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Michael Cohen, a close associate of President Trump and former lawyer for his business, has agreed to speak to the Senate Intelligence Committee for a public hearing next month, after investigators abruptly canceled a private Tuesday session with him.
The Oct. 25 hearing is part of the committee's ongoing investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, and it came together just hours after committee investigators dismissed Cohen from the private interview. Cohen had arrived with his attorney, Steve Ryan, but left after about an hour, informing reporters waiting outside that committee staff told him they did not wish to proceed.
"We will come back for a voluntary interview whenever we can to meet with them, and we look forward to voluntarily cooperating with the House committee and with anyone else who has an inquiry in this area," Ryan said.
In a joint statement, committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), and ranking Democrat Mark R. Warner (Va.) said the session was canceled because Cohen made public statements before his interview "in spite of the Committee's requests that he refrain from public comment."
"As a result, we declined to move forward with today's interview," they said. "The Committee expects witnesses in this investigation to work in good faith with the Senate."
Cohen is not the only witness to publicly release a statement ahead of a meeting with investigators — Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, did the same before he huddled with committee investigators several weeks ago. But Burr said the committee changed its policy after the Kushner meeting, reworking its agreements with other witnesses. Cohen's experience, he said, should be a warning to those who might try to spin the public before they are done speaking with investigators.
"This is the model we'll follow," Burr said, speaking of the decision to postpone Cohen's session and insist on a public hearing. "We don't expect individuals who come behind closed doors to publicly go out and tell . . ."
"Their side of the story only," Warner said, finishing Burr's sentence.
Cohen had planned to use the session to vigorously deny playing any role in Russia's efforts during the presidential election campaign. Ryan told reporters that Cohen stood by written testimony he had submitted to the committee for its review, which had been obtained by The Washington Post.
"That statement was factual, it was accurate, it was respectful, and we stand behind that statement," Ryan said.
According to that statement, Cohen had planned to tell the committee that he has "never engaged with, been paid by, paid for or conversed with any member of the Russian Federation or anyone else to hack or interfere with the election."
Also in the written testimony, Cohen denied playing any role in efforts to hack Democratic Party computers or help create fake news stories to boost Trump's campaign.
"I emphatically state that I had nothing to do with any Russian involvement in our electoral process," he said.
Instead, Cohen had planned to ask the committee to reach a "public conclusion" — one way or the other — about the truth behind allegations that were raised about him in an opposition-research dossier compiled before the election by a former British spy working on behalf of Trump's political opponents.
Former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele reported that Cohen had helped orchestrate the Russian effort, meeting with Kremlin representatives in Prague to discuss finances and strategy. The unverified dossier became public in January, when it was posted online by BuzzFeed.
[House Intelligence Committee subpoenas DOJ, FBI for dossier documents]
In the written testimony, Cohen called the document "riddled with total falsehoods and intentionally salacious accusations."
Noting that Steele's work mentions his name more than a dozen times and damaged his reputation, Cohen said he is confident that the Senate's investigation will conclude that neither he nor Trump was involved with Russia's intervention in the campaign.
"The accusations are entirely and totally false," Cohen said, insisting that he has never been to Prague or the Czech Republic.
Committee staff members could have used the session to question Cohen about the dossier. But their questions also could extend into other Russia-related areas where he has acknowledged activity.
Cohen was one of Trump's most trusted confidants during the years following the success of Trump's reality TV show "The Apprentice," as the celebrity mogul expanded his business worldwide by licensing his name to development projects in India, Panama, Turkey and elsewhere. Cohen left the Trump Organization in January, when Trump became president, and since has served as a personal lawyer to the president.
Cohen also turned over internal emails to Congress last month that show that he served as a point person for the Trump Organization on the latest attempt to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, even appealing to a Kremlin official — after Trump had launched his presidential bid. Before doing so, however, Cohen sent an email to Dmitry Peskov, top spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking him to intervene to propel the project forward. Cohen said the Kremlin aide didn't respond, and that he was simply "doing my job."
In a statement that accompanied the emails, Cohen said he began discussions about the project in September 2015 with Felix Sater, a Russian émigré who has worked on previous Trump projects. The discussions were the most recent of repeated failed attempts by Trump to build in Moscow dating to the late 1980s.
In October 2015, Trump signed a letter of intent agreeing to move ahead with a Moscow developer named Andrei Rozov. But Cohen said he pulled the plug on the deal in January 2016, impatient about a lack of progress on the project.
[Top Trump Organization executive asked Putin aide for help on business deal]
"This was solely a real-estate deal and nothing more," he said in his written testimony to the committee. "I was doing my job."
Another episode that could have been on the panel's agenda also involved Sater. In January, shortly after Trump became president, Cohen and Sater met at a New York hotel with a Ukrainian parliamentarian who was pushing a peace proposal for the former Soviet Republic.
In interviews at the time, Cohen said the Ukrainian lawmaker had said that his plan came with Russian government approval. The New York Times, which first reported the meeting, reported that Cohen said he took an envelope containing the proposal to Washington and left it in the office of national security adviser Michael Flynn. Flynn resigned days later after he misled Vice President Pence and the public about his interactions with Russia's ambassador.
However, Cohen has insisted to The Post that he took an envelope containing the plan to his New York City apartment and threw it away. He said he had merely advised the Ukrainian that Flynn was the appropriate person to receive his idea.
Tom Hamburger contributed to this report.


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Cynthia Brown
Principal Designer
Jeff Nicksic
Project Designer
Lauren Wilkins
Project Designer
Tanya Rucinski
Interior Designer
David Robinson
Founder and Consultant
Cynthia Brown
Principal Designer
Some people see design as a form of magic, but Cynthia sees the science behind it. With more than 32 years of experience, it's easy to see why. As a co-principal for the past five years with David Robinson, Cynthia's expertise lies in her ability to gather information from the client and to fuse it with the elements of the site. This creates a completely unique and one-of-a-kind creation that is synergistic with the site and the client's particular tastes or goals.
Having extensive experience in many types of design and interiors, she believes you can design about anything "if you study the problem, understand the process and do your research. In the final result, the project ultimately speaks for itself."
Cynthia joined what was David Robinson Design in 1999 and, after 13 years demonstrating her expertise in interior design for hospitality and high-end residential, she became a partner of what is now Robinson Brown Design. As an award winning designer with an eye for creating comprehensive cohesive interiors, Cynthia draws inspiration from her father, naming him as the most influential person in her life. In addition to being hard working, he is motivated by always doing what is right and for the right reasons.
Prior to joining Robinson Brown Design, Cynthia operated her own firm in Florida specializing in Interior Design and Space Planning for a diverse group of clientele including Sony, MGM and Lockheed Martin as well as high-end residential properties, which included old Southern mansions. She then relocated to San Diego in 1997, where she worked designing sets for a filmed television series before joining David Robinson Design in 1999.
Cynthia holds a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from Florida State University and is NCIDQ certified.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
What items are returnable?
– Items purchased in the last 15 days
All merchandise returns must be unworn, unwashed, and still have the original tags attached. We unable to accept merchandise where the sewn-in garment tag has been cut or removed or the price tag has been removed.
Defective items must be reported within 2 days of receipt. If not reported, we will not issue credit.
– Can I exchange my item?
Yes, we will be happy to accept exchange on same style, different size while stock lasts.
What items are non-refundable?
Items marked as final sale.
Free gifts or promotional items with retail value.
How soon will I get my refund?
Once your item is received and inspected by the store, you'll get your refund typically within 2-3 days.
How do I return my purchase?
Merchandise purchased online can be returned via mail only.
Please note that original shipping fees are non-refundable and return shipping costs are the customer's responsibility.
For return request please email to firstname.lastname@example.com or follow this link.


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New song!on June 30, 2017 at 12:01 am
it me
This actually sounds like a conversation they'd have now
How is this possible?
Joyce, I'm sorry
Over a year now
Why do we have to wear these stripes?!
I don't know how to explain…
Hey, Mike!
Too much beer?
First Contact?
We're gonna save the world.
over-sized comedy prop
Um, hey, Joyce?
Into town
A perfect time!
I'll be there in–
Christmas in June
Originally posted:
October 19, 2002
My dancing ability is probably pretty similar to Walky here.
Why does walky look like a mii in panel two?
This comic is where Nintendo got the idea for miis.
You know, Joyce, it'd be a good idea to listen to your partner the first few times he explains he's outside both his comfort and competency zones.
But if he'd be exactly who she wants him be, then she'd get exactly the guy she'd invented in her mind AND wouldn't have to listen & accomodate: that's win/win (2 wins for Joyce ….)!
Time for bed, team.
Here she comes.
We're investigating two alien sightings
Nobody likes me!
Walky, I don't think this is such a great idea.
I had been on Joyce's side, but she lost me here with the browbeating and the angry demands that he be having fun. It reminds me of the friend who got me to try World of Warcraft, and then when I went in a dungeon with him, all he did was yell at me about all the things I was doing wrong.
Judging by the original posting date, chances are the song is Lil' Jon screaming "TO THE WINDOOOOOOOW, TO THE WALL, TIL THE SWEAT DROPS OFF MY BALLS…"


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THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Pallino Pastaria
Cuisine: Italian
Openings: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner daily
- Parking available
- Dress code: Casual
- Heart-healthy dishes
- Kid-friendly
THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Pallino Pastaria Restaurant Review:
Youll be inclined to linger in these comfortable cafés, sipping Italian wines available by the glass and wishing you were on the Via Veneto. The ambience is elegant, marble countertops, discrete lighting, gleaming dark wood, rustic iron accents, slate floors---but no, this isnt an expensive Italian restaurant. These elegant eateries specialize in quick, inexpensive Italian food. Thanks to technology, in less than three minutes a bowl of pasta can be cooked al dente, sauced to order and served to patrons cafeteria-style. Even more amazing, the food is pretty good. Though all of the noodles are spaghetti, you have the choice of more than a dozen sauces. Were partial to the one rich with Fontina, Parmesan and Gorgonzola cheeses; Modena sporting bacon and peas in a garlicky white wine, shallot and cream sauce; the pungent Puttanesca shot through with olives, capers, hot peppers, tomatoes, anchovies and garlic; and the savory Salsicce, a tomato sauce flavored with sausage, peppers, fennel and red wine. Pair your pasta with a salad mixing greens, red grapes, dried cranberries, almonds and Gorgonzola, or go the soup-and-panini route. Breakfast features scrambled eggs with zesty adds like prosciutto and feta served on panini toast. Everything is fresh, high-quality and fast. Other locations.


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Some of the blog entries written about Whitney Houston's death last week were a legitimate outpouring of grief, and some of what I felt when I heard the news was a real sadness, a real desire to express what the passing of a musician I hadn't thought about in a few years meant to me, but this blog entry--and a thousand others--is mostly just a response to bad incentives.
At their most benign, these incentives lead to blogs ostensibly about gardening or sports cars trying desperately to write Tim Tebow's name into the front of a headline, where Google News will read it. At its most cynical, it leads to a wall of identical, slapdash posts with Whitney Houston Death in the headline--like this one--because that's what tested well and because five small posts are infinitely better for pageviews than one long one.
Earlier this week a baseball writer was excoriated, for instance, for connecting Whitney Houston's death with Josh Hamilton's considerably less serious relapse--a connection that didn't, to many people, seem quite as organic as rumination on death and addiction ought to. On the Internet, a startling majority of pageviews--even to places like Facebook--come from Google; the more something is searched for the more is written about it, and the more is written about it the more people search for it. That's literally the Huffington Post's business model: Find something people are looking for, and duplicate it until they aren't looking for it anymore.
All of this is impossible to avoid, no matter how news is disseminated--on more conventional newsstands we're no more than a day or two away from a million glossy, full-color special-tribute-editions to Whitney Houston with the same wire photos and slapped-together copy competing with each other. But I've noticed, since Michael Jackson died, that the search engine news cycle has permanently changed the way I grieved celebrities, if grieved is the right word.
Now there's no moving on when the obituary is in the newspaper and the glossy magazines have passed their sell-by date--there's just waves of repetition and re-reaction with each new bit of lurid data about the whole thing. I'm not sure if Whitney Houston or Michael Jackson would have inspired an eight-minute folk song anyway--the eight-minute folk single has, generally, died a much less tragic death. But they never will in this environment, because they can't be dead as long as people are searching for them, as long as the articles that are slapped together in response to that search traffic cause other people to search for them.


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08 May Mrs. Cameraman
"Mrs. Cameraman! Mrs. Cameraman!!"
Jerusalem's Old City. The merchants know how to get your attention – and haggle – in at least 8 languages. That day I was working, shooting b-roll with no intention to shop. Plenty of lessons to learn from those guys (and they are almost all guys) about persistence and hustle. The word choice of their overtures amused me. Ever since that day, I have frequently found myself wondering: what am I?
It's not an existential crisis (that's an entirely different thing, and better addressed privately). It's a practical question – one addressed by the military two years ago. And the civilian world still hasn't caught up.
With the first Academy Award nomination for female cinematographer just this year, I am not the only one asking the question, though women have been operating film and video cameras for over a century.
So, what am I? Here's the list of terms I've tossed around. Some lofty, some practical.
- Producer. Includes many skills, but doesn't imply that I have hard core tech skills shooting, lighting, and editing.
- Storyteller. Definitely the reason I am in the video business, but see above re: omitting tech skills
- Cinematographer. Kind of, in that I like shooting beautiful/striking/emotional images. But typically associated with the feature film world rather than the reality-based projects I deal in.
- Camera Operator. Yes, but this label strips the creative aspects of the job – lighting, framing, waiting for the right moment, combining careful thought with instinct.
- Cameraman. But…I'm not a dude. Although sometimes this is the only option for media credentials.
- Camerawoman/cameraperson. Useful albeit a mouthful.
- Videographer. The most accurate and common term that I use. But why does Word's spell check always underline it in red?
- Lady Cameraman/Female Cameraman – "male nurse" anyone?
If you are female, and you find yourself running around with a camera for news, documentaries, reality TV, corporate clients...what do you call yourselves? Let me know in the comments!


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An artifact in Maven terminology is usually
used synonymously with library, except
that it tends to refer more to an actual physical file
(such as a
zip file) that contains code and data. In
the context of Maven, an artifact has a set of unique
that allow it to be fetched from a repository of software in an
automated manner.
In the context of computer graphics, a programmer must often decide whether to work in a right-handed or left-handed coordinate system. This is simply a set of conventions that determine in which directions the axes of the coordinate system are considered to point. The topic is confusing, explained ambiguously, and is often a source of bugs and mistakes in computer programs.
See: Wikipedia
In the context of the Java programming language, a class is a basic organizational unit consisting of code and data. A typical Java program will contain thousands of individual classes.
A virtual private server provider.
A mathematical operation that is applied to two vectors, the result
of which is often interpreted as the degree of codirectionality
between the two vectors. That is, for two vectors
a and
b, if
the dot product
a · b == 0, then
a and
b are at right angles
to each other.
See: Wikipedia for a more painful exposition.
Dan Bernstein's DNS server suite.
Escape analysis is a compilation technique that is used to improve the performance of generated code. The basic idea is that if a particular function creates an object but that object is not observed outside of that particular function, then the creation of the object can often be either omitted from the generated code, or can at least be handled in a much more efficient way.
This is used heavily on the Java virtual machine to eliminate the allocations of short-lived objects, improving memory use and performance.
See: Wikipedia
My first choice for server installations.
double areaOfCircle(double radius) { return Math.PI * (radius * radius); }
The above defines a function called
areaOfCircle that takes a radius
of type
double and returns the area of the circle as a value of type
A decentralized version control system used to track the history of changes made to projects over time.
The de facto hosting provider for git repositories.
See: https://github.com/
The Internet Control Message Protocol version 6.
Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 (ICMPv6) is the implementation of the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). ICMPv6 is defined in RFC 4443. ICMPv6 is an integral part of IPv6 and performs error reporting and diagnostic functions (e.g., ping), and has a framework for extensions to implement future changes.
The international standard for representing floating point numbers on computers.
See: Wikipedia
The Internet protocol version 6.
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion. IPv6 is intended to replace IPv4.
May refer to:
The externally visible part of a module. Good software engineering practices encourage publishing stable interfaces against which code is written. The author of the module can change internal implementation details of the module (such as using more efficient algorithms, fixing bugs in code, etc) and as long as the interface remains unchanged, then any code that depends on the module can continue working without having to be modified or recompiled.
A feature of the Java programming language (amongst others) that allows the programmer to specify (unsurprisingly) an interface, of which there may be an unlimited number of implementations in the form of classes.
Refers to just-in-time compilation. A just-in-time compiler is a compiler that produces efficient machine code for a program as the program is executed. This is in contrast to an ahead-of-time compiler that produces machine code just after the programmer has written the program.
See: Wikipedia
A jail in FreeBSD terminology is a lightweight means to compartmentalize a server. In practical terms, the idea is that each running service (such as a web server, mail server, etc) is run inside its own jail and cannot access anything outside of that jail. If the service is compromised by an attacker, the attacker cannot gain access to anything outside of the jail.
May refer to:
The Java programming language. A statically-typed programming language that is compiled to standardized, platform-independent bytecode that is then consumed by a virtual machine for execution.
The Java Virtual Machine (JVM). A virtual machine that executes compiled bytecode.
Often synonymous with module and/or package, but is probably more correctly interpreted using the following definition:
A library is a collection of code designed to be reused by programmers when writing their own applications. For example, a developer writing a program that needed to read PNG files would use a pre-existing library such as libpng rather than writing a PNG parser from scratch.
In networking, refers to the maximum transmission unit
In computer networking, the maximum transmission unit (MTU) is the size of the largest network layer protocol data unit that can be communicated in a single network transaction.
Maven is a build automation tool.
It consists of an extremely modular system with almost all functionality being provided by plugins.
See the official site.
The Maven Central Repository is a huge centralized repository to which Maven artifacts are deployed. Once an artifact is deployed to the repository, it is permanently accessible via its defined coordinates and cannot be removed.
A method is mostly synonymous with function but has some properties that are generally specific to object-oriented programming.
May refer to:
In the context of the Java programming language: A
named collection of Java packages with an associated
version number. As an example, version
7.1.0 of the jtensors-core
module contains two packages:
com.io7m.jtensors and
Modules explicitly specify upon which other modules (and the precise versions
of those modules) they depend, and this information is used by systems
such as Maven to automatically fetch libraries from
remote software repositories on demand.
In the following example, there are three modules:
example0 which is
at version
example3 which is at version
1.2.0, and
which is at version
1.3.0. The
example3 module states that it depends
on version
1.3.0 of
In module systems such as OSGi, the developer is given very fine-grained control over which packages inside a module are visible from outside of the module. This facilitates information hiding.
In programming languages, the term mutability describes the ability (or inability) to modify a particular object after that object is created. A mutable object can have its data changed after it is created, and an immutable object cannot. Immutable objects are typically preferred these days because they enable easier reasoning about code, enable compilers to perform more advanced optimizations to code, and also allow threads to safely share data without needing complicated synchronization protocols.
In mathematics, all objects are typically considered to be immutable: If
a variable
x has been assigned the value
23 in an equation or formula,
then it cannot be re-assigned a different value at some future point.
OSGi is an advanced module system for the Java virtual machine. It provides features such as being able to safely and reliably load, unload, and/or replace individual modules in a program at run-time without having to stop or restart the running program.
In OSGi terminology, the word bundle is mostly synonymous with library.
In computer networking, Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) is a data link layer (layer 2) communications protocol used to establish a direct connection between two nodes. It connects two routers directly without any host or any other networking device in between. It can provide connection authentication, transmission encryption, and compression.
PPP is used over many types of physical networks including serial cable, phone line, trunk line, cellular telephone, specialized radio links, and fiber optic links such as SONET. Internet service providers (ISPs) have used PPP for customer dial-up access to the Internet, since IP packets cannot be transmitted over a modem line on their own, without some data link protocol.
The Point-to-point protocol over Ethernet.
The Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) is a network protocol for encapsulating PPP frames inside Ethernet frames.
Phantom types are a programming technique that allow programmers to use the type system to "tag" values as being semantically distinct despite being structurally identical.
Consider a program that deals with the positions of shapes within a space:
The origin is at the bottom left, marked as position
(0,0). The
x axis
is horizontal and the
y axis is vertical, so the position
(10,20) should
be read as "10 units rightwards, 20 units upwards".
In the diagram, the position of the red ball relative to the origin is
The position of the blue box relative to the origin is
However, the position of the blue box relative to the red ball is
The position of the green box relative to the origin is
(20,12). However,
the position of the green box relative to the red ball is
More formally, we can consider a position relative to the origin and a position
relative to another shape to be positions that are stated in different coordinate
spaces. We have to know the coordinate space within which a position is intended
to be interpreted in order to be able to place that position on the graph. For
example, if I simply state "Place an object at
(12,4)", would the object be
placed where the blue box is, or would it be placed where the green box is? If I
was speaking in terms of a position relative to the origin, the object would
end up where the blue box is now. If I was speaking in terms of a position relative
to the red ball, the object would end up where the green box is now. Note that
the actual structure and values of the coordinates are the same in both cases -
(12,4) -
it's our interpretation of what those values are supposed to mean in terms of
semantics that changes.
A naive programmer writing a program that deals with the above might declare a
Position type as follows:
data Position = Position { x :: Integer, y :: Integer }
That is, the type is named
Position and has two
Integer fields,
x and
The problem with this is that nothing in the type states which coordinate space a particular position represents. It's very easy for the programmer to accidentally mix up a position relative to the origin and a position relative to another shape. The compiler can do nothing to help the programmer avoid making this mistake.
However, if we were to augment the type with a type parameter (note the addition
of a type parameter called
data Position c = Position { x :: Integer, y :: Integer }
We could then declare types that represent individual coordinate spaces:
data OriginRelative data ShapeRelative
Then, instead of just having values of type
Position, the programmer
can declare values of type
Position OriginRelative,
Position ShapeRelative, etc. The coordinate space now has an actual
representation in the type system
and the compiler can consider a value of type
Position OriginRelative to be
semantically incompatible with a value of type
Position ShapeRelative. If the
programmer accidentally tries to use a value of type
Position ShapeRelative where
a value of type
Position OriginRelative is required (or vice versa), the compiler will
complain with an error message similar to:
• Couldn't match type 'ShapeRelative' with 'OriginRelative' Expected type: Position OriginRelative Actual type: Position ShapeRelative
The name phantom type parameter comes from the fact that the type parameter
doesn't actually appear in the body of the type definition. It's simply a floating
phantom type-level parameter with no value-level representation.
Operations that do not depend on specific coordinate spaces, such as translation, can be implemented by explicitly stating that they work on all coordinate spaces:
translate :: forall c. Position c -> (Integer, Integer) -> Position c translate position (trans_x, trans_y) = Position ((x position) + trans_x) ((y position) + trans_y)
The type of the
translate function actually states that it takes a position
in a coordinate space and returns a position that should be considered to be
in the same coordinate space (because the type parameter
c occurs in the
first argument and in the type returned by the function).
See: Haskell Wiki
A pipe in UNIX terminology is a way of sending the output of one program into the input of another.
For example, the
ls program lists the contents of the current directory:
$ ls io7m-jaffirm-checkstyle io7m-jaffirm-documentation io7m-jaffirm-tests target README-LICENSE.txt pom.xml.versionsBackup src README.md README-CHANGES.xml io7m-jaffirm.iml io7m-jaffirm-core pom.xml
If we wanted the contents of the directory in alphabetical order, we can
pipe the output of the
ls program in to the
sort program using the
pipe symbol
$ ls | sort -f io7m-jaffirm-checkstyle io7m-jaffirm-core io7m-jaffirm-documentation io7m-jaffirm-tests io7m-jaffirm.iml pom.xml pom.xml.versionsBackup README-CHANGES.xml README-LICENSE.txt README.md src target
May have a number of meanings depending on context.
In the context of programming languages, parametric polymorphism is a type system feature that allows a programmer to write functions that can operate over a range of data types rather than having to write one implementation of the function for every possible data type.
See: Wikipedia
In the context of JIT compilation (in particular, the Java Virtual Machine), the degree of polymorphism of a function can have a strong effect on the ability of the compiler to produce code with good performance when calling the function. Basically, when the programmer tries to call a particular method, the compiler is responsible for finding the specific method implementation to be called and generating code to actually call it. Because of the way programming languages work on the JVM, there may be several choices of method implementations.
The Java Virtual Machine's JIT compiler distinguishes attempts to call a given method as being one of the following:
The compiler can produce much faster code for monomorphic and bimorphic calls.
See: Too Fast, Too Megamorphic: what influences method call performance in Java?
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard for electronic mail (email) transmission. First defined by RFC 821 in 1982, it was last updated in 2008 with Extended SMTP additions by RFC 5321, which is the protocol in widespread use today.
Semantic versioning is a standard that attempts to assign concrete meaning to the version numbers of software by defining the form a version number should take and the situations in which the individual components of version numbers are allowed to change.
See http://semver.org/.
A service in the context of programming usually refers to an an implementation of an interface where the actual choice of which implementation will be used for the interface is deferred to run-time. This is often used within the context of plugin systems: Code is written against an interface, and a plugin provides the actual implementation of the interface when the program is executed.
The term service is also sometimes used outside of programming to refer to a running server program ("mail service", "web service", etc).
A stack trace (or backtrace) is a printout of the current program's execution stack. Primarily, it's a means to see exactly where in the program a given error occurred, and what execution path the program took to get to the source of the error.
For example, the following program:
public class Crash { public static void doSomething() { throw new AssertionError("CRASH!"); } public static void main(String args[]) { doSomething(); } }
Would cause the following stack trace to be printed:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AssertionError: CRASH! at Crash.doSomething(Crash.java:5) at Crash.main(Crash.java:10)
The stack trace should be read from bottom to top: Program execution
began in the
main function of the
Crash class. The
function made a call to the
doSomething function at line
10. The
doSomething function raised an error at line
5. Stack traces in
real programs are often much larger.
Syntax, when used in the context of computer languages, is a specification of rules that describe which sequences of words and symbols comprise valid statements and expressions in a language. Syntax is usually described by formal grammar description language such as EBNF.
For example, the following EBNF grammar describes a simple mathematical expression language:
digit_positive = "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | "6" | "7" | "8" | "9" ; digit = "0" | digit_positive ; number = digit_positive , { digit } ; expression = "(" , "+" , expression , expression , ")" | "(" , "*" , expression , expression , ")" | "(" , "-" , expression , expression , ")" | "(" , "/" , expression , expression , ")" | number ;
| symbol should be read as "or". The
, (comma) symbol
should be read as followed by. In the majority of languages,
whitespace is not significant and therefore a rule such as
"a" , "b" would specify that the input must be a character
a, followed
by any amount of whitespace, followed by a character
b. The
(semicolon) symbol denotes the end of a rule. Literals are enclosed
in double quotes:
"0" means a literal
0 character. The
{ and
} symbols mean that the expression that appears between the braces
can be omitted or repeated.
Note how the
expression rule is recursive (i.e. the rule refers
to itself in its own definition).
The following are all syntactically valid expressions according to the above:
23 -- Valid according to clause 5 of the <expression> rule (+ 24 25) -- Valid according to clause 1 and (recursively) clause 5 of the <expression> rule (* (+ 56 78) 89) -- Valid according to clauses 1, 2, and 5 of the <expression> rule (/ 20 (+ 38 20)) -- Valid according to clauses 1, 4, and 5 of the <expression> rule (- (+ 2 (* 4 5)) (/ 2 3)) -- Valid according to all of the <expression> rule clauses
The following are all syntactically invalid expressions according to the above:
(+) -- Should be (+ <expression> <expression>) (23 + 24) -- Should be (+ 23 24) (* () ()) -- () isn't a valid expression (+ 023 24) -- Note the leading 0 on the first number
A process supervision system.
A standard for logging diagnostic messages on UNIX systems.
The transmission control protocol.
TCP provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of octets between applications running on hosts communicating by an IP network. Major Internet applications such as the World Wide Web, email, remote administration, and file transfer rely on TCP. Applications that do not require reliable data stream service may use the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which provides a connectionless datagram service that emphasizes reduced latency over reliability.
A thread is a unit of execution within a program. Modern software uses multiple threads to execute sequences of instructions in parallel in order to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and, in the case of interactive programs, to execute tasks in the background without halting the user interface.
UDP uses a simple connectionless transmission model with a minimum of protocol mechanism. UDP provides checksums for data integrity, and port numbers for addressing different functions at the source and destination of the datagram. It has no handshaking dialogues, and thus exposes the user's program to any unreliability of the underlying network: there is no guarantee of delivery, ordering, or duplicate protection. If error-correction facilities are needed at the network interface level, an application may use the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) which are designed for this purpose.


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Getting Help for Bipolar Disorder
If you or someone you love is suffering from bipolar disorder, it is important that they will be able to get the help that they need. The first thing that you will need to do is to establish if the individual actually has bipolar disorder. This is something which can only be done through a mental health professional. They will administer tests as well as interviewing the individual. This will help to determine the health of the individual. Only through this is it possible for them to get the help that they need.
Medication Available
The most popular form of bipolar disorder treatment is to use the various kinds of medication which are available. Using these will help in suppressing urges. They will also help in controlling the reactions that the bipolar disorder symptoms that the individual feels.
The majority of doctors will use antipsychotic drugs in treating the disorder since the breaks which happen mentally are in this format. It is essential that the patient stays on the medication at all times. This is because the possibility of slipping back into the dangers of bipolar disorder disorder can be brought back at any time.
It takes weeks for the medication for maniac depression to take hold. This is because it is effectively making changes in the way that the brain works. Those who are not taking their medication will need to be under intense scrutiny before the new medication can take effect.
Preparing the Family
It is important that the family is as realistic as possible about the goals that they set. Keep in mind that there is no way to eliminate the disorder. The best that you can hope for is to manage the disease.
By making sure that the doctor is talking with all family members about what is bipolar disorder and what the dangers are, can those around the patient get the help that they need so that they will be able to stay safe.
The family will also need to be prepared for the possibility of a manic outburst. This can happen as a result of not taking the medication or of the needs of the individual changing over time. Only by discussing with the doctor the emotions which have expressed by the individual is it possible to make sure that they are getting the help that they need to live their life.


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Daily Forex Technical Strategy (Fri 06 Dec)
Kelvin Wong December 5, 2019 10:24 PM
Further potential USD weakness against GBP & EUR as NFP looms.
EUR/USD – Potential push up to test major descending resistance
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- The pair has staged a break above the 1.1090 upper limit of the short-term neutrality range as per highlighted in our previous report (click here for a recap). Right now, it may continue the push up to test the next resistance 1.1160/1180 (18 Oct 2019 range top & the major descending resistance from 24 Sep 2018) with 1.1065 as the key short-term pivotal support.
- However, a break with an hourly close below 1.1065 sees a slide back towards the minor range support of 1.0990.
GBP/USD – Bullish breakout but risk of a minor pull-back imminent
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- The pair has staged a bullish breakout above the 1.2970 range resistance and rallied by 190 pips in the last 3 days. In the medium-term, the impulsive up move sequence of the uptrend phase from 03 Sep 2019 low of 1.1959 has resumed.
- In the shorter-term, the hourly RSI oscillator has traced out a bearish divergence signal at overbought region which indicates that the on-going rally has reached at "overstretched" state where it may stage a pull-back.
- Flip to a bullish bias in any pull-back with 1.2970 as the key short-term pivotal support for another potential upleg to target the next resistances at 1.3200/3240 and 1.3300 next. However, an hourly close below 1.2970 negates the bullish tone for a deeper pull-back towards the next support at 1.2970/2950.
USD/JPY – Gyrating at the Ascending Wedge support
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- The pair has whipsawed around the bearish "Ascending Wedge" support and conflicting U.S-China trade related news flow has made matter worse as we approach a "less liquid/thinly traded environment" towards the last 3 weeks of 2019.
- The conviction for a final push up towards the "Ascending Wedge" top/resistance at 110.00/15 as been reduced at this junction. Therefore, we prefer to turn neutral now between 109.00 and 108.30. Bears need to have an hourly close below 108.30 for a "clean break down" to target the next supports at 107.90 and 106.60 next.
- On the flipside, a clearance with an hourly close above 109.00 allows the short-term bulls to be in control for a push up towards 109.70 and 110.00/15 next.
AUD/USD – Sideways below major descending channel resistance for now
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- After the recent RBA monetary policy meeting on 03 Dec, the pair has been trapped within a minor "Symmetrical Triangle" range configuration below the 0.6845 major descending channel resistance from 03 Dec 2018 high.
- Prefer to turn neutral now between 0.6870 (also the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement of the recent slide from 31 Oct high to 29 Nov 2019 low) and 0.6810. An hourly close below 0.6810 revives the short-term bearish tone for a slide to retest 0.6755 and even 0.6720 next.
- On the flipside, a clearance with a daily close above 0.6870 validates a major bullish breakout for an assault towards 0.6900/6930 in the first step.
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rowdy, rough, ready orcs, drunkenly invading town centres,
trashing, smashing; leaving chaos and destruction in their grunting
wake. Friday night, it seemed, was always the reserve of those after a
few quiet ones – a sociable leisurely nightcap to the week. That logic
stood up tonight.
After the last embattled excursion to the Warehouse Project (that was it
over there, under Caribou), Mobile
the usual anticipation was a little dimmed but after Aeroplane's effortlessly brilliant set, and a neat turn from Tensnake, Simian Mobile Disco proved why 'Delicacies' is a totally different beast in a live arena.
Out in the crowd, old school green lazers hover in indulgent retro abandon, while onstage a line of three Apple Macs shake the floor, the
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Man' like a stroke victim reading their press
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It's cheese, taken melted like fondue but it's not fondue. You put
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for the cholesterol-conscious, vegetables.
It's stodgy, indulgent food from the Alps but the true regional dish is a kind of sausage wrapped in a pancake and, of course, everyone loses their shit
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If the milieu of centuries-old Gallic
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Virtuality (philosophy)
Virtuality is a concept in philosophy elaborated by French thinker Gilles Deleuze.[1]
Deleuze used the term virtual to refer to an aspect of reality that is ideal, but nonetheless real. An example of this is the meaning, or sense, of a proposition that is not a material aspect of that proposition (whether written or spoken) but is nonetheless an attribute of that proposition.[2] Both Henri Bergson, who strongly influenced Deleuze, and Deleuze himself build their conception of the virtual in reference to a quotation in which writer Marcel Proust defines a virtuality, memory as "real but not actual, ideal but not abstract". A dictionary definition written by Charles Sanders Peirce, referencing the philosophy of Duns Scotus, supports this understanding of the virtual as something that is "as if" it were real, and the everyday use of the term to indicate what is "virtually" so, but not so in fact.[3][a][b]
Deleuze argues that Henri Bergson developed "the notion of the virtual to its highest degree" and that he based his entire philosophy on it.[4] In Bergsonism, Deleuze writes that "virtual" is not opposed to "real" but opposed to "actual", whereas "real" is opposed to "possible".[5] This definition, which is almost indistinguishable from potential, originates in medieval Scholastics and the Medieval Latin word virtualis. Deleuze identifies the virtual, considered as a continuous multiplicity, with Bergson's "duration": "it is the virtual insofar as it is actualized, in the course of being actualized, it is inseparable from the movement of its actualization."[6]
Other writers[edit]
Another core meaning has been elicited by Denis Berthier, in his 2004 book Méditations sur le réel et le virtuel[7] ("Meditations on the real and the virtual"), based on uses in science (virtual image), technology (virtual world), and etymology (derivation from virtue—Latin virtus[8]). At the same ontological level as "the possible" (i.e. ideally-possible) abstractions, representations, or imagined "fictions", the actually-real "material", or the actually-possible "probable", the "virtual" is "ideal-real". It is what is not real, but displays the full qualities of the real—in a plainly actual (i.e., not potential)—way. The prototypical case is a reflection in a mirror: it is already there, whether or not one can see it; it is not waiting for any kind of actualization. This definition allows one to understand that real effects may be issued from a virtual object, so that our perception of it and our whole relation to it, are fully real, even if it is not. This explains how virtual reality can be used to cure phobias. Brian Massumi shows the political implications of this.
However, note that the writers above all use terms such as "possible", "potential" and "real" in different ways and relate the virtual to these other terms differently. Deleuze regards the opposite of the virtual as the actual. Rob Shields argues that the opposite of the virtual is the material for there are other actualities such as a probability (e.g., "risks" are actual dangers that have not yet materialized but there is a "probability" that they will).[9]
According to Massumi in "Parables for the Virtual",[10] the virtual is something "inaccessible to the senses" and can be felt in its effects. His definition goes on to explain virtuality through the use of a topological figure, in which stills of all of the steps in its transformation superposed would create a virtual image. Its virtuality lies in its inability to be seen or properly diagramed, yet can be figured in the imagination.
The virtual is far more than a technical or communications term. Martin Luther argued in his writing The Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ—Against the Fanatics with other Protestants, most notably Zwingli, over the virtualism of the Christian Eucharist, in alignment with Catholic tradition, that the Eucharist was actually and not virtually the body and blood of Christ.
- ^ Virtual [Lat. virtus, strength, from vir, a man]: Ger. virtuell ; Fr. (1) virtuel; Ital. (1) virtuale. (1) A virtual X (where X is a common noun) is something, not an X, which has the efficiency (virtus) of an X. This is the proper meaning of the word; but (2) it has been seriously confounded with 'potential' which is almost its contrary. For the potential X is of the nature of X, but is without actual efficiency. A virtual velocity is something not a velocity, but a displacement; but equivalent to a velocity in the formula, 'what is gained in velocity is lost in power.' So virtual representation was the non-representation of the American colonies in the British Parliament, which was supposed to be replaced by something. So Milton asks whether the angels have virtual or immediate touch. So, too, the sun was said to be virtualiter on earth, that is, in its efficiency. (3) Virtual is sometimes used to mean pertaining to virtue in the sense of an ethical habit. Virtual knowledge: a term of Scotus defined by him (Opus Oxon., Pt. I. iii. 3) as follows: 'Quantum ad notitiam habitualem sive virtualem, primo expono quid intelligo per terminos. Habitualem notitiam voco, quando obiectum sic est praesens intellectui [i.e. to the thought] in ratione intelligibilis actua ut intellectus statim possit habere actum elicitum circa illud obiectum. Voco virtualem, quando aliquid intelligitur in aliquo, ut pars intellecti primi, non autem ut primum intellectum sive ut totale terminans intellectionem; sicut cum intelligitur homo intelligitur animal in nomine, ut pars intellecti, non ut intellectum primum, sive totale terminans intellectionem. Hoc satis proprie vocatur intellectum virtualiter, quia est satis proximum intellecto in actu. Non enim posset esse actualius intellectum, nisi esset propria intellectione intellectum, quae esse ipsius primi, ut termini totalis.' Virtual difference: a term of the doctrine of formalities set forth by Scotus, Opus Oxon. Pt. I. ii. 7. (C.S.P)
- ^ The long quote in Latin embedded in Note a is translated by John van den Bercken into English in On being and cognition : Ordinatio 1.3, Fordham University Press, 2016
- ^ Daniel Smith; John Protevi (14 February 2018). "Gilles Deleuze". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- ^ Pearson, K. Ansell (1999). Germinal Life. The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze. London and New York: Routledge.
- ^ Peirce, C.S. "Virtual." Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, ed. James Mark Baldwin. New York: Macmillan, 1902 (Vol. II, pp. 763-764).
- ^ Deleuze (1966, 43).
- ^ Deleuze (1966, 96-98).
- ^ Deleuze (1966, 42-43, 81) and Deleuze (2002a, 44).
- ^ Berthier, Denis (June 2004). Méditations sur le réel et le virtuel. L'Harmattan. ISBN 2-7475-6640-4.
- ^ "Online Etymology Dictionary".
- ^ Shields, Rob The Virtual Routledge 2003.
- ^ Brian., Massumi (2002). Parables for the virtual : movement, affect, sensation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0822328828. OCLC 48557573.
- Deleuze, Gilles. 1966. Bergsonism. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. NY: Zone, 1991. ISBN 0-942299-07-8.
- ---. 2002a. Desert Islands and Other Texts 1953-1974. Trans. David Lapoujade. Ed. Michael Taormina. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents ser. Los Angeles and New York: Semiotext(e), 2004. ISBN 1-58435-018-0.
- ---. 2002b. "The Actual and the Virtual." In Dialogues II. Rev. ed. Trans. Eliot Ross Albert. New York and Chichester: Columbia UP. 148-152. ISBN 0-8264-9077-8.
- Christine Buci-Glucksmann, La folie du voir: Une esthétique du virtuel, Galilée, 2002
- Massumi, Brian. 2002. Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Post-Contemporary Interventions ser. Durham and London: Duke UP. ISBN 0-8223-2897-6.
- "Origins of Virtualism: An Interview with Frank Popper conducted by Joseph Nechvatal", CAA Art Journal, Spring 2004, pp. 62–77
- Frank Popper, From Technological to Virtual Art, Leonardo Books, MIT Press, 2007
- Rob Shields, The Virtual Routledge 2003.
- Rob Shields "Virtualities", Theory, Culture & Society 23:2-3. 2006. pp. 284–86.


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An apology to Archie
By Josh
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I would burrow my hand
In your baby hair fur,
To feel your skull's hard ridge
Beneath the groomed, perfumed fairy floss.
Constellations of pollen
Dusted on a corkscrew coat.
By a plumed tail waved for joy
As you leapt in gangling, graceful beauty.
Padded paws suspended,
Floating above the lawn.
Trapped in my phone still
In all of your poodle perfection
That night we watched TV.
You sat, sphinx like, transfixed.
I lay, mouth slack in sleep,
Drool trailing on the baby in my arms.
Wrenched from sleep by the screams,
Curled contemptuous lip,
Deep, snarled growl of warning
Red beads
of banishment
from starfish hand.
We sat in the back of the car
And you lay your head in my lap.
I fed you liver treats
And told myself that it was for the best.
Do they burrow their hands
In your baby hair fur?
To feel the skull's hard ridge
Protecting your betrayed bewilderment.
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Archie's puzzlement and
Archie's puzzlement and jealousy? Rhiannon
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Each episode is clearly drawn
Each episode is clearly drawn. Great stucture, leaving us with a little stab in the heart.
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Yeah, Sid's on it there. I
Yeah, Sid's on it there. I like this poem very much. Stanzas 5, 6 and 7 are the heart of this.
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Psalms 65:2 - Heb. 11:6
Cooper Abrams
1. What is prayer? It is simply talking to God as a friend, parent.
2. Many have questions about prayer? Jesus's disciples did and ask him for instruction.
"And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples." (Luke 11:1)
3. Many are not all they can be a Christians because they do not have a real prayer life.
"Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things {are} possible to him that believeth" (Mark 9:23) .
4. There is great power in prayer. During Jesus's ministry on Earth He was regularly praying to the Father.
2. He hears and answers prayer
Heb. 13:6, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever."
He heard the prayer of Cornelius, a Roman Centurion seeking to know God.
He heard the prayers of the disciples and the early church.
E. God always is ready listening to the one who would call on his name.
A. "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." (Hebrews 11:6)
B. To know God you must believe in Him.
If we trust in someone it means we rely on them? Right?
God wants us to know Him, and rely on Him.
That is the predicament of the World! They do not seek God, because they think they are self sufficient. Only a man who knows he's lost seeks help to find his way? A man who would seek God, must understand that there is greater than himself.
2. Only the God of the Bible, the only true God, show unmerited mercy towards man.
3. He listens intently for the whisper of prayer from the sinner.
4. He Rev. 3 says, stands at the door and knocks.
5. He seeks to save and help in the time of need.
A. Earlier we said it was the nature of God to hear and answer prayer. This tells us of a great deal about God.
2nd God is all knowing and omniscient. He hears all who pray. He hears the cry of millions, in all countries, in all languages. He know the hearts of those who pray in faith or hypocrisy.
3nd God is all powerful. He controls all things. He created us, holds the universe together. Nothing is beyond His power.
4th God is supernatural. He is a God of miracles.
Greatest miracle of God most times is overlooked. People look for the spectacular. Seeking to see miracles of healing. Greatest miracle is a changed life! It is a forgiven life.
Can He give strength to the those in trouble? Even unto death? Is anything to small or great for Him? The answer is of course not.
5th. God is a God of love and mercy.
He loves and came to save the sinner. "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." Rom. 5:20 God answers prayer.
2. It is impossible to know God or please Him without believing and trusting in the fact He hears and answers prayer.
3. We learn a great deal about God, understanding His attributes, because He does hear and answer prayer. For the Christian?
Have you understood how much of God is revealed to us in His answering prayer.
Have you understood that he is always there instantly ready to hear and answer your prayer.
Do you have true fellowship with God, be talking with him in prayer? For the person who has not trusted the Lord as their Savior.
He stands waiting, knocking at your hearts door....waiting desiring you to allow Him in. Do we understand that the privilege of prayer was not given to us to manipulate God and simply as a ritual we perform. It was given for us to commune and fellowship with God and not just a means to ask for things we want. Do we understand that sin and a lack of faith will hinder the effectiveness of prayer in our lives. Prayer is the first act of the lost sinner coming to Christ. "Oh, lord be merciful to me a sinner."
It is the nature act of a child of God to talk to his Father. To ask state our gratitude and thankfulness, to ask forgiveness, to express praise and honor, to intercede for others.
Will you pray now in all sincerity, that God will help you to see the need and purpose of prayer. That prayer will become a greater part of your life. That you would become a prayer warrior.
That your prayer life would be what God would be pleased with.
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Entering Guanabara Bay, it's Wilson Sons PSV Tagaz.
Inside the Bay west of the Rio-Niteroi Bridge and with the Christ statue atop the peak in the distance, it's Olin Conqueror.
Lined up here are C-Enforcer, Olin Conqueror, and Wyatt Candies.
Identifying fotos of this densely- parked anchored gets complicated, but this is clearly Skando Mogster, Blue Marlin, and . . . I think . . . Sudaksha.
Here looking toward Niteroi is DSV Wyatt Candies.
All fotos yesterday by Will Van Dorp, who has a lot to learn about these vessels. Any errors are entirely my own.


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In 1976, a number of Jordanian and Kuwaiti investors had the idea that if they brought in capital from a wealthy country, like Kuwait, and invested it wisely in a country that is renowned for its highly developed workforce, like Jordan, something good must come out, and sure it did. Today, Jordan Kuwait Bank is considered one of the few successful Jordanian enterprises established with Inter-Arab interests.
After more than 40 years of banking activities, steady expansion efforts and modernization plans, the Bank has become a well established, highly prestigious and deeply rooted banking institution, boosting a network of more than 64 branches strategically located throughout Jordan and a branch in Cyprus enabling the Bank's clients to carry out all their financial transactions inside and outside of Jordan swiftly, efficiently and with the highest levels of quality.
The development of the Bank's capital
The Bank's paid-up capital was gradually increased from JD 5 million at establishment to JD 8.5 million in 1991, to JD 10 million by end of 1994 and to JD 20 million in 1997. Then in 2001, the paid-up capital was increased to JD 25 million and then to JD 31.25 million in 2004. In 2005, the capital was increased to JD 40 million and then to JD 75 million in 2006 and finally to JD 100 Million in 2008.


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Police say Zachary McGregor also sold drugs to victim
A 25-year-old New York man accused of having sex with a 16-year-old girl acquaintance he was allegedly selling drugs to.
Massena-based New York State Police said Zachary D.J. McGregor, of Louisville, was arrested and charged with rape and criminal sexual act, both in the third degree, as well as endangering the welfare of a child and 2 counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance to a child.
Police say the charges stem from an investigation into a series of incidents which occurred at McGregor's home and other area homes. During their investigation, police said, they found McGregor provided heroin and other drugs to the victim on multiple occasions during October and November 2013.
Police allege McGregor also had sexual contact with the girl during that time frame.
McGregor was remanded to the St. Lawrence County Jail on $5,000 cash bail or $10,000 bond. He will in court Wednesday evening for further proceedings.


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For centuries humans have been making soap from fireplace ash. If you're looking for a way to use your fireplace ash and are interested in exploring some homesteading skills, read on and learn how to make soap for your own use.
1. Make lye.
The active ingredient in soap is lye. Lye is an alkaline substance with a very slippery feeling when dissolved in water. The lye dissolves grease and lifts dirt.
For this step it's wise to wear gloves, long sleeves, and eye protection as lye is caustic and will cause chemical burns.
To make your lye, boil hardwood ashes in rain water for about half an hour. Do NOT use aluminum pans- the lye will eat through them. Use glass or enameled pots instead. Once the fireplace ashes have settled to the bottom of the pot, skim off the liquid lye. Once you have collected enough liquid lye, pour it into a pot and boil until an egg will float in it.
2. Collect and render fats.
Gather leftover meat fats, lard, and vegetable oils. These fats will form the structure of your soap, keeping it solid. Slowly heat the fat and oils in a pan until it becomes liquid. Strain out solid bits and impurities by pouring the hot fat through cheese cloth. Be very careful not to burn yourself.
3. Mix it all together.
Once the fat is filtered, keep it on low heat while you bring your lye to a boil. When the lye is at a rolling boil, slowly add the hot fat while stirring with a wooden spoon. This is the time to add any herbs or essential oils to give your soap scents. Add some salt as the mixture thickens.
Keep boiling and stirring the mixture until it gets the consistency of thick cornmeal mush.
4. Pour your soap.
Pour the hot lye and fat mixture into soap molds lined with parchment paper. You can use all sorts of molds to make soap – be creative.
Once you're poured the mixture, allow it to cool and harden to make soap.
You now have homemade soap made from fireplace ash!


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Sales people are told to conduct a thorough needs analysis with their prospects, but what questions should be asked? In this episode of the Sales Management Minute, learn the questions sales people must ask prospects every time.
There are over two million potential questions a sales person can ask a prospect during a sales call. Obviously, no one is going to respond to even the tiniest fraction of the two million plus questions. How do you pick which questions to ask?
The answer to that question is a question… "What are your objectives for the meeting?" Another way of saying this is…
It was a great sales call if what was accomplished?
For example, you might say it was a great sales call if you came away with a clear picture of the prospect's challenges, a complete understanding of their decision-making and buying process and have identified a solution that addresses their challenges. Given those three objectives for the call, we identify the questions that we need to ask for those to be met.
Identifying the objectives helps us to create the roadmap for achievement. If you approach this from the other way around, show up at a prospect ask a bunch of questions and head back to the office, how will you know if you were successful? You won't. And, chances are, you will ask questions that were pointless while omitting critical ones because desired outcomes were not identified.
This line of thinking is a concept I call Outcome-Based Selling™ which is a four-step process.
Step 1: Outcome: What is the desired outcome?
Step 2: Strategy: What has to happen to achieve the desired outcome?
Step 3: Execution: What will you say, ask and do to achieve the desired outcome?
Step 4: Measurement: How will you evaluate success?
Before you pick up the phone, craft an email or meet with a prospect, identify your desired outcomes. That definition gives you the tools you need to achieve the goal. By the way, outcome-based thinking isn't just for sales calls, it's applicable for any management decision.
See you next time on the Sales Management Minute.
Lee B. Salz is a leading sales management strategist specializing in helping companies build scalable, high-performance sales organizations through hiring the right salespeople, effectively onboarding them, and aligning their sales activities with business objectives through process, metrics and compensation. He is the Founder and CEO of Sales Architects, Business Expert Webinars and The Revenue Accelerator. Lee has authored several books including award-winning, best-seller "Hire Right, Higher Profits." He is a results-driven sales management consultant and a passionate, dynamic speaker . Lee can be reached at email@example.com or 763.416.4321.


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A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
Excerpted from The Master Plan by Heather Pringle.©2006 Heather Pringle. All rights reserved. Published by Hyperion.
How the SS perverted the Paleolithic record to support Nazi ideology
In 1935, Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo and the SS, founded an elite Nazi research institute called the Ahnenerbe. Its name came from a rather obscure German word, Ahnenerbe (pronounced AH-nen-AIR-buh), meaning "something inherited from the forefathers." The official mission of the Ahnenerbe was to unearth new evidence of the accomplishments and deeds of Germanic ancestors "using exact scientific methods."
In reality, the Ahnenerbe was in the business of mythmaking. Its prominent researchers devoted themselves to distorting the truth and churning out carefully tailored evidence to support the ideas of Adolf Hitler, who believed that only the Aryans--a fictional "Nordic" race of tall, flaxen-haired men and women from northern Europe--possessed the genius needed to create civilization. Most modern Germans, he claimed, were descended from these ancient Aryans. But scholars had failed to uncover any proof of a such a master race lighting the torch of civilization and giving birth to all the refinements of human culture. The answer to this problem, in Himmler's mind, lay in more German scholarship--scholarship of the right political stripe. So he created the Ahnenerbe, which he conceived of as a research organization brimming with brilliant mavericks and brainy young upstarts who would publicly unveil a new portrait of the ancient world, one in which Aryans would be seen coining civilization and bringing light to inferior races, just as Hitler claimed.
Before 1938, the Ahnenerbe largely confined its studies to ancient texts, rock engravings, and folklore. But in February of that year, Himmler transferred the Excavations Department of the SS into the Ahnenerbe. Himmler had created the department to sponsor or direct archaeological digs at major sites in Germany. He intended these excavations to be exemplars of German research where SS men could be trained in the science of recovering the ancient Germanic past from the ground. The department had financed 18 excavations, from an ancient hill fortress at Alt-Christburg in Prussia to a major Viking trading post at Haithabu in northern Germany, not far from the Danish border. The Excavations Department brought new scientific acumen to the Ahnenerbe. Its staff consisted of dirt archaeologists trained in analyzing bits of ancient stone, bone, and ceramics. This new expertise, Himmler hoped, would help reconstruct the lives of Germany's ancestors before the first written histories and greatly extend knowledge of the mythical "Nordic" race. Indeed, one of the Ahnenerbe's most ambitious young researchers, archaeologist Assien Bohmers, claimed he could trace "Nordic" origins all the way back to the Paleolithic era in Germany, when woolly mammoths and cave bears wandered the chill tundra.
Based in Vancouver, Heather Pringle is a science journalist who has been writing about archaeology for more than 20 years.


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Our intelligence people are saying that something bad, maybe worse than 9-11, is coming this summer. If and when it happens, the recriminations will be overwhelming. President Bush will face a political onslaught — maybe even impeachment hearings — after the next attack. Democrats who now stand in the way of taking tough measures will be the first to throw stones. In truth, we have under-reacted to the 9-11 attacks, and we will probably over-react to the next ones. Why aren't we doing more to prevent the next attack?
More can be done. It is only reluctance to make politically difficult decisions that is preventing us from taking steps that badly need to be taken. Dubya confessed ignorance of other options when he said that if he knew what else he could do to protect Americans, he'd do it. Oh, come on. If you think about it for ten minutes, there is a whole list of things the President could do to make us safer. Here's the Loose Canons Top Ten Things Mr. Bush Can do to Protect Americans:
10. Change the FCC rules on emergency services radios. Most major cities — New York and Washington, D.C. included — have switched their emergency services to the 800 MHz band radios because the FCC made them do so to make room for more cell phone traffic. Problem is, the 800 MHz radios don't work inside metal-framed office buildings. Here in Washington, firefighters have to use cell phones to communicate inside burning buildings. Firefighters who can't talk to each other can't do their jobs.
9. Dubya asked us to lend our eyes and ears to help spot terrorists. Good idea. But what are we looking and listening for? The Israelis must have some profiles of suicide bombers that help them catch most of them before they explode. We should be training everyone who wants to learn — cops and civilians alike — about what to look for.
8. Fire Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta, and arm the airline pilots. Would you rather have your pilot able to shoot a terrorist, or have an F-16 fire a Sidewinder up your tailpipe when the pilot is dead, and some guy wearing a black turban is trying to fly the plane into the White House?
7. Establish a national "neighborhood watch." We have about 7,500 miles of land and air borders with Canada and Mexico. We also have fewer than one Border Patrol policeman per mile. Why not have citizens with cell phones and radios voluntarily patrolling where the cops aren't? The Border Patrol could set up small fast-deploying squads of men to respond to citizens' calls.
6. Fire Norm Mineta: Haven't we seen enough to know that blue-haired grannies aren't likely to hijack any airliners? We are deluding ourselves — dangerously — by forbidding the practice of profiling. Mr. Mineta's policy against profiling is endangering lives. Profiling should be official government policy at airports, seaports, and all border crossings.
5. Since 1996, Mexican soldiers and police have illegally crossed into the U.S. about 120 times, escorting drug smugglers and illegal aliens into the U.S. How many terrorists and how much weaponry is among them? They have fired on Border Patrol cars approaching them. We should tell Vicente Fox that any Mexican Army or police who cross the border without our written permission will be fired on. No warning shots; all center of mass. The President needs to stop fishing for votes in the Rio Grande.
4. Start a global psychological warfare on terror. They call it "jihad" for holy war. We should call it "hirabah," which means criminal action. They call suicide murder bombers "mujaheddin" for holy warriors bound for heaven. We should call them "mufsidoon" — wrongdoers headed to hell. They should hear it 24/7 on radio and television.
3. There are about 250,000 hours of intelligence intercept tapes recorded since 9-11 that haven't yet been listened to. We have too few Arab-speaking intelligence analysts, and even many of them are sitting on their behinds, not working on this stuff. We should put all we have to work, and hire more. In New York City alone, there are hundreds of Sephardic Jews, many who came from places like Syria and Jordan, who can translate the tapes while understanding the nuances of the Arabic language. We should hire as many as we need and work the hell out of them.
2. We have to stop the flow of people coming here from Syria, Iran, Iraq, and, yes, Saudi Arabia, which pays for most of the terror. No Iranians, Iraqis, Syrians should be able to enter the U.S. Saudis can get visas through travel agents, for heaven's sake. Despite the obvious fact that Saudi visitors should face intense screening, the descendants of Werner von Braun who run our embassy in Riyadh think the travel agent scam is a great idea, because it saves them the trouble of doing their jobs. The process of issuing all visas should be slowed or stopped for at least long enough for controls put in, to give us a shot at stopping some of these guys.
1. Make smallpox vaccine available to every American who wants it. Smallpox is horribly contagious. If you get it, and haven't been vaccinated, there's no treatment. It's also one of the biological weapons Saddam — and others — have in their arsenals right now. I've been trying to get it for my family since about 9-12. The vaccine is unavailable because the government doesn't want to tell one segment of the population — those with AIDS — that they can't have it. The damaged immune systems of AIDS sufferers can't fight the vaccine, and it will probably kill them. Concern about "discriminating" against AIDS patients is preventing everyone else from getting the vaccine. Every American should all be able to get the vaccine if he wants it. Preventing its distribution is criminal negligence.
We probably can't stop terrorists from attacking. But we can do things right now that may reduce the number of attacks and save a lot of lives the next time we're hit. Let's get cracking. Why not start by firing Norm Mineta?


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Uncle Tom's Cabin. Jewett, 1853
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896).
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.
Boston: J.P. Jewett & Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1853.
Call Number: (RARE) PS 2954 .U5 1853
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library
J. P. Jewett, a small Boston publisher of graded readers and school texts and a fellow abolitionist, became interested in Uncle Tom's Cabin early on in its serialization. He signed an agreement to publish in March 13, 1852, promising Stowe a ten-percent royalty. As the episodes in The National Era continued, he became alarmed at the book's length, believing abolitionism to be of limited interest and only viable in a cheap, one-volume format. Stowe refused to curtail the ending, so Jewett produced the work initially in two volumes.
Uncle Tom's Cabin immediately broke all sales records of the day: selling 3,000 copies the first day, 10,000 within a week, and 300,000 within a year. Jewett became wealthy, as his presses worked around the clock to publish numerous editions of the popular title, including single-volume deluxe editions such as this one for the Christmas trade. When Jewett's business failed during the Civil War, he became a purveyor of "Peruvian Syrup" and a patent agent, and never again attained the same success.


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Grief. It's there when someone dies, and that's perhaps the first type we think of when we think of it. Funerals, flowers, and deep sorrow. But there are many other kinds. With every beginning and ending, there is grief. It's not necessarily the crippling sort, but events that, over time, take a toll if we don't stop and be with them to see what they have to offer us.
I present a not-at-all-exhaustive list of some of these less-obvious sources of grief:
- Childbirth or the arrival of a child. This happy, long-awaited event means the end of a couple who are just a two, the end of a relatively responsibility-free life, and the beginning of a whole new, unrecognizable journey. Whoa.
- Tying the knot. Just like when we add a child to the mix, marriage means the end of being an individual, a new definition of independence, and the new chapter of a book.
- Saying yes. This one is a baby step to the grief of marriage and often sneaks up on us. It's often a moment we eagerly wait for and in the mere blink of a question and an excited "yes!" it all changes. By no means is this a negative event, but it's definitely an end and a beginning all wrapped in one package.
- Milestones of growing up. Babies grow up, that's basically their job. And we wouldn't have it any other way, would we? At the same time, their development is fraught with endings. When they learn to walk, it's the end of some peace of mind as we worry about them stuffing their little fingers into light sockets and falling down stairs. And there's the end of breastfeeding, which marks new independence and freedom for Mom, but is also a bit of a sad ending. The granddaddy of these is graduation. We do everything for our kids and help them to get to this important step, but it also means the end of so many things, and a lot of scary new (grief-causing) things, too.
- Death of a family car. Cars, by definition, get us from Point A to Point B, but they are also vehicles of life. They carry us on adventures, they deliver us to important, life-changing events, and they are with us for many big moments. When they die, it can be like a family member is gone.
- Completion of a big project. If you've ever planned a wedding, you know all about this one. Months and months of preoccupation leads to a single day and…it's over. There can be a sense of loss in the after of it all and sometimes some grief, too (see point #2!)
- Breaking a dish or an heirloom. This one snuck on me when I took salmon out of the oven for dinner. It was baking on my very favourite pan, the one I used at least twice each week, and as I set it on the table, it cracked. Not only was dinner ruined, but that dish, the one that had been with me for countless meals and more than 15 years, was gone. I was surprised at how much I grieved that dish and eventually, I had to replace it.
- Finishing a really impactful book or TV series. We may be a little more used to this in the age of Netflix and being able to binge entire series in a single week (day?), but it's a thing to grieve this sort of ending, too. In the fall of 2002, I was working to give my then-mother-in-law the death that she was asking for as she lost her battle with cancer, and during my countless trips to Vancouver Island on the ferry, I brought with me Rohinton Mistry's book, A Fine Balance and I still remember how lost I felt when I finished it. To this day, I think of Om and Prakash from the book and wonder where they ended up.
- A move to a new city. Yes, this is a shiny new beginning, but it's also the end of familiarity, the end of a comfort zone and the end of feeling at home, at least for awhile.
- The ends of important relationships. It is my belief that we are in each other's lives for a reason, and that sometimes, those reasons conclude. We finish our time with one another, and this can look like a divorce, an argument of some kind, or something very subtle, like the gradual growing apart of two glaciers on their track of growth.
And here is a bonus one: grief at world events.
Whoa, right? Whether we choose to engage and acknowledge it, or not, there is grief in watching the news and holding the events we hear about. It means that we are compassionate and caring humans.
Ok, great. So what do you do with all this?
Good question.
Firstly (and only), be with it. Don't turn away from it, just notice it's there. Maybe say it out loud, to yourself or someone who loves you: "I feel some grief about this." Let it show itself to you, and then let it go. Sometimes, all we need to do is notice an emotion in order to understand what it's telling us, and then it will excuse its little self from our lives. I am giving you permission to love your baby but mourn your life before he/she came, mourn life as a single person, wish your kids could be young forever, miss your car, wonder for months about beloved characters in a book, or to miss your Gramma all over again when you break her antique teapot.
Life is gloriously laced with grief. It's what shines light on our joy.
And by all means, let me know if I can support you, or bring it over to our community on Facebook.


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Library Haul 6-6-2015
Hello all,
It has been a terribly long time since my last Library Haul (almost 2 months!!). Due to an injury to my leg I couldn't make it the far distance that is between me and Library #3. But, today, I felt good enough, my leg was quite a bit better, and add to that that my boyfriend was also happy to bring me to the library now that he knew I could walk around a bit more. So I was able to go to Library #3. It was a delight to be able to get new library books. And not only that, but to also wander around the city it is in for a bit. I bought a new book (First book in the Zombie Goldfish series) and some other stuff.
But lets get back to my library haul. This time I have 10 books (out of the 12 that one can has max at that library), and they all sound like so much fun. I can't wait to curl up and start reading them!
Ah, the last book in the list is from Library #2, I had to make a detour there due to that book being a reservation + another book had to go back (was reserved for someone else).
Also 2 of the books in the list are Dutch, all the others are English.
The Girl who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
Secret Agent Mummy by Steve Cole
Secret Agent Mummy: The Cleopatra Case by Steve Cole
The Truth Cookie by Fiona Dunbar
Debutantes by Cora Harrison
Awful Auntie by David Walliams
The Hunted by Charlie Higson
The Probability of Miracles by Wendy Wunder
Liefde & ander onbehoorlijk gedrag by Mathijs Meinema
Darkmouth by Shane Hegarty
De krijtjes staken! by Drew Daywalt, Oliver Jeffers


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by Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor
Chuang Chih-Yuan was beaten by the German defender, Ruwen Filus (11-1, 11-6, 11-5, 11-8); China's Li Jiayi overcame Li Jie of the Netherlands.
Success for Li Jiayi and it was success for her colleagues, all of with a similar view; the task to stake a claim in the Chinese national team for a place in the Liebherr 2017 World Championships, which commence in the German city of Düsseldorf later this year in May.
Impressively in the Men's Singles event, Shang Kun, Lin Gaoyuan and Yan An, all players who had been required to complete the qualification procedure, emerged successful, as did their colleagues Fang Bo, the no.3 seed and Zhou Yu the no.10 seed.
Shang Kun beat Austria's Stefan Fegerl, the no.6 seed (7-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-5, 14-12), Lin Guoyan accounted for Germany's Benedikt Duda, the no.14 seed (11-2, 11-7, 11-5, 12-10), whilst Yan An ended the hopes of Panagiotis Gionis of Greece, the no.12 seed (13-11, 12-10, 11-6, 11-9).
Likewise Zhou Yu defeated England's Liam Pitchford, who withdrew from the contest at the end of the third game (11-3, 11-6, 11-6, 11-0); Fang Bo ended the hopes of the Slovak Republic's Wang Yang (11-9, 11-8, 11-5, 9-11, 11-7).
Success for players trying to make their mark; there were also successes for players who have made their mark time and time again. Now 40 years old, Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus, the top seed, beat Frenchman Quentin Robinot (7-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-9, 11-4); Korea's Joo Saehyuk, one day short of his 37th birthday overcame Slovenia's Bojan Tokic (12-10, 11-8, 11-9, 8-11, 11-9).
Wins for Vladimir Samsonov and Joo Saehyuk but for the 2015 Men's Singles champion, Hong Kong's Jiang Tianyi, it was defeat and agonising defeat. He was beaten by Brazil's Hugo Calderano, the no.7 seed, by the very narrowest of decisions ((13-11, 4-11, 11-6, 11-8, 9-11, 5-11, 14-12).
Meanwhile, in the Women's Singles first round matches, it was a very similar scenario with Chinese names to the fore.
Additional to Li Jiayi; both Che Xiaoxi, the 2015 Universiade champion and Sheng Dandan caused upsets. Che Xiaoxi beat Russia's Polina Mikhailova, the no.8 seed (11-9, 11-6, 11-7, 9-11, 11-4), Sheng Dandan ousted Chinese Taipei's Chen Szu-Yu, the no.7 seed (11-9, 12-10, 11-4, 11-6).
Wins for Li Jiayi, Che Xiaoxi and Sheng Dandan; there were also first round Women's Singles successes, as anticipated, for compatriots Chen Meng, Chen Xingtong and Wen Jia.
Chen Meng, the top seed, overcame Alina Arlouskaya of Belarus (11-3, 11-8, 11-6, 11-6), Wen Jia, the no.10 seed, defeated Austria's Amelie Solja (11-4, 11-9, 12-10, 11-8). In a similar vein Chen Xingtong ended the aspirations of the host nation's Szandra Pergel (11-4, 11-8, 11-8, 9-11, 11-6).
Defeat for Szandra Pergel but there was one Hungarian success. Georgina Pota flew the flag; the no.5 seed, in the opening round of the Women's Singles event, she defeated the Czech Republic's Renata Srbikova (7-11, 11-6, 11-7, 11-7, 9-11, 11-9).
Play in the second round in both the Men's Singles and Women's Singles events will be played to a conclusion on Friday 20th January.


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