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What are examples that foreshadow the complications of "The Ransom of Red Chief"?
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O. Henry's witty short story that contains one comic reversal after another, foreshadows the ironic outcome with the opening sentence of Sam, the narrator, "It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you." Sam and his partner, Bill Driscoll, plan a kidnapping of Summit, Alabama's prominent citizen and financier, Ebenezer Dorset. However, with the first sentence in mind, Sam's and Bill's confidence that the worst that could happen to them was nothing more than being chased by
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seems to be an underestimation of the possibilities. Then, when Bill attempts to kidnap the freckled, red-haired Dorset boy, he hits Bill in the eye with a piece of a brick and puts up "a fight like a welter-weight cinnamon bear." Obviously, then, the boy is no fragile, frightened victim. After Sam arrives in camp, he finds Bill tending to wounds and bruises on his face and is met by this boy who then challenges him,
"Ha! cursed paleface, do you dare to enter the camp of Red Chief, the terror of the plains?"
Clearly, it becomes clear to the reader through foreshadowing that "Red Chief" is no ordinary boy and may prove to be extremely difficult to hold as a hostage since, rather than being frightened, he is "having the time of his life." Complications [problems arising from their plans] to the men's obtaining a ransom from his father also derive from Sam's observation the next day that instead of a search party out looking for the boy,
Nobody was dragging the creek; no couriers dashed hither and yon, bringing tidings of no news to the distracted parents. There was a sylvan attitude of somnolent sleepiness pervading that section of Alabama....
Thus, the "good thing" that Sam and Bill Driscoll plan develops into anything but easy because the boy is no frightened or weak child, and the father does not care that his son has been taken; for, the reader later learns that the men become so tortured that they return the child.


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Now I really wish I was French.
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According to The Journal, Kerviel's employer sent him a formal letter asking him to appear at a "dismissal rendezvous." But since Kerviel didn't show up, the bank can't begin dismissal proceedings. Technically, he's still an employee.
As of last week, nobody else was canned, either — not one boss or senior executive or anyone else who was responsible for the safeguards that were supposed to keep rogue employees from losing billions of euros.
That's why I wish I were French.
Sure, I know that the absurd number of French labor laws are holding back businesses and choking the French economy. I know that the French economy is growing much slower than other European Union countries', that its debt is rising rapidly and that its generous government benefits have put finances on the verge of collapse.
But sometimes I tire of the American way.
I'm self-employed, you see. Talk of a recession on the horizon has caused me to take on lots of work. I'm working long hours and socking money away just in case the economy crashes.
I know how great it is to live in a country where a person can earn more just by working harder. I know it's because we have fewer government regulations than France that our economy is robust.
I know that if some politicians have their way, our economy could become as sclerotic as France's. Every election cycle, politicians promise us more goodies — more government mandates and programs that will allegedly protect us from the unpleasantries of life.
Such ideas always do more harm than good. Still, you've got to love a country in which it's difficult for an employer to can an employee who lost billions of their dough.
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He started off his visit by watching Stoke's 1-1 draw with Sheffield United at the weekend before getting down to some training with his possible new teammates today.
It was revealed that the French club, Marseilles were also interested in signing the 22 year old midfielder who had impressed during the African Cup of Nations in Egypt back in February. But Zola said that he wanted to play in England and had discussed the move with fellow Congo international and Portsmouth player, Lua Lua before committing himself to the Potters.


text: Jan Beulich wrote:>>>> On 28.06.12 at 10:54, "Liu, Jinsong" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:>> Jan Beulich wrote:>>> The 2-bank approach also needs to be brought in line with the>>> current host derived value in MCG_CAP, especially if the code to>>> implement this new model doesn't make it into 4.2 (which would>>> generally save a larger value).>> >> Let me repeat in my word to avoid misunderstanding about your>> concern: >> Your concern rooted from the history patch (c/s 24887, as attached)>> which used to solve vMCE migration issue caused from bank number. I>> guess the patch was not in xen4.1.x but would be in xen 4.2 release>> recently (right? and when will xen 4.2 release?)> > 4.2 is in feature freeze right now, preparing for the release.> >> Per my understanding, you want us to make sure our new vMCE model>> compatible w/ olde vMCE. For example if our patch in xen 4.3>> release, you want to make sure a guest migrate from xen 4.2 to 4.3>> would not broken. Is this your concern?> > Yes. If we can't get the save/restore records adjusted in time> for 4.2, compatibility with 4.2 would be a requirement. If we> manage to get the necessary adjustments done in time, and if> they're not too intrusive (i.e. would be acceptable at this late> stage of the development cycle), then the concern could be> dropped from an upstream perspective due to the lack of> support in 4.1 (and hence no backward compatibility issues).> BUT this isn't as simple from a product usage point of view: As> the save/restore code currently in -unstable was coded up to> address a problem observed by SLE11 SP2 users, we already> backported those patches. So compatibility will be a requirement> in any case.> > JanA basic point of new vMCE is, it get rid of old vMCE, start setting up a new model from the very beginning. From coding point of view, backward compatibility issue would be dirty and troublesome.The point is, old vMCE interface is host-based while new vMCE is pure s/w defined, hence troubles come from the interface heterogeneous (if need keep compatibility). The basic assumption of live migration from A to B is, A and B basically at same page, so it could be migrated by setting the smallest common feature/capability set (via cpuid, command line, etc.). However, old vMCE and new vMCE are quite different and cannot controlled effectively. For example, old vMCE has MCG_CTL but new vMCE doesn't, and new vMCE has CMCI support (and MCi_CTL2) but old vMCE doesn't. I even doubt the feasibility of keeping compatibility w/ old vMCE. An example is, it's hard to migrate between Intel cpu and AMD cpu.So I would like to push new vMCE as quickly as possible. What's the timeline of vMCE developing that xen 4.2 could accept? I wonder if we could make major components of vMCE done before xen 4.2 timeline, and leave the surrounding features and the corner cases done later?Thanks,Jinsong


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Chapter 1: Glacial Progress
"Why are we travelling to Certain Death again?" asked Taffer shivering in the back of the wagon.
"It's not Certain death!" replied Magnok wearily, "For the last time it's just a terrifying glacier"
"I fail," said Taffer blinking and yawning, "to understand how that reply did anything apart from confirm what I just said"
"Exactly. I knew you'd begin to see reason" laughed Magnok and patted Taffer on the back.
"Wait what?"
But it was too late to probe further Magnok had already leaned out of the window to chat to the dwarf on whipping duty, "How's it going laddie?" he shouted snow and ice smashing against his face. The icy mountains moaned wearily as if their very existence was a blight upon the world.
There was no response. Magnok frowned irritated that he didn't respond.
"Laddie?" he called again. There was no sound apart from the wind howling against the glacial mountainside like a heard of skeletal banshee zombie skeletons. Magnok focused his eyes and wiped the snow off and squinted. The wind groaned and it was impossible to see further than a couple of feet. He stroked his beard as a shape appeared just visible slumped over the animals.
"What's up?" asked Urist rubbing her hands. She was shivering , "Is he okay?"
"Most of him is," said Magnok, "I think you're going to have to take over though Taffer he looks a bit sick"
"Well what's wrong with him?" asked Urist looking concerned.
"Well," began Magnok a little nervously, "to be exact his head is… 'gone'"
"Well where did he put it?" laughed Lumpy, "I mean it's kind of hard to lose"
"I don't know. Maybe he forgot to bring it with him?" shrugged Magnok, "For Armok's sake Lumpy I'm serious. He's dead!"
"I thought you were joking," whispered Lumpy nervously, "You are joking right?"
"No! His head is gone. For some reason the Zebras are still pulling the wagon without his whipping encouragements. We're probably completely lost; Armok save us!"
"Phew!" said Taffer wiping the frozen sweat of his brow, "Guess that means we can head back to Dwarfcity now eh?"
"No we're going to make an outpost don't be stupid," replied Magnok, "just think of the riches that must be buried underneath all that ice!"
"More ice?" suggested Taffer sarcastically.
"Keep digging and eventually you'll hit magma, that's what my father always used to say," chuckled Magnok.
"Why didn't you take him with us?" asked Lumpy.
"Him? Oh he died when I was a kid poor bugger. Magma related accident"
"So where are we then?" asked Lumpy, "we better get out and have a look"
"Gerome can you get out and have a look for us?" asked Magnok to a broad nosed sharp eyed dwarf with a large axe. Gerome smiled and nodded calmly, "because you're too scared to go out and look yourself is that it Magnok?"
"Yes that would be why," replied Magnok as if it were a simple question with a simple answer.
"Gerome don't go!" whispered Melia his wife, "it's dangerous out there. Make one of the others go!"
"You weaklings!" spat Gerome and gripped the handle of his iron battle axe as if it were the throat of a dying goblin, "I'm not afraid of death Magnok. Its you that's afraid of life all of you! Let me show you how a soldier does things!"
Gerome opened the door. With a growl he jumped out brandishing his axe. He disappeared vertically downwards into the snowstorm. There was a long trailing whooshing sound followed by a loud resounding crack that echoed through the mountain range.
"That didn't sound good," murmured Taffer
"Gerome my love!" shrieked Melia and leaped out after him.
"NO!" roared Magnok trying to grab her but it was too late. His hand touched hers briefly but she was gone in an instant. There was another whooshing sound followed by a loud crunch this time slightly softer as if it had landed on something.
Magnok looked out wearily down into the abyss, "Okay. Dwarves, we're on top of the mountain. Armok knows how we managed to get up here but I suggest nobody else exits the wagon from this side"
Magnok crawled across the others and stepped out carefully through the other door and helped the dainty Urist down. The others got out shivering in the freezing cold stamping their boots.
"Okay Lumpy you got your pick ready?"
"Sure thing boss," he replied a little uneasily, "Where'd you want to dig to?"
"Down," he replied, "Strike the earth!"
Lumpy was certainly a grumbler but he was good at his job and soon had dug through the ice layer into some nice rock. At Magnok's orders he carved out a huge food stockpile and they carted in all the edible supplies into that magic dwarven room where nothing ever went rotten. To be safe Lumpy dug a long passageway into the main part of the prospective fortress and a small hall that would sort of serve as an entrance. It was here that Magnok constructed a mason's workshop and started on building the first thing that came to his mind: stone coffins.
When they had scooped up the remains of the other three and buried them Magnok constructed a few doors out of lumps of stone and they shut the door for the night. They sat in the darkness of their hall rubbing their hands and shivering. Urist was crying at the pain of the world.
"Ha! Fun times eh?" said Magnok with a grin. Lumpy was already asleep completely exhausted from the day.
"We're going to need food and booze," said Taffer munching on a purple mushroom, "This stuff won't last forever"
"How can you eat those things?" asked Magnok raising his eyebrows, "They taste horrible!"
"How can you not like mushrooms?" replied Taffer, "Every dwarf worth his own beard loves mushrooms right Urist?"
"She's crying leave her alone," shrugged Magnok
"Shouldn't you attend a meeting with her or something?" said Taffer irritably, "I mean you are the expedition leader for what that's worth"
"I'm okay!" whimpered Urist in floods of tears
"See? she's okay," said Magnok with a grin, "Meeting over"
"You are terrible at this." grumbled Taffer
"Hey chum!" glared Magnok, "Four of us are still alive on the first day... Nobody thanked me for that!"
Taffer said something inaudible.
"What was that?"
"Nothing I just bit my tongue that's all"
Magnok rested his chin on his fist and glared at the rock floor. Taffer rolled over and pretended to instantly start sleeping. Magnok sighed and turned to Urist. Her head was in her hands.
"Urist," he sighed.
"Yes Magnok?" she asked choking on tears
"I'm sorry life is so crappy"
"That's okay It's not your fault"
"No it kind of is. I mean this expedition to the glacier was my idea. ALL my idea"
"Don't be so hard on yourself"
"I'm not I'm just saying it's all my fault and I'm sorry. It's just it's the fashion to embark on evil glaciers these days ever since that Ironblood person did it"
"Captain Ironblood," said Urist dreamily and smiled.
"I'm just happy that we're all still alive that's all. Well those of us who are alive I mean discounting the dead ones"
"Magnok shut up I'm trying to sleep," groaned Taffer who had been disturbed by noise recently.
"Sorry," grumbled Magnok and rolled over onto the cold stone floor, "Won't be so plucky when I'm mayor and order you hammered," he whispered.
"What was that?"
"Nothing I just bit my tongue"
Morning resulted in the inevitable hangover that would have left any normal human bedridden for a week. Taffer yawned drowsily his arms clenched round an extremely large half eaten purple mushroom. Magnok groaned and sat up, "Where am I?" he growled unable to use his voice properly.
Taffer opened his eyes, "Oh god… it wasn't a dream"
Urist glanced over at the three coffins propped up vertically against the wall and felt her stomach lurch. Tears started welling up in her eyes but she held them back.
Magnok stood up, "Dwaves! Today we can further our work in praise of Armok god of blood! The first thing we need to do is dump all this stone somewhere. However there is no need to dump the stone in this room; I'll make it into doors and chairs and tables and things. But the stuff in the bedrooms and corridors has got to go"
"Where do you want us to put it?" asked Taffer wearily
"Lumpy can you carve us out a dump?"
"Sure thing boss," he nodded, "Where'd you want it?"
"Make it a diagonal passage and we can dump dead bodies there and the smell won't reach us. Put it near the potential mason and craftdwarf workshops"
"Magnok," interrupted Taffer, "we need Urist to start planting some crops"
"Why's that?" asked Magnok
"Well if she doesn't we'll all run out of food and die," he replied trying not to sound angry.
"Oh…" said Magnok scratching his chin through his beard, "Yes I see. Okay Urist can you start a farm in here?"
"Not really," she replied still a little out of her mind.
"Why not?" he inquired
"Well its rock Magnok," she replied sadly, "I can't grow anything on rock. We have to irrigate the ground with water"
"Great! So lets do that," said Magnok clapping his hands together. There was a long silence as he looked to the others for reassurance.
"There is none," said Taffer irritably, "It's a frozen glacier where do you expect us to find water that isn't frozen?"
Magnok looked at the floor as if he'd been hit by a thunderbolt.
"Geez this is more difficult than I thought," he said vigorously scratching at his beard, "How on earth do dwarves survive in these situations?"
"Generally they don't," said Taffer, "In fact the last thirteen embarks to this glacier failed"
"Failed? How badly?" asked Magnok biting his nails
"As in the traders had to eat the dead bodies of their friends to make it back to dwarf city alive," replied Taffer solemnly
"Okay smart-bucket why'd you come on this trip then if you think it's so suicidal?"
"A: I didn't know where we were going. B: I tried to sell a wooden bin of Gold Goblets to the elves and the mayor of dwarf city ordered me to be hammered with the captain of the guard's best silver ware. It was either come with you guys or get killed"
"So you do carpentry?" asked Magnok confirming an earlier conversation.
"Yes…" replied Taffer unimpressed.
"On a glacier…" continued Magnok deep in thought.
"I can see where this is going and the answer is most definitely no"
"You didn't know what I was going to ask"
"You were going to ask me to go and cut down some trees"
"So why can't you?"
Taffer slapped his hand against his head, "Because Magnok, we're on a glacier. There are no trees. For that matter I don't think I've seen anything alive since we came here. ANYTHING" he added as if it were written on his tombstone.
"Okay…" sighed Magnok sounding a little disappointed, "I guess you'll have to help me haul stone then instead"
"You know…" said Urist a little shyly, "I heard that there's soil deep down in the caverns? We could, you know, mine down and start a farm in there"
"Okay lets do that!" said Magnok "nothing could possibly go wrong"
"In the caverns?" said Taffer, "Are you out of your mind?"
Lumpy had been following the conversation a little half-heartedly and unsure as to whether or not he was supposed to go off and start mining again. He wasn't the brightest of Armok's creations, "How do you know there are caverns?"
"There's always caverns," replied Taffer, "just as there's always magma. Thing is both of them are filled with dark horrible creatures with slime fangs, poison and tentacles, large sharp pointed razor teeth that can chop a dwarf in two!"
Urist shrieked.
"Its fine we'll wall it off," shrugged Magnok, "I'm a mason I'll just build a wall how hard can it be?"
"No you won't you'll get distracted by a plump helmet man or something," grumbled Taffer, "Look if we're going to do this, which by the way is a really dumb idea, lets at least do it properly. Lumpy will dig into the caverns then all of us! And I mean ALL of us will help build a wall to stop the dark creatures of the depths coming in to feast on our fleshy bones"
"Bones aren't made of flesh," said Lumpy
"Just…" said Taffer tightening his hands into fists, "You, but ,IT, Do, fine…"
"Okay so let's do it that thing which he just said!" grinned Magnok.
"Armok save us," whispered Taffer as they headed down the passageway, "at least things cannot get any worse"


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This morning Hewlett-Packard(HPQ) held its 2012 securities analyst meeting at which CEO Meg Whitman signaled there is more work to be done to turn the company around.
More specifically, Whitman said fiscal 2013 will be "a fix and rebuild year" when HP will see "broad-based profit decline, but more contained" than this year. When does the company expect to be back on track? After a few years and Whitman pointed to fiscal year 2015 as the company's "year of acceleration."
As you can imagine, HPQ shares are under pressure as a result of the news that the turnaround will take a few more years. Shocking? No. We've seen this movie before in the form of the old Motorola Mobility business that is now a part of Google (GOOG), in Nokia (NOK) today and other companies.
As part of Whitman's comments, she mentioned that HP is number 1 or 2 in each of its markets, that infrastructure and hardware are a core part of HP's business and that the company needs to focus on mobile, cloud, security and information. Not a short list of things to focus on as the bread and butter PC business grapples with the consumer shift toward smartphones and tablets. While analysts are cutting forecasts for PCs and slashing those for ultrabooks, global mobile phone penetration continues to grow and is expected to reach 70% in 2013, up from 2% in 2000 and 28% in 2009 according to data published in Abundance by Steven Kotler and Peter Diamandis.
Despite those growth prospects as well as the migration toward higher priced smartphones from mobile phones, in August 2011 HP announced plans to kill the TouchPad and WebOS smartphone business it acquired when it bought Palm in April-2010. Keep in mind, HP paid $1.2 billion for Palm.
Perhaps HP has learned its lesson. There is Internet chatter implying the company will take another stab at building a smartphone....an Android one. To me that means HP will be one of a number of Android smartphone vendors and raises the question as to how it will differentiate itself other than perhaps price? One of the dirty little secrets to successfully cracking the mobile phone market is having at least good and preferably strong relationships with mobile carriers, such as Verizon Wireless (VZ) and AT&T (T) in the U.S. and Vodafone Group (VOD) and Telecom Italia (TI) to name few outside the U.S.
While HP can try to compete with ZTE, HTC, Huawei, Samsung, Sony, Motorola and all the other Android smartphone vendors, it lacks a mobile infrastructure business which in the past helped the device businesses of Ericsson (ERIC), Motorola, and Nokia. It also lacks a device history with the mobile carriers. That remains true even after it acquired Palm because one of Palm's challenges was ramping its products with multiple carriers at a time.
To me this says that HP is better off acquiring an existing player and that means either Nokia (NOK) or Research in Motion (RIMM). Its not exactly a secret that Nokia has a number of challenges, including a struggling mobile infrastructure joint venture and transitioning its device business toward smartphones while its core low-tier mobile phone business is under attack thanks to ZTE, Huawei and others. RIMM has some of those pressures as well and has also taken it on the chin as consumers have embrace "bring your own device" to work and left the Blackberry behind. The lingering question for RIMM is whether or not the Blackberry 10 OS (BB10) will be its saving grace or not.
Aside from waiting to see if BB10 succeeds or fails, BB10 could be a potential roadblock for HP or another acquirer. Not only would it mean supporting a proprietary operating system, which costs resources, but its an operating system that has little synergy with HP's core PC business. At least with Nokia there is some synergy associated with Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows 8. Granted recent reports suggest that OS is not ready for release, but it will get better over time and offers some cohesiveness between HP's existing PC business and its tablet initiative with ElitePad.
For nearly all the same reasons that HP needs to buy Nokia, similar arguments can be made that Dell (DELL) should also be bidding on the one-time market share leading mobile phone manufacturer. To some investors, the notion of a takeout for ailing Nokia would be welcome relief. Year to date, Nokia's shares are down 45% and down more than 80% since 2009, all due to the company's slow turnaround. Just this morning, Nokia announced it may sell its headquarters in Finland in order to raise cash. Perhaps the time to go it alone for Nokia has come and gone.
While such a gamble as acquiring Nokia could be viewed as desperate if not risky, if HP does not make a bold move to address its shortfall in mobile odds are its price chart will resemble Nokia's before too long.
From my perch, investors should be putting capital into the shares of Qualcomm (QCOM), Skyworks (SWKS) and Broadcom (BRCM) as those companies are positioned to benefit from the growth in smartphones and tablets while missing the competitive and margin pressures to be faced by the device manufacturers. In particular, Skyworks should see its dollar content per device grow as mobile carriers around the glove deploy 4G LTE networks that are used by a number of smartphones, including the recently released iPhone 5.
Disclosure: Subscribers to PowerTrend Profits are long shares of Skyworks (SWKS) at $24.90.
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Halo 22004
There was only one ship.
Prophet of Truth:
One? Are you sure?
Prophet of Truth:
Yes, they called it "The Pillar of Autumn."
Prophet of Mercy:
Why was it not destroyed with the rest of their fleet?
It fled as soon as we set fire to their planet. But I followed with all the ships under my command.
Prophet of Truth:
When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?
SpecOps Leader:
On the blood of our fathers, on the blood of our sons, we swore to uphold the Covenant!
SpecOps Leader:
Those who would break this oath are heretics! Worthy of neither pity nor mercy!
SpecOps Leader:
And continue our march to glorious salvation!
SpecOps Leader:
This armour suits you, Arbiter. But it cannot hide that mark.
Nothing ever will.
SpecOps Leader:
You are the Arbiter. The will of the Prophets. But these are my Elites. Their lives matter to me, yours does not.
That makes two of us.
Sgt. Johnson:
Where's the rest of your platoon?
Wasted, Sarge.
Which we will be too, sir! If we don't get the hell out of here!
Sgt. Johnson:
You hit, Marine?
No, sir...
Sgt. Johnson:
Then listen up! You had the chance to be afraid before you joined my beloved corps! But to guide you back to the true path, I've brought this motivational device!
Sgt. Johnson:
Our big green style cannot be defeated!
Those that built the rings? What happened to the Forerunners?
343 Guilty Spark:
After exhausting every strategic attempt, my creators fired the rings. They and every sentient life form within three radii of the galatic center died as planned. Would you like to see the relevant data?
Tartarus, the Prophets have betrayed us.
NO, Arbiter! The Great Journey has begun, and the Brutes, not the Elites, shall be the Prophets' escort!
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GOP's Ken Paxton Elected Texas Attorney GeneralRepublican Ken Paxton has been elected Texas attorney general.
Republican North Texas Congressional Race Gaining National AttentionRepublican Congressman Pete Sessions of Dallas is in a primary fight with local Tea Party leader Katrina Pierson that's made national headlines.
Stockman Challenges Cornyn In U.S. Senate RaceIn a last-minute surprise late Monday, U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman filed paperwork to challenge fellow Texas Republican and powerful incumbent John Cornyn for the U.S. Senate next year.
Perry Back On Bus Tour Ahead Of Iowa CaucusGovernor Rick Perry hopes his Iowa bus tour will lead to a victory lap. In a week, Iowans will judge whether his poor debate performances mattered.


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Four Apps For Virtual Stock Trading
There are plenty of people who wish to find ulterior ways in which to earn income, and many in recent years have turned to the stock market in order to meet these goals. In the past, stock market trading was complicated, expensive and often required the services of a broker in order to successfully earn any income. These days, however, technology has made it possible for everyday people to effectively earn revenue via their own investments. If you are on the fence about investing in the stock market, then you may first wish to practice: the following four virtual stock trading applications will help you learn the basics of trading before you use any real money.
By far one of the most popular virtual stock trading platforms available on smartphones, the iTrade app is a great tool that allows its users to manage a fictitious $100,000 stock portfolio and see how real market conditions affect their investments. Anyone can quickly fetch real stock quotes, analyze market conditions and see past performance of any stock before a decision to purchase is made. Once users have settled upon their selections, they can quickly be purchased via the app and monitored over days, weeks and months. You can quickly sell any stock if it is under-performing, while also having a community of fellow iTraders with whom you can interact.
Stock Maniac
Most virtual stock trading apps are geared toward the US market, but the Stock Maniac application for Android devices allows users to play with the dynamics of the Indian market – representative of the second largest country in the world. Users can evaluate current market conditions, fetch individual stock quotes and see past performance of any selection. Users can quickly buy and sell stocks via the virtual market, and leader boards display the strongest traders' names so that competition ensues. The Stock Maniac application is free and can be found via the Android Marketplace.
Stock Trader Challenge
Billed as a way to get multiple friends interested in the act of trading stocks, the Stock Trader Challenge allows individuals and groups to compete against one another for periods of seven, thirty and ninety days in order to see who can do the best on the open market. As always, users will have full access to stock quotes, past performance and financial analysis via the application, which can help novice traders understand the decision-making process that goes into any investment. Even those who wish to play alone will still be able to manage and track their portfolio's progress, which can prepare many for the topsy-turvy world of stock trading.
Stock Market Simulator
The Stock Market Simulator – available via the Android Marketplace for free – empowers those who have begun their immersion into the world of stocks through its simulated $10,000 portfolio offered to each user. Those who have downloaded the application can quickly evaluate current market conditions and see first-hand how each individual stock has performed over the short and long-term. Everything from top-tier stocks to penny quotes is available via the Stock Market Simulator, which makes it a great solution for any new investor.
Today's featured writer, Tori Dennis, works as a sales executive for a well-established trading company that maintains PPRO8 trading software. Being an ardent blogger, she enjoys writing articles on the latest applications that hit the market.


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Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 05:13:56PM -0500, Robert Edmonds wrote: > > hrmmmmm... ooops.. looks like someone beat me to the punch :) > > Actually, no. Whenever I launch cheops, it goes crazy > with the local class B net (allocates >140MBs of memory). > So I really can't even test it. You're welcome to package > it. Seems to work fine for me... both on the small home subnet, and the 200 machine subnet at work. The only bugs I found were some wishlist UI-type bugs and some annoyingly long timeouts that could be solved with asynchronous network probes. If Robert doesn't want it. I'll be glad to pick it up. Looks like a real promising package. -Mitch
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Cleaning and brightening stainless steel gun finishes
On occasion we hear of inquiries concerning the question of brightening the finish of stainless steel guns etc. This is a post from GunBoards.com from 2008. It compares one users opinion about a number of popular metal polishes for this purpose.
"The most often used polishes for stainless guns are:
Simichrome polish:
This is available MANY places, online and locally.
Flitz. Usually more often recommended then Simichrome due to it's finer abrasive:
http://www.flitz-polish.com/?leadsource=PS114&s_kwcid=flitz%20polish|102578539 9&gclid=CN-onMmaypICFSXNIgod5x-9YQ
Again, available MANY places online and local.
Mother's Mag. Available in most automotive and motorcycle shops and often at Wal-Mart.
This is one of the most often recommended.
Online and locally.
Truth is most any good grade metal polish recommended for stainless will do.
Just be careful not to over do it, since this will make the metal too shiny.
If what you want is a bright polish job, get the Mother's Mag.
When using ANY metal polish on guns with finishes other than stainless steel, be careful. ALL metal polishes are abrasive, no matter WHAT they may say.
Use too often or too hard, and these will all strip bluing and other gun finishes off.
While they will also polish plastic, you may not want a shiny, slick polymer frame.
So, for a bright, high mirror-like shine, use Mother's Mag, for ordinary use, Flitz is milder.
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Apple is no more the most valuable company in the world as it lost its title Friday allowing Exxon Mobil to regain its the spot as the most valuable company by market cap.
Houston: Apple is no more the most valuable company in the world as it lost its title Friday allowing Exxon Mobil to regain its the spot as the most valuable company by market cap.
Apple's market cap plummeted below USD 420 billion Friday after a disappointing earnings report earlier in the week.
The Cupertino company first overtook Exxon in August, 2011, just a few weeks before Steve Jobs resigned as CEO and has held onto it firmly starting in January.
Under the leadership of his successor Tim Cook, Apple's market cap continued to grow on the strength of the company's product lineup.
At its peak after the iPhone 5 was released in September, Apple's market cap was USD 656 billion ? about USD 240 billion more than Exxon at the time.
Since then, however, Apple's stock has been plagued by iPhone 5 sales concerns, a shakeup in the company's executive leadership and increasing competition in the smartphone and tablet markets, most notably from Samsung.
On Wednesday, Apple reported generating record revenue in the December quarter, but it fell short of analysts' sales estimates for iPhone and iPad.
Perhaps more importantly, the company's profits were effectively unchanged from the same quarter a year ago, adding to investors' concerns that the days of Apple's incredible profit growth are coming to an end.
Part of the reason Apple's stock and market cap soared as much as it did was the expectation that the company had more innovative products in the pipeline that would help it break into new markets.
Now, according to Forrester analyst Charles Golvin, Wall Street appears to be settling into lower expectations for the company, with the stock's price dropping accordingly.
"It's a reality check on inflated expectations," Golvin says, referring to the significance of Apple losing its top spot for market value.
"I don't think it's a portent or a harbinger of diminished impact of Apple on the market".
Beyond that, Golvin says that the milestone may be indicative that Apple is no longer miles ahead in competition.
"While they are still an 800 pound gorilla and bringing tremendous innovation and new experiences to consumers, others are starting to catch up to them a little bit and having some influence where they didn't before".
Apple may be fighting for its position as the most valuable company in the world, but it is still far and away the most valuable tech company. Google and Microsoft, the second and third most valuable tech companies, each have market values around USD 250 billion.
Even so, it's a sharp reversal for a company that some thought was on pace to become the world's first trillion-dollar business.


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The Leukaemia Foundation has formed a collaborative partnership with Murcotts to provide quality training and education to the Victorian Patient Transport Program volunteers. Murcotts achieved a contract under the Victorian Government's Training Guarantee to deliver government subsidised training to community volunteer drivers through a State and Federal government initiative, and provides the training at no cost to the Foundation. This collaboration will provide driver training and development modules to the 90 regular volunteer drivers based in Melbourne.


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If you use Mozilla's latest browser–Firefox 3–and don't mind doing a little tinkering on your computer, check out a new browser extension developed by a couple of graduate students and their professors at Carnegie Mellon University that helps stop a dangerous cyberattack: "Man in the middle."
This attack tends to be invisible and takes several forms, but generally someone is eavesdropping on communications between you and another computer. They can redirect your browser to a fake Web site, steal information and perform other malicious acts.
Public wireless networks have exposed Web browsers to man-in-the-middle attacks, and so does a new flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System, which locates sites on the Web as you browse. That flaw was announced in July and is still not completely patched.
If you are very technical and want to to contribute code to this project, which is called Perspectives and is open source, go here. If you just want to see what the techies are saying about it, see this discussion on slashdot.


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Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou belongs to other people -- Masami Tsuda, Gainax and Right Stuff. I only borrowed these beloved characters for a short time. I promise to return them right after I'm done.Across
I think I can pinpoint the exact moment I fell in love with him.
There were no fireworks, no orchestral music, no flowers in full bloom -- just a busy intersection filled with busy people hurrying with their busy lives.
I had stood on the corner of that intersection wondering how my life could change in just one minute. I stand there now, years later, marveling at how it did.
School had just ended then, and I had doggedly followed him everywhere. Oh, I had a pocketful of excuses – "Arima, won't you play with me today?" or "Arima, you promised to treat me to an ice cream sundae!" It was all part of the patented girlish charm.
Funny, how after all that time, I had never found the voice to tell him my real reason. "Arima, I don't want to be left alone."
Looking back, I don't think I had to say it. When he looked at me, I felt that he was drawn to that part of my being, recognizing the loneliness in me, as if it were a long-familiar friend. Maybe that was why he tolerated me for as long as he could, because in some strange way, we were kindred.
We had stood on that busy sidewalk, two kids in an adult world, nearly getting trampled from all sides. Then he had reached out his hand to me and spoke. It was then when I knew.
"Don't let go. Don't ever let go."
Of course, he had done it because we were going to cross a street, but I held on to his words as if they were my lifeline. His hand was warm and gentle over mine, leading me across. I had felt so safe that day.
We had reached the other side of the street, but I still hadn't let go. I had let Arima weave his way through the crowd, pulling me firmly after him. "Oh, what a cute doll," I heard a woman coo in the background, but I had ignored her. I kept my eyes firmly focused on the boy walking in front of me. That day, I would have followed him anywhere.
I never asked him his story. I guess I never want to. It was enough that we understood each other, knew where we stood in each other's lives.
Now, that same intersection is just as busy and crowded as ever. I am still just as petite, looking very much like the little girl I was all those years ago. I still hear the same praises for my looks, the same comments, and still I ignore them.
Arima had gotten me across. In those empty days, he had kept me safe.
I turned to the sound of the voice, smiling as a tall blond guy with a spiked collar walked to where I stood.
"I was looking all over for you," he continued. In the silence that followed, we waited for the light to change, a signal for us to go.
"I've been standing here all along, Kazuma-chan," I murmured.
The light changed, and Kazuma took my hand in his.
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World number four: I can't remember the last time Robin Soderling looked so helpless on court. He never earned a break point against Juan Martin del Potro and managed to win a paltry five games. His position in the top five is safe for now, but you have to wonder how much longer it will be before Delpo climbs over him.
The part of del Potro's game that doesn't get enough credit is his defense. Even on a bad day, Soderling unleashed some monster forehands, and the Argentine sent them right back–often to within a couple feet of the baseline. More so than any of the other "big" players active right now, Delpo can play like a counterpuncher for a lengthy rally.
As long as del Potro keeps winning, we'll see some interesting matchups. In the fourth round tomorrow, he'll face Mardy Fish, who scored a solid straight-set win yesterday over Richard Gasquet. In the quarters, he's seeded to face David Ferrer. And if he makes it to the semifinals, his likely opponent is Novak Djokovic. Even with Federer-Nadal possible in the other semi, Djokovic-Delpo could be the event of the tournament.
Novak's quarter: Of course, Djokovic has to win a few matches to get there, too. The way he's playing, that sounds like a mere formality. Even the draw is cooperating. Last night, he won yet another set at love, beating James Blake 6-2 6-0.
Tomorrow, he'll face Viktor Troicki, who won only one game against him at Indian Wells. After that, he gets the winner of John Isner vs. Kevin Anderson, a strong contender for the most boring match of the event. He may not bagel either of those big servers, but if Delpo reaches the semifinals, it's a sure thing that Djokovic will be waiting.
Wild card: The biggest surprise still left in the bottom half of the draw is Marcel Granollers, author of three straight upsets. In the first round, the Spainard defeated Benjamin Becker; not a huge coup as measured by ATP rankings, but a match in which sportsbooks gave him less than a 38% chance of winning. He followed that up with a big three-set win over Stanislas Wawrinka, and yesterday he defeated Michael Llodra in his third-straight three-setter.
What makes Granollers's success even more surprising is that he had only won two matches in his previous seven tournaments. (Some of that is due to unlucky draws, including Djokovic in the first round of the Australian and Roger Federer in the second round in Dubai.) He hadn't won three straight matches since the indoor event in Valencia, where he reached the final as a lucky loser, finally falling to Ferrer.
His opponent tomorrow? Ferrer.
Top half: Today, we'll determine the remaining eight spots in the round of 16. From where I'm sitting, the match of day pits Jo-Wilfried Tsonga against Alexandr Dolgopolov. Tsonga is beatable right now, having just slipped past Teymuraz Gabashvili in the second round and losing to Xavier Malisse last week. Dolgo will be able to absorb most of Tsonga's power and force the Frenchman to play more consistently than he has in months. It's no surprise that sportsbooks give Dolgo a 59% chance of winning.
As I mentioned yesterday, there's a wide-open draw section where Andy Roddick and Jurgen Melzer used to be. Today we'll find out who seizes the opportunity. Janko Tipsarevic will play Philipp Petzschner, and Pablo Cuevas will try to follow up on his big upset over Roddick in his match against Gilles Simon.
Three of today's matches seem extremely lopsided: Rafael Nadal vs Feliciano Lopez, Federer vs Juan Monaco, and Tomas Berdych vs Carlos Berlocq. I've underestimated Berlocq before, so on that last one, I guess you never know.
Barletta: The clay-court challenger in Barletta, Italy this week has a strong draw, much like Le Gosier two weeks ago. Several players headed straight to Italy after losing in the first round in Miami, so the top seeds include Fabio Fognini and Pere Riba. Most notable in the draw is someone who wasn't in Miami: Thomas Muster, who is apparently still on the comeback trail.
Muster was granted a wild card, and he'll face countryman Martin Fischer in the first round. The former world #1 is 43 years old and won a single match in eight tournament appearances last year.
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Mojo sent the following article: Familiar ad trope: Pairing white men and Asian American women. Some of the ads are the ones that we've discussed here before, like this one for example. If you look at the comments, there are tons and tons and tons of white guys who are defending the pairing in the media. You all know my view on this–I'm supportive of the Celebrity Club, but I also think we need some variety.
(By the way, check out the look on the Asian acTOR's face in the Ruffles commercial. I can't help but think that there's some kind of "Oh, they put another Asian woman in a commercial opposite me–and she ain't with me!")
In any case, there was recently a whole lot of nonsense around an xojane article, where one Asian woman said she didn't date Asian men, and then another came out and then said she did, and then a famous Asian American restauranteur came out and got personal against both women, calling both women "idiots." It's a common idea that more discussion leads to greater understanding, but I think that depends on how the discussion is conducted. The internet model–where one Asian woman professes undying love to the White man, and then another says she likes Asian men, and then some restaurant owner who personally attacks both of them–doesn't always work. A lot of times it's just people standing on their soapbox and getting loud. No one is listening, and no one is communicating.
That's why I say that it makes sense sometimes to sit there and read/write/think. All this noise is sometimes not very helpful. We all know what the problem is. (Well, most of us. Some of the delusional are just delusional.) For people new to the issue, these women have a right to speak, and yes, the end result will probably be a whole lot of people wasting their time gawking over who can get down, dirtier, and tackier. For those who have been discussing this issue for years (oh, WOWO just passed its four year anniversary!), we're best off coming from a place of quiet, a place where we can learn to see that which we can't (a good antidote to delusion.). Sometimes the solutions are within us, rather than somewhere else.
Edit: This one is all kinds of ironic:
"Good job, baby." It reminds me of what happens when a White guy says "Ni Hao" to Chinese people. All of a sudden there are people jumping around, acting like he's some kind of genius.


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February 2018
Three new papers have been recently accepted for publications, including Wei's collaboration paper with Prof. Chen Yang, Yanyan's paper on dinuclear heterogeneous catalyst, and Qi's paper on Li-O2 batteries. Congratulations to them!
December 2017
Summer abroad program on climate change and environmental chemistry link Apply now!
The group welcomes two new graduate students, Chaochao and Haochuan! We also welcome a visiting student, Bingju Zhong, from Nanjing Tech Univ.!
Dunwei will serve as an advisory board member for the new ACS journal ACS Applied Energy Materials.
New book on energy conversion and storage editted by Dunwei is now published.
November 2017
Join us for the MRS meeting in Boston! The group has a total of 4 talks and multiple posters.
Jim's joint paper with Prof. Katayama on charge carrier studies is accepted by J. Photochem. Photobio. A. Congratulations!
We welcome Tomoki Kanazawa from Tokyo Institute of Technology as a short-term visitor!
Jim's joint paper with Yifan on soft X-ary study of hematite is published in JPCC. Congratulations!
Xin Ba finishes his visit and returns to Wuhan. Good luck with your future endeavors !
October 2017
Jim's paper on photocathode study is now accepted by Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Congratulations!
We received a new grant from Mass Clean Energy Center to support our efforts on water splitting. Thanks, MassCEC!
September 2017
Several new papers of ours have been recently accepted. Congratulations to the authors.
Yumin's paper on Ta3N5 will be published in Joule soon.
Wei's joint paper with the Hill group is accepted by ACS Appl. Mater. Interface.
Wei's joint review paper has been published by Nano Futures.
Shasha finished her visit and returned to Zhejiang University. Good luck, Shasha!
July 2017
We are grateful to two new grants from the NSF and one grant from the DOE for supporting our research efforts! This is the way to go, group!
Erik and Jim's IMPS study of BiVO4 is now published in ACS Appl. Mater. Interface.! Congratulations!
June 2017
Congratulations to Xiahui for successfully defending his thesis! He became the #8th Ph.D. produced by the group!
Hongye finished her visit and returned to Zhejiang University. Good luck, Hongye!
April 2017
Jingru and Xiahui's paper accepted by Nano Res. Cogratulations!
Qingmei's paper on photorechargeable paper accepted by Adv. Mater. Congratulatios to Qingmei!
Weiqiang finished his visit and returned to Jinagsu University. Good luck, Weiqiang!
November 22, 2016
The group welcomes Xin Ba as a visiting student!
Qi's paper on Mg-O2 battery is published as a front inside cover. Congratulations, Qi!
Da's paper on CO2 reductionis accepted by Chem. Commun. Congratulations, Da!
September 30, 2016
Living in Material World, enjoy!
September 10, 2016
Jim got a DOE fellowship to carry out time-resolved X-ray absorption studies. Congratulations to Jim!
Xiahui, Jingru and Qi's Mg-Br2 paper is now published in Nano Energy. Congratulations to them!
Shasha Zhu joins us as a visiting student. She is currently a graduate student at Zhejiang University and will spend a year with us. Welcome!
August 1, 2016
Jim got a fellowship to do research at the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley. Congratulations to Jim!
June 1, 2016
We welcome two visiting scholars, both from Jaingsu University, Prof. Weiqiang Fan and Prof. Hongye Bai!
December 11, 2015
Chun successfully defended her thesis. Congratulations!
We welcome two new members to the group: Jingru and Yanyan!
December 2, 2015
We are on CBS news on climate change.
October 7, 2015
Xiahui's paper is featured as cover of ACS Appl. Mater. Interface. link
June 2015
New record on hematite-based solar water splitting
Gizmag, AZoCleantech, Rinnovabili, PhysOrg, ScienceBlog, R&D Magzine, Nanowerk
Jin successfully defended his thesis; Congratulations!
April 2015
Congratulations to Jin, who won the Chinese Government's Outstanding Oversea's Student award!
March 2015
New strategies for Li-O2 batteries (selected coverage)
PhysOrg, R&D Magzine, Nanowerk, Science Daily, NSF Science 360
December 2014
Welcome new members: Qi and Da!
We are on MRS TV
(clik here if you don't see the vidoe below)
January 2014
Welcome new members, Ji-Wook, Qingmei, Yuming, and Jim! Also welcome new undergraduate researchers, Ted, Jordan, and Erik!
October 2013
Rust powers artificial photosynthesis
PhysOrg, Science Codex, TG (Tech Generation) Daily, Controlled Environments Magazine, ECN Magazine
May 2013
Xiaogang will join Xuchang University in China. Good luck, Xiaogang!
March 2013
Matt successfully defended his thesis. He will join M. Gratzel group for a postdoctoral training. Good luck, Matt!
Rui successfull defended her thesis. She will join JCAP in Caltech as a postdctoral researcher. Good luck, Rui!
July 2012
Rui and Guangbi's paper is feature as the cover of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. this month (link).
This work is also covered by WIRED. AZNano, MaterialsView, MaterialsView China, PhysOrg, Science Daily, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
May 2012
Yongjing, Sa, and Guangbi successfully defended their theses to become the first Ph.Ds from our group. Congrulations!
February 2012
Thanks, Alfred P. Sloan Foudation, for funding our research news release
January 2012
New graduate students Chun Du and Carrie Stephani join our group. Welcome!
December 2011
BC team demonstrates new battery material.
New cover for Yongjing and Guangbi's paper.
October 2011
Congratulations to Sa for being selected as a finalist of MRS student award competition!
April 2011
Our frontiers series feature article is highlighted by the cover of Chemical Physics Letters (volume: 507; issue: 4-6).
Materials Today: splitting water with rusty nets
March 2011
Catalst Award from Massachusetts Clean Energy Center link
Nano nets for solar energy (and maybe very tiny fish)
Reason for the low performance of chemically grown Si nanowires understood
February 2011
Back cover of Angew. Chem.
What one can do with rust?
Science Daily Physorg Nanowerk EcoSeed R&D Magzine 科技日报
Our group is featured on the BC homepage for the week of Feb. 3, 2011 to Feb. 10, 2011
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January 2011
Developer of Nnaonets Snares NSF Award link
December 2010
News on our novel outreach program
Making science a Fan-Tastic experience
November 2010
Our paper on the new tungsten oxide photoelectrodes is highlighted by the chemistry department. click here
February 2010
Nanonets for battery applications
Science Daily Physorg BC Chronicle Nanowerk Physics News
December 2009
First year graduate students Jin Xie and Zachary Simpson joined our group. Welcome, Jin and Zachary!
February 2009
Efficient water splitting using nanostructures
(selected coverage)
Science Daily
United Press International
eScience News
R&D Magzine
Market Watch
the Post Chronicle
Huliq News
The Energy Roadmap
Chem Europe
July 2008: Sa, Xiaohua and Yongjing's paper on TiSi₂ nanonets is now accepted for publication in Angew. Chem. and selected as a "Hot Paper" by the editors. Congratulations to them all!
(selected news coverage)
Technology Review
EE Times
The Bulletin
Science Daily
Small Times
Materials Today
eScience News
Nano Techwire
ZP Energy
BC Heights
June 2008: First year graduate students Rui, Matt, and Andrew, undergraduate student Stafford Sheehan joined us. Welcome all!
March 2008: First year graduate student Guangbi joined us. Welcome Guangbi! Meanwhile, Weidong left us to transfer to Boston University, good luck Weidong.
March 2008: Huaizhou, Sa and Zainul's paper on SiNW growth was published on JPCC, congratulations!
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When is a routine check-up not so routine? When it involves an Oscar winner, perhaps.
A judge on Tuesday denied a nanny's request for a restraining order against Halle Berry's baby daddy, Gabriel Aubry, and today the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services paid Berry a visit.
What went down?
Well, that's a matter for the county's confidential case files.
The agency is legally prohibited from commenting on such cases or identifying the people involved, but a rep for the department's public affairs office told E! News that "all necessary steps are taken" when they receive a call about possible child endangerment or abuse.
We hear that the meeting with Berry was standard follow-up procedure.
Berry and Aubry were both in court yesterday for an emergency hearing regarding Aubry's alleged behavior around their daughter's nanny, who claimed that he was verbally aggressive and had "violently pushed her" last week.
In response to a report that police interviewed Berry about the nanny's allegations, the LAPD tells us, "We cannot reveal information about an ongoing investigation in which the victim has confidentiality and the suspect has not been arrested."
The New Year's Eve star kicked off 2011 in court with Aubry, as well, as the two tangled over custody of now-3-year-old Nahla. Berry currently has primary custody of the child and Aubry has visitation rights.
—Additional reporting by Baker Machado