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A&A Chess
Axis and Allies, in short: A&A, is a board game, played with a number of players (two to five), simulating the second world war. The game contains a large element of luck, as battles are decided by throwing dices. July 1995, David Albert Harrell invented a diceless variant of this game, which he called A&A Chess. I wouldn't actually classify this game as a chess variant, as it has only little resemblances to chess, I think; but as opinions of others may be different, it is included here on these WWW pages.
A&A Chess (NO dice)
by David Albert Harrell
If you play a lot of A&A, you will experience some wild fluctuations in the dice. When this happens, I usually feel cheated, whether the dice have fallen in my favor, or against me. When the dice severely enhance my position, I don't feel deserving of the subsequent victory, and when they roll against me, I'm not too happy either.
Several years ago, in the course of my artificial intelligence experiments within the A&A environment, I was disposed to find a method of resolving "battles" which did not allow severe fluctuations in the random factor of the "dice decisions". This necessity fostered a most elegant and interesting modification, which has transformed a frequently frustrating game of luck, into a new and reliable competitive encounter, based entirely on skill. I call this new game hybrid "A&A Chess".
Many A&A players have expressed serious objections to the notion of some "diceless" method of resolving battles. Many say that "this" would not be the same game, and they are correct. A&A and A&A Chess are as different as Backgammon and conventional Chess. However, the difference is more difficult to appreciate, because the pieces and board, for these two games, are identical (except for dice). A&A Chess is a completely different challenge, and it will inevitably attract its own type of player.
People who like A&A the way it is now, should certainly continue to play A&A in this fashion, but I am certain no one really objects if new people, who may perhaps have never taken an interest in conventional A&A, find the uniquely competitive environment of A&A Chess to be of some interest.
I, for instance, am a serious chess player. I have never been interested in games such as Parcheesi, backgammon, or craps; if you can understand why, then I suspect you will like A&A Chess, and I sincerely recommend that you try it.
Here is an opportunity to become part of the opening evolution of this new game. Serious players may now begin establishing play records that will accurately reflect their individual abilities. The game is evolving into the unique class of the totally cognitive. Such competition is the most severe kind, among gaming entities, because these purely cognitive gaming environments leave no escaped route for the ego. Only a handful of such games exist, such as "Go" and "Chess".
Some of you may never have heard of the ancient Oriental game "Go". Over the centuries, the simple 2D environment of "Go" has come to be considered (perhaps unjustly) a game of limited parameters, when compared to chess; just as chess may someday be considered a game of limited parameters, when compared to "diceless A&A".
I invite you to experience the purely cognitive A&A Chess environment. If you already play A&A, the metamorphosis takes only minutes; merely substitute the following simple modification for the traditional casting of the notoriously inequitable bones of fate.
David Albert Harrell
A&A Chess Official Rules
International A&A Chess Federation
When deciding the results of an assault within a "battle", add the separate totals of the "attack" and "Defense" capabilities for both groups, and then divide each of these sums by 6. The respective products of these divisions represent the number of units "destroyed" in the given single assault. (As always, the attacker retains the option to continue the attack by launching another assault.)
If 6 men attack a group of 3 men: the results of the first single assault is a loss of 1 defender, and 1 attacker.
Attacking Force: 6 men. (total attack capability = 6)
Defending Force 3 men. (total defense capability = 6)
Defender loss = 1 unit (man).
Attacker loss = 1 unit (man).
If 4 tanks attack a group comprised of 3 tanks and 6 men: the results of this single assault are a loss of 2 defenders, and 3 attackers.
Attacking Force: 4 tanks.
Defending Force 3 tanks and 6 men.
Defender loss = 2 units.
Attacker loss = 3 units.
FRACTIONS: (the remainder of the division by 6)
The fraction, in the case of the attacker, if less than five, is ignored. If the fraction is equal to 5, than it is considered a "hit".
In the case of the defender, the fraction is considered a hit if equal to 4 or 5. If the fraction is less than 4, it is ignored.
Examples 3:
Attacking Force: 4 tanks and 5 men.
(total attack value = 17) (the fraction 5 is considered a hit)
(total defense value = 16) (the fraction 4 is considered a hit)
(total attack value = 16) (the fraction 4, or less, is ignored)
Defending Force 3 tanks, 4 men, and 1 bomber.
(total defense value = 15) (the fraction 3, or less, is ignored)
Anti-aircraft fire is handled as follows:
Total the number of planes used within a given entire move, and divide this total by 5; the product of this division indicates the number of planes lost , and the fraction (4 or less) is ignored. In cases where the planes involved in a move are disbursed among two or more territories, and the total number of planes exceeds 4, then the commander of said aircraft may choose which plane (or planes, in the case of more than 9 planes) will be considered lost by anti-aircraft fire.
If Germany sends 3 aircraft to the UK and 2 (up to 6) aircraft to Russia (assuming both territories [being attacked] are defended with anti-aircraft), 1 aircraft is lost before the attack totals are computed. (Flying over multiple anti-aircraft, in a single move, increases these totals accordingly. For example if 3 planes fly over two territories with AA, then 1 plane is lost at the point where the total equals or exceeds 5.)
ECONOMIC BOMBER RUNS :
In the case of economic bomber runs, the same anti-aircraft rule modifications are used, and the attacker is awarded a 2.5 production unit deficit (on the enemy treasury) for each bomber that survives the "anti-aircraft fire". If the total has a fraction, it is ignored.
SUBMARINE FIRST SHOT:
Attacking submarines are handled normally, except their attack strength is totalled separately and divided by 6; the product of this division indicates the number of defending units which will be removed from the board, WITHOUT opportunity to return fire. The fraction is added to the normal remaining attack total of the given assault.
Attacking Force: 2 battleship, 1 fully loaded (2 fighters) carrier, and 5 submarines.
(total attack value = 25)
Defending Force: 1 battleship, 1 fully loaded (2 fighters) carrier, and 1 transport.
(total retaliatory defense value = 15)
(16 - 1 : assuming the transport is selected as the casualty of the 3 submarine's first strike hit)
Defender loss = 4 units. (the remainder or fraction of "1" is ignored)
Attacker loss = 2 units. (the remainder or fraction of "3" is ignored)
WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT
Units having had their attack values augmented by weapons development are treated according to their given increase. Dice rolls representing "rocket attacks" are always considered to be a value of 3.
OPTIONAL REINTRODUCTION OF A SMALL RANDOM ELEMENT
There are five variations of A&A Chess. The first, described above, is the "orthodox" method, known simply as "A&A Chess".
A&A Chess (RYOF) "Roll Your Own Fraction".
If you wish to retain a slight random element in your contest, simply roll a single die to resolve fractions which would normally (using the orthodox variation of A&A Chess) be ignored, i.e., remainders of 4 or less for the attacker, and 3 or less for the defender. (For example, if the fraction [remainder] was 3, then a die roll of 3 or less would be considered a hit.)
A&A Chess (RYOF<6) "Roll Your Own Fraction less the 6".
If you desire even more uncertainty in your game, you can roll a die to decide all fractions less than 6, including such values as AA fire, rockets, and bomber E-run depletions on the enemy treasury.
A&A Chess (COF) "Carry Over the Fraction"
All fractions (< 5 for the attacker, or < 4 for the defender) of single a "battle" (an attack on a single territory or sea zone) are "carried over" to the respective totals of subsequent assaults within the same battle (in the event there are multiple assaults). When the attacker withdraws, or one side is destroyed, the final remaining relevant fraction or fractions (if any) are ignored if < 5 for the attacker, or < 4 for the defender; otherwise the given fraction is considered a hit.
Notice that when dealing with fractions (representing a hit: > 4 for the attacker, or > 3 for the defender) the enemy casualties are remove from the battle board simultaneously as they occur (during the assault in which said fraction qualifies). Such qualifying fractions are not added again to the next attack assault totals. In contrast, a barely qualify fraction actually creates a deficit in the running total, which will effect any subsequent assault; this is necessary to maintain equity when using the "Carry Over the Fraction" method. For example, if the attacker's last assault minimally qualified with a fraction of 5, he would have some slight degree of incentive to withdraw, knowing he must now total another full 6 points to gain his next hit.
A&A Chess (COF+R) "Carry Over the Fraction + Roll"
Same as COF except a single die may be cast to resolve any remaining relevant fraction or fractions (< 5 for the attacker, or < 4 for the defender) in final assault of a given battle.
This last variation, A&A Chess (COF+R) offers maximum equity, lightly seasoned with a "minimal dash of luck" on the end. However, I believe the totally diceless (COF) variation will inevitably became the most popular. Luck clearly plays a large role in the game of A&A, but I am convinced that dice will eventually have "no roll" in A&A Chess.
E-MAIL PLAY
Any one of these modifications will provide a more meaningful contest than the conventional "all dice" approach. Another advantage is that these new methods virtually (orthodox and COF, completely) solve the email-play problems of dice rolling. (The single dice roll offer very little temptation, nor even opportunity, for indiscretions of honor). Respective moves are simply made by each player in turn. The final configuration, after a move, is merely sent to the opponent, along with perhaps an explanation of anything one has done, which can not obviously be resolved. If the receiving player cannot justify the move, then he may challenge the move; calling for a full explanation of the issue he questions. This has the effect of reducing the time, correspondence, and confusing normally associated with email-play.
Any private non-profit entity may use these modifications without charge. However, profit oriented entities, such as the Milton Bradley Company, may NOT incorporate this modification (nor any derivative and/or variation thereof) into their rules or game documentation, without written permission from David Albert Harrell.
Announcement of an International competition
In 1995, a competition in diceless A&A was held. Below, you find the announcement.
From: D.Albert Harrell
The first official International competition in diceless A&A will take place (via email) in September 1995. The winner, and first IA&ACF World Champion, will be recorded and announced following the final round of this match. All other participants will be officially rated according to their final standings.
There are no entrance fees or payments of any kind involved in this tournament. However, judging from the initial response to the recent publication of the A&A Chess format, there will certainly be a great deal of notoriety for the winner.
A&A Chess Federation 1995 Tournament.
1. All Tournament games will be played using the totally diceless COF variation of A&A Chess. (Carry Over the Fraction). Anyone who needs a copy of the Official IA&ACF Tournament Rules should email a request.
2. If you wish to be entered as a contestant in the Sept. 95 International Championship Tournament, you must officially register by requesting a starting game assignment from D. Albert Harrell on or before Aug. 26. You will receive the Rules and email move formats within a few days, and your game starting assignment on Aug. 28.
Written by: David Albert Harrell.
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Putting cottage cheese in the MMO sock.
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
So at the end of the last episode, I'd just leaped in to the body of some chap in a cantina being confronted by a bounty hunter, with only minutes to save the station from dread space pirate attacks. Oh boy!
Course I saved the day in the end, taught Chubby Checker how to do the twist, and we all learned a valuable moral lesson. Anyway! Back to the Star Wars Galaxies trial…
I mentioned the ease of introductory missions for a Commando, enemies taking only a couple of laser blasts to dispatch even before I started chucking grenades around, so I thought I'd have a quick look at a couple of other professions. First up, the Entertainer: na na na na na na na na naaaa na na na na na na na na na naaaa (that's the textual version of Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer", in case you were wondering, not "I'm In The Mood For Dancing" by the Nolan Sisters). A natural choice for such a character would be a Twi'lek female, so obviously I rolled up a bright blue male Mon Calamari called Norrmann Lamont (Rule 17: characters named after cabinet ministers are Inherently Funny), and spent the first five minutes of the tutorial informing Han, Chewie and the others in no uncertain terms that it was a trap, until C3P0 snapped and screamed that every Mon Calamari character that had ever been created in the entire history of the game said that, and it wasn't that funny the first time in beta.
On to the starting space station, and I was given my first life-or-death task: to dance in the cantina. Doo do do do doo do do dooo do doo (that's the textual version of "I'm In The Mood For Dancing" by the Nolan Sisters, in case you were wondering, not Napalm Death's "From Enslavement To Obliteration".) This was achieved by hitting "Start Dancing" on the hotbar, and a minute later hitting "Stop Dancing". Not too tricky… To make life a bit more interesting, there were also "flourishes" available on other hotkeys, and boy, I had some smooth moves. They were swooning in that cantina, I tell you. Well, maybe not exactly swooning so much as remaining totally immobile, but they were swooning inside, I could tell. Especially Boba Fett. My second mission was to play some music in the sick bay to cheer everybody up, so off I wandered. The music system seemed pretty much the same; Start Music, wait around for a bit hitting one of the flourishes from time to time, Stop Music. I think the patients really appreciated my rendition of Python's "Medical Love Song". Least, none of them actually died, so I'll take that as a bonus.
That seemed to wrap up my entertainer-specific training, so I wandered off and asked Han if I could help out with anything. Turned out he needed some components to get the Millennium Falcon flying again, and I could get them from malfunctioning droids in the repair bay. "Right", I said, "so you think I can bewitch these droids with my mesmeric musical skills, and get the components that way?"
"Don't talk daft" replied Han, "a quick burst of From Enslavement To Obliteration won't have any effect on a malfunctioning droid".
"That was I'm In The Mood For Dancing, you cloth-eared buffoon! All right then, so a particularly impressive dance move might overload their Terpsichorean Appreciation Circuits, rendering them helpless and ripe for component nabbing?"
"Terpsi-what? And SHUT THAT BLOODY BAZOUKI OFF!"
"All right! All right! So how, precisely, do you think I should employ my entertaining skills to obtain these circuits?"
"I was thinking you could shoot the droids"
"Shoot them? With my space-clarinet?"
"With that pistol you had to obtain to make it through the tutorial"
"Right. That's not *very* entertaining is it? Can I at least hold, in my off-hand, this fun sparkler-thingy I've been waving around while I shoot them?"
"Nah, you can't dual-wield at level one"
So off I toddled, and shot a few droids with a laser pistol. I tried doing a bit of a dance at the same time, punctuating particularly impressive pirouettes with a burst of laser fire, but it just made me dizzy and spoiled my aim so I gave up on that. I can't help but feel they missed a trick by only having Music and Dancing as entertainer skills, Stand Up Comedy could easily be combined with combat. "What's got six holes in it, and a quest component I need?" *zap zap zap zap zap zap* "That malfunctioning droid right there! Thank you, thank you, I'll be here until I have the 5 items I need."
Further missions on offer all seemed to be the same stuff I'd done with the Commando: kill these pirates, get these items (by killing pirates), clear rogue wildlife from part of the station (I asked if this might be achieved by playing some particularly aggressively atonal Schoenberg at them, which is usually enough to clear any area, but apparently no, shooting them with the laser pistol was the way to go again). I'll confess I didn't spend a great deal of time or effort investigating a career in entertaining, it doesn't seem a very solo-friendly profession. There's a very interesting looking "Build-a-Buff" ability that Entertainers can use from level one, in the best traditions of inspiring competence, but of course that really needs someone to buff. The skills list also includes "Hair Styling" and "Face Forming", which I gather lets characters change their appearance, always handy. If you're sent off on a quest to bring down the Empire, though, to paraphrase Mr Solo: "A nice line in the Charleston and a space bassoon are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." All in all, it looks like it can definitely be beneficial to know a good entertainer, but I don't think it's really for me.
Next profession to try: a Trader.
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Q: Variables not getting referenced while calling the shell script in the azure pipelines This is my first time working with azure pipelines, I started creating my azure-pipeline.yml. I am trying to execute the azure DevOps pipeline. However I am getting to errors where the variable are not referenced as declared.
deploy.sh deploy_azr ${{ variables.subPref }} ${{ variables.rgType }} ${{ variables.location }} ${{ variables.config }}

Here is the start of my template

# Starter pipeline
# Start with a minimal pipeline that you can customize to build and deploy your code.
# Add steps that build, run tests, deploy, and more:
# https://aka.ms/yaml

trigger:
  branches:
    include:
    - main
  paths:
   include:
     - 'bicep/*'
     - 'azure-pipelines.yml'
   exclude:
     - '*'

pool:
  vmImage: ubuntu-latest

variables:
  ${{ if eq(variables['Build.SourceBranchName'], 'test_branch') }}:
    deployTarget: tst
    subscription: testsubscription
    subscriptionId: 26455-trt31-******
    rgType: tstrg
    subPref: *****
    config: tstjson
    location: eastus2
  ${{ if eq(variables['Build.SourceBranchName'], 'main') }}:
    deployTarget: prd
    subscription: prdsub
    subscriptionId: ***********************
    rgType: prdrg
    subPref: ******
    config: prd.json
    location: eastus2

stages:
  - stage: Deploylib
    jobs:
      - deployment: lib
        environment: ${{ variables.subscription }}
        strategy:
          runOnce:
            deploy:
              steps:
                - checkout: self
                - task: AzureCLI@2
                  inputs:
                    azureSubscription: ${{ variables.subscription }}
                    scriptType: 'bash'
                    scriptLocation: 'inlineScript'
                    inlineScript: |
                      set -e
                      set -x
                      sudo apt install -y gridsite-clients
                      cd 'bicep'
                      echo "starting the lib deployment"
                      deploy.sh deploy_azr ${{ variables.subPref }} ${{ variables.rgType }} ${{ variables.location }} ${{ variables.config }}

any help would be appreciated.

A: I think the problem is that you need to specify the correct environment name on this line,
jobs:
  - deployment: lib
    environment: <environment name>

You can create an environment on the DevOps page, see the reference here, then copy the name to the YAML above.
The concept of environment here represents a collection of resources you will deploy your code. Once you have run a deployment, you should be able to see the history of deployment in the target environment.

A:
/azure-pipelines.yml (Line: 42, Col: 22): Unexpected value ''

Test the same YAML sample and reproduce the same issue.

The cause of the issue is that you are using the format: ${{ variables.subscription }} in YAML sample.
The variable will be processed at compile time.
To solve this issue, you can change to use the format: $(subscription)
For example:
jobs:
  - deployment: lib
    environment: $(subscription)

Result:

For more detailed info, you can refer to this doc: Runtime expression syntax

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The zone of Yungas in Bolivia is an Eco Region of thick forests and exuberant flora, with a fauna living in harmony with Mother Earth. It is a place located in the Department of La Paz, where rivers, roads forests and mountains have become a favorite destination for Adventure Tourism.
In La Paz area it is divided into two provinces: Nor Yungas and Sud Yungas, in the first province are located villages such as Coroico, Coripata and Yolosa, while the most beautiful village of the second one is Chulumani.
Very important tourist activities are carried out in these tropical areas of the Department of La Paz, on first place is the tour around the Death Road, a dangerous path which edge is surrounded by kilometers of ravine. On the other hand sports like paragliding cycling long-winded, mountain climbing and hiking are practiced by tourists coming from distant countries, in the interest of knowing an area which is still maintaining its biodiversity and ecology.
In Yungas lives the ethnic group Tocaña of the Afro-bolivian community, who are direct descendants of the first men of color brought by the Spaniards from Africa to work in the colonial mines.
Coroico is one of the municipalities with the greatest tourist tradition of the country, one of its main attractions is the Death Road descending from the Summit of La Paz and in an approximately 3 to 4 hours down to the Yungas of La Paz. From this point it goes down-hill and you can see the changing landscape and scenery. The air is warmer and the vegetation becomes; and one is with nature, the stunning scenery and a warm climate.


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Stormwater Management Timeline
The City was founded in 1859 and has expanded, improved, and renewed every year up until current day. Throughout a vast majority of that time, there were no stormwater ordinances to guide and regulate that development to ensure proper stormwater runoff control. This resulted in development occurring in areas where stormwater has no choice but to collect. These areas are currently known as Floodplains and Flood Prone Areas. To better understand how the City got to where it is today follow the timeline below! Note: All images are clickable and each section of the timeline can be collapsed or expanded by clicking on the title line of that section.
The City of Wheaton was founded in 1859. At that time, the area that would become the City was a headwater land mass with numerous swampy depressional areas and no defined creeks or watercourses.
Farm Drainage Act 1879
In 1879 the Farm Drainage Act was passed by the State of Illinois which established the authority to create drainage districts "to create drainage for sanitary and agricultural purposes…". This allowed for the eventual creation of the Union Drainage District #1 and #2 which were taxing bodies used to generate funds for drainage in their areas of operation in separate areas of Wheaton.
Creation of Drainage Channels 1890
Between 1890 and 1900 Union Drainage Ditch #1 and Union Drainage Ditch #2 were constructed by men and mules through the City to provide many areas the means to drain in order to create additional farmable land. These Drainage Ditches are now known as Springbook#1 and Winfield Creek and are the major drainage routes in the City of Wheaton.
Draining of the Land
Once the Union Drainage Ditches were constructed it allowed for farmers to install drain tiles (perforated pipes) on their property from any swampy upland depressions to the drainage ditches which also created additional farmable land. However, it also created the false sense of security that these depressions were dry lands. Since all pipes are easily overwhelmed by intense rainfalls this sense of security was proven false with many rainstorms. However, while crops stood in water from time to time little to no damages occurred.
Developing Outward 1939
The City continued to develop and expand outwards. As areas developed infrastructure was installed by developers which for this time period frequently included storm sewers but they were not required by code. At this point the City had spread closer to the Union Drainage Ditches and Flood Prone Areas, but mainly remained away from most areas where flooding develops.
The City continued to develop and expand outwards. The City's subdivision requirements have barely evolved and stormwater requirements still are not present besides providing small convenience drainage storm sewers or roadside ditches. At this point the City has grown to encompass all of the flood prone areas in the northern half of the City and has developed right up to many locations on Winfield Creek. This development resulted in placing private residences in locations where flooding is guaranteed to occur.
City of Wheaton Subdivision Code 1957
The City of Wheaton Subdivision Code was updated and first showed signs of the idea of Stormwater Control. Stormwater runoff control was an idea that was starting to be used but only for extremely large subdivisions and there was no specific requirements on what had to be provided.
"Land subject to flooding and land deemed to be topographically unsuitable should not be subdivided for residential purposes, nor for such other uses as may increase danger to health, life or property, or aggravate erosion or flood hazard."
Also in that update storm sewers became required public infrastructure for subdivisions.
"Adequate system of storm water drainage, separate form the sanitary sewer system, shall be constructed and installed, consisting of pipes, tile, manholes, inlets, and other necessary facilities, that will adequately drain the subdivision and protect roadway pavement."
Technical Paper No. 40 1961
The U.S. Department of Commerce publishes Technical Paper No. 40 (TP40) Titled "Rainfall Frequency Atlas of the United States" which is a study that proves that a 100-year storm rainfall is 5.8 inches in 24 hours. While in the future this was found to be an incorrect quantity, it did provide communities a benchmark to start thinking about how to control stormwater runoff.
Flood Insurance Act 1968
The National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 is a piece of legislation passed in the United States that led to the creation of the National Flood Insurance Program. This program was originally housed in the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Federal Insurance Administration.
Preliminary Floodplain Maps 1974
The creeks and channels and depressional areas have flooded numerous times by now. However, the City of Wheaton receives its first PRELIMINARY floodplain maps from the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Federal Insurance Administration as they attempt to delineate where additional floodplain regulations should be located.
First Stormwater Ordinance 1977
Chapter 12 ½ titled "Floodplains, Stormwater Runoff, and Erosion Control" was adopted June 6th 1977 which provided the City of Wheaton its first Stormwater Ordinance. The ordinance required subdivisions and other development to have detention, safe stormwater routing and acknowledged many new regulations for floodplain areas.
Note: Detention was to be provided for the 100-year storm, which was known to be 5.8 inches of rainfall over 24 hours.
The City continued to develop and expand outwards. The subdivision requirements have increased and stormwater requirements have just been implemented requiring detention. At this point the City has grown to encompass 15/17 of the current flood prone areas, has completely developed right up Winfield Creek, and has developed right up to Springbrook#1 as well. This development resulted in placing private residences in locations where flooding is guaranteed to occur.
FEMA Created / Floodplain Maps 1979
FEMA is first created as a federal department in 1979 taking over duties from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The preliminary floodplain maps of 1974 finally go live on June 15, 1979 and the City can now regulate development in floodplain areas. The floodplain maps, however, only cover areas where there is a creek channel and are still calculated on the then known 100-year storm of 5.8 inches of rainfall over 24 hours.
DuPage Stormwater Ordinance 1991
DuPage County passes the DuPage County Stormwater Ordinance and the City of Wheaton adopts the ordinance into its City Code which increases requirements for stormwater regulations. As such additional detention is required; providing more protection in large rainfalls.
Rainfall Frequency Atlas - Midwest 1992
A new rainfall study was published that had the benefit of an extra 31 years of rainfall data to make better predictions about what total rainfall creates a 100-year storm. For Wheaton this resulted in the 100-year storm now being known as 7.58 inches of rainfall over 24 hours. Detention requirements were increased in light of this new information, however all previous detention now only provided protection to approximately 30-year storm levels instead of the 100-year storm level previously thought!
The City continued to develop and expand outwards. The subdivision requirements have increased greatly and stormwater requirements are now generally modern standards. Unfortunately, at this time the City is mostly built out and although detention has been implemented in the new areas in Southern Wheaton, it has been provided at what is now known as a 30 year storm level. At this point the City has grown to encompass all 17 of the current flood prone areas, has completely developed right up Winfield Creek, and has developed right up to Springbrook#1 as well.
FEMA Maps Updated 2004
FEMA Floodplain maps were updated throughout the City of Wheaton however the creeks were not restudied using new rainfall information. The existing study was simply updated using better aerial topographic ground information. Part of this update also added more floodplain zones in well known flooding areas near downtown.
City's First Stormwater Engineer 2008
Wheaton fills a newly created Stormwater Engineer position to focus solely on the City's stormwater issues created by development that occurred before regulations were in place to prevent it.
The City continues to develop and expand outwards into whatever small areas remain. The subdivision and stormwater requirements are now the modern standard and detention has been provided for the 100 year storm for the last twenty years for all new developments.
Stormwater Ordinance Update 2013
DuPage County revises the DuPage County Stormwater Ordinance and greatly reduces the detention requirements. The City of Wheaton chooses to keep its own Stormwater Ordinance in place to continue to require detention at a high level for developments.
Community Rating System 2018
The City of Wheaton joins FEMA's Community Rating System Program which grades communities based on their Stormwater Practices and Regulations and provides all property owners in that community a discount on flood insurance rates. The City's Practices and Regulations garners enough points to enter the program as a level 6 which provides a 20% discount on flood insurance rates!
City of Wheaton Aerial Views 1939 - 2011
City of Wheaton Aerial View - 1939
EXIT/CONCLUSION
The development done in the past has presented stormwater challenges for today.
In response to those challenges, City Council has enacted a Strategic Initiative to determine what improvements can be done to improve the flooding that occurs in the City of Wheaton. This initiative has enabled the Engineering Department to have Hydraulic Studies of Flood Prone Areas and surveying in the Floodplain performed all to work towards the goal of decreasing flooding and flood damages. It is also recognized that flooding can occur anywhere throughout the City, not just the Floodplain and Flood Prone Areas, so the Drainage Review program is available to aid residents in the city with any stormwater questions or concerns that they may have. For more specific information on the City of Wheaton's current Stormwater Programs click the links on the left!
Drainage Reviews
Flood Prone Areas Studies Map
Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
Flooding Prevention Tips
National Flood Insurance Program
Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan (NHMP)
Sanitary Sewer Backups
Stormwater Management to Address Pollutants
Stormwater Presentations to City Council


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Gerald and Charlene Gallego are two American serial killers who terrorized Sacramento, California between 1978 and 1980. They murdered ten victims, mostly teenagers, most of whom they kept as sex slaves before killing them.
Charlene Gallego was born Charlene Adelle Williams near Sacramento, California, on October 10, 1956. Her father Charles was a respected entrepreneur who was the vice-president of a supermarket chain. He and his wife Mercedes often travelled as part of their business life. Early school reports suggest Charlene was a quiet and shy child, who had good attendance. Charlene's mother was hurt badly in a car accident; this was the reason she stopped travelling around with her husband. Charlene took over her mother's duties, and would often travel with her father on business trips. It was there she was often praised by her father's clients for being an intelligent and well-spoken child.
But by high school, Charlene was taking drugs and bragged to friends about a black lover. Charlene eventually married a young, wealthy man who was a heroin addict. He claimed that Charlene was obsessed with lesbian sex and begged him to have a threesome with her and a prostitute. She was also using a large number of drugs and didn't care about her appearance. Her first husband hated that Charlene's parents also intervened in their relationship, so the marriage failed and they got divorced. Charlene's next husband was a soldier who Charlene described as a "mother's boy". She grew bored with him and they got divorced. Charlene then had an affair with a married man who soon ended the relationship after she asked if they could have sex with his wife. After the breakup, she attempted suicide but survived. It was not long after this that she met Gerald.
Gerald was born on July 17, 1946. His mother and her numerous boyfriends had beaten him during his formative years, and, when his mother became a prostitute, he was abused by some of her clients. His estranged father (also named Gerald Gallego) was a criminal who in 1955 became the first man executed in the Mississippi gas chamber, for the killing of a police officer during a prison escape. He was often left hungry and dirty and was always pleading to be held and hugged. Gallego began his criminal career at age thirteen, when he sexually abused a six-year-old girl.
In December of 1963, Gerald married his first wife. He was sixteen, she was twenty-one. In April of 1964, Gerald's first child Krista was born. The marriage was short lived and Gerald somehow managed to gain custody of his daughter and sent her off to live with his mother. On July 12, 1966, Gerald again married. His bride was a twenty-four year old waitress form West Sacramento. However, just twenty-six days after it began, the marriage fell apart. It appears Gerald enjoyed beating his new bride and chasing her around with knives. On October 25, 1969, Gerald and his Half-brother David were again arrested for armed robbery. They had targeted a motel in Vacaville, California. Shortly after their arrest, the two brothers and another inmate escaped the Solano County jail. Nonetheless, they were recaptured four days later. Gallego was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the robbery.
On October 14, 1967, Gerald took his third wife, a laundry worker. This marriage lasted one month. He seemed to enjoy beating her as well. Gerald's fourth marriage took place in March of 1969, in Reno. His new wife, nineteen-year-old Harriette, was pregnant by the time their marriage ended less than a month after it began. The family of Harriette referred to Gerald as Jekyll and Hyde. To this day, the daughter does not know the identity of her father. On October 5, 1974, Gerald went down the aisle a fifth time in Butte County. His new nineteen-year-old wife was a laundry worker. On December 12, 1975, Gerald was discharged from parole. In August of 1977, Gerald and his wife separated. In the fall of 1977, Gerald met Charlene Adell Williams, at a poker club in Sacramento. The two immediately hit it off.
He was still married to a previous wife when he married Charlene Williams. He also started sexually abusing his daughter. Gerald liked rough sex and Charlene responded to this. At first, their sex life was so good that they couldn't get enough of each other. Gerald particularly enjoyed sodomizing Charlene, but she later said in court that she hated the painful experience.
Charlene was sexually submissive; sexual submission relies strongly on conversational power play. The submissive often indicates to the dominant party what he or she enjoys so, in a way, it is the submissive that's in charge. Charlene was disliked in work for being too flirtatious with her male co-workers, but she wanted a man who would take charge and be dominant. Gerald appeared streetwise and very masterful. Within a week of meeting, the new couple had rented a house and moved in together. Gerald soon moved beyond flowers and chocolates, and Charlene accepted that he was more interested in his own sexual satisfaction. Charlene was fascinated by his machismo and was soon sharing in his illicit fantasies.
After they had been living together for a few months, Gerald brought home a sixteen year old dancer, and they had a threesome together. He made sure that the two women only touched him and not each other. After he returned home from work, however, he found Charlene and the dancer in bed together. Enraged, he threw the girl out an open window, then hit Charlene. He then withheld sex from her saying he had become impotent, in reality though he most likely found her unattractive, because she'd shown she wasn't fully dependent on him for sexual kicks. Gerald soon sodomized his now fourteen year-old daughter and her friend, and he did so with Charlene's knowledge. It is unclear if she was in the room with them or just in the same apartment, but evidently she didn't find anything immoral in what Gerald had done.
With Gerald working as a bartender, Charlene suspected he was sleeping with his customers as he was now disinterested in her sexually. When the couple had been together for a year, he said that he needed a pair of love slaves to turn him on and asked Charlene to procure them. Some sources suggest she agreed because she saw his word as law and that she only wanted to please him. Whatever her motivation, she agreed to lure teenage victims to their certain deaths.
On 11 September 1978, two teenagers – Rhonda Scheffler and Kippi Vaught – aged 17 and 16 respectively, were shopping at Sacramento's Country Club Plaza on September 10, 1978. Charlene picked them up and put them in the back of the couple's van. Gerald repeatedly raped the two victims throughout the night in Baxter, California. The next day, the Gallegos drove to Sloughhouse, where Gerald got Rhonda and Kippi out of the van. He then made them walk out in the field to a ditch where he hit Kippi first with a tire iron then swung around and hit Rhonda. Finally, he shot each girl in the head with a 25-caliber pistol. As Gerald was walking back he saw one of the victims move (later revealed as Kippi Vaught) because the bullet had only grazed her skull. He returned and shot her three more times in the head, killing her.
On 24 June 1979 Brenda Judd (age 14) and Sandra Colley (age 13) were lured into the Gallegos' van at the Washoe County Fair in Nevada on the promise of making some money delivering leaflets. Charlene drove the van northeast out of Reno on I-80. At the back of the van, Gerald repeatedly raped the two young girls while Charlene watched in the rearview mirror. Charlene then parked their van in a desolate area known as Humboldt Sink.
In the next couple of hours, Gerald rested and watched Charlene force the girls to perform sexual acts on each other. Gerald then took a shovel from under the seat of their van and pulled Colley out of the vehicle, marching her toward a dry creek bed. He then stepped behind Colley and swung the shovel. Charlene would later recall the sound, describing it as "a loud splat like a flat rock hitting mud, and the girl sank to her knees and slowly toppled over on her face." Gerald then beat Judd to death and dug a deep hole, folding the naked bodies of the two girls into it and placing a rock over the grave. Their remains were not discovered until November 1999 by a tractor operator. The teenagers were listed as runaways for four years until Charlene confessed to their murders during the 1982 trial. On April 24, 1980 the Gallegos kidnapped Stacey Redican and Karen Chipman Twiggs from Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, a bedroom community north of Sacramento. As with their other victims, husband and wife sexually abused and bludgeoned to death.
While hitchhiking in Port Orford, Oregon on 6 June 1980, Linda Teresa Aguilar – disappeared. Relatives reported her missing on June 20, and her body was found two days later, in a shallow grave located south of Gold Beach. The victim's skull was shattered, her wrists and ankles bound with nylon cord, but an autopsy revealed sand in her nose, mouth, and throat, indicating that she was buried alive. On July 17, 1980, 34-year-old Virginia Mochel was abducted from the parking lot of a West Sacramento tavern, where she worked as a bartender. Her skeletal remains, still bound with nylon fishing line, were found three months later outside of Clarksburg. Loops of cord from the victim's neck were admitted as proof of death by strangulation.
At 1:30am on November 2, 1980, Gerald saw a young couple, twenty-two-year-old Craig Miller, and his fiancée, twenty-one-year-old Mary Elizabeth Sowers, standing on the side of the street After leaving a fraternity dance. In his most brazen attempt yet, Gerald got out of the car, walked right up to them, pulled out a .25 caliber Beretta, pointed it in the couples face, and ordered them into the car. Moments later, friends observed them seated in a car outside, a rough-looking stranger sitting up front, on the passenger's side. One of Craig's friends was sliding behind the wheel, to make small talk, when Charlene Gallego appeared, slapping his face as she ordered him out of the car and sped away.
Unfortunately for Gerald, the friends of the young couple wrote down the license plate number. After driving to a secluded area, Gerald commanded Craig out of the car, as the young man turned to walk towards the front of the vehicle, Gerald aimed his pistol and shot the boy at point-blank range in the back of the head while his fiancée looked on in horror. Gerald then fired two more shots into Craig's head, as he lay lifeless on the ground, his body was found near Bass Lake, California. Gerald got back into the vehicle and ordered Charlene to drive to their apartment. Once back at the apartment, Gerald took his new sex slave into the bedroom and raped her for hours on end. After he was satisfied, he ordered Charlene to drive to a rural area. Once there, Gerald ordered Mary out of the car. He then shot her three times at point blank range. Beth Sowers would not be found until November 22, shot three times and dumped in a Placer County ditch.
The friends of Miller and Sowers who witnessed their abduction reported the car's license plate number. Officers traced the vehicle to Charlene's parents. When Gerald and Charlene returned to her parents' house the next morning, the police were there. Gerald disappeared quickly, leaving Charlene to deal with investigators' questions. She and her boyfriend had gone to a movie the night before, she said; they'd driven his red Triumph. When detectives reminded her that the Triumph had been parked in front of the house all night, she said they'd gotten so drunk she couldn't remember which car they'd taken. The detectives left deeply suspicious.
Recording her flat denial of the incident. She also gave her name as "Mrs. Stephen Styles", a false identity Gallego had secured by stealing a policeman's I.D. card, using the vital information to request a 'duplicate' birth certificate and driver's license for himself. Gerald decided that Craig Miller's body, which he'd taken no trouble to conceal, had to be moved before police found it. He didn't know, however, that it had already been discovered, and when he and Charlene went looking for it that night, it was nowhere to be found. they decided It was time to run. They drove to Reno where they ditched their car and boarded a bus for Salt Lake City.
Back in Sacramento the evidence was mounting. Craig Miller's fraternity brother identified a picture of Gerald as the man he'd seen in the Oldsmobile with Craig and Mary Beth. Charles Williams told police that Stephen Feil's real name was Gerald Gallego. The bullets removed from Craig Miller's body matched those Gerald had shot into the ceiling of a bar where he had worked.
Charlene called her parents from Salt Lake City asking for money, which they wired to her. She and Gerald moved on to Denver, then to Omaha, Nebraska, where once again she called her parents. Reluctantly, they agreed to wire more money. This time, though, they told the FBI what they were doing. On November 17 agents were waiting at the Western Union office in Omaha, and they picked up the couple without a struggle.
Gerald and Charlene pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and murder. The killer team of man and wife hung tough for 18 months, but Charlene gave it up in mid-1982, it took a while, but eventually prosecutors arranged for her to plead guilty to the murders of Craig Miller and Mary Beth Sowers. In exchange for her plea and her testimony against Gerald, she was given a sentence of sixteen years and eight months, which was the minimum time to which she could be sentenced in California for first-degree murder. She struck a similar deal with Nevada authorities, pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of Karen Twiggs and Stacy Redican and receiving the same sentence. Oregon prosecutors decided to let California and Nevada bear the expense of investigation and trial and declined to file charges. Authorities in California were not happy with the plea bargain and tried to have it withdrawn, but in late 1983, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge dropped the charges against Charlene in the Miller and Sowers deaths. With the infighting over, the way was clear to prosecute Gerald.
Gerald, exhibiting the same self-confidence that had brought him to his current state, decided to serve as his own attorney. His misadventure in defense began with his deferring his right to an opening statement until after the prosecution had made its own statement. He further damaged his case and credibility by offering no cross-examination of Mercedes Williams, one of the prosecution's most effective witnesses. He did cross-examine Charlene however, for six days.
During the prosecution's questioning, Charlene had offered a defense for her lack of action. She had been afraid of Gerald, she said. He beat her and he threatened her. He demanded and kept all the money she made, and when she'd expressed doubt or displeasure, she testified that he shamed her, saying she wasn't the "girl with heart" he'd thought she was. During his cross-examination, Gerald tried to undermine her credibility, offering as evidence a love note she'd written him after their capture. He portrayed her as an unstable drug addict and got her to admit to a lesbian affair she'd had while in jail awaiting the trial. On the final day of laborious, trivial questioning, Gerald came to his point. "Mrs. Gallego," he said, "isn't the bottom line of your deal to blame both these murders on me to save yourself?" Charlene shot back, "No it is not!!!"
It seemed unthinkable that Gerald could do anything to further undermine his own defense, but he did. He put himself on the stand, which allowed prosecutors to catch him in countless inconsistencies. In his closing statement he admitted he'd taken "a legal licking," but asked the jury to believe him "on faith, if nothing else." They did not. On June 21, 1983, Gerald Gallego was sentenced to death for the murders of Craig Miller and Mary Beth Sowers. Following the California trial, Gerald was charged in Nevada with the murders of Stacy Redican, Karen Twiggs, Brenda Judd and Sandra Colley. As Judd's and Colley's bodies hadn't been found, the State's best evidence was in the Redican/Twiggs case. Charlene had led investigators to a ball of white macramé rope in Gerald's car. The rope matched that found binding the hands of the bodies of Redican and Twiggs.
Gerald's second trial began on May 23, 1984 in Pershing County, Nevada. Gallego became the target of an unprecedented public subscription campaign, with California residents donating $23,000 to help defray the cost of his prosecution. This time he let a public defender, Gary Marr, handle his case. Again, the strategy was to try and discredit Charlene's testimony. As star witness, she gave a detailed account of the last hours of Stacy Redican and Karen Twiggs. Marr had no more luck swaying the jury than Gerald had, however, and it took them just two and a half hours to return a guilty verdict. Gerald was again sentenced to death, becoming one of the few American criminals to be put on death row in two states simultaneously and was sentenced to death by gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison.
In the years since he was sentenced, Gerald Gallego vigorously proclaimed his innocence. In February 2001, Gallego appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court that his constitutional right to represent himself at trial was violated when self-representation was denied at his 1999 penalty hearing. Attorney Brent Kolvet told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Gallego was not really interested in representing himself as much as he wanted someone other than Public Defender Steven McGuire to represent him. Nor was Gallego cooperative during that penalty hearing. His behaviour, which included turning his back on the judge, warranted the need for an attorney to represent him, Kolvet said.
After Gallego's 1984 death sentence for the kidnap-murders of Stacey Redican and Karen Twiggs was reversed on appeal, he was given a new penalty hearing in 1999. The new jury took less than an hour to sentence him again to death a second time for the murder of the two young women. Gallego was convicted of four killings. Charges were not filed in the cases of the other six murders. The Nevada Supreme Court rejected his appeal.
The skeletal remains found in Lassen County, CA were confirmed by DNA testing to be those of Brenda Judd, 14, and Sandra Colley, 13. The girls were killed by blows to the head in 1979 after being abducted in Reno at the Washoe County Fair. Their remains were found in Nov. 1999 along U.S. Highway 395 some 25 miles north of Reno. Gallego denied the killings and was not tried for their deaths. His wife Charlene had told police about the abduction and murder.
Charlene Gallego, known since the mid-80s by her maiden name of Charlene Williams, was released from a Nevada prison in July 1997 at age 40. While in prison, she extensively studied psychology, business and Icelandic literature. She did not tell authorities where she was headed, but agreed to register as a felon wherever she took up residence. Mercedes Williams, who raised the son Charlene bore in prison, said Charlene had left California and would not return.
In March 2002 Gerald Gallego was moved from Ely State Prison's death row to the medical center. On July 18 he died at the Nevada prison system's regional medical center, he was 56. Cause of death was rectal cancer which had spread to his liver and lungs. The medical director described him as a "very quiet individual. He was very reasonable about no extra treatment or resuscitation efforts". Gallego made no final statements, had no visitors and was heavily sedated when he died.
In 2013 it was discovered that Charlene Williams had returned to the Sacramento area and had been there for 15 years, had changed her name to Mary and lives with her husband Daniel. She says she changed her name to hide from Gallego and his family, fearing for the safety of her family. During an interview she stated: "I did not kill any of them". She says she never even wanted to be a part of the killings. "No, for God's sake no. No I never did. I wouldn't be sitting here right now if I did". Williams is sticking with the story she told on the stand three decades ago, claiming it was all Gallego. "He is just one sick bastard, he was", "I would've done anything I could if I could've stopped him. I know I couldn't have stopped him; I tried to stop him". "I put him on death row. Am I proud of that? Yes I am," said Williams.
Williams says, her past keeps her prisoner. "I see it everyday. I always see it; it never goes away. There isn't one more than the other. They're all horrible, horrible memories, every single one". Williams insists she never agreed to Gallego's plans. Yet, the couple's trail of terror, which began in 1978, continued for two years, in three different states, and claimed 10 victims as well as an unborn child. The crime spree was dubbed the 'Sex Slave Murders'. She says Gallego controlled her with fear, threatening to kill her family, raping and abusing her.
She organized and operates two charities, 'Heart of the Matter' and 'Gold Country for the Troops', and spends her time soliciting people and businesses to donate to her causes. Now more than ever, Williams says she's dedicated to giving back, especially to the military after losing a family member to war. "He was a very special, special person", "I've always wanted to make up for the past one way or the other, but that isn't why I'm doing it. It'd be a lie to say that isn't part of it, because I'd do anything in the world to make up for it, anything in the world."
Williams says while she can't undo the past, she's determined to prove she belongs among the very same people, who decades ago, feared they would be her next victim. "It isn't so much that I really changed, it's just so much that I was finally able to be myself". Charlene claimed that she was also a victim when she said, "There were victims who died, and there were victims who lived. It's taken me a hell of a long time to realize that I'm one of the ones who lived". She also claimed that she "tried to save some of their lives."
Many believe Gallego never killed Williams because she was his partner in crime.
"We had this sexual fantasy, see, so we just carried it out. I mean, like it was easy and fun and we really enjoyed it, so why shouldn't we do it?" - Charlene Gallego
If you want to watch a documentary on Charlene And Gerald Gallego then just check out the video below:


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UConn Men's Hockey
UConn Men's Hockey Knocks Off No. 12 Northeastern, 4-1
The Huskies get their first win in 11 tries over Northeastern.
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UConn's Johnny Austin (6) shoots the puck on goal. He would finish the night with a goal and two assists in the win.
Going into this season, UConn Men's Hockey had lost all 10 of its meetings against Northeastern, including some very one-sided affairs. The losing streak ended Tuesday evening, however, as Mike Cavanaugh's squad took down the No. 12 Northeastern "Huskies" 4-1 at the XL Center on the strength of a three-goal first period.
Johnny Austin led the Huskies with three points, scoring a goal and two assists while Jesse Schwartz scored a goal and an assist to finish with two points. Maxim Letunov and Alexander Payusov scored the other two goals for the home team.
Shots were even in the first 20 minutes, at 8-7 in UConn's favor, but the play was anything but. The home Huskies took it to Northeastern from the opening face-off and did not let up.
"I thought that first period was the best period of hockey we played this year," Cavanaugh said, just a week after his Huskies scored three goals in the first period of their victory at Vermont.
Northeastern got an early power play but still struggled to get anything going due to strong backchecking and defensive play. UConn was getting in passing lanes and winning races to the puck.
"It starts with goaltending," Cavanaugh said. "But we're doing a much better job of eliminating second chances."
Once UConn got on the man advantage after Lincoln Griffin was called for boarding, the Huskies got one in net.
On the rush, Letunov, skating right down the middle of the slot, took a feed from the right side off the stick of Schwartz and one nifty move later, rubber met twine at 8:27 for a 1-0 UConn lead.
Ninety seconds later, Austin made it 2-0. After a well-timed shot fake, he gained space and walked down the left side, where his shot from the top of the circle beat a screened Ryan Ruck.
With just over a minute left in the opening frame, Schwartz registered his eighth point in his last seven contests with an effort goal from just outside the crease on a pass from behind the net by Corey Ronan. After 20 minutes, the score was 3-0.
UConn continued to press through the first half of the second period, but starting with a shorthanded chance by Dylan Sikura that Adam Huska was able to stop, Northeastern started to look like the No. 12 team in the nation.
The visitors had the shots advantage, 10-to-4, and held much of the possession. They finally cut into the lead 17:12 in off the stick of Sikura. Max Kalter tried to stop it, but the puck took a bounce off his stick and went in.
Brian Rigali went to the box to begin the third, but UConn killed the penalty and got back on the attack.
"In the past, we haven't played that well against them so it's good to get that lead against them and keep that lead," Austin said.
Payusov, who missed nine games due to a knee injury, scored on a deflection 5:11 into the third period off an Austin shot from the right point.
"I'm happy to be back," Payusov said. "[Scoring] feels good."
Goaltender Adam Huska made 26 saves on the evening. This was the fourth straight game and the fifth in the last six where the Huskies only allowed one goal. The Huskies have now also defeated every Hockey East team at least once as Cavanaugh earns his 13th victory over a ranked team.
UConn (6-10-2, 4-6-1) continues conference play against UMass on Friday at the Mullins Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. Puck drop is at 7 p.m.
No. 25 UConn men's basketball vs. Butler Bulldogs | 7 p.m., FS1 The Huskies kick off a rare set of back-to-back games against the same opponent.
UConn men's basketball ranked No. 25 in AP Poll The Huskies have reentered the AP Top 25 after dropping out over a month ago.


The stories in issue #206 are about long, painful journeys, but one leads home and the other does not.
"The Patchwork Procedure" by Claude Lalumière is a science fiction element in an alternate history story that also features airships, steam-powered technologies, geopolitics, told primarily in exposition. One reason why all the exposition works so well in this story is because of the story's structure: it's separated into titled parts like chapters, or better yet, like headings for sections in a memoir. The diction is fascinating; it's formal yet conversational, like a memoir or a letter to a trusted friend, circa the 19th Century (though the story is set, I think, in this alternate history's 20th Century.) The exposition also works because it is just absolutely fascinating! Nearly every detail is a surprise and helps constructs a vivid and strange alternate history in which colonization of the New World did not play out exactly like it did in our world.
While the story mostly uses exposition, there is also some scenic action. The scenic action tends to lead to surprising turns in the plot. Coupled with the protagonist's unexpected choices during key moments, this story kept me guessing. The protagonist is a captivating character, described as much by his personal history as by his choices in these key scenes. When the story ends, it does so on the cusp of one of his choices, which is at once frustrating, exciting, and though-provoking. What is the best way forward? I want to know, and I cannot help thinking about what my own choice would be.
There is a great deal of tension in "What Pada-Sara Means to the Elephant" by Jeremy Sim and I was delighted by how the writer used this tension to lead the reader emotionally into unexpected plot developments and character choices. For the amount of tension, there is also a great deal of character complexity that lends the story a sense of recording a pivotal moment in history, albeit history in a magical fantasy world. I am also impressed by how the magic itself is low-key, in some ways limited and minor, but also integral to how this society is constructed and how its classes are delineated, and how these divisions are upheld and undermined.
I really loved these stories, their wonderfully complex characters, and the clever ways the writers allowed the plots to unfold in often surprising directions.


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On a weekly basis, we get asked which model is the best for classic Ford Mustangs. And it does get confusing: each year in the 1960's brought out a new model, with a new name. For a full run-down on specs and background, you read our full Ford Mustang Muscle Car Review, but with innovation and changes to the shape year on year, it really comes down to personal training taste and what you want from your classic Mustang.
A purist may be drawn to 1964 (model year 1965). These cars were the very first Ford Mustangs to hit the production line. They got their name due to being released in 1964, but were sold as a 1965 model. Though mass-produced, it's incredibly rare to find one that is still completely original and in working order. We were lucky enough to sell one here at the dealership last year. A great car!
If you like fastbacks, then it's hard to look past the '68 model. Made famous by Steve McQueen in the movie Bullitt (only the most iconic car film of all time!), you don't have to look at the car long to see why it gets the heart a-pumping. It's a bulked-up version of the earlier Mustangs, pumped with even more testosterone. You will not feel let down driving one of these about.
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However… are you just a lover of that ~c l a s s i c~ Mustang shape? Then it might be a coupe from 1966, 1967, 1968 or 1969 that tickles your fancy.
Fortunately, we stock up to forty cars at any one time: these stylish Mustangs are a constant here at the Muscle Car UK dealership. The iconic shape and roar of the engine will make heads turn and ears shrink; you'll feel like someone out of Mad Max: Fury Road.
Best Year For A Classic Mustang
What is the best year for a classic Mustang, you say? Well… we'll let you be the judge of that.
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The Helplessness in Being Bullied
Bullying in our culture is a serious enemy, but with it we are fighting not just outsiders but ourselves. We may have quieted our more fervent emotions and dreams to conform to -- yes, often -- political correctness -- which does leave all of us vulnerable to imploding and in some form exploding in anger or righteousness.
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I am not a Republican, so I could indulge in making comedic remarks about the Donald Trump debacle/spectacle in the Republican presidential debate. Certainly I no longer feel I have an edge over any Italian who witnessed years of the reign of Silvio Berlusconi, who played clown, soccer owner/owner of media outlets and at times buffoon.
I could take a position of easy superiority, even hoping as many Democrats are doing, that he makes a bigger and bigger fool of himself and as such cancels the efficacy of a Republican bid for the White House. But alas, this scares me too much. I feel helpless, as much at the fact that Trump is clearly appealing to so many. And I feel a bit like a kid in a school bullying episode who is told by the principal to report the incident to my guidance counselor, while I and all the other kids know that the bully just got a bunch of points on the playground, and in terms of status.
Helplessness doesn't only come in the form of passivity. There is also a rush to fight back, to insult, to try to hit below the belt. But we're talking adrenalin now, like the prize fighter who takes a stance of begging for more attention and the more hysterical it is, the more pleasurable it seems to be. It's not that Donald Trump is the smartest of the candidates, of either party, but he knows how to play the bullying game, and he entices the maniacal energy of those people who may have well felt helpless while they adapted to what he is calling political correctness. Hurt people hurt people and people who have been bullied tend to bully other people. The cycle moves accordingly so there is ready energy to get back at those people who made us feel unimportant, weak, helpless and humiliated.
But right now, where do we put that energy of helplessness, those of us who would like to strike back or make a joke, while we can see that striking back will be a losing battle. A bully who inwardly is running on empty, loves the fight, because there is no empty space, no sense -- for Trump -- of his own immaturity, his own lack of dignity. He makes us feel that way, as bullies tend to do, making the other person feel frustrated beyond.
It does seem that we need to discuss the human climate that promotes the prizefighter stance, which promotes punching in the gut and face of any would be opponent. Is it the yearning for a good old-fashioned Western, our love no matter what for the Marlboro Man, for John Wayne? Is it trying for a John Wayne in a business suit, who is above the law?
Part of the problem is that in the heat of helplessness, we have a hard time stepping back and talking out loud with each other to get some perspective, and to gain some idea of potential strategies that might be helpful. It is hard for us to realize, at a time when Republicans want to sing hymns to the greatness of America at any cost, that a lot of our history has been laced with the cruelty of genocides, of slavery and of economic and social injustice. It is not as exciting, in a word, to step back from the melee and get sober.
The way I see it, bullying in our culture is a serious enemy, but with it we are fighting not just outsiders but ourselves. We may have quieted our more fervent emotions and dreams to conform to -- yes, often -- political correctness -- which does leave all of us vulnerable to imploding and in some form exploding in anger or righteousness.
What would it take to make thought and hesitation -- the time it takes to actually think even sometimes in public -- a sexier and generally a more attractive option than flinging insults? This is a real question, not a joke. And I find myself drifting to some image of what we consider attractive, and that person committing the suave and slow and steady and even fumbling act of daring to think, to make sense, to consider and to listen.
This historical background of rage, which has been coming to the fore within the realm of racism, more and more obviously, needs to be taken seriously as a context. For those of us who wanted Obama elected, it was with real regret that we heard Republicans swearing only to make his a one term presidency. It winds up that helplessness can be fueled and transformed into vendetta without much effort. The effort, then, would be in getting in touch, perhaps, with our own sadistic wishes, and insisting instead on the freedom to resist and to get together with people edging towards increasing sanity.
We have so many problems to solve: climate change, economic diversity, as well as creating a human climate that becomes a context where things are owned up to with an attempt at resolution. Beyond Trump, we have small organizations impeding our rights to information about what we eat, and how clean our air is, small groups of people making lots of money by distracting us away from an electoral system which is more and more dismissing voting as a true democratic freedom which involves educating ourselves in the process.
Trump is a distraction, away from the fact that we have insisted on fighting instead of resolving for way to long. Perhaps some of us want to ignore -- and how hard it is! -- the bullying game, and see if we can bring some bright, interesting, questioning, curious people together to see if we can have as much fun trying to be constructive. Okay, with some poking fun allowed. Jon Stewart, can you hold a meeting for a start? I know you're busy, but still...
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- [Default Starter Kit](http://trevordmiller.github.io/github-pages-starter-kit)
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Congrats! You have a running project ;)

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- Update the home page(`index.html`).
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- Update the `README.md`.
- Add/update icons to `public/src/fonts/icomoon/fonts/*` and the related `$icons` Sass map in `public/src/components/icons/_icons.scss`.
- Google Webmaster verification: update and uncomment the related line in `_includes/head.html`.
- Google analytics
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	- uncomment the import and init lines in `pulic/src/main.js`.
- If you want a custom domain, follow [GitHub's instructions](https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages/).
	1. Add a `CNAME` file to the project root with a single line: `www.yourdomain.com`.
	1. Change your `CNAME` record with your domain manager to point to `yourproject.github.io` so that going to `www.yourdomain.com` works.
	1. Changing/adding two A records to point to `192.30.252.153` and `192.30.252.154` so that going to `yourdomain.com` (no `www`) also works.
- If you want a blog, just add `.md` posts to the `_posts/` directory and they will show up at `/blog` See [Jekyll's docs](http://jekyllrb.com/) for more info and customizations.

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The parish of Mount Bures takes its name from the "Mount" or "Mound" which stands at the centre of the village and "bur" which means building or dwelling.
The village resides in Essex, the River Stour to the North and Wakes Colne to the south.
Mount Bures was previously called "Bures St John, Little Bures or Bures Sackville" to distinguish it from Bures Hamlet and Bures St Mary.
Today Mount Bures is its adopted name.
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A district court held that the IRS, and not a debtor of the estate, was entitled to the decedent's share of the sale proceeds from the sale of the assets of two limited partnerships that were sold to the debtor.
When he died in 2006, Duane Bennett was the general partner in and owned a 40% interest in each of two limited partnerships, Black Star Land & Mining Ltd. and Manalapan Land Company.
After his death, the IRS assessed approximately $2.8 million in estate tax liabilities against his estate, and, on May 1, 2017, the estate's outstanding liability to the IRS was $2.1 million. The IRS recorded tax liens in Kentucky with Bell County in August 2010, and with Bell and Harlan counties in 2016.
The state court handling the estate appointed a receiver in June 2015 to wind up the estate's affairs. The receiver located a company, Kingdom Energy Resources LLC, which purchased the assets of the limited partnerships. The proceeds of this sale were distributed to Bennett's estate and the limited partner owners of the partnerships.
The limited partner owners, however, objected to the payment of Bennett's share of the proceeds to his estate. According to them, Bennett had taken substantial loans from the limited partnerships, and, at his death, he owed them a combined amount of over $2.3 million. Due to this dispute over the estate's share of the proceeds, the state court ordered the receiver to hold them in an escrow account.
In further proceedings, the limited partners argued that the partnerships were entitled to a setoff for the full amount of the estate's share of the sale proceeds. However, the limited partners soon realized they had a problem because Kingdom Energy had bought not only the assets of the limited partnerships, but also any loans made by or promissory notes made payable to them. Thus, after the sale, the limited partnerships did not own the loans and could not collect on them. Instead, Kingdom Energy owned them and was entitled to collect the $2.3 million.
Consequently, the limited partners dropped their argument that the amounts paid to Bennett were loans. Instead, they argued that under Kentucky law, the payments were excessive distributions to Bennett and that the partnerships were entitled to the estate's share of the proceeds to correct the overpayment to Bennett and equalize the payments among the limited partners.
Before the state court could resolve the issue of who should get the estate's share of the proceeds, the IRS got wind of the litigation and intervened, arguing that it should get the proceeds to satisfy the estate's outstanding tax liabilities. It removed the action to federal district court, where the limited partners and Kingdom Energy continued to argue that they were entitled to the proceeds.
The district court held that the IRS was entitled to the estate's share of the proceeds from the sale of the limited partnerships' assets. The court found that the payments made to Bennett were not excessive distributions, so the limited partners' arguments failed. It further found that, while the IRS's claim to the proceeds might be defeated by a holder of a security interest in the estate's share of the proceeds that predated the IRS's liens, Kingdom Energy did not hold such a security interest.
The limited partners versus Kingdom Energy: Based on their argument that they were entitled to the estate's share of the proceeds because the payments the limited partnerships had made to Bennett were distributions, the limited partners were required to prove that the payments were distributions and not loans. The district court found that the limited partners had failed to do this. As the district court noted, in the state court the limited partners had presented affidavits from two individuals that the payments were loans and that the estate's executor had testified that they were. In the district court, the limited partners cited no evidence that the payments were distributions, only pointing to evidence that money was transferred from the limited partnerships to Bennett before his death. Thus, the district court found the payments were loans and that the only entity that could collect on them after the sale was Kingdom Energy.
Kingdom Energy versus the IRS: Kingdom Energy first argued that the estate's 40% ownership interest in the limited partnerships served as collateral on the loans to the decedent, which it purchased. It further argued that it had already foreclosed on the estate's 40% interest, which meant it had a right to 40% of the sale proceeds free and clear of the tax liens. Kingdom Energy asserted it accomplished this foreclosure by way of the "strict foreclosure" procedure outlined in Article 9 of Kentucky's version of the Uniform Commercial Code.
For Kingdom Energy to have foreclosed under the statute, the district court determined that it was necessary for the estate to have consented to Kingdom Energy's acceptance of the collateral (the estate's ownership interests in the partnerships) to satisfy the debt. After reviewing the evidence, the court found that the estate had not consented, so the company's attempt at strict foreclosure under the statute had failed.
The district court found, nonetheless, that Kingdom Energy still had a valid claim to the estate's proceeds from the asset sale because the estate owed Kingdom Energy for the loans to Bennett. Likewise, the court found that the IRS still had a valid claim to the estate's share of the proceeds because of the taxes owed by the estate.
The district court explained that because the escrowed proceeds belonged to the estate, the federal tax lien attached to them, but that federal tax liens do not automatically have priority over all other competing claims. Federal law governs the priority of claims, and the applicable law, Sec. 6223(a), states that tax liens are not valid against any "holder of a security interest" until the IRS files notice that meets the statute's requirements. The IRS filed its notice with respect to the sales proceeds from the sale of the limited partnership's assets on May 9, 2016. Therefore, the IRS's lien was not valid against any holder of a security interest in the proceeds that existed before that date.
Kingdom Energy did not argue it had a security interest in the sale proceeds. Instead, it argued it had a security interest in the estate's ownership interest in the limited partnerships, which made it a protected holder of a security interest for purposes of Sec. 6323.
The district court disagreed. Because the IRS had a tax lien against the sale proceeds themselves, the court found that in determining whether that tax lien was valid under Sec. 6323(a), the question was whether Kingdom Energy had a competing security interest in the proceeds themselves. Kingdom Energy by its own admission did not, so the tax lien was valid, and the IRS had a priority interest in the proceeds from the sale of the limited partnership interests.
Although it is not clear from the court's opinion, presumably Kingdom Energy agreed to the sales price for the limited partnerships' assets under the assumption that it would not be receiving a payment from the estate for the loans owed by Bennett. If that was the case, and the company had been allowed (even if rightly so) to recover the estate's portion of the proceeds from the asset sale, it would have received an unjustified windfall.


While virtualization offers many benefits, it also makes it tougher for IT to manage application performance. Experts say capacity management, a discipline from the mainframe days, can help.
In the good old days an enterprise application was given its own server – the more mission critical the app, the bigger the server and the greater the number of CPUs and memory. That model proved highly inefficient, however, and along came VMware.
Suddenly, physical servers could be virtualized. Instead of one app on one server, many apps could run inside a single box, each on their own virtual machine (VM). Now more and more resources are virtualized – the cloud makes it possible to access networking, storage and compute resources within a virtual pool.
"The cloud turns IT into a black box that is responsive to policies and provides services to users," said Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman.
While virtualization offers many benefits, it also poses some new challenges. As more and more abstraction layers are applied, control of applications grows rather fuzzy. If the server is virtualized, and the network and the storage, how much control do you really have over your ERP or CRM performance?
IT, of course, can apply the time-honored solution of throwing lots of hardware at the app. But that defeats the purpose of virtualization. Nobody wants a 10 percent utilized server "just in case" demand ramps up in six months.
Thanks to virtualization, a discipline from the mainframe days called capacity management is making something of a comeback. Capacity management enables IT to create a reasonable estimate of application growth patterns and predict how much hardware a given app will require and when. At its highest levels, modeling can be done by capacity planners that predict when servers will reach their limit, when users will notice application performance issues and how much RAM or storage should be added and when in order to avoid latency issues.
Jean-Pierre Garbani, an analyst at Forrester Research, explained that capacity management is vital when deployment decisions are being made to ensure "right sizing" of applications occurs – that is, apps are given the right amount of hardware support, neither too much or too little compute power. Costs soar when too many resources are utilized, but performance problems dog applications with not enough power.
But capacity management goes further than that. When there is an issue, the capacity planner can use tools such as TeamQuest Analyzer to isolate the source of an application bottleneck and avoid unnecessary and expensive upgrades. It can be quite costly to upgrade the network when all that is required is another CPU or a little more storage, for example.
Similarly, the modeling of capacity can help management determine the best options for a planned upgrade. By running multiple what-if scenarios, it is possible to highlight what will be the best path forward for organizational expansion. Several possible alternatives may come out of this: an expensive option with the highest gain in performance; a low-cost option with reasonable performance gains; and a middle ground. Armed with this data, management can then determine the pros and cons of the various possibilities and ultimately make a well-informed decision.
Forrester's Garbani sees capacity management becoming even more important in the coming years. He thinks it can be the link between IT and lines of business – a way to translate IT actions into business value.
But he calls upon capacity planners to change their tune. Those engaged in capacity management have traditionally been component driven, thinking mainly in terms of CPUs, RAM and disk. They need to become business driven.
"Virtual and cloud technologies require a holistic approach that is business-service-oriented, not component limited," he said.
Creation of service-oriented capacity plans, which will let the organization determine the best potential platform for the deployment of new and existing services.
What Garbani is really talking about is the unification of long-disparate disciplines within the organization. Storage, server and networking silos must come together. Not only that, but applications will more and more be delivered as services in the cloud, an approach that necessitates the incorporation of business process and financial information to make more informed decisions.
This is far from mere theory. One of the biggest telecom providers in the U.S., for example, requires a TeamQuest model as part of its standard procurement process. No purchase order for IT can be signed without a full workout of current and predicted growth, with that translated into costs for various levels of application performance.


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Q: Como ler arquivos de textos grandes no Android? Queria saber alguma dica sobre como ler arquivos grandes no Android, como exemplo dou os arquivos de GTFS (Google Transit) que na maioria das vezes tem 80 MB
Estou colocando estes dados em um servidor (Firebase) com utilização de aplicativo Android utilitário.
Porém estou recebendo erros quando a leitura esta pela metade,ou seja, quando o aplicativo estoura a memória.
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