quick turnaround from Lord's, with play starting on Aug. 22.
"It was always going to be one way or the other," said Paine. "He would miss this test and be fresher for the third test or he has this one after the long break and doesn't play in the third.
"I think if you look at Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood's records at Lord's, it's a good venue for one of those to come in and play and be confident in the fact that they can bowl really well here."
Starc played all five tests on the 2015 Ashes tour and finished as the highest wicket-taker in the 50-overs World Cup last month.
The weather could be a factor in who gets the nod, with rain possible throughout Wednesday.
"There are no set combinations, we sort of come in the morning and have a look and go with a bit of a gut feeling. You try and make the best possible decision that you can when you have a look at the conditions you're faced with," said Paine.
Australia's victory at Edgbaston was their first in the opening test of an away Ashes series since 2005.
England's Barbados-born fast bowler Jofra Archer will be making his test debut on Wednesday, and Paine said Australia would be ready for whatever he delivered.
"A lot of our guys have seen Jofra or faced him, obviously it's been in white-ball cricket, but we've faced him in Australia where conditions really suit fast bowling. I think we've seen him at his fastest," he said.
"There's times where he's going to be a real threat and we're going to have to weather that."
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David Warner, Cameron Bancroft, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Matthew Wade, Tim Paine (captain, wicketkeeper), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Peter Siddle, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood.
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Why do they get so much attention? How do they keep producing such awesome blog posts? Why can't I do the same?
These questions used to bug me.
But as it turns out, there's no genius to it. In fact, writing a great blog post is more formulaic than it is artistic.
It's not about being innovative, creative and making something unique.
Writing a killer blog post is about understanding the different elements – that when combined add up to something special. Taking what others have already figured out, and packaging it up in a way that captures your own personal touch.
You are just as qualified as anyone else to do it – you just need to get your hands dirty.
I've been obsessing about it – gathering the best blog content I can find, and figuring out what makes it all so good. Why these blogs get more traffic, shares and engagement than all of ours.
The end result is the 21 elements in this blog post. All nicely packaged up with examples and tips for you to take action.
You can get a PDF copy of this post as a checklist here.
Lots of bloggers obsess over the headline…. But for good reason.
It's perhaps the most important component for drawing a reader in, and getting them to click on your blog post at all.
It needs to grab the reader by the shirt and compel them to click.
Note: Don't forget your SEO keyword or phrase in the headline too!
Once someone clicks on your headline, you need to keep them engaged and interested. An eye-catching header image draws people into your blog post and makes them want to continue reading.
There is no perfect science to picking a header image, but it's important to remember that they should be an extension of your brand.
You need to answer this question early in your blog post. Exactly why a reader should continue reading needs to be painstakingly obvious.
When I read the intro of your blog post I want to burn a little inside. Get inside your reader's head and make them feel uncomfortable.
Bloggers that manage to initiate this sensation in their reader's have a deep understanding of the problem they are about to address. This deep understanding shows you that they care about you and are about to deliver something that will help you overcome a challenge.
This hook isn't generic, it is written in a language that your audience understands and resonates with. What you're about to say is important to them, and they are desperate to keep reading.
If you are at all confused about your personal brand, you are about to get clarity from reading this blog post. This is why you should care, it is obvious and direct.
Too often blog posts have a way of wandering off and trying to prove about 3 or 4 different points. This is the quickest way to confuse your audience and lose their attention.
Every post you write should above all else, empower your reader to do one thing.
That one thing will guide the direction of the whole post and act as an anchor for every supporting point you make. It tells your readers what is important and gives you a reference point as you write the rest of the article.
For example, in this post I have provided a list of attributes that typify a well executed blog post.
It is my goal to enable readers to shortcut their way to a better style of blogging. If readers were to leave with just one message… It should be your ace.
The best blog posts challenge our current beliefs. They stir up interest by being different, and offering a unique point of view.
If you want to stand out and get noticed, you need to say something that no one else is.
Sure it's easier to grab a trending topic, slap a clickbait headline on it and get a bunch of traffic. But how does this contribute to your greater goals for blogging in the first place?
It certainly doesn't make you a thought leader. It bundles you up with everyone else already producing the same tiresome content, over and over again.
Push yourself to be different and challenge the status quo – that's when people will take notice.
Every time your reader sees a question mark they are already trying to answer the question you just asked in their head.
By adding questions throughout your post (most importantly in the introduction), you keep the reader guessing.
If they don't already know the answer, they will want to keep reading. But if they do know the answer, they may just decide to keep reading anyway because they want to reinforce their knowledge.
Try and ask open-ended questions. Tap into problems or desires that are universal, and then begin to get more specific as you get further into the blog post. Your aim when asking a question isn't to eliminate readers, it's to spark curiosity and bring more along the journey with you.
The Buffer blog is one of my favorite reads. Below is an example of how they use questions up front to attract interest from the reader.
If you fit into either of these buckets, you will keep reading that blog post.
A good metaphor packed together with a personal story helps us understand things with more depth.
When delivered well, they can break down a complex topic and let us access meaning we never knew was possible.
Not only do they help others understand what you are talking about, but coming up with metaphors and stories help us understand things better ourselves. The process helps us get crystal clear about what we are saying and why it is important for our audience to understand.
Brian Dean is a seasoned exponent of metaphors to deliver a message. His 'Content Roadshow' 1-2 punch promotion strategy, is a great example.
Our attention spans are shorter than ever.
Instead of writing long, bulky paragraphs – aim to pack a punch with short, action packed statements.
Not only does this way of writing increase the chance that someone will read your blog post. It also keeps them interested and intrigued to see what is about to come next.
At the end of the day, blogging is about your readers – it's not about how smart you can sound, or how fancy your vocabulary is.
Forget about high-school grammar and start to understand how people like to read online. In fact, there's research that proves people like to read at an 8th grade level, even PhD's.
Writing a great blog post is not about how smart you sound. It's about how you can help your reader.
How you can explain something they don't currently understand in a way that makes sense and they can take action on straight away.
Using superlatives and fancy words actually makes you sound like you are covering something up, not being smart.
If your reader has made it past the headline and the intro. Then what?
Can you now dump everything you have ever heard about a topic into one big paragraph?
There is still time for me to leave. To decide not to share. To decide not to opt-in. There is still time for me never to return.
So make it easy for readers to skim your blog post. Sub-headings and bullet points let your readers scan the post and choose their own journey – decide what they would like to read more about.
Much like sub-headings and bullet points, appropriate formatting helps your readers spot the most important information.
It taps into their visual senses, and allows them to skim your content – while still picking up the information they really need to know.
Use bold text, colons, italics, capital letters, block quotes – even different font colors if you want.
Breaking it up lets us consume it quickly, share it around and go and take action.
Below is an example from Amy Porterfield with almost all of these elements.
It doesn't matter how well you have written it, or how many helpful tips are in there. A wall of text just doesn't cut it any more.
People like bright and shiny things.
It's no surprise that the biggest social movements of our time are all about visual media like Snapchat, Instagram and Periscope. Use images, screenshots, infographics and videos as much as you can.
If you are looking for some visual inspiration, Alex Turnbull and his blog over at Groove HQ are the perfect benchmark.
Encourage them to trace their eyes from line to line with short sentences, line spacing and provocative language. The idea is that the further down a page someone scrolls, the more chance they are to do something – share it, opt-in or write a comment.
This suggests that there is more to come, something perhaps even more valuable than the last sentence. Naturally the reader will want to find out what is coming next.
Your blog introduction is a great place to use delayed transitions. Here is an example from Will Hoekenga at Copygrad.
The best content marketers find a way to connect personally with their audience. They share stories, get vulnerable and bring people on a journey.
Unfortunately, a big reason for many of us failing with blogging is we forget about the human connection. At the end of the day, there is a person on the other end of that computer – they are the ones you need to convince.
So don't focus on cranking out as much content as you can, draw your readers in with a touch of humility. If you can get them to respect what you have to say, and feel like they are part of the experience – they will come back over and over again.
Too often we make broad assumptions about what people already know, and we write content based on those assumptions.
There is a fine art to being an educator. And that's what we are as online marketers – educators. We are helping people understand topics that we have already figured out.
To teach something to someone, you need to describe it in a language they understand. You need to understand where they are on their journey, and meet them there.
If you start from too far ahead, they won't get it.
They may think you sound smart for a moment, but then they'll just leave your site – and never come back. Because you aren't meeting their needs. You're not trying hard enough to understand where they are coming from.
If they don't even know what a motorcycle is, don't start to talk to them about Harley's.
We are writing content for humans, but we are selling ourselves to robots.
There is no two ways about it – keyword stuffing is long gone.
It won't help you turn up on page one anymore. But Google is still a robot. So we need to help that robot understand what we are talking about.
Your number one focus should be to write content that is helpful, and engages human beings.
After you have nailed that agenda, drop the most relevant keywords into your post where they make sense. Preferably the heading, sub-headings and body as a minimum.
If you find yourself drifting off topic….. Take a breath, share a link, and get back on track.
It's very easy to get in the rhythm of writing and want to include everything you can think of about a topic. But this isn't helpful to your reader. Instead of veering off track, include a link to another resource that explains the 'off-track' topic in more depth.
This is valuable to your reader, plus search engines see a relevant external link as a sign of quality. Win-win.
In-text links are a vital component to user experience and improving your SEO performance.
Make sure these internal links are deliberate by sending users to your 'Content Hubs', and make sure the anchor text (the words you are linking) are relevant to the page you are sending people to.
If someone makes it all the way to the bottom of your blog post… Don't leave them hanging. Give them a specific next step they could take that will help them put your suggestions in action.
This is not a call to action from a 'conversion' sense, but it is more related to how your readers will take action on your advice.
Don't miss the opportunity to get a lead. After all, why are you blogging in the first place?
If it is to grow your business – ask for an email address. But don't expect to get one unless you give something up for free.
Make your CTA unique, tailored and specific to that blog post. This is how you will convert more readers into leads.
For example, I'm about to offer you a downloadable checklist that mirrors this blog post – you can use it every time you write a post to improve quality, get more shares and talk to search engines.
Isn't that more enticing than a generic eBook? Or a 'Join my mailing list'?
Below is another example of this tactic in a blog I wrote about a site's seo strategy.
My blog posts are behemoths (This one has just cracked 2,276 words)… But my audience tends to like that depth.
Not everyone does though, so make sure your posts are appropriate to the audience you are talking to.
It's not rocket science. It's just blogging.
True there are a lot of blogs out there. But most of them are pumping out pretty ordinary content. The more average content there is, the more chance there is for you to rise to the top.
It's easy to get lost in in a sea of clickbait headlines, boring blog posts and generic content. Instead, you could choose to be different.
All it takes is a proven formula and some elbow grease.
I've just given you the formula, so what excuse do you have now?
If you want this list to sit next to you when you write your next blog post, you can download it as a PDF checklist here.
Will Blunt is a blogger, researcher and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Blogger Sidekick, creator of the Blog Strategy Canvas, and Managing Editor at Bluewire Media, rated Smart Company's Number 1 Business Blog in Australia. You can find Will on Twitter.
Thank you for sharing your post. It will help me to improve my blog.
I think if you want to create a good blog you need to know how to communicate with your audience.
Thanks Blunt for sharing these tips. I am going to apply these technique to my blog. Hope it will increase audience on my blog.
Hi Blunt. These 21 elements look effective. Might as well try it in my own blog posting strategy. Actually I'm excited now and give my blog a new look and style. Thanks for sharing this one. It's really helping a lot of content managers out there.
Great post 🙂 Thank you for that. Hope it will increase audience on my blog.
As always, every new post you write is a new learning opportunity. Thank you. 🙂 I added it to my kippt!
Very detailed and helpful. Thank you.
Each and every single step is mentioned accurately. I personally believe that the newbie blogger can not find such precise information anywhere else. Much appreciated information. Thanks for sharing.
A few things in here I have not contemplated some time recently.
Great things you've always shared with us. Thanks. keep continue composing this kind of post.
Thank you for for sharing so great thing to us. I definitely enjoying every little bit of it I have you bookmarked to check out new.


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Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. to Present at the Gabelli & Company 11th Annual Entertainment & Broadcasting Symposium –...
Date : 05/31/2019 @ 8:26PM
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Stock : Ryman Hospitality Properties (Reit) (RHP)
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Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. (NYSE:RHP), a lodging real estate investment trust ("REIT") specializing in group-oriented, destination hotel assets in urban and resort markets, today announced it will present to investors attending the Gabelli & Company 11th Annual Entertainment & Broadcasting Symposium being held in New York, NY, on Thursday, June 6, at 9:30 a.m. ET. Colin Reed, chairman and chief executive officer, and Scott Bailey, president, Opry Entertainment Group, will participate in an analyst-hosted fireside chat. Mark Fioravanti, president & chief financial officer, and Todd Siefert, vice president of corporate finance and treasurer, will also attend the conference.
The presentation will be webcast and can be accessed on Ryman Hospitality Properties' website at http://rymanhp.com. To listen to the webcast, please visit the investor relations section of the website at least 15 minutes prior to the beginning of the scheduled presentation to register, download and install necessary multimedia streaming software. For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a replay will be available after the presentation and will run for 90 days.
About Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.
Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. (NYSE: RHP) is a REIT for federal income tax purposes, specializing in group-oriented, destination hotel assets in urban and resort markets. The Company's owned assets include a network of four upscale, meetings-focused resorts totaling 8,114 rooms that are managed by lodging operator Marriott International, Inc. under the Gaylord Hotels brand. The Company is the majority owner of the joint venture that owns the 1,501-room Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, which is also managed by Marriott International, Inc. Other owned assets managed by Marriott International, Inc. include Gaylord Springs Golf Links, the Wildhorse Saloon, the General Jackson Showboat, The Inn at Opryland, a 303-room overflow hotel adjacent to Gaylord Opryland and AC Hotel Washington, DC at National Harbor, a 192-room hotel near Gaylord National. Ryman Hospitality Properties also owns and operates media and entertainment assets, including the Grand Ole Opry (opry.com), the legendary weekly showcase of country music's finest performers for over 90 years; the Ryman Auditorium, the storied former home of the Grand Ole Opry located in downtown Nashville; 650 AM WSM, the Opry's radio home; and Ole Red, a country lifestyle and entertainment brand. For additional information about Ryman Hospitality Properties, visit rymanhp.com.
Investor Relations Contacts: Media Contacts:
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Pullbox Reviews: Angel TPB Vol. 1 – All the angst but with a lot more depth
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Angel volume 1 (Trade Papberback)
Written by Bryan Edward Hill
Art by Gleb Melnikov
Colors by Gabriel Cassata & Roman Titov
Letters by Ed Dukeshire
Cover by Dan Panosian
Available 9-25-2019
BOOM! Studios, along with visionary writer and director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marvel's The Avengers), presents the shocking reimagining of the pop culture phenomenon ANGEL! * Angel walks the line between two worlds; a vampire cursed with a soul, he's spent centuries battling back the forces that would destroy humanity, in an attempt to redeem himself for the crimes committed by the monster he was when he was first turned. But now, when the trail of the most recent demonic uprising takes him to Sunnydale, he realizes that the redemption he seeks can only come at a startling price. * As Angel gets closer to redemption, the full truth of his horrific past as Angelus will be revealed and there may be no way to escape his darkest secret of all. * Written by Bryan Edward Hill (Detective Comics, Killmonger) with art from Gleb Melnikov (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) , discover a brand new, modern take on one of the most iconic vampires in pop culture, perfect for fans and new readers alike! * Collects issues #0-4.
Fans of the original Whedonverse may have given a pass to this series reboot, but I will say with all confidence that they're doing themselves a disservice. For that matter, new readers might be thinking that there's just too much history and backstory behind these books… "How on earth will I ever catch up?" No worries, kids. Since taking over the reigns of all things Whedon, Boom! has been killing it with their re-imagined stories of the Slayer, the Scoobies, and of course the vampire with a soul, cursed with the knowledge of the horrors he's committed over his centuries of undeath, Angel.
When I say"reboot", I need you guys to understand something… I hate reboots. Despise them with a deep and fiery passion that borders on pathology. The concept of the reboot as it exists in media today says that "we have no more original ideas, so we're just going to beat the hell out of what we already know is popular until it falls into a pit of despair from which there's no return, and you guys will buy it because we think you're sheep who will continuously fall for our shenanigans." However, as one of the aforementioned fans of Joss Whedon's Buffyverse, I took a chance with the new stories from Boom! Studios.
Hey, they made the Power Rangers awesome! It was a risk I was willing to take.
Written by Bryan Edward Hill, a guy whose books I'll pick up on name alone, Angel has been a highlight in the new run of books. He's dark and brooding, as he should be, but Hill is giving readers a little more depth than just "Woe is me, I'm handsome and have perfect hair but my nights are full of angst because I'm in love with a teenager." In this storyline, Angel's real troubles stem from friendships he's accumulated, reluctantly, since regaining his soul. He's constantly watching people he's come to care for grow old and die. There's a great scene between Angel and an old friend, a man he'd saved as a child, who is now in his forties with a teenage daughter of his own- a fact that Angel seems almost oblivious to, and is inexplicably shocked by. Hill's taken the template and turned it just a bit, so old fans are given a new look at a familiar character, and new fans are introduced to someone worth getting to know.
Gleb Melnikov takes Hill's story and gives it a dark and brooding life. Take a look at the preview pages below, and you get an idea of what I'm talking about. Melnikov uses sharp lines, almost jagged with just a little bit of chaos in the mix, and when they're combined with the colors by Gabriel Cassata's colors the mood is set. In the later chapters, Roman Titov takes over the coloring duties, and he maintains that ideal. Finally, Ed Dukeshire's work in lettering is noteworthy on a couple points. First, he gives the dialogue a mood, which isn't an easy thing to do in comics. Second, he does it all without taking over the page, letting the reader focus their attention on the illustrations while the words play out. The overall look of the book is all contrasts between shadows & light… perfectly fitting for Angel's central theme.
If you're new to the Whedonverse, curious about the world of Slayers, vampires, and demons, but thought maybe there was just too much to try jumping into, this is your chance. Boom! has taken what's already been done, and revamped (heh, I caught that after I typed it…) it for fans old and new. You don't need to know what's happened, because they've taken the old and made it new while keeping the spirit of the story & its characters true.
Final Score: 10+
Updated: September 20, 2019 — 12:55 pm
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Packing can be hectic and no matter how organized you think you are, you get that feeling of forgetting something. Don't fret, we created a checklist of things people tend to forget to do before their move. This checklist will help ease your worries of missing to do the important things before your relocation!
Subscription services like gym memberships or bills should be taken care of a month before your move. People tend to forget that they have their reoccurring charges still billed to their old address so don't forget to cancel them before your last day of expected use! This is because many gyms require a 30-day cancellation notice and cancelling before your move date will help you avoid disruption in any of the services you use.
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Over-retouching photos is becoming quite an epidemic.
Guilty. Been there, done that. When trying out a new technique it's easy to get sucked in and begin applying it to every photo in heavier amounts. It's Kinda like the Gun's n' Roses song, "Mr. Brownstone". "I used to do a little but the little got more and more. I just keep trying to get a little better, a little better than before." Ok, now it's time for "Retouching Rehab". More and more I see photos where there is way too much skin blurring, over-done eye whitening with no regard for realism at all; and the worst of all, over-cooked HDR. It seems that someone gets a basic DSLR, a photo program and an article on how to smooth skin- and they create these Frankenstein images and start selling their services as photographers.
Now, it's understood that photography is an art form, and not everyone sees things the same way; but I'm only addressing the collective opinions that many of us share regarding techniques that are over-used. Take wedding photography for example. I don't do weddings, but in my opinion good wedding photos should be about the composition- the moment in time for that family's biggest day, and the bride whom has waited her whole life for it. What I see out there all the time are boring photos that look like anyone standing around could have taken, but with the bride's face put through a blender of blur-filters and masking. I feel that good image design is about a good capture first, and then the post-production is used to either fix problems or enhance the feel or mood of the image. It's ok to remove some power lines in the background, or desaturate the image to convey a certain feel, just be careful not to forget about the photography part.
I wouldn't include things like digital art or compositing as retouching. I do a lot of composite work as part of my art and services, so many hours are spent creating images that were otherwise impossible to happen. It's just a creative thing. However, in advertising we retouch "impossibly good" model's skin and facial or body features. This is done on purpose, because in the advertising world there is a different psychology that makes people want to buy products and services where models are used. We make it look so real though, that there should never be anything that can be pointed out by the general public as fake or retouched. However, I don't necessarily think this level of retouching should be used in portraits, since it's too easy to get trapped into over-doing it. Plus, most non-professional models would very likely have their feelings hurt when they see their portrait come back looking like a cartoon character version of themselves. They will think to themselves; "Do I really look that bad for all that Photoshop?". Be mindful of defeating the purpose of retouching.
If retouching portraits is your thing, just try to "keep it real". For instance, if you are shooting for a commercial advertisement, or even just for your own portfolio, avoid using a model with really bad skin in the first place. Someone who has clear skin, but with just a few blemishes is much easier to make look good than someone who's face is going to have to be replaced. Unless you like sitting in front of the screen for hours retouching, this is one of the easiest ways to avoid having an image come out "overdone". The point of a good photo is that is does not look 'over-Photoshopped'.
Take a break. Too often we get into a "must have it finished now" thing, and the more you look at the photo, the more "fixing" it needs. If you just go to bed and look at it the next day, you might see that it didn't need anymore retouching. This depends of course, but too many times I've finished a photo only to look at it the next day and realized that I grinded it to a pulp in post production, thinking that it needed more retouching.
The worst I've seen is the HDR stuff. It's like a virus that gets in to every photographer who uses it and they have to keep turning up that effect more and more. It's great if that's the "art" that they want to create, but just realize, everybody else can -and are- doing it. Hitting the "Auto Destroy" button on every photo isn't necessarily a unique art. I love HDR when it's done to make an image look like it did when it was taken (since cameras aren't nearly as sophisticated as the human eye), but that's just my opinion on what I like, even though I've never used it (yet).
So the next time you pick up that mouse or tablet pen to get to some serious retouching, try to think about whether or not you are helping the image, or trashing it. The pro's know the difference, why not you?


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Q: how to change session id during login in asp.net core I need to assign a new session Id as part of the login request on asp net core 2.2, this is required to prevent session hijacking.
The session.clear method leaves the cookie intact, and I can remove the session cookie using for example
Response.Cookies.Delete("ASP.NET_SessionId");

But this prevents the login from working, old asp net used to have a session abandon but I cant see an equivalent.
Any help appreciated. Thanks


An RNLI scheme trialled to encourage more people to use lifejackets aboard their tenders has proved so popular it will be expanded over the summer.
Lifejacket lockers were introduced at three locations across the south west in 2014 following RNLI research that showed boat users can often be put off wearing their lifejacket aboard their tender because of the 'hassle factor' of having nowhere secure to store them once ashore.
The initiative was trialled at Salcombe, Fowey and the River Yealm and has been so successful it is being rolled out at several new locations across the south west over the summer.
RNLI research has shown that boat users can often be put off wearing their lifejacket aboard their tender because of the 'hassle factor' of having nowhere secure to store them once ashore.
For more information on lifejacket lockers, and tips for staying safe on or near the water, visit www.rnli.org/boating.
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PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ANNOUNCES DOLLAR BANK THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL 2019
60TH ANNIVERSARY FEATURED MUSIC LINEUP
Point State Park | Gateway Center | Pittsburgh's Cultural District
June 7–16, 2019
Pittsburgh, PA – The Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, a free festival celebrating music + art, returns to the beautiful Point State Park, Gateway Plaza and the Cultural District in downtown Pittsburgh June 7-16, 2019. Today, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, producer of the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, revealed the diverse featured music line-up, which includes free and open-to-the-public performances.
"Embarking on our 60th year, the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Art Festival continues to attract a broad range of entertainment from our own region and around the globe, all free and open to the public. We look back and celebrate six decades of top-notch talent, having shared our Festival stage with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, The Phillip Glass Ensemble, Citizen Cope, and hundreds of others from everywhere in between," says Sarah Aziz, Director of the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival and Festival Management for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. "I know our audiences will not be disappointed with the caliber and diversity of our Festival artists in 2019."
The Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival welcomes nearly 500,000 fans annually for 10 days of free public art installations, live music, theater, dance, gallery exhibitions, and an Artist Market. On April 16, 2019, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will announce the full Festival line-up, including dozens of local and touring artists appearing on the three stages, dance, film, literary art, gallery exhibitions, public art, and creative activities for all. The full line-up will also be available atTrustArts.org/TRAF.
2019 DOLLAR BANK THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL FEATURED MUSIC
It's no secret to India.Arie fans that the word "worthy" has been an empowering expression of self-love for her and her audience over the years. Faithfully repurposed as the title and theme of her brand new 16-track album, including 13 songs and three interludes, India's first full-length offering in five years is set to impact a world finally attuned to the kind of empathic sea-change the humanitarian singer/songwriter has embraced her entire career.
Recognized as a major influence for a new generation of socially aware artists, India is both ahead of her time and of it – an evocative creative force on a mission to spread healing, peace, love and unconditional self-acceptance through the power of words and music.
With legends like George Jones, Johnny Cash, and Merle Haggard all passed on, country music purists often echo the question Jones himself asked: "Who's going to fill their shoes?" The answer, in part, is Marty Stuart.
While he's too gracious to admit it himself, the Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and musician lives and breathes country-music history. He's played alongside the masters, from Cash to Lester Flatt, who discovered him; been a worldwide ambassador for Nashville, Bakersfield and points in between; and safeguarded country's most valuable traditions and physical artifacts – including its literal shoes: Stuart counts the brogan of Carter Family patriarch A.P. Carter and an assortment of Cash's black boots among his vast collection of memorabilia.
Sunday, June 9
Nahko and Medicine For The People (+ The Teskey Brothers)
Nahko And Medicine For The People continues to gather dedicated, like-minded fans of this global Medicine Tribe, as members spread their positive and powerful musical message around the world. Fans and critics alike praise the group's worldly blend of rock, hip-hop, and alt-folk, with OC Weekly calling the group "empowering" and "powerful," while The Huffington Post compared Nahko to Bob Marley and called him a "musical prophet." The October 2017 album My Name is Bear premiered at #1 on iTunes and debuted on a number of Billboard charts.
Nahko And Medicine For The People are firm believers in using music as a tool of empowerment to protect and preserve all of creation. They aim to inspire others to take a deeper role in protecting and preserving our planet, people, and the spirit in all of creation.
Members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Brass
The virtuosic brass section of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is renowned for its brilliance, refinement, and incredible power. Members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass make a special appearance this June at the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. This performance, designed for the whole family, is sure to please and delight with a varied program ranging from colorful and popular brass favorites to new arrangements for the occasion.
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Singer and saxophonist Karl Denson fronts his band Tiny Universe as if he's preaching the gospel. Merging funk, soul, rock, jazz, blues and more, his energy and spirit are contagious, while his songwriting serves a larger message of fellowship — across generations, genders, religions and cultures. Not surprisingly then, he's none too pleased with the current state of political discourse. Thus the reason why KDTU's new album, Gnomes & Badgers, out now on Seven Spheres Records, offers Denson's hard-grooving answer to these tragically divisive times.
To aid him in his mission, Denson has tapped some of his legendary friends, including The Rolling Stones' keyboardist and Allman Brothers Band alum Chuck Leavell, guitar-slinging singer-songwriter Lukas Nelson, New Orleans guitar hero Anders Osborne, Austin producer and guitarist Adrian Quesada and NOLA R&B royal Ivan Neville. There's no doubt Denson is also drawing influence and inspiration from his other main gigs, as a touring member of The Rolling Stones and the linchpin of the beloved jazz-funk unit The Greyboy Allstars.
Kaia Kater
This engagement is funded through the Mid Atlantic Tours program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
"…plaintive, mesmerizing…writes and performs with the skill of a folk-circuit veteran…" –Rolling Stone
As a Montreal-born Grenadian-Canadian, Kaia Kater grew up between two worlds: one her family's deep ties to folk music; the other the years she spent learning and studying Appalachian music in the United States. Her old-time banjo-picking skills, deft arrangements, and songwriting abilities have landed her in the spotlight in North America and the UK, garnering critical acclaim from outlets such as NPR, CBC Radio, Rolling Stone, BBC Music, and No Depression. Her third album, Grenades has already received acclaim from Rolling Stone ("Smart, atmospheric Americana"), and promises to bring listeners on an entirely new journey.
"Especially gorgeous, moving…" –New York Times
"…dabbling in pristine harmonies, the Berklee-trained sirens more often belt it out as a single unit with a force that decimates Phil Spector's 'Wall of Sound' and has the potential to reach Jupiter." –Consequence of Sound
"This is music with an irrepressible edge." –Relix
Fronted by the sleek and compelling look-alike duo of Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, and backed by their counterpart bandmates Dan Molad and Pete Lalish, Lucius has sold out shows across the world, big and small. Having headlined all over the U.S. and Europe, they've also played slots at Bonnaroo, Newport Folk Festival, Lollapalooza, End of The Road, Austin City Limits, and shared the stage with a variety of renowned musicians including Roger Waters, Jack White, Mavis Staples, Jeff Tweedy, Sara Bareilles, Tegan and Sara, and David Byrne.
Lucius returns to the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, years after playing the Festival in 2013.
Tank and the Bangas + Too Many Zooz (co-headliners)
Coming from New Orleans, Tank and the Bangas is surrounded by plenty of grand musical traditions, and the five-piece group has a rare knack for combining various musical styles—fiery soul, deft hip-hop, deep-groove R&B, and subtle jazz—into one dazzling, cohesive whole that evokes the scope of New Orleans music while retaining a distinctive feel all its own. "It's music that can't really be put in a box," says singer and poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball. She fronts the band with vivid charisma that helped Tank and the Bangas win NPR's 2017 'Tiny Desk Concert Contest' by unanimous acclaim, standing out among 6,000 entrants because of what Bob Boilen called "the depth of their lyricism and the versatility of their players." Those same qualities also attracted the attention of Verve Records, which has signed the band.
The curious thing about being a fan of brasshouse? You're pretty much talking about being into one solitary but extremely unforgettable band: the amusingly monikered Too Many Zooz. The musical style was "branded" by drummer King of Sludge (KOS), who recognized that there was no worthy existing classification for the New York trio, whose other two members are the equally unclassifiable Leo P (saxophone) and Matt Doe (trumpet).
It's an indifference to convention and trend that has garnered Too Many Zooz a fanbase that KOS describes as "wide-ranging and fanatical." Its sound is truly like nothing else, with inescapable grooves that take in dub, soul, funk and ska, utterly exhilarating horn blasts that shoot right up your spine, and, of course, equal doses of fun and attitude.
Mandolin Orange (+ Parsonsfield + Mipso)
Mandolin Orange's music radiates a mysterious warmth —their songs feel like whispered secrets, one hand cupped to your ear. The North Carolina duo has built a steady and growing fanbase with this kind of intimacy, and on Tides of A Teardrop (2019), it is more potent than ever. By all accounts, it is the duo's fullest, richest, and most personal effort. You can hear the air between them—the taut space of shared understanding, as palpable as a magnetic field, that makes their music sound like two halves of an endlessly completing thought.
Singer-songwriter Andrew Marlin and multi-instrumentalist Emily Frantz have honed this lamp-glow intimacy for years. For this album, Marlin and Frantz enlisted their touring band, who they also worked with on their last album Blindfaller. Having recorded all previous albums live in the studio, they approached the recording process in a different way this time. There is a telepathy and warmth in the interplay on Tides of A Teardrop that brings a new dynamic to the foreground—that holy silence between notes, the air that charges the album with such profound intimacy.
The Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival (60th year in 2019), a production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, is a 10-day celebration of the arts in downtown Pittsburgh unlike any other in the nation. This world-class, multi-disciplinary festival is free to attend and open to the public. Attracting nearly 500,000 visitors annually, the Festival begins on the first Friday in June and takes place at the confluence of Pittsburgh's famed three rivers in Point State Park, throughout picturesque Gateway Center, and in the city's renowned Cultural District. Now in its 60th year, the Festival's loyal visitors have enjoyed an extensive array of music, dance, theater, literary arts, public art, gallery exhibitions, and an Artist Market featuring 300+ artists from around the country. Through the Festival's green initiatives of waste reduction, reuse, and recycling throughout the Festival grounds, it is the recipient of the Outstanding Green Event Award and GOLD level accreditation from the Pennsylvania Resources Council.
-Carol
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory 2019
Review: Fun Slides Carpet Skatepark & Party Center


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Electric (KE) () (formerly known as Karachi Electric Supply Company / Karachi Electric Supply Corporation Limited) is a Pakistani investor-owned utility company based in Karachi. K-Electric is a privately owned and vertically-integrated electricity distribution company

Timeline
In 1913, the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) was formed to meet the power needs of a small port town called Karachi, incorporated under the now currently Companies Act, 2017.

In 1952, The Government of Pakistan nationalized KESC in order to facilitate the much needed investment in its infrastructure.

In 2005, KESC was privatized, with the government retaining a stake of approximately 26%, while 71% was transferred to a foreign consortium under the name of KES Power Limited.

In 2009, the new management, led by Abraaj Capital, took charge, beginning a turnaround story which has thus far seen investments of over US$2.1 billion.

In 2014, a low-cost power plant began operations, saving Pakistan hundreds of millions of dollars and cutting Pakistan's energy deficit. This power plant was funded by International Finance Corporation, a World Bank Group corporation. Since 1994, IFC has been one of the largest supporters of private power projects also known as 'Independent Power Producers (IPPs)' locally in Pakistan. This power plant increased power generation and improved energy supply for approximately 12 million people.

In 2014, KESC Changes Name to K-Electric and also changed its logo to three feathers of a partridge in orange, blue, and green representing energy, community, and environment respectively.

Shanghai Electric Power (SEP) entered into a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with K-Electric's holding company.

On 29 April 2019, K-Electric signed an agreement with the state-owned China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) to develop a new power project at Port Qasim, Karachi.

As of 2022, KES Power has a 66.40% stake in KE; while the Government of Pakistan's shareholding stands at 24.36%.

Energy Efficiency Day
K-Electric was a participant for the international Energy Efficiency Day, celebrated on 5 October, both in 2017 and 2018. KE won the best project award in the category of 'Corporate Solar Sustainability Program of the year' at the Middle East Solar Industry Association's (MESIA) Solar Awards 2018 as part of World Future Energy Summit held in Abu Dhabi.

See also

 List of electric supply companies in Pakistan
 Electricity Sector in Pakistan

References

External links
 K-Electric official website
 KESC name changed to KE
 KE participates in boxing championship Pakistan Today (newspaper)
 KE Women's Boxing Tournament The Express Tribune (newspaper)

Companies based in Karachi
Companies listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange
Distribution companies of Pakistan
Energy companies established in 1913
Mergers and acquisitions of Pakistani companies
Pakistani subsidiaries of foreign companies
Formerly government-owned companies of Pakistan
2005 mergers and acquisitions
Indian companies established in 1913


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Q: ruby and erb not responding in centos I've installed ruby with rvm on a centos 6.3 VM and when I attempt to run ruby with no parameters (or erb for that matter) I get no response back, it just sits there.
Running 'ruby' just drops the cursor to the next line like it's waiting for more input or something else to happen. Typing any ruby commands during this time does nothing AFAIK. I do not get any errors, but I'm not exactly sure where to look. I have to control-c to break out of it.
Few interesting things:
(I'm fairly new to linux, so be gentle)
running the command ruby -v
gets me:
ruby 1.9.3p374 (2013-01-15 revision 38858) [x86_64-linux]

so it seems like it's installed
running:
echo "puts 'hello'" |ruby

gets me:
hello

I've created a different user and then logged in with that user and the behavior is the same.
I've installed rails and then created a rails app and I can do rails c use the rails console
Other notes that may or may not be relevant:
I've recently installed KDE. I did have ruby working before installing KDE but I can't say it was the installation of KDE that messed it up.
I've already uninstalled ruby using rvm and reinstalled, same thing.
Uninstalled rvm and reinstalled.
I've no idea where to go with this or what information would be useful.

A: Run irb to get an interactive session. This is a REPL, a Read-Eval-Print Loop.
To see Ruby do something in response to running the interpreter and feeding it standard input interactively, try something like:
$ ruby
p :hello
^D

If you just type ruby, I'm not sure anything will happen until it reads the entire input file ... i.e., sees a Control/D indicating standard input end-of-file.

A: I believe your looking for irb - the interactive Ruby interpreter.
erb is an interpreter that expects a file argument.
$ erb hello-world.rb


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The lead story of my Saturday Times print edition here in Boston carried the subheadline, "Conservatives Viewed the House Speaker as Not Anti-Government Enough." By later editions, the subheadline had changed to "Surprise Announcement May Help Avert Another Government Shutdown."
The editor who killed the early subheadline displayed some good judgment in improving it. Alas, that judgment did not extend to editing the rest of the news article about the resignation of Speaker Boehner. It reported, "His downfall again highlighted the sinewy power of a Republican Party faction whose anthem is often to oppose government action....With antigovernment fervor helping to prompt Mr. Boehner's decision, several candidates for the Republican presidential nomination were quick to try to capitalize on the animus."
"Majority Leader Schumer" — FutureOfCapitalism.com, October 14, 2010.
"As Reid Falters, Schumer Subtly Stands in the Wings" — New York Times front page, October 28 (online), 29 (print), 2010.
The New York Times has a news article that runs under the headline "Republican Budget Hard-Liners Get Support from Tea Party." It begins, "As House Republican leaders worked to cobble together a spending plan for this year that can win bipartisan support, their more conservative members made increasingly clear on Thursday that they consider a proposed $33 billion budget cut to be insufficient."