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Τhe Rule of Law and Foreign Direct Investment in the Western Balkans: The Greek Experience
Τhe Rule of Law and Foreign Direct Investment in the Western Balkans: The Greek Experience
ÖGfE Policy Briefs
November 16, 2021
By Nikolaos Tzifakis and Dr. Anastasios Valvis
Policy Recommendations
- Western Balkan states should reinforce the regulatory and institutional framework and empower independent authorities so as to mitigate political bargaining and interventions.
- Western Balkan states should establish appropriate environmental standards for business activity in line with the EU's acquis communautaire in order to attract 'green' Foreign Direct Investments.
- The EU should focus on the genuine compliance of Western Balkan states with EU standards and on the comprehensive application of adopted legislation.
The rule of law is positively correlated to the attainment of economic growth and sustainable development and to the attraction of Foreign Direct Investment. However, the Western Balkan countries feature inconsistent application of laws, the absence of a solid regulatory framework equal for all, corruption and clientelism. These countries' weak rule of law systems renders their economies less attractive to 'healthy' investors. Important reforms should take place to speed up the path towards sustainable development and European Union (EU) accession. Taking as an example the Greek business/investing experience, the Policy Brief articulates some recommendations that are useful for the European investment community in general. The Western Balkan countries should vigorously carry out structural reforms in the judiciary, improve the legal and institutional framework, and contain corruption. On its side, the EU must pay more attention to the genuine (rather than procedural) implementation of reforms and hold the local leaderships accountable for persistent rule of law deficiencies and state capture practices.


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BUSTies, you only live once. And it would certainly be a shame to spend your precious time on Earth playing it safe with your fashion choices. Just when you thought YOLO, the acronym that has been a target for ridicule since its conception, was gone for good, the social media phrase has reinvented itself in a way that deserves only applause. African Apparel, a British clothing company, has released a new YOLO shirt with Yoko Ono's beloved visage gracing its front. YOLO Ono is one use of "YOLO" we can all get behind!
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Bangalore restaurant reviews budget eating
Egg Factory - JP NagarFriday, August 24, 2012Me! In words
We have always loved Egg Factory on St Mark's Road - sure we cribbed about the traffic, the lack of parking space and the sometimes serpentine lines to find a seat... but the fact that we braved all of it, not once, but several times meant that it struck all the right chords. Its been a while now since we went to the St Mark's outlet - blame it on lack of time and wanting to try out new places. So when the JP Nagar outlet of Egg Factory opened up, it took care of two things - a new place to try and lesser time in travelling for a good bite.
We found our way to the JP Nagar outlet one afternoon for lunch. Unfortunately, here too parking is a bit difficult, but we found some behind the outlet. Bikes stand a better chance though. When you step up, you see a nice semi-open air seating arrangement on two levels and a regular space on the inside. If you have seen Egg Factory - St Mark's road, then the decor is a CTRL C / CTRL V. So is the manual styled menu. We settled on the higher level benches on the outside and got down to business.
Pink Lady and I love apple
First order of the day was to get something to drink - Pink Lady and I Love Apple it was. Both are drinks we have had before and they tasted great. The apple one has a nice not-too-pulpy texture to it and honestly they both didn't last through the meal like they were supposed to. On earlier visits to Egg Factory we were always in groups. We used to order multiple dishes and share it so that we taste and get to order a lot more. Though we were just three of us here, we kind of went the same way again.
We started with the Parsi Akoorie - Scrambled eggs, Parsi style. Almost all dishes here come with a side of toasted bread/garlic bread, butter, sauce etc as applicable. And so a generous portion of the scramble, and two slices came along. It didn't have that watery base that sometimes tends to gather on a plate when eggs are scrambled. Loved the bite of green chilli as well.
Eggs and mushroom ragout penne
Anoushka decided on a white sauce pasta and for her we got the Eggs and Mushroom Ragout Penne. Really Really creamy, the sauce was laid on thick, yet had not dried up as some white sauces tend to do. It was a nice balance of cheese and sauce with lots of mushroom and egg. The dish was really heavy despite which little one managed to demolish a good portion of it. And if it worked well for her, it works good for me too.
Fajitas with bell peppers, mushrooms, eggs, tomatoes
Sudhakar had the Fajitas with bell peppers, mushrooms, eggs, tomatoes. I personally loved the deconstructed way it was served. Allowed us to put it together the way we wanted it. the sour cream was thick and yum and the salsa tangy. The egg and the red bell peppers was of course the highlight.
Huevos Supremo
I wanted to have the Mexican Huevos Supremo. Nice thick omelette stuffed with... I honestly don't remember, but whatever it was, it had a crunch, spice, tanginess and in the brown sauce with the garlic bread made for some real comforting food.
Roasted Chilli Frittata
There was space for just a small bit more and the Roasted Chilli Frittata it was. The chillis were deseeded am guessing and then roasted. Am saying this because most of the green you see there is chilli and it did not bring any fire engines clanging to Egg Factory. It was spicy yes, but not so much so. And since I am one of those who would rather end on spice than sweet, it worked well.
Caramel Custard
But then, we just had to have some sweet right and so a caramel custard, Sudhakar's eternal favorite and a Strawberry cheesecake it was. Both just the right portions and sweetness.
Strawberry cheesecake
Visiting the JP Nagar outlet was like being at the St Mark's one... the ambiance, the food, et al is a mirror image. The only small grouse I had was that all of our dishes were brought in together. So we had a table full of food some of which went a bit cold by the time we got to it. May be pacing out orders or asking how we would like the orders to come it might help. This meal for the three of us came to Rs 3 shy of Rs 1000. The loo is clean.
Address: Ground Floor, #288, 15th Cross, 18th Main, 5th Phase, JP Nagar, BangalorePhone: 40124848
Cuisine: All things Egg'quisite'
Wallet factor: Rs 800 for 2
Wallet factor: Rs 800 for 2
Parking: Nope... sheer desire for good food should be your inspiration


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On March 11th, 2020 reports surfaced that former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski had officially signed with the WWE. Less than a month later at Wrestlemania 36, Gronkowski became a WWE champion by pinning his longtime buddy, Mojo Rawley, to win the 24/7 title. This is all very real, you can look it up.
What happens next will plant the seeds for a much larger, much more dangerous feud, culminating in a ferocious clash to the death at Wrestlemania 37 in Hollywood.
First, Gronkowski will have a brief run with the 24/7 strap before taking a loss. It doesn't matter who he drops the title to. The main thing is – for the sake of what I'm trying to do right now – Gronk needs to move forward with Mojo Rawley as his tag team partner.
The fist-pumping, beer-chugging neanderthals will go on to squash local talent for weeks before ultimately drawing the attention of NXT Tag Team Champions Timothy Thatcher and Matt Riddle. Those are not characters in a Harper Lee novel, although 'Timothy Thatcher' definitely sounds like a guy who might befriend Jem Finch. Riddle is best described by his nickname: The Original Bro.
The absolute goofiest war of words ensues between Riddle and Gronk, paving the way for a "LumberBro" Match at SummerSlam in Boston.
A LumberBro Match is just like a traditional Lumberjack Match, in which a handful of WWE superstars surround the ring, keeping the competitors from fleeing the scene. The LumberBros will consist of guys like Bo Dallas, No Way Jose, the Singh Brothers and Apollo Crews. You don't need to know who any of those people are. Each will be outfitted in EDC-approved gear such as sunglasses, bandanas, headbands, flip flops, glow sticks and such. It's awful, but it's happening.
Moments before the match, cameras pan to Gronk in the locker room, where he is pitching the benefits of CBD oil and plugging his partnership with CBD Medic. The TD Garden pops at the sight of their beloved tight end on the jumbotron as he *literally* shouts in Mojo's face:
"I'm not saying you put this on and you're going to be healed! But you can apply this and it'll help manage the pain, and then you can get treatment and it'll be a lot less stressful to the body!!!"
Once all the Dudes, Bros and LumberBros have taken their respective positions in and around the ring, the action is as predictable as any wrestling fan would expect. Thatcher and Riddle throttle Mojo Rawley to open the match before he is finally able to make the hot tag. Gronk dishes out a shit storm of sloppy clotheslines and haymakers, one of which inadvertently catches Thatcher squarely on the kisser. Timmy boy rolls under the ropes and into the ringside area where he is quickly abused by the likes of Curtis Axel and Shelton Benjamin. Hornswoggle nibbles at his calf. Meanwhile, Mojo climbs to the top rope and launches himself onto the melee.
The referee becomes distracted by the events that are unfolding outside of the squared-circle, allowing Riddle to throw N.O-Xplode powder (blue raspberry) directly into Gronk's eyes. The three-time Super Bowl champ drops to his knees, eyes stinging like the dickens. Riddle advances on Gronk looking to secure the victory – but he is stifled by a perfectly placed, blind, sack tap. Incredible precision. The crowd goes WILD. A portly woman in a faded No. 87 jersey and Patriots-colored zubaz issues a primal cry of approval and pounds 24 ounces of ice cold Busch! With momentum now in his favor, Gronk prepares to spike Riddle's head into the canvas.
Just then, a guttural roar fills the TD Garden. Is that Sable's entrance music? It certainly sounds like it! Are we about to see some puppies?! No. We're about to see some fucking TIGERS!
↓Press Play and let it ride↓
It's The Tiger King aka Joseph Maldanado-Passage aka Joe Exotic! And he has brought one of his feline friends! The sold-out crowd erupts with the excitement of 19,000 sardine oil-starved bengals as Joe Exotic (who had recently been pardoned by President Trump, because why not) makes his way down the ramp. I mean, they're having more fun than a barrel of monkeys!
But when Exotic and the tiger make it to the ringside area, all hell breaks loose.
The 500-pound cat (an average weight for a male tiger) instantly turns heel (wrestling term for bad guy). He mauls Mojo Rawley to death, as well as a 38-year old slacker wearing a Kevin Youkilis shirsey. The Spanish announce table never stood a chance, either.
An alarming amount of spectators pull out their phones to film the carnage while thousands of others rush to the exits. Amidst the chaos, Gronk locks eyes with the Tiger King, who motions a cut throat gesture and chuckles a raspy, villainous cackle. This son of a bitch! Gronk is desperate to attack but, considering the gates of hell have just been opened, elects to stand down.
All told, it is an absolute bloodbath inside the TD Garden. SummerSlam 2020 will mark the last time that WWE Chairman Vincent Kennedy McMahon ever sanctions a LumberBro match on American soil.
Despite the slaughter that took place at SummerSlam, Vince decides to book Joe Exotic for the very next night. The ratings are off the charts.
During the closing segment of Monday Night RAW, Joe emerges and attempts to explain why he and his tiger ran roughshod all over the WWE Universe. He is likely high on ketamine and makes little to no sense as he shouts over the growingly boisterous crowd. That said, he still manages to reveal that his beef with Rob Gronkowski stems from Gronk's role as The White Tiger on FOX's singing competition show, "The Masked Singer."
It appears there's only room for one tiger-inspired entertainer and Exotic vows to get revenge at all costs. As we all learned during the Tiger King Netflix series, that cost could be as high as $3,000.
It was me behind the #WhiteTigerMask! What was it like performing as the White Tiger on the @MaskedSingerFOX stage? Absolutely Too Sexy it was!! #TheMaskedSinger pic.twitter.com/sDHrCQs8dU
— Rob Gronkowski (@RobGronkowski) April 2, 2020
Questions about Gronk's future in WWE wouldn't be answered until the Survivor Series PPV in late November. Appearing via satellite on an episode of SmackDown, Gronk announces that he will be hosting the highly anticipated event in Dallas, Texas. Furthermore, he issues an open challenge to the Tiger King. Any time. Any place.
When the mulleted-madman fails to answer the call at Survivor Series, Gronkowski declares that he is ready to move on with his in-ring career and officially enters the 30-man Royal Rumble match in January.
Royal Rumble, January 2021
Gronk enters the battle royal at No. 27, a spot that has birthed more winners than any other slot (John Studd 1989, Yokozuna 1993, Bret Hart 1994, Stone Cold 2001). After a few minutes on the inside, the ring has been cleared of all but three competitors – John Cena, Roman Reigns and Rob Gronkowski. At this point, people in the crowd are literally vomiting all over the people in front of them, and those people begin doing the technicolor yawn on the people in front of them. This continues at a feverish pace until the entire arena turns into a humungous game of puke dominos.
(FYI – a good majority of wrestling fans simply can not stomach the thought of Cena or Reigns headlining another Wrestlemania, which is exactly what the winner of this event will earn. Hence, the shameless reaction from the fans.)
The deafening groans from the crowd and the putrid smell completely derails the final moments of the match. Cena, Reigns and Gronk struggle to maintain focus while the WWE faithful collectively spill their guts. Several poor souls inadvertently evacuate their bowels while another brave fan shouts "CM PUNK!" in between a reverse course of beans and franks. Horrific.
As if awakened from a hypnotic state, Gronk springs to action. He clobbers Cena with a forearm shiver to the back of his block head. Clobbers him good. Cena stumbles chest first into the turnbuckle as Gronk crouches into a three-point stance, ready to charge again. He steamrolls the leader of Cenation, sending him flailing over the ropes.
Suddenly, the Tiger King appears from underneath the ring. In spite of his efforts to resemble a regal Siberian tiger, Joe Exotic looks like he has been surviving purely on meow mix and heaping doses of LSD.
He slinks behind Gronk with a severed tiger paw in hand, swiping at the back of his head with the razor sharp, and I mean razor sharp, claws. Did you know that tigers have glands between their toes that produce secretions which are left wherever they scratch? These secretions send chemical signals to other cats in the area warning them to steer clear. It's like they have microscopic skunks embedded next to each claw. Remarkable.
The bewildered 6'6 man child turns to confront his attacker, but it's too late because Exotic has retreated into the night just as quickly as he appeared. Roman Reigns seizes the opportunity to sneak up on Gronk and hoists him over the top rope to win the Rumble.
In a surprise to literally no one, Gronk formally issues his Wrestlemania challenge to the Tiger King on the very next episode of SmackDown. He now knows what needs to be done if he is going to defeat the Tiger King; He must become the White Tiger once more.
Joe Exotic accepts Gronk's offer, but there is a caveat. Their bout at Wrestlemania 37 will be a Tiger Cage Match, which is just like a regular cage match, except there will be exactly one (1) live tiger inside the structure with the two competitors. News of the death-defying White Tiger vs Tiger King Wrestlemania bout spreads like wild fire. Like the fire that mysteriously torched G.W. Exotic Animal Park in 2015.
SoFi Stadium is packed to the gills on the night of March 28, 2021. 100,000 strong have gathered at Inglewood's state of the art facility for Wrestlemania 37 – an event billed as the most star-studded spectacle in WWE's illustrious history. The Rock vs Brock Lesnar, Ronda Rousey vs Charlotte Flair, The Undertaker vs Linda McMahon, Roman Reigns vs The guy who is going to lose to Roman Reigns, and the headliner, Rob "The White Tiger" Gronkowski vs Joe "The Tiger King" Exotic in the first-ever Tiger Cage Match.
Anybody who's anybody has a ticket to the show of shows. Those in attendance include Mike Tyson, Adam Sandler, Regis Philbin, Neve Campbell, Al Gore and that guy Puck from "The Real World: San Francisco." Even Doc Antle and his merry band of gypsy hoes have been invited to watch the main event from ringside.
At long last, it's finally time for TigerMania.
A scowling Joe Exotic is accompanied by one of his tigers as he makes his way into the cage first. There is an audible show of support from the sold out crowd, but the self-described "gay, gun-carrying redneck with a mullet" is clearly viewed as the heel. Lest we forget, he is responsible for the death of Mojo Rawley, not to mention the containment and murders of many a wild animal. Gronk, on the other hand, receives a heroes welcome as he dances his way down the ramp and into the cage for the biggest fight of his life.
Joe Exotic's tiger is chained up to the door on the inside of the cage with enough slack for him to cover a third of the ring. The Exotic One immediately sets up shop on the turnbuckle behind his four-legged bodyguard. Gronk pops on his oversized White Tiger head, fully prepared to have his intestines ripped out in the name of his fallen friend. You have never seen anything so dramatic.
A raucous "JOE EX-OT-IC!" chant bellows down from the nose bleeds, countered by an equally loud "LET'S GO GRONK!" The bell sounds and the first ever Tiger Cage Match is underway.
Joe Exotic seems content to stand behind his tiger while Gronkowski considers his limited options. He could try to climb out of the cage to win the match, but he'd miss the opportunity to pummel the tiger prince. That simply won't suffice. Instead, he reaches inside his tiger suit, pulls out an enormous sirloin and slides it across the canvas, just far enough away from where Joe is perched. Oldest trick in the book, Gronk thinks. He laughs to himself and quickly daydreams about what he's going to have for dinner. He'll be damned if it's going to be meatloaf again.
Realizing that his faithful feline is wholly occupied by a little amuse-bouche, the Tiger King scrambles for the top of the cage. He doesn't get far before he is pulled back down to earth by the White Tiger's grasp. Gronk secludes his prey on the opposite end of the ring and begins going to work, first with a CTE-inducing headbutt, then with a thunderous chop that would make Ric Flair green with envy.
In a surprise to literally no one, Joe Exotic is no match for the future NFL Hall of Famer. Luckily for Joe, the tiger has now polished off his sirloin and he's hungry for more. The enormous cat grumbles a little tiger growl, startling Gronk who was completely in the fucking zone. During this brief moment of shock, the Tiger King pounces and clings onto Gronk's neck. He dislodges Gronk's head from the White Tiger helmet and locks in a tight sleeper hold. Gronk thrashes furiously, nearly serving himself to the salivating tiger on a silver platter. He steadies himself just in time, but he's in a world of trouble. The lights inside SoFi Stadium seem to flicker.
Joe tightens his grip, bringing the big fella down to one knee. The lights flicker again. Both men, as well as the 100,000+ in attendance, are sure of it this time. Gronk drops to both knees and appears to be on the verge of passing out entirely. Half of the lights in the arena go out, then the entire venue is engulfed in darkness. Fans scream with both terror and delight, anxiously awaiting the big reveal.
A spotlight appears in the rafters, unveiling a shadowy figure. Could it be? The lights kick back on. BY GOD! THAT'S CAROLE BASKIN!
That dumb bitch Carole Baskin dies on impact. What an idiot! The crowd erupts, registering a record-setting 169.69 decibels.
Inside the ring, Joe Exotic releases his clench on Gronk and rushes to the cage to gain a closer look at his nemesis. It's confirmed, she is completely bent out of shape. Tears of joy stream from Joe's beady eyes, cutting tiny rivers into his tiger-striped face. The Tiger King's Wrestlemania Moment is more beautiful than anything he ever could have imagined in his wildest, meth-induced fever dreams.
That's the sound of Gronk donkey kicking the back of Joe Exotic's skull.
This is followed by a bevy of jackknife power bombs, each one bouncing the blonde banshee off the mat like a beached blowfish. This goes on for quite some time until it all just sort of ends. Satisfied with the punishment he has put forth, Gronk catapults Joe's tenderized body into the tiger's third of the ring. The tiger rips Joe Exotic's head clean off, without hesitation.
"There's more than one way to skin a cat!," Gronk guffaws as he grabs hold of Joe's stringy mane and raises it over his head like the Vince Lombardi trophy. The final bell tolls.
In a scene he will later describe as a blackout, Gronk scales the side of the cage, head in his grasp like he's Al Snow's meathead step brother. He pauses for a moment at the top of the cage to soak in the energy of the crowd, then continues his descent down the outside of the cage. He high steps over Carole Baskin's dead ass, leaps over the ringside barrier and gives Doc Antle a celebratory fist bump. Several bones in Bhagavan's right hand immediately shatter but the party rages on.
Confetti is raining down from the ceiling, fireworks are shooting out of the scoreboard and LMFAO's smash hit "Party Rockers" is blaring through the speakers at SoFi Stadium. What. The. Fuck.
Gronk lifts the Tiger King's head once more, eliciting another roar from the WWE universe. Then he begins to moonwalk, first through the arena's concourse area, and then into the parking lot. Blacked the fuck out.
He finds a suitable piece of pavement and delivers his signature finisher. The end.
P.S – Joe Exotic's tiger is later safely transported to the most gorgeous big cat sanctuary where he lives happily ever after.


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DELETE - SQL Command
|Visual FoxPro 9.0 SP2
|DELETE - SQL Command
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Marks records for deletion.
Records marked for deletion are not physically removed from the table until the PACK command is issued. You can recall (unmark) records for deletion by using the RECALL command. For more information, see PACK Command and RECALL Command.
DELETE [Target] FROM [FORCE] Table_List [[, Table_List ...] | [JOIN [ Table_List]]] [WHERE FilterCondition1 [AND | OR FilterCondition2 ...]]
- DELETE [Target]
Specifies a target table, cursor, table or cursor alias, or file for the delete operation. If the FROM specifies more than one table, you must include the Target parameter. Target can have the following syntaxes:
DatabaseName! specifies the name of a database containing the table if the table is in a noncurrent database. If the table is in a noncurrent database, you must include the name of the database. Use an exclamation point (!) as a delimiter immediately following the database name and preceding the table name.
TableName specifies the name of a table for the delete operation.
Alias specifies an alias that matches a table in the FROM clause or a cursor in the current data session for the delete operation.
FileName specifies the name of a file for the delete operation.
- FROM [FORCE] Table_List[[, Table_List...] | [JOIN [Table_List]]]
Specifies one or more tables containing the data for the delete operation.
The FROM clause has the same syntax as in the SQL SELECT command except for the following restrictions:
The target table or cursor cannot be included in an OUTER join as a secondary table or cursor.
It should be possible to evaluate all other JOIN operations before performing a JOIN operation on the target table.
The target cursor cannot be the result from a subquery.
For more information, see SELECT - SQL Command.
FORCE specifies that the tables in Table_List are joined in the order they appear in the FROM clause.
If FORCE is omitted, Visual FoxPro attempts to optimize the delete operation. However, the delete operation might be executed faster by including the FORCE keyword to disable Visual FoxPro delete optimization.
Table_List can have the following syntaxes:
[DatabaseName!]Table [[AS] Local_Alias]
DatabaseName! specifies the name of a database containing the table if the table is in a noncurrent database. If the table is in a noncurrent database, you must include the name of database. Use an exclamation point (!) as a delimiter immediately following the database name and preceding the table name.
Table specifies the name of the table or cursor you want to retrieve data from. If no table is open, Visual FoxPro displays the Open dialog box so you can specify the file location. After the table opens, it remains open when the query is complete.
Local_Alias specifies a temporary name for the table specified in Table. If you specify a local alias, you must use the local alias instead of the table name throughout the DELETE statement. The alias can represent a table or a cursor.
JOIN provides the capability for specifying one or more secondary tables. There is no hard-coded limit on the number of tables, aliases, or JOIN clauses per DELETE statement.
(Subquery) AS Subquery_Alias
Subquery specifies a SELECT statement within another SELECT statement. For more information about subqueries in SELECT statements, see SELECT - SQL Command - FROM Clause.
- WHERE FilterCondition1 [AND | OR FilterCondition2...]
Specifies one or more filter conditions that records must meet to be deleted. There is no limit to the number of filter conditions in the WHERE clause.
To reverse the value of a logical expression, use the NOT operator. To check for an empty field, use the EMPTY( ) function. For more information, see EMPTY( ) Function.
If the SET DELETED command is set to ON, records marked for deletion are ignored by all commands that include a scope. For more information, see SET DELETED Command.
To determine the number of records updated, check the value of the _TALLY system variable immediately after executing the SQL DELETE command. For more information, see _TALLY System Variable.
When marking multiple records for deletion in a table opened for shared access, SQL DELETE uses record locking, unlike the DELETE command. This reduces record contention in multiuser situations but might reduce performance. For maximum performance, open the table for exclusive use or use the FLOCK( ) function to lock the table. For more information, see DELETE Command and FLOCK( ) Function.
Example 1
The following example uses the OPEN DATABASE command to open the Visual FoxPro sample database, TestData.dbc. The USE command opens the Customer table in TestData.dbc. The SQL DELETE statement marks those records for deletion where the Country field contains "USA". The CLEAR command erases the main Visual FoxPro window. The LIST command lists all records marked for deletion. Following the LIST command, if the PACK command was called, the marked records would be deleted.
The RECALL ALL command unmarks all the records marked for deletion. The COUNT command verifies the number of records marked for deletion by counting them. WAIT WINDOW displays that number of records that were marked for deletion.
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CLOSE DATABASES CLEAR OPEN DATABASE HOME(2)+"Data\TestData" USE Customer DELETE FROM Customer WHERE country = "USA" CLEAR LIST FIELDS company, country FOR DELETED( ) WAIT WINDOW "Records currently marked for deletion"+CHR(13) + ; "Press any key to revert..." RECALL ALL CLEAR COUNT FOR DELETED( )=.T. TO nDeleted WAIT WINDOW ALLTRIM(STR(nDeleted)) + " records marked for deletion."
For more information, see OPEN DATABASE Command, USE Command, LIST Commands, CLEAR Commands, COUNT Command, and WAIT Command.
Example 2
The following code shows a correlated delete in which records in a MyProducts cursor are marked for deletion based on the value of the Discontinued Field in the MSRPList cursor. The WHERE clause specifies the criteria for matching records and the condition evaluated for marking the records.
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CLOSE DATABASES ALL CREATE CURSOR MyProducts (ProdID I , OurPrice Y NULL) INSERT INTO MyProducts VALUES (1,1.10) && matches but is not marked for deletion INSERT INTO MyProducts VALUES (2,2.20) && matches and is marked INSERT INTO MyProducts VALUES (3,3.30) && matches and is marked CREATE CURSOR MSRPList (ProdID I , ProdCategory I Null, MSRP Y, Discontinued L) INSERT INTO MSRPList VALUES (1, 9, 1.00, .f.) INSERT INTO MSRPList VALUES (2, 8, 2.00, .t.) INSERT INTO MSRPList VALUES (3, 7, 3.00, .t.) DELETE MyProducts FROM MSRPList ; WHERE MSRPList.ProdID = MyProducts.ProdID; AND MSRPList.discontinued = .t. SELECT MyProducts BROWSE
For more information and another example, see SQL Language Improvements.
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February 23 , 2016 - Today Inspire Arts & Music, parent organization of the Boston Crusaders Drum & Bugle Corps, is proud to announce that Brian Seemann has joined the full-time staff as the organization's Director of Events. Brian attended Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA, earning a bachelor's degree in Community and Regional Planning. He…Read more


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Our therapists use principles and properties of the water and specially designed aquatic activities to help children with motor difficulties achieve functional movements. We have also had great success introducing the benefits of aquatic therapy to individuals with not just physical, but also sensory and developmental issues. Water provides a fun and motivating environment for therapy. Staff utilize buoyancy, resistance of movement, and hydrostatic pressure. These principles of water are used to enhance strength, postural control, range of motion, motor planning, breath control, and weight bearing.
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Telecom Law Overhaul Hit by 'Atomic Bomb' of Net Neutrality
Hopes are dimming for the first major update of the Communications Act since 1996.
Congressional Republicans are beginning to acknowledge that their ambitious dream of overhauling the nation's core communications law is unlikely to be realized anytime soon.
And the culprit, they say, is net neutrality.
"Net neutrality certainly was a mini-atomic bomb in the middle of it," said Rep. Greg Walden, an Oregon Republican who chairs the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
Walden emphasized that he's "not ready to throw in the towel" on piecemeal updates of the Communications Act, the foundational law for regulation of the Internet, television, and telephone industries. But he admitted that the bitter partisan divide over net neutrality has made any comprehensive rewrite difficult.
The prospects aren't any brighter in the Senate.
"[Net neutrality has] definitely made it a more difficult environment to do significant telecom updates or reforms," Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, told reporters this week.
The Communications Act was written in 1934 and hasn't been significantly changed since 1996—before Google even existed.
House lawmakers announced their plan to overhaul the law in late 2013. To show they were ready to bring the law into the Internet age, they even named their effort using a hashtag: #CommActUpdate.
During 2014, the House Energy and Commerce Committee gathered feedback from industry groups, consumer advocates, and academics on various parts of the law. And after Republicans took control of the Senate, Thune promised that the upper chamber would launch its own rewrite.
They wanted to review the Federal Communications Commission's subsidy programs for rural and poor consumers, its authority over telecom mergers, its management of the nation's airwaves, and the various regulatory perks and obligations that local broadcast TV stations have.
But then, in February, the FCC enacted its controversial net-neutrality rules.
Supporters claim that the rules are critical for ensuring that Internet users can access whatever online content they want. The rules bar Internet providers from blocking websites, selectively slowing down traffic, or creating "fast lanes" for sites that pay.
But Republicans consider the rules a government power grab that will stifle investment in broadband networks. They are especially furious that the FCC reclassified the Internet as a "telecommunications service" under Title II of the Communications Act. The move gave the FCC stronger legal authority to defend the rules, but critics claim it essentially turned the Internet into a public utility.
All this means it will be difficult for Republicans to rewrite the Communications Act without first settling the issue of how much authority the FCC has over the Internet. And the prospects for significant legislation dim as the 2016 presidential election draws closer.
Thune and Walden have been trying to get Democrats to support compromise legislation that would enforce the core of the net-neutrality rules, while also undoing the FCC's Title II classification. Most Democrats, who believe they achieved a major victory at the FCC, have so far shown little interest in the legislation.
Walden acknowledged that he doesn't "see that there's much opportunity" to pass a bipartisan net neutrality bill. President Obama and the Democrats, he said, are "clearly locked and loaded into what [FCC Chairman] Tom Wheeler has done."
Walden emphasized that there "remains an open door" on the issue. Thune said he is continuing to talk with Sen. Bill Nelson, the committee's top Democrat, and that he believes they might reach a deal in the coming weeks.
Harold Feld, the senior vice president of Public Knowledge and a net-neutrality supporter, argued that there's plenty of common ground that lawmakers could find rewriting the Communications Act. But, he said, Republicans will have to first give up their crusade against net neutrality. He accused the Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee of only fueling the partisan flames by passing a bill Wednesday that would require the FCC to do more of its work in public.
"They can call net neutrality a 'bomb,' but they don't seem to be calling in the bomb squad to defuse it," he said.


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Further imprisonment for two members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot is excessive, but it is up to the court to decide on the issue, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
"This issue should be addressed not to me but to our courts and their lawyers. They are entitled to submit the relevant motions... And the court is entitled to consider the issue on its merits," Medvedev said at a meeting with winners of international educational competitions.
He said he had already voiced his opinion on the topic, as cited by RIA Novosti.
"I said quite a while ago: I very much dislike these figures, both on the outside and inside; they cause extremely negative emotions, so negative that it is even unpleasant to speak about them," the Russian PM said.
"But if I were a judge, I would not put them in prison. I do not think imprisonment the right kind of punishment for them, for these girls have already served some time, and it is really enough for them," Medvedev added.
The Russian news agency RIA Novosti reminds that that five women from Pussy Riot performed in late February 2012 a "punk prayer" in downtown Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral, which is Russia's biggest Orthodox church. An edited clip of the band's protest posted online showed the group high-kicking near the entrance to the altar of the cathedral accompanied by the song "Holy S**t" urging the Virgin Mary to "drive [Vladimir] Putin out." The song mocked Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and believers in insulting terms.
Soon after, police arrested three of the suspected performers. The three women said their performance was a political protest against Patriarch Kirill's support for Putin ahead of the March 4 presidential elections that returned him to the Kremlin, but the court found the performers guilty of hooliganism aimed at inciting religious hatred and jailed them for two years each on August 17.
The prison term for one of them was later replaced with a suspended sentence.
The trial and sentences attracted unprecedented media attention and international criticism, which the Russian Foreign Ministry dismissed as "groundless," saying the band's act had nothing to do with artistic performance but was "insulting to millions of Orthodox [Christian] believers." The band said their performance was not aimed at insulting believers' feelings.
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[Palpatine and Darth Vader stares at a nervous Yarael Poof disguised as a cafeteria chef]
Emperor Palpatine: [Cheery] You didn't give us any crackers!
Our heroine has talked her way past a security checkpoint on her way to uncovering the government's dirty secrets... almost. Just as she's about to round the corner, though, the guard cries, "Hey, wait!" Our hearts pound — she's been caught!
But no — the guard just wanted to tell her she left her keys on his desk. Or she's to report to Drill Sergeant Nasty for a potato-peeling Mini-Game. Or it's past time for her shift guarding the Easily Rescued Prisoner's cell. A Cat Scare for The Infiltration, if you will.
Subtrope of Bait-and-Switch Accusation. If Hey, Wait! occurs right before the Act Break, that's a Pseudo-Crisis. Contrast And Another Thing....
- Subverted in Cyborg 009: In Albert's Backstory, he was trying to pass the Berlin Wall. Everything checks out, but as he starts driving through, the guard realizes he still has Albert's wallet and calls out "Hey, wait!" Albert panics and floors it; it didn't end well.
- In Digimon Adventure, this is played with. Wizardmon successfully lies that he is going to relieve Bakemon, and talks him into handing over the key to Myotismon's coffin.
- One Piece: Happens to Usopp in the G8 arc, just after he's disguised himself as a marine. The soldier stopping the pirate just scold him for his uniform being in disarray.
- Done again in another anime filler during Water 7 in which Zoro has helped a mother and her foster kids get out of trouble with a debt collector. Zoro, who's been trying to escape from her, is finally let go and heads off to re-join with his crew. Until the mother tries to call out to him for something. He starts running, assuming she wants him to do something for her. Turns out she was trying to return his shirt that she had washed for him earlier.
- Early on in Yu-Gi-Oh!, two of Yugi's non-duelist friends stow away on the ship carrying Yugi and Jonouchi to Duelist Kingdom, where official rules state that those who have no Star Chips are to be ejected from the island. On the way off the boat Honda walks stiffly past the guards, who notice him... only to tell him to loosen up a bit. The non-duelists' presence on the island is not questioned at any point, even through the several periods in which they are in the presence of tournament officials who are throwing people off the island for having no Star Chips.
- Happens later when Keith attempts to sneak off with Jou's tournament finalist card while the latter is sleeping in the anime. Jou screams this, only to mumble "That's my pizza!" Turns out he's just sleep talking.
- In the Star Wars (Marvel 1977) story "The Stenax Shuffle!", Han and the others are trying to sneak past an Imperial Governor. They're almost out of range when he shouts at them to halt. Turns out he was yelling at Han for dropping his shovel.
- Star Wars Vs Warhammer40k: In Episode 19, R2-D2 has gotten separated from Anakin and is wandering alone through the Inquisitor's ship while disguised as a servitor. He finds Anakin's lightsaber on the floor, picks it up, and places it inside his storage compartment. This catches the attention of some nearby guards, who give chase to the droid and corner him in a hallway. R2-D2 freezes, thinking he's just been found out, only for one of the guards to try to open up his chassis so she can dispose of a broken lasgun, revealing that the guards saw R2 place the lightsaber hilt inside himself and took this to mean that he was some sort of robotic trashbin.
- The aforementioned scene of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and this trope in general, is parodied in the fourth episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series.
Tristan: I sure hope nobody notices we're trespassing.
Guard: Hey you...
Tristan: The irony.
Guard: Quit drawing attention to yourself. You barely qualify as a sidekick.
- In 101 Dalmatians, while Jasper and Horace are watching "What's My Crime?", afterwhich they'd start popping off and skinning the puppies, Sergeant Tibbs starts leading said puppies to escape through a small hole in the wall. As they're sneaking toward the hole, Horace cries out "Hey, Jasper! Look!", prompting Tibbs to hide. Turns out though that Horace was actually talking about a criminal he and Jasper were familiar with being on the show.
- Monsters, Inc..:
- When Sully is gathering up Mike's paperwork, finds the door that's left behind, and hides to see who's working after hours against the rules, Randall emerges and begins carting his scream canisters out, but suddenly pauses as if he saw Sully out of the corner of his eye. Turns out he just had to sneeze.
- Sulley has just snuck a human child into the scare factory, which is currently under thorough inspection for any sign of human children. Suddenly, a pair of Child Detection Agents run up to him. It turns out they just recognized Sulley from the company commercial and wanted an autograph.
- Toy Story 3:
- When Woody is trying to escape through the restroom window, the camera pans to the janitor looking at the mirror — in which Woody is plainly visible — and commenting in surprise. Woody gasps. Then a Rack Focus reveals a patch of scum on the mirror just big enough to obscure him, as the janitor reaches up to wipe it off. By the time his hand comes down, Woody is already out the window.
- Hilariously subverted when Barbie goes to the Bookworm wearing Ken's spacesuit to get back Buzz's instruction manual, he notices her high heels when she walks away... then just rolls his eyes and sighs.
- In Appointment with Venus, Major Mooreland, disguised as a fisherman, walks past a German soldier on Armorel, only for the soldier to turn around and call out "You! Come here!". Mooreland walks over to him, only to discover the soldier only wants a light for his cigarette.
- In Austin Powers in Goldmember:
Henchman: You didn't really think you'd get away with this, did you?
Austin: I did, actually, yes.
Henchman: It's time for your physical.
- Cry Freedom: When crossing the boarder to Lesotho, a South-African custom officer stops Woods to give him back the bag he forgot during customs check. The bag actually contains his book denouncing Apartheid and the murder of Biko. Woods averts it by stating it only contains a few travel stuff and a bible. The officer give it back to him, saying he indeed felt some papers inside.
- Detour: After dumping Charlie's body in a gully, Al returns to Charlie's car and is putting the hood up when a motorcycle cop pulls up alongside him and asks him if it is his car. A nervous Al thinks the jig is up, but the cop gives him a warning for parking with the car partially parked on the road and rides off.
- Inverted in Equilibrium: the sweepers' commander demanded Preston's ID, which was in the trunk of his car (with a puppy, which he was hiding), in a hostile tone. The scene escalates the sense of an impending shootout, just when the commander recognizes Preston, makes an excuse and turns around. And then it ends in a shootout anyway.
- The Fugitive: A cop stops Richard in the hallway of the hospital where he changed into a doctor's clothes, but he just wanted to tell Richard that his fly is down.
- In The Grifters, the male protagonist is stopped by a cop right after getting sucker-punched in a bar when one of his cons was exposed. The cop had seen him staggering, and thought he was drunk or ill and wanted to make sure if he was alright.
- In The Hoodlum, the crooks use a funeral procession to smuggle the stolen cash out of the city. The hearse is stopped at a roadblock, and while one of the cops radios in to see if it has permission to proceed, another wanders over to inspect the two limousines following it. Johnny hides on the floor (he is not wearing a jacket and so stands out from the other 'mourners'). The cop peers through the window but fails to spot him. He starts to walk back to the police car, then gets a suspicious look on his face and starts to walk back to the second limo. The crooks get nervous and grip weapons and the cop reaches the front of the car. And then re-affixes the "FUNERAL" sticker on the windscreen that had started to peel off.
- Indiana Jones
- In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy gets stopped by a sergeant and told off for having an ill-fitting guard outfit. Indy, being Indy, gets a much better fitting uniform from the sergeant. What makes it especially funny is that this is itself a subversion of a trope — Indy's first uniform didn't fit because he got it from a random guy and there's no reason a random guy would be the same size as the hero, decades of film to the contrary.
- In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy comes face-to-face with Der Führer himself. We are certain something bad is about to happen to our hero, or the book he's carrying (given that this is at a book burning and the book has Hebrew in it)... but no, instead he gets Hitler's (inaccurately portrayed) autograph.
- Iron Man features an extended scene that is one big Hey Wait! between Obadiah Stane (the villain) and Pepper Potts (the sidekick) after she has downloaded the files involving his conspiracy. Unusually for this trope, though, Stane does realize what happened... just after Potts gets out of his reach, and starts talking with the guy from S.H.I.E.L.D.
- James Bond
- In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Bond is breaking into the office of a Swiss lawyer while he's out to lunch. Once outside the building however, the lawyer is shown doing the "lost wallet" patdown. Has he left it in his office? No, it's in his coat pocket after all.
- A View to a Kill. Bond and Stacey Sutton are using a stolen truck to enter Zorin's mine, when they're pulled up by a security guard. Not because there's a beautiful woman in the cab with Bond, but because he's not wearing a hard hat as required.
- Early in Layer Cake, the protagonist is stopped by a police officer under very unfortunate circumstances, this being a rare occasion in which he was carrying around his "business supplies" (tools for making cocaine ready to sell). Luckily for him, the officer just wanted to know if he had seen a prowler sighted in the area.
- Slight twist on this in Mission: Impossible (1996). Luther leaves his seat on the TGV and a train attendant walks over to him to return his cell phone. The problem is, the cell phone was rigged up to block a transmission of the MacGuffin's information, and by taking it away, Luther risked letting the info into the open.
- In Murder by Proxy, Casey checks out of his hotel and tries to leave before the police investigating Phyllis' disappearance notice he matches the description of the man they are looking for. As he sneaks away towards the door, one of the bellhops sees him and calls out to him. He thinks he's been caught, but the bellhop only wanted to tell him he had forgotten his bag.
- In New Town Killers, Sean is sitting outside Alistair's house in a stolen car when the same two police officers who moved him on at the start of the movie pull up alongside him and ask if everything is alright. A nervous Sean says yes and the officers then tell him he has a piece of shirt sticking out of his boot. Sean gets out, opens the boot, moves dead body he has in there, and closes the boot again. The police bid him a good day and drive off; not having recognised him because he now wearing a suit and looking respectable.
- Ocean's Eleven: Livingston is stopped after bugging the casino's camera system...because the other employee noticed that he dropped his portable TV (which, unbeknownst to the employee, is what he's using to view the camera feeds).
- Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre:
- As Sarah is attempting to join Danny at Simmonds' garage in order to escape, Simmonds stops her and asks who she is. Turns out he just wants to tell her that he's interested in her, but that he respects Danny too much to attempt to steal his girlfriend.
- When Danny and Sarah are exiting Simmonds' Turkish compound, one of the guards stops them at the gate, and it looks like the gig is up. However, it turns out the guard only wants a selfie with Danny and lets them go after he takes it.
- In Peeping Tom, Mark (along with the rest of the crew) is interviewed by the police. When Mark's interview finishes, he gets up and goes to the door. Just as he is about to leave, Chief Inspector Gregg calls out for him stop. Mark freezes, thinking that something he said has given him away as the murderer, only for Gregg to ask him for directions on how to get back to the studio.
- Happens in Psycho, as Marion is pulling away from California Charlie's (with the scary sunglasses-wearing cop watching) in the car she's just bought. (She forgot to get her suitcase from her old car.)
- The Red Violin: When Samuel L. Jackson's character, Moritz, enters the auction house, he tells the valet, "Don't let me forget this" (his overcoat). Later, just after he leaves the auction house, crossing the street, having stolen the Red Violin, someone calls out to him, and, in shock, he almost gets hit by a car, but it's just the valet — he forgot his overcoat.
- When Han is escaping from prison at the beginning of Romeo Must Die, he tells a guard he passes that he's leaving early because he got a tip for a race at the track. Just as he starts leaving the alarm goes off to alert the prison that somebody has escaped, and the guard he was speaking too runs after him and stops him - then gives him some money so he can get a bet placed too.
- In A Simple Favor, Stephanie has just pretended to be a clothes saleswoman to get information out of a senile woman. As she's about to leave her property, the caretaker blocks Stephanie's path, menacingly wielding a shotgun... to say he wants to order a blazer.
- A Deleted Scene from Star Wars The Last Jedi features Finn, Rose, and DJ, who are disguised as First Order officers to infiltrate a Star Destroyer, sharing an elevator with a stormtrooper squad. One of the troopers recognizes Finn by his old First Order numerical designation, and very seriously apologizes to him... For making small talk with an officer. He goes on to congratulate Finn (a former stormtrooper) on his promotion. Perhaps an example of Fridge Brilliance: the First Order might have tried to prevent stories of FN-2187's defection from spreading in order to suppress similar dissent from the other troopers.
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Peter Guillam has just stolen a file from the Circus when he's detained and grilled about his connection to Ricky Tarr (all the time the file is in his briefcase). It's not surprising he flips out and assaults Tarr afterwards.
- Who Dares Wins (1982) aka The Final Option. Terrorists in disguise as a military band are walking into the front entrance of the US Embassy, when a security officer stops them...to say they're supposed to enter through the servants entrance.
- Inverted in Medalon, in which one of the heroes calls the guards back to make another innocent remark to make their situation seem more plausible.
- In the third Noob novel, the protagonists are masquerading as players from the Coalition, their enemy faction, to better investigate strange things happening in a forest near the enemy capital. The phenomenon they are investigating attracts the attention of Non-Player Character city guards. When they get interrogated by the guards, the team Manchild spins a coverup tale so irrealistic by the setting's standards that it's almost an accidental Refuge in Audacity. When the quest finally gives the protagonists the opportunity to ditch the guards, one of the guards calls them out: it turns out the guards came on flying mounts that can carry double, and they were just asking the protagonists if they wanted a ride into town.
- In Tea with the Black Dragon, Mayland Long infiltrates a building to investigate one of the villains. As he exits an elevator, he hears someone shout "Hold it!" ... but she just wants him to hold the elevator for her.
- Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River: The bomber is surprised by a security guard while he's arranging the bomb at Glen Canyon Dam, but the guard is merely asking if everything is OK, not having realized what the bomber is actually aiming for.
- In an episode of Angel, Fred has to dress as a showgirl, complete with green body paint, to get past security in order to rescue Lorne the empath demon from captivity as a Vegas act. She manages to evade uncomfortably lascivious conversation with the guards, and slips by, only to be stopped...because she missed a spot of paint on the back of her neck, and really ought to fix it before she goes out on stage.
- On one episode of Better Call Saul, Mike sneaks into the Madrigal warehouse. He goes past the breakroom and an employee yells out to him—to come sign another employee's birthday card.
- In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 5 episode "Spiral", two of the Knights of Byzantium get one of their order released from the mental hospital by signing some papers. As they walk away, the nurse yells "hey!" and one of the knights gets his dagger ready, but it turns out all they did was forget to give back her pen.
- Friends: In "The One That Could Have Been", Joey hires Chandler as his assistant and keeps ordering him around asking for her juice without pulp. Chandler impulsively writes his first Archie collums that "Archie hired James as his assistant/butler and keeps ordering him to bring milshakes that don't have lump in them". When he hesitantly tells Joey these exact words, Joey says that something sounds familiar about the book. Chandler believes that Joey found out that Chandler wrote the book about the way Joey treats him. However, Joey only finds it familiar because he thinks he read a story like this before.
- In an episode of Good Luck Charlie, PJ and Gabe accidentally spill grapejuice on their yellow couch and replace it with a green one that looks identical to the one they used to have hoping their parents would be fooled. Amy at first suspects that something looks different, but claims that it's only because a nearby living room ornament is out of place and moves it. However, she quickly subverts this trope by exclaiming "Lucky for you guys, I always hated that yellow couch!" as she is walking up the stairs. Bob only suspects "the new old couch" because he keeps losing his phone in it.
- In Jonas, Kevin and Nick sneak into detention to rescue Joe so their band could record its final deadline. Mr. Spencer, the teacher monitoring the students at detention, enters the room. Nick and Kevin narrowly hide their faces with a vase and a makeshift skeleton respectly. Mr. Spencer yells out "AHA!!!" and walks over to Nick worrying Joe that his brothers have been caught and that he would be in even more trouble. Fortunately, Mr. Spencer was actually walking over to straighten up a science fair banner on the wall next to Nick. Later, when the brothers are performing a small concert in the school hallway, Mr. Spencer walks in on them straightens up a bake sale banner and leaves completely ignoring their performance.
- In Merlin, 1x04, when Gwen goes to deliver the meal to the jailed Arthur to find out if he successfully retrieved the Mortius Flower, this occurs just as she's leaving, with the flower on her tray, but it turns out that the guard just wanted a bite from the food Arthur rejected.
- Often used for the Commercial Break Cliffhanger on Mission: Impossible.
- In Robin Hood Djaq disguises herself as a serving girl and walks past Guy of Gisborne. Hey Wait... he just wants to remind her to keep the Sheriff's cup full.
- In the 1984 miniseries of V (1983), La Résistance is infiltrating a press conference using a forged security pass. Even though the pass has just been checked electronically, one of the Visitors insists on looking at it closely for no apparent reason.
- Towards the end of Detroit: Become Human, this happens at a military checkpoint where Kara, Alice and optionally Luther have just managed to pass for humans and are allowed through, only for the (heavily armed) guard to call out to them after walking a short distance away. At this point, you can either play it cool and calmly turn around to ask what's wrong, or trust Kara's/Luther's instincts (that you've been found out), to spin around, pull a hidden gun and shoot the guard in the face before he has time to react. If you play it cool, you find out that Alice dropped her glove at the checkpoint, and he just wanted to give it back. Even if you shoot the guard, you still escape the area, although Alice will not be as happy with the outcome.
- At the beginning of Fahrenheit, the main character has just killed a man in the bathroom of a diner. If you try to leave through the front door, the cashier calls for you to stop. You can either stop and listen, or bolt out the door anyways; in either case, she was only trying to remind you to pay your bill. Paying your bill or bolting changes the cashier's testimony when the detectives (your other Player Characters) question her.
- In Fallout 2, if you infiltrate a base in old-fashioned power armor, a sergeant notices, and then sends you to get some spangly new power armor from the Armory. Note that he's absolutely furious, because he naturally assumes that you've lost it and are trying to play off like you never had any. Sergeant Dornan is probably the best character in the game simply for the dialogue you get if you talk to him while not wearing the Mark II Power Armor. Even better: he stops you for wearing the second-best armor in the game to order you to go equip the best armor.
- In Final Fantasy IX, Steiner is trying to smuggle Princess Garnet across the border to Treno, by posing as a travelling labourer while Garnet hides in a sack of pickles he's carrying. As he's about to walk out of the other side of the border control point, a guard yells after him to stop... because all the necessary paperwork has been completed and Steiner's new passport is ready.
- In Final Fantasy VI, the guard in Celes' room seems to wake up when Locke rescues her. He's actually just sleepwalking.
- In Final Fantasy VII, this happens when Cloud sneaks into Junon, and he has to go march in a parade.
- In Final Fantasy VIII, while infiltrating a missile base, the first guard you encounter inside the facility will stop you and, depending on the option you chose beforehand, will warn you not to run on the catwalks, compliment you on your marching formation, or chastise you for walking strangely (when you're very obviously trying to hide your faces from him).
- One part in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater has you needing to sneak inside a building and don a scientist's uniform. However, one easy way to get into the building is don the uniform outside and let a guard see you. Rather than shooting or raising an alert, they'll mistake you for an escaping scientist and escort you back inside! Unless you're in an unreachable position, of course, which instead it's easier to just shoot you.
- Grand Theft Auto V has a mission where Franklin is trailing an architect at a construction site (Long Story) and gets told off by a worker at the entrance. It is not for the fact he is someone who more than likely has no business there, but he needs to wear a hard hat.
- Even funnier is that it is possible this mission takes place not long after Franklin was in a massive shootout at that same construction site.
- The Legend of Tian-ding have one such moment in the Jiangyue-lou Restaurant stage. Your titular Gentleman Thief is Disguised in Drag as a waitress, when Inspector Matsumoto suddenly tells you to stop. For a moment you thought your cover's blown, but turns out Matsumoto is telling you to get him another sake.
- The Dentist Trailer for PAYDAY 2 has Dallas in the waiting room of a dentist office when he leaves for his appointment. He is stopped by a cop who is tries to give Dallas his wallet back (Dallas insists it is not his). Of course given what happens during the appointment, his jumpiness is well justified.
- The Order of the Stick: Used in "Oddly, He Can Still Get Dressed in Under a Minute". Roy, disguised as (and gender-changed into) a woman thinks s/he's been caught by "Kaboom" Redaxe... but the perverted dwarf just want to give "her" his room number.
- In San: Three Kingdoms Comic, Dong Zhuo caught Lu Bu making out with Diao Chan and gave chase. When cornered, Dong Zhuo just revealed that Lu Bu that the latter left his wallet on the former's room.
- In the Adventure Time episode Death in Bloom, as Finn and Jake are sneaking around in the Land of the Dead, a skeleton yells Halt! He was talking to his friend, Halt.
- Variation in American Dad!: While Stan is away, Steve and his friends go into his study and accidentally flies and crashes a Predator drone. When Stan returns, he calls Steve to the study, noting that the Predator computer shifted while he was gone (and repeatedly, just to build the tension). Then he announces he is wrong and it is where Steve had left it, and tells him to forget about it. Double Subverted when moments later Stan can't connect and finds it missing from its hangar.
- Also happens with one of the gold poop subplots.
- Turlington might as well be this trope incarnate.
- Happens quite a bit on Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- For example, when entering Omashu with Aang dressed as an old man, the guard lets them through, pauses, then makes Sokka carry the old man's pack.
- And again, when trying to lay low in to the Fire Nation, the guards notice he's acting highly suspicious, and force him to attend the school whose uniform he stole off a clothesline.
- Then, just a few minutes later, as the guards are dropping him off in class, the teacher declares that something is wrong! He didn't bow to her, so he must be... from the colonies.
- The Batman: Detective Yin tells Bruce Wayne, "I know your secret." It turns out that the "secret" she's figured out is that he's actually an intelligent and caring person rather than the shallow playboy he pretends to be.
- The Beatles: John says "Hey, wait!" when two Pauls turn up in "No Reply". One of the Pauls is a master of disguise.
- Carmen Sandiego: When Carmen is attempting to escape V.I.L.E. Island disguised as Cookie Booker, she's just made it to the door when one of the Cleaners calls out to her (as an added bit of tension, they've just been given permission to terminate Booker, so even if she hasn't been discovered, she could still be toast), but he just wants to wish her farewell before he unlocks the door for her.
- DC Animated Universe:
- In an episode of Batman: The Animated Series, Harley Quinn meets Bruce Wayne after she's been set free for having served her sentence at Arkam and covers the top half of his face, saying she recognizes that chin. Bruce thinks that his secret identity has been blown, but it turns out that she was recognizing him as Bruce Wayne- the man who's gala she and the Joker had crashed during a heist.
- Superman: The Animated Series; a janitor working at a prison is about to enter a wing where electronic devices aren't allowed. Being an idiot who doesn't want to relinquish his headphone set to the checkpoint guy, he stuffs it in his pocket. The guard at the checkpoint seems to notice this, and stops him; but it's actually because of the janitor's watch. (And as expected, there's a reason for this rule - Live Wire's cell is in the wing - which the careless janitor soon discovers.)
- In the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "Infernal Slumber" where Mac spends the whole night trying to keep his friends' voices down when they invite themselves over for a sleepover, he spends the morning trying to distract his mom so she doesn't catch them sneaking out. We hear her call his name, he panics because he thinks she caught them. It just turns out she saw how clean their apartment is (that Wilt did) and thanks him for doing that. After she leaves, the friends break a hole in their roof to take back their photos. This trope happens again when she opens the door and appears to notice the hole in the roof. Turns out she just forgot her purse.
- Regular Show: Happens in J.G. Quintel's student animation "2 in the AM PM" when a cop visits the gas station while Quintel's and Sam Marin's characters are hallucinating on LSD.
- In the The Simpsons episode "The Springfield Files", Burns comments that Smithers will be spending the weekend doing "something gay, no doubt''. Smithers sputters a bit until it becomes clear that Burns means "light-hearted, fancy-free".
- In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "A Pal For Gary", SpongeBob cries out, "Fluffy! Fluffy, waiiiit!" as Puffy Fluffy runs away before he punishes Gary for sending away his "friend", even though Gary literally saved him from getting eaten.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Heroes on Both Sides" has a villainous example. General Grievous sends a group of droids designed for infiltration and suicide bombing to destroy a Coruscant power plant. The droids are built to look like sweeper-droids in their disguised forms, and have fake permits to enter the secured zone. After a clone sentry examines the permits, and has let the droids pass, he stops them again as they're about to turn around the corner... because they almost turned the wrong corner!
Commander Fox: Stupid droids...
- Star Wars Rebels: "An Inside Man" has an inversion. A disguised Kanan and Ezra are attempting to get out of the Imperial complex while the Imperials are checking everyone's IDs, searching for the infiltrators. An elevator opens and Agent Kallus orders them inside. They get in, assuming their cover is still intact, only for Kallus to reveal he knows who they are — because he's turned The Mole.
- An interesting example happened during World War 2: A German spy in the United States was attempting to get close to a military base in order to take photographs, but, while casing the area, someone tried to stop him. Thinking he'd been found out, he panicked and took his issued cyanide pill so that he would die before being captured and interrogated. Turns out, however, he wasn't being stopped for espionage... he had left his hat at a nearby café.


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Airbnb: The Intricacies of Insurance
Airbnb Insurance: Are You Covered?
Just last month, a fatal accident at an Airbnb on the Sunshine Coast called into question the liability of Airbnb hosts in the context of emergency situations involving guests.
On the basis that listing a property with Airbnb effectively classifies the property as a business, there are a variety of regulatory, insurance and workplace health and safety factors that should be taken into consideration by hosts and consumers alike.
Standard home insurance packages do not accommodate for commercial businesses and the unique risks and liabilities that attach to them. Hosts relying on their home insurance to protect their belongings and provide support in the event of an emergency may find themselves without assistance when their insurance provider discovers their property was operating as a commercial business. It is important to note that if you are operating an Airbnb or similar short-term accommodation listing, your residential home and contents insurance could be rendered completely void. This is because the process of operating a short-term accommodation business often effectively classifies a property (for the purposes of insurance) as commercial. If you are unsure as to whether your current cover is effectual, review the terms and conditions of your package.
Notably, Airbnb does offer baseline insurance protection for all hosts – being personal injury and property damage cover to the value of $1 million USD. Whether this is sufficient protection – in terms of value, scope and accessibility, is a judgment that differs between individual hosts. Many Airbnb hosts are seeking additional cover in the form of landlord's insurance. In many cases this may be providing more peace of mind than actual cover, however, as a significant proportion of landlord insurance packages available require residential tenancy agreements and/or minimum stays of 90 days to qualify (neither of which generally are applicable to Airbnb models).
External insurance providers such as Insurance Australian Group Limited (IAG) and NRMA are now offering supplementary insurance packages tailored to Airbnb and other share-economy accommodation models, which purport to cover risks such as theft, personal liability and property damage where there are paying guests at the property (all risks not covered by standard home insurance).
Liability of hosts
Though a NSW case, the matter of Panther v Pischedda (2013) NSWCA 236 provides interesting insight into how hosts can be found liable for injuries sustained by guests. In this case, a guest at a short-term accommodation property in the Blue Mountains suffered a broken ankle as a result of a steep and slippery driveway. It was found that the risk of injury had been foreseeable; and the hosts had not taken any 'reasonable preventative measures', such as installing handrails or providing an alternative walking route. Consequently, it was held that the hosts of the property had breached their duty of care.
How can hosts avoid liability?
As discussed in the abovementioned case, it is critically important that hosts take steps to identify potential safety risks, and further, take reasonable preventative measures to ensure those risks are mitigated. For example, installing safety railings, non-slip mats, signs alerting guests to potential causes of injury (such as boiling water taps) and keeping all furniture well maintained are all steps that can be taken to mitigate potential risks and reduce the likelihood of injury.
This article is intended to provide a brief overview of a developing area of the law. For legal advice tailored to your individual circumstances and concerns, please contact ABKJ Lawyers on 07 5532 3199.


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Grow Your Global Reach with AIT's e-Commerce Solutions, Order Fulfillment
Pushed along by ever-faster data speeds, widespread internet access and vast mobile device penetration, the e-Commerce industry—including e-Commerce logistics—has seen massive growth in the past few decades. And with major markets like India still experiencing e-Commerce awakenings, the growth is expected to continue.
But did you know more than half (58 percent) of shoppers have abandoned an online cart due inadequate e-Commerce shipping options? It's true. With access to e-Commerce options more commonplace than ever, customer expectations are on the rise.
In the face of great risks and rewards, read on to find out how, a partnership with AIT can take your e-Commerce shipping and order fulfillment strategy to the next level.
Why choose AIT e-Commerce solutions for shipping and order fulfillment?
Online retailers and distributors around the world trust AIT's knowledgeable and flexible supply chain experts. That's because we have the scope and know-how to design and manage streamlined, rapid and cost-effective e-commerce shipping solutions that get finished goods from Asia and Europe to U.S. consumers and B2B customers ASAP.
And, on top of enjoying reduced or minimized warehousing and order fulfillment costs, our e-Commerce solutions customers minimize their duty fees and save as much as 30 percent per shipment compared to traditional parcel provider services.
Most importantly, they're able to turn those benefits into customer delight and increased sales via faster service and reduced prices.
How does AIT's door-to-door e-Commerce shipping work?
AIT's savvy e-Commerce shipping and order fulfillment model bypasses traditional ocean import, stateside warehousing and fulfillment hubs.
Step 1: In-Country Consolidation
- Transport of finished goods from manufacturer(s) to AIT facilities worldwide
- Order information available for in-country, AIT pick, pack and ship
- Electronic ship-confirmation, end-to-end tracking integrated with your order management system
- Based on your business rules, AIT builds outbound consolidation to the United States, including:
- Pallet/container build for individual, U.S.-bound orders
- Cargo screening and x-ray
- U.S.-entry-compliant manifesting
Step 2: Import to United States
- Daily flight schedules to U.S. gateway cities (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Miami)
- Fully trackable cargo milestones from airlines
- Cargo retrieved via bonded vehicle
- Most shipments cleared before landing
- Duty-free, rapid customs clearance, often same-day for Section 321-eligible products
- Authorized express consignment carrier facility locations approved by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- Tender for regional and local parcel zone delivery via final-mile carriers
Step 3: Final-Mile Delivery
- Individual parcels delivered directly to B2B and B2C customers from gateway cities
- Final mile for bulkier items provided by AIT's residential delivery network
- Coordination with major U.S. retail distribution centers available for urgent and/or high-value inventory restocking that requires domestic air transport
What are the requirements for e-Commerce shipping?
While AIT accommodates a wide variety of goods for U.S. import via our e-Commerce solutions, in our experience, following the below criteria will result in the greatest benefits:
- Individual products with a declared value of $800 or less (per order, per day)
- Consistent volumes of 100+ parcels per import
- Five-to-seven-business-day delivery window


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White wine D.O. Penedès
Intense, Polyhedric & Elegant
Homage to the winery cofounder: Teresa Camps. Limited production only in exceptional vinatges.
Propietat d'Espiells' most intense and elegant white wine.
1 bottle
75 cl
- Grape variety Xarel·lo, Chardonnay & Viognier
- Vintage 2018
- Origin Penedès
- Tasting note Ageing in wood adds volume, structure, and aromatic complexity. Contact with the lees protects the wine from oxidation and makes for an opulent, creamy palate. The ceramic vats help preserve the freshness of the wine and soften the influence of the wood.
- Gastronomy Therasia pairs beautifully with all kinds of fish and seafood. More daring souls can opt for bolder combinations with tartare, cannelloni, poultry or wildfowl stews, and a wide assortment of cheeses.
- Alcohol percentage 12%
- Appellation of origin D.O. Penedès
- Aging Fermentation and aging in acacia and French oak barrels, as well as clay and ceramic vats.
- Contains sulfites Yes
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Red Berries White Clouds Blue Sky
by Sandra Dallas, published 2014
"It struck Tomi then that Mom had changed a little just in the months since Pop was arrested. She had always done what everyone else wanted. Now for the first time in her life, she was in charge."
This children's book is a direct, hard-hitting look at the injustices experienced by Japanese-Americans during WWII, when they were all rounded up and sent to relocation camps. The story is told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl, who goes through her own upheavals as she learns to cope. The book also brings in the role of Japanese women, cultural issues, and family loyalty. There is nothing about this children's book that beats around the bush when it comes to depicting the struggles the families had to maintain their dignity and culture.
I like the writing quite a bit, and it is as powerful as Dallas's other children's book, The Quilt Walk. As with The Quilt Book, the author presents the reality of life, with its many good and also difficult issues and approaches them with wisdom and compassion.
I find this kind of historical fiction book would have two audiences: one would be Japanese families who want their children to know what happened. The other would be excellent classroom use for older (5th grade and up) children studying about prejudice, WWII or something about other cultures.
Other books by Sandra Dallas:
Find this children's book at your local bookstore


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That should be the new slogan smeared across every license plate in the good old Buckeye state. The last couple of months we have been getting a regular dose of LeBron making a somewhat impossible, jaw dropping shot. Well now King James may have a little bit of a competition in the form of 14 year old Aaron Shutway from Brecksville Broadview Heights Middle School. His front-flip-into-a-three-quarter-court-shot is something of beauty. So congrats to Shutway on the shot that he, and most of us, will not soon forget. Also, I would like to high five the young gentleman wearing the UNC shirt and low five (with pulling the hand away at the last second to make him look like a jerk) the young man in the Kellen Winslow jersey. Don't be that guy Bro.
Lebron, you're up.


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Planes & helicopters crash explosions?
I am looking for a mod that would make planes an helis NOT explode every time you hit a light pole a bit harder.
Does anyone know of any mod that would disable the auto explosion. (I really liked how you could loose a tail on helicopter in midair in GTA 4 and I miss it here)


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Concert For George
London, England - November 29, 2002 - R2 970241 - 280 min.
Comments: A tribute to the life and music of George Harrison under the musical direction of Eric Clapton. 2-DVD edition features both the complete concert as well as the theatrical release version with extra bonus material including interviews and rehearsal footage.
Random Thoughts:
- It was quite sneaky of Eric to play along during the Indian music session so we won't all fast forward through it like we did during "Concert for Bangla Desh".
- Is Andy Fairweather-Low the new Minnie Pearl of rock music, or did he simply forget to take the price tag off the tuners of his Fender Electric XII?
- Could it be that EC is wearing the same shirt he wore on the 2001 tour, one of his "fat" shirts? Hard to believe this guy of all people would allow himself to be seen in public more than once wearing the same thing - especially something that looks like it probably came from the bargain bin at Target!
- Basically this was about as close as you can get to a reunion of EC's early 1980s touring band. It's a Pity ... that Albert Lee wasn't allowed to step out a little more!
- Speaking of fashion, Eric must not have auctioned off all his old clothes - it looks as if he loaned Billy Preston the suit he wore at the 1987 Prince's Trust Concert!
- Last but certainly not least, pay attention to the crowd shot after "I Don't Know". How does she DO that? *grin*


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Robbins Geller Wins Sixth Circuit Appeal for Esperion Therapeutics Investors
Recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in plaintiffs' favor in Dougherty v. Esperion Therapeutics, reversing the district court's prior dismissal of the case.
Esperion is a pharmaceutical company that relies on investor funding. Esperion's sole focus is the development of ETC-1002, a first-in-class oral medication designed to lower LDL-cholesterol, also known as "bad cholesterol." The case alleges that Esperion and CEO Tim Mayleben violated §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as well as SEC Rule 10b-5. Plaintiffs' amended complaint alleges that Esperion misled investors by falsely stating that the FDA would not require a completed cardiovascular outcomes trial ("CVOT") prior to approval of ETC-1002, causing Esperion stock to trade at artificially inflated levels during the class period. When the FDA's final meeting minutes forced the company to reveal that the FDA might indeed require a completed CVOT before approving the drug, Esperion stock plummeted.
Following appellate briefing and oral argument, the Sixth Circuit reversed the district court's prior dismissal of the case, and held that plaintiffs succeeded in adequately pleading a strong inference that Mayleben willfully or recklessly made misleading statements to investors following a meeting with the FDA regarding the company's new cholesterol drug. "Esperion has offered no innocent inference stronger than Plaintiffs' inference that Esperion knowingly or recklessly made material misrepresentations or omissions in its August communications with investors," stated the court. "Such an innocent inference would require us to believe either that the FDA's meeting minutes do not accurately reflect what took place in the meeting, or that Esperion misunderstood what the FDA intended to require. The former is implausible; the latter supports Plaintiffs' allegation of recklessness." The court concluded that "because Plaintiffs adequately alleged scienter," the case is reversed and remanded back to the district court for further proceedings.
Robbins Geller appellate partner Steven F. Hubachek, who briefed and argued the appeal, noted that the opinion "was thorough and well-reasoned." In addition to Hubachek, Robbins Geller partner Ryan Llorens, along with co-counsel, obtained this result for investors.
Dougherty v. Esperion Therapeutics, Inc., No. 17-1701, Opinion (6th Cir. Sept. 27, 2018).
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Ps 90:12 So teach us to number our days that we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom.
Early in 2012, I will be publishing two books, both non-fiction Christian/Inspirational.
For the next few months, I will be publishing parts of these books and discussing the challenges of serving as a divorced woman of God. I will talk about God's guidance on divorce, destinations, disease, and disease prevention, dealings at work, delighting in the Lord, deployments, dogs, downsizing, and devotions. I look forward to knowing you better and providing a delightful diversion in your day.