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Chapter 74 = Questions and Answers
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It was far too late when the bright flash of chi signalled Tsi-Lau’s return to her body. Within a moment she surmised what had happened from the absence of Sira’s body, and the presence of her Sensei’s. Crossing over to the lifeless purple body, she sighed and whispered a prayer under her breath, bending down and gently touching her white stomach…
Her hand came away slightly sticky, and she blinked. Saliva… it must have been bloody… I guess that other vampire wanted some food… but it was doubtless a bonus for him to lick it from the body of my teacher, that kayatin…
Silent, she retrieved what remained of the leather leotard and put it back on the body, feeling bitter about the callous exposure of Yasei-Yeiko’s body and wondering if anything else had been done to her… but then she remembered. Five minutes. They would have barely had time to kill her… but how unlike her to fall so quickly…
She began to check the pockets on the leotard, careful by nature of the pins and other weapons within, though none of them could hurt her. Eventually she found what she was looking for; her set of guild rank stamps, and knowing what she had to do Tsi-Lau made the mark upon her scabbards to signify what had happened; she was the successor to her sensei, and had now taken her place. As she was replacing them, she found something else inside the pocket, and took it out; a scrap of vaell parchment, folded neatly but carefully so as not to damage it.
She unfolded it and read the symbols of the guild’s code swiftly. My student, if you are reading this, it is too late for me. I can see many things when I am in the trance, the future being but one of them. I have my doubts about my own future, about my own life… but, it is not for me to be like you, a creature of the darkness. Do not bring me back to the world, for I have failed and cannot aid you any more. I write this hoping it will never be seen by your eyes, but fortune favours the prepared…
Grieve not for me, for life is but a temporary prison of the mind and soul from which I have been freed. My time is over and yours now begins; you are on your own path now, your own journey, with only what you have learned to guide you. Do what you believe is the right thing… trust in your judgement… and remember that I shall watch over you in spirit, my student.
Taráya, your Sensei.
Underneath the scrawling code she found four words in plain Yoshian… Ka stóllada ki, Valina.
The silver assassin used all of her willpower and training to fight the urge to bury her head in her hands and cry.
When Darkmark walked into the flat, the last thing he expected to see was played out in front of him; another assassin had come, and had Samintha held at knifepoint. Tamaroro was nowhere to be seen.
“Stay back, or I’ll kill her!” the assassin shouted, a yellowish Yoshi with a menacing tone to his voice.
“What would you kill her for?” Darkmark asked, putting Sira’s body to one side, trying not to make eye contact with her flatmate. “Your leader is dead…”
“Her orders remain regardless.” The assassin replied, clearly unbelieving.
“I have heard that it’s not a welcome tactic among you to take hostages.”
The assassin chuckled. “You’re right. Best get rid of her so I can fight you…”
He jammed the knife into her back and made her scream, but she wrenched away from him and opened up a clear shot for Darkmark, who threw a bolt of raw psionic energy at the assassin. It struck him hard and he stumbled back, but as he had not been using any chi he was able to recover and stood straight in time to catch another attack, this time from Skafria, who had his sword pressed against the assassin’s neck before he could react.
“Kill me if you want.” He spat. “But more will come. Until you’re dead, we won’t rest until you’ve been sent to the afterlife!”
With a cackle, he vanished in a cloud of smoke and did not reappear. Darkmark rushed to Samintha’s aid and pulled the knife from her back, thankful that the small dagger had not hurt anything seriously, and managed to heal her after two attempts, finding that the stab wound was harder to heal than a small cut.
“Where’s Tamaroro?” He asked, and she pointed to one of the bedroom doors.
“In there… why do they keep coming for us… and what happened to Sira…?”
“Another assassin got her…” he said sadly as Skafria went to find the infant. “She died honourably though, and we avenged her death…”
“What… what am I going to do?” she sobbed. “I can’t stay here… but if I move away, I can’t take Tammy with me… or if I went to the residences, I couldn’t keep him there either…”
“We’ll sort something out.” Darkmark said calmly. “I think I might know someone who could help. I’m going to leave Skafria here to keep an eye on you, but I shouldn’t be that long anyway…”
“Wait, where are you going?” she called, as he opened one of the large panelled windows and crouched on the windowsill.
“To get answers to questions I can’t find by myself.” He replied, before taking off into the night.
Darkmark was mildly surprised when he entered the church and found it almost completely shadowed in darkness, lit dimly by candles around the edges. The only movement within was that of the pastor, sweeping the floor free of dust and humming a tune to himself as he did so, clearly preoccupied.
The brown Yoshi coughed once to catch his attention, striding forward through the darkness to meet him, and the both of them sat down at one of the benches to talk.
“I think I remember you… I saw you on a reward poster recently.” Vachez said, starting the conversation.
“Just some people with clouded judgement and blind obedience.” Darkmark replied curtly. “I’m out of here tomorrow.”
“What have you come here for?”
“For guidance, of course.” Darkmark said solemnly, trying to sound dark but not too intimidating. “We all need help sometimes.”
“Yes, yes we do… what questions would you like me to answer?”
“Already I have witnessed several deaths within the past few hours… the safety of someone I know is at risk, but they cannot make themselves safe without abandoning someone else. There’s a little orphan by the name of Tamaroro that-”
“Tammy is alive?” Vachez asked, cutting in, suddenly looking up with a hopeful gaze. “I rescued him when his parents were killed, but he was taken from me to an orphanage. How is he?”
Darkmark took a deep breath. “He escaped, and from what he told us I do not blame him. We found him on the verge of death, being brutally attacked by some humans who went looking for him, and we saved his life. Since then he had been staying with the one who healed him, but now she’s dead…”
“I would love to take him back if you would let me.” Vachez said, answering Darkmark’s request before he even asked it. “I will not let them take him from me again.”
“Thank you. I can’t look after him… I’m not someone who should look after children.”
“Well, why not?” Vachez asked, tapping the ring on Darkmark’s finger. “Someone once wanted you to…”
“That was then. But now… my hands are stained with blood, and the darkness is coming for me… so many deaths I have had to avenge… so many lives I have taken… I know what I must do, but whether I can do it when the time comes, I do not know…”
Vachez thought for a moment. “What are you saying?”
Darkmark’s eyes flicked up to meet his gaze. “I am saying that I have sold my soul to the darkness. There is no longer any way for me to turn back from the road I have chosen… nothing I can do any more…”
Surprisingly, the dark grey Yoshi shook his head, before taking hold of an end of his scarf, and holding it up so Darkmark could see the Octotheist emblem stitched into the black fabric. Just like the mark on his arm that had faded away, eight small circles around the edge of a larger circle made up the emblem, though the stitching made them slightly angular. “This is more than just a symbol. There are the eight principles associated with the gods… Hope gives us comfort in our time of need, Luck affects so much of our lives, the Future is where we must always look to, Power is the strength we need to survive, Love helps us find happiness, Wisdom guides us wherever we go, Life is the gift we all are given, but Death comes to us all eventually…
“You see, Marcus, it’s not that what the God of Death said or what his followers want that’s such a problem… if you truly are a follower of the darkness, you will know that… but he gave in to the evil forces and tried to destroy his own people. He sacrificed innocent lives to gain power, to get what he wanted. He was not afraid to sink to any level if it would attain his desires. That was why we shun him and why we detest him…”
“My hands are stained.” Darkmark repeated. “Not just with the blood of humans, but of my Yoshian brethren too…”
“But is it the blood of the innocent?”
“No.” he said firmly, after a moment of thought. “Not one person that I have killed did not deserve to die.”
“Then there you have it. If what you say is true, you do follow the teachings of the Lord of Darkness’s followers. They believe that killing is the only way to achieve peace, but only through the deaths of those who deserve to die, not those who are innocent.”
After a few moments of silence, Darkmark stood up. “Thank you.” He said, handing the priest some money.
“Take it.” The brown Yoshi insisted. “Perhaps Tamaroro will need it. If not, the church may find a use. It’s not my concern.”
Striding calmly and confidently out of the church, Darkmark took off into the sky and took one last look over the city he would be leaving tomorrow. So many deaths here, so many innocent lives taken… but not by his hand. They would go to the underworld, but he would not…
To be continued…


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Map for full control.
Geometry -> Tangent is giving you the same output as the Tangent node set to Radial Z.
The shading artifacts are being caused by the n-gons surrounding the circle, as well as a lack of supporting geometry. As a quick fix, you could try selecting all the front faces that aren't part of the circle and giving them a slight inset:
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I would say don't connect the same thing to both normal sockets. Do use the clearcoat normal (and I'm a fan of including whatever level of microdetail you want) but consider mixing in much larger scale imperfection as well, to try and coax this type of imperfect reflection from the clearcoat layer.
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I came across this question when I was googling about the same problem. This worked for me.
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Honeymoon Ideas and Reviews for The Bahamas
The Bahamas are made up of 3000 beautiful Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Found to the north of Cuba and the southeast of the US state of Florida, these palm-fringed islands provide an idyllic location for a luxury honeymoon.
The official language of the country is English and the capital city is named Nassau. There are over 700 official beaches backing onto crystal clear waters and rainbow coral reefs. If you are more of an active couple the Bahamas are renown for world-class water sports including kite surfing and diving. The night life is electric with a large number of bars and clubs which pulsate with the rhythm of the islands.
The Bahamas offers fairly consistently good weather all year round. The sea breezes bring a refreshing edge to the hot sun, reaching the highest temperatures between June and August at an average of 28C and the cooler temperature of 22C between September and May. The hurricane season is between June and November, and on clear nights the temperature can plummet to a chilly 5C.
There are four main resorts in the Bahamas, all of which offer an unforgettable stay for you and your partner as newlyweds.
Located in Nassau, the new $4.2 million resort Baha Mar offers an incredible stay for your honeymoon. The resort offers sandy beaches and breathtaking views, as well as three iconic oceanfront hotels.
The resort is perched on the pristine white sands of Nassau’s Cable Beach. Nassau is one of the most accessible areas in the Caribbean with direct flights from London taking just 9 hours. The resort is conveniently located just 15 minutes from the airport.
The resort is comprised of three iconic hotels each offering a unique style of luxury and world-class service. Whilst the resort links the three hotels together, the pools and beach areas are exclusively for the use of the guests of that hotel. The bars, restaurants and public spaces in each hotel are available to everyone.
This hotel offers relaxed modern luxury perfect for a romantic getaway. The hotel provides an array of restaurants and nightlife options, landscaped pools and pristine beaches.
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SLS offers style, luxury and service for your honeymoon. Luxe, high-design accommodations are complemented by renowned, chef-driven dining destinations, spirited nightlife, and unsurpassed service. The 292 rooms start at $300/night.
We love the rooftop Skybar which opened in December 2008 which is the perfect spot for a romantic sunset drink. In addition to the main pools, the Privilege Beach Club opens on busier days and weekends.
Rosewood is the epitome of Bahamian refinement and sophistication. Impeccable, thoughtfully designed interiors inspired by the rich culture of The Bahamas are matched only by intuitive, world-class service and luxurious amenities. This hotel is the most adult orientated of the three hotels, with prices starting from $700 per night in the main hotel, with a villa upgrade option available.
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U.S President Joe Biden will arrange another summit of Pacific island leaders this year after the disappointment caused by his cancellation of a visit to Papua New Guinea due to the domestic debt ceiling crisis, his national security adviser said on Wednesday.
Political analysts said Biden’s cancellation of the short visit to Port Moresby planned for next Monday after a G7 summit in Japan had dealt a blow to U.S credibility in the Pacific island region, where Washington is competing with China for influence.
Asked en route with Biden to Japan whether the decision to cancel gave Beijing an advantage, Jake Sullivan, the president’s senior security adviser, said the U.S saw the “demand signal for the United States only growing for the Pacific islands.”
“Within this calendar year, you will see the president convening the leaders of the Pacific islands for a major summit, which will be the second time in 12 months he has done that,” Sullivan told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Sullivan said the summit had yet to scheduled, “but we will get it on the books, so that we continue the progress with the Pacific Islands.”
Biden hosted an unprecedented summit of Pacific island leaders last year.
His three-hour stop in Port Moresby next Monday would have been a first there by a sitting U.S president, and the island nation had declared a public holiday in his honor. Biden had been scheduled to meet 18 Pacific island leaders there.
“They’re obviously disappointed that the President will not be the first ever President of the United States to go to Papua New Guinea,” Sullivan said.
“But they are also very mindful of the fact that this President has done more in terms of his personal engagement with the Pacific islands than any previous president.”
The crisis over the U.S debt ceiling – an issue with the potential to damage the global economy – prompted Biden to postpone visits to both Papua New Guinea and Australia to allow him to return earlier to Washington.
Australia’s former Ambassador to the U.S, Arthur Sinodinos, said the president ultimately made the right call to return to Washington to resume negotiations over the debt ceiling given what was at stake.
Unless Congress raises or suspends the debt ceiling, the U.S could run out of money as early as 01 June, upending global financial markets and risking a downturn as severe as the Great Depression.
“The implications of not getting a deal and the U.S defaulting – and the impact on its standing in the world – is bigger than anything that might have happened as a result of cancelling parts of his trip to the region,” said Sinodinos, who finished his diplomatic posting in March and now works for The Asia Group.
“In PR terms, they have an issue to handle. But they’ve been committed to the Quad and I think the fact that they’ve had to cancel means they’ll bend over backwards to facilitate the Quad going forward.”
He had been due to meet in Sydney with leaders of the other countries of the Quad grouping – Australia, Japan and India – but they will now talk in Japan.
The stop in Papua New Guinea, a nation of 9 million north of Australia, had been viewed as a major step to build trust in a region where China has sought a greater security presence.
“For Papua New Guinea this was a very big deal and they will be disappointed,” said Mihai Sora, a Pacific islands analyst with Sydney’s Lowy Institute think tank, calling it a “blow to U.S. credibility in the region as a consistent partner.”
“Up until now Pacific islands leaders have been giving the U.S the benefit of the doubt over its ability to re-engage.”
Biden’s decision recalled President Barack Obama’s cancellation of a trip to attend two summits in Asia in 2013 because of a U.S government shutdown.
“America is not a deadbeat nation,” Biden said today as he departed for Hiroshima. “We pay our bills. The nation has never defaulted on its debt and never will.”
“I’ve spoken to the Australian leader Albanese and I’ll be seeing him at the G7 … The Quad members will be there and we’ll get a chance to talk separately at the meeting.”
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said this week his government was preparing to sign a major defense pact with the United States and a security agreement allowing U.S Coast Guard vessels to patrol its waters. He made no public comment about Biden’s cancellation.
Some opposition party politicians have criticized the pact as potentially upsetting China, a major infrastructure donor.
Richard Maude, a former Australian intelligence chief now with the Asia Society Policy Institute said the cancellation could be a setback for relations.
“The mantra in the region is all about turning up. Turning up is half the battle. China turns up all the time, and so the optics aren’t great,” he said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has visited the region three times, including a 2018 visit to Papua New Guinea.
The Pacific islands span 40 million square km of ocean, where vital sea lanes and submarine cables link the United States to its allies Australia and Japan. But leaders there had complained to the U.S of being seen as “fly over” countries.
China last year struck a security pact with the Solomon Islands, where a Chinese state company will rebuild the international port. Beijing has continued to lobby for a bigger role in the region, after failing to sign 10 nations to a security and trade deal.
Washington has made progress in renewing strategic pacts with two Pacific island states – Micronesia and Palau – under which it retains responsibility for their defence and provides economic assistance while gaining exclusive access to large strategic areas of the Pacific in return.
It expects those to be formally signed at a ceremony in Papua New Guinea on Monday. A third pact with the Marshall Islands has yet to be finalised and is due to expire this year.


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The town of El Coyolito is located in the Municipality of Pijijiapan (in the State of Chiapas). There are 7 inhabitants. It is the most populated town in the position #259 of the whole municipality. El Coyolito is at 24 meters of altitude.
The Mexican authorities declared this village as uninhabited in 2020.
To locate this beautiful town within the municipality, you must know that El Coyolito is located at 3.6 kilometers (in direction North) from the locality of Pijijiapan, which is the one that has more inhabitants within the municipality. Thanks to our webpage and the satellite map that you can locate at the bottom, you can see the position and visit the surroundings of El Coyolito.
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The population of El Coyolito (Chiapas) is 7 inhabitants
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Autonomous Cars Will Revolutionize Transportation In Congested Cities
Self-driving technology will help to push a new revolution in the transportation industry, according to tech experts.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports on the statement of President Obama on the increased safety and other potential benefits of self-driving vehicles. The report also introduced a new set of rules released by the Obama administration for the autonomous vehicles. According to studies, 94 percent of vehicle accidents are due to human error, which means that autonomous driving technology could save each year "tens of thousands of lives."
The Atlantic reports that studies came to the conclusion that autonomous driving technology can cut crash fatalities by up to 29,447 lives in the U.S. annually, which means by up to 90 percent. Based on these conclusions, the U.S. government endorses the driverless car industry. New regulations were designed in order to help the emerging technology spread as quickly as possible and allow autonomous cars on the roads in a safe manner.
New Regulations for a New Industry
According to the specialized publication Glass, among the aspects of the car industry governed by the new federal regulations is also included the automotive glass. Many other safety aspects were touched by the new regulations that took a more preemptive approach. For instance, before launching car models on the market, automakers must clear their models with the department of transportation.
According to The Huffington Post, the Department of Transportation included within the new rules 15 checkups for the automated vehicles in order to be considered safe. As they develop new cars, companies will have to use these 15 points in order to test their vehicles before being able to launch them on the market. According to Vox, among these points covered in the guidelines are included aspects related to driver data privacy, how autonomous cars will make decisions and how they will react to technological failure.
The Future Of Self-Driving Technology
Driverless cars may still seem a futuristic dream, but they will become a reality on our roads much faster than most may expect. According to Mashable, there are already several carmakers that are planning to launch fully autonomous cars by the year 2020. Many cities already welcome driverless car prototypes on their streets.
According to ReadWrite, among the cities that have fully embraced driverless cars are included San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, Kirkland, Wash, Boston, and Pittsburgh. These cities are establishing a reputation for themselves on the vanguard of self-driving car technology. Some of them are locations for pioneer institutes involved in research into self-driving cars, while others position at the forefront of the new technology by announcing tests of driverless cars on city streets.
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Benedictine gets $200,000 grant to improve bio-calculus curriculum
January 25, 2007
Phil Brozynski, Media Relations Manager
Biocalculus introduces the fundamental ideas of calculus from the perspective of a biologist. A $199,952 grant will help educators at Benedictine University and College of DuPage (COD) introduce biocalculus to a wider audience of two- and four-year students.
Timothy D. Comar, Ph.D., mathematics professor at Benedictine University, will be the principal investigator on the three-year project titled “Biocalculus: Text Development, Dialog and Assessment” funded by the funded by the Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and conducted in collaboration with COD.
“We want to expose more students to the very important and very hot research field of biomathematics,” Comar said. “With all the DNA data that the Human Genome Project has generated, many biology questions have become increasingly quantitative. Other biological areas are also incorporating more quantitative and computational techniques.
“A recent National Research Council report advocates the need for increasing the mathematical and computational training of undergraduate biology students who intend to pursue graduate work in biology,” Comar added. “This is significant at Benedictine University when you consider the large number of students who major in the biological sciences.”
The project consists of three elements – the development of a new textbook and laboratory manual, the establishment of a quarterly seminar series that will bring researchers in biomathematics to address Benedictine University and COD students, and an assessment component.
The new textbook and computer laboratory manual will be designed for a yearlong Biocalculus course sequence emphasizing biologically-oriented mathematical models from diverse areas in biology including population dynamics, ecology, molecular biology, cellular biology, epidemiology, genetics and genomics.
The seminar series will be directed toward undergraduate students in the mathematical and biological sciences. The seminar will make students aware of the connections between the mathematical and biological sciences in current and future research, and foster interdisciplinary dialogue between mathematics and biology faculty and students at both institutions.
The next speaker scheduled to address the “Benedictine University/College of DuPage Biomathematics Seminar” will be Raina Robeva, Ph.D., associate professor of Mathematical Science at Sweet Briar College (Va.), who will speak at Benedictine University on Thursday, February 22.
The final component of the project is assessment. The project will track students who complete Biocalculus courses at Benedictine and COD, including their performance in subsequent courses in mathematics and the biological sciences, and compare the performance between students in biocalculus and those in traditional calculation courses.
“The NSF review panel which judged the merits of the proposal cited many factors in awarding this grant, including Tim’s extensive background in computational biology and the leadership he has shown during the national discussion of mathematics reform in biology,” said Donald Taylor, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Science at Benedictine University.
Taylor also said that the NSF review panel lauded the active participation of COD in all phases of the project and echoed the need for a biology-centered, reform-style yet rigorous treatment of calculus.
Other faculty members from Benedictine University involved in the project include: Lisa G. Townsley, Ph.D., professor of Mathematics; Jeremy B. Nadolski, Ph.D., assistant professor of Mathematics; Preston R. Aldrich, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biology; Cheryl A. Heinz, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biology; and Alfred R. Martin, Ph.D., professor of Biology.
“The group that put this proposal together demonstrated excellent work and perseverance in their pursuit to find the resources to fund this project,” Taylor said.
The three-year grant period begins June 1.
Benedictine University is located in Lisle, Illinois, just 25 miles west of Chicago, and has branch campuses in Springfield, Illinois, and Mesa, Arizona. Founded as a Catholic university in 1887, Benedictine enrolls nearly 10,000 students in 56 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs. Forbes magazine named Benedictine among "America's Top Colleges" for the sixth consecutive year in 2016. Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org). For more information, contact (630) 829-6300, email@example.com or visit ben.edu.

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If This Really <i> Is</i> a Bubble, How Long Before It Bursts?
Two things about market bubbles: First, it’s often hard for investors to admit when they’re in one. Second, when guessing how big a bubble can get, it’s often wise to err on the high side.
With the Dow Jones industrial average already up 30% this year, 89% since 1990 and now just 31 points from the 5,000 mark, stocks’ incredible resilience astounds even some of the most ardent bulls.
As for the bears--well, nobody likes to be played for a fool, and anyone betting against U.S. stocks in the 1990s feels foolish no matter how else they try to couch their reluctance to join the game.
How to explain a market that just won’t quit, regardless of what threatens it--a sluggish economy, slowing corporate earnings growth, Mexico’s peso crisis, the federal government’s shutdown, etc.?
One explanation emanating from both Wall Street camps, bull and bear, is that this market surge is a classic bubble, an inflation of prices that pushes aside obstacles, and reason, as it expands. What distinguishes the camps is their estimation of where we are in the bubble stage: early, middle or late.
Glen King Parker, publisher of the Market Logic newsletter in Deerfield Beach, Fla., and an immovable bear, insists that at Dow-5,000, stock prices are “way out of line with reality,” no matter which particular reality you want to use: interest rates, corporate earnings, dividends or inflation, among other yardsticks.
“I think we’re well advanced into the bubble stage already,” Parker says. Too many investors, he says, believe that this is a “new era,” a period when old rules don’t apply to stocks and when the only possible direction for the market is up.
The Japanese, Parker notes, felt the same about their stock market in the 1980s. Now, six years into Japan’s devastating bear market, investors there understand why “it has always paid to bet against new eras,” Parker says.
But hold on a minute. Japan’s market was a textbook case of a bubble that burst. But before it exploded, it grew to Gargantuan proportions. The Nikkei 225-stock index rose at a double-digit pace every year between 1983 and 1989, rocketing 386% from 8,017 to nearly 39,000 at its peak.
A permanent new era for Japanese stocks it wasn’t, but as even Parker concedes, “it looked that way for a long time in the ‘80s.”
If the U.S. market is also a bubble, and 1995 is our equivalent of 1989 in Japan, the end is near. But what if, figuratively speaking, it’s only 1986 on the Japanese bubble scale? Or even 1988? Then there’s a lot of maniacal behavior left in this mania, and a lot of money yet to be made in U.S. stocks.
Are the comparisons with Japan even fair? There are plenty of similarities between Japan then and America now: They were considered the world’s most competitive economy in the late 1980s; that’s America today. Their government was exceedingly pro-business then; ours is trying to be today. And their stock market run-up was mostly the work of Japanese investors, just as Wall Street’s advance is powered largely by Americans, with many foreign investors still suspicious of U.S. equities.
Perhaps most important, Japan’s central bank maintained low interest rates through the late 1980s, stoking the market’s fires. The U.S. Federal Reserve Board, poised to cut rates again before year’s end, is pumping the same powerful bellows.
There also are many differences, of course. Japan’s stock market bubble was fed in part by a massive real estate bubble; ours is not. And Japanese stocks’ price-to-earnings (P-E) ratios at their bubble’s peak were in the stratospheric range of 70 to 100. The average U.S. blue-chip stock, in contrast, today is priced at 15 to 16 times estimated 1996 earnings per share.
For Wall Street’s bulls, that arguably still-reasonable valuation on U.S. stocks simply makes the case that if this is a bubble, at worst it’s in the middle stage of its inflation, certainly not in the final stage. Give the market more of what it wants--lower rates, moderate economic growth, a preeminent competitive position for U.S. industry, and a balanced federal budget--and investors can’t help but bid stocks higher, the bulls say. U.S. blue-chip stocks’ average P-E ratios may never reach 70, but what if they just go to 25?
“If a year from now the Dow is at 7,000, then we might be able to talk” about a bursting bubble, says Stamford, Conn.-based investment strategist Suresh Bhirud, a longtime bull. For now, he says, investors ought to just hang on and and enjoy the ride.
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Mania: Before and After
The only mistake you could have made with Japanese stocks in the 1980s was to underestimate how high they would go. Nikkei-225 stock index, yearly closes and latest:
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- 1 Is Riptide easy to play on guitar?
- 2 What is the strumming pattern for Riptide?
- 3 What is the rhythm of Riptide?
- 4 What is the easiest guitar chord?
- 5 What is the easiest song to learn on guitar?
- 6 Are you bored yet the wallows chords?
- 7 What is the strumming pattern for can’t help falling in love?
- 8 Is ukulele easier than guitar?
- 9 What guitar does Vance Joy play?
- 10 What is the hardest guitar chord?
- 11 What are the 3 most used guitar chords?
- 12 What is the hardest guitar to play?
Is Riptide easy to play on guitar?
Apart from being a lovely song to sing, Riptide is simple and satisfying to play on guitar. The Riptide chords go around in a cycle, and there are only three of them for most of the song.
What is the strumming pattern for Riptide?
The strumming pattern for the song is down, down, up, down, up and then repeat. The secret is to keep the hands moving up and down even when not strumming the Uke!
What is the rhythm of Riptide?
Riptide has an incredibly recognisable rhythm that really drives the song. If you get the rhythm right, you’re pretty much there. For almost the whole song, the strumming pattern is down, down, up, down, up repeated. As with any rhythm, the say it play it rule is true.
What is the easiest guitar chord?
The 7 essential most used beginner chords ALL guitar players should learn first are E major, E minor, A major, A minor, D major, C major and G major. With these chords, you’ll be armed with the power to play literally thousands upon thousands of different songs.
What is the easiest song to learn on guitar?
8 Easy Guitar Songs For Every Beginner
- “I Wanna Be There” by Blessed Union of Souls.
- “What’s Up” by Four Non-Blondes.
- “ Love Me Do” by The Beatles.
- “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison.
- “Three Little Birds” by Bob Marley.
- “Achy Breaky Heart” by Billy Ray Cyrus.
- “ Sweet Home Alabama ” by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
- “Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Are you bored yet the wallows chords?
Clairo – Are You Bored Yet? Capo 6 Chords: F: X33210 Am: X02210 C: X32010 Dm: XX0231 G: 320003 Em: 022000 Strumming: DDU UDU DDU
What is the strumming pattern for can’t help falling in love?
Can’t Help Falling In Love Strumming Pattern. Tyler uses a pretty relaxed down down up down up pattern with only a small amount of variation throughout. Notice that the pattern is in 3/4 timing rather than 4/4 so you’re actually counting to 3 rather than 4.
Is ukulele easier than guitar?
The ukulele is easier to learn than the guitar and other stringed instruments like the mandolin. Its soft nylon strings are gentler on your fingertips and don’t create finger pain like guitars do. Plus, it only has four strings, which makes chord shapes and scales easier to learn.
What guitar does Vance Joy play?
Vance plays a great deal of the instrumentation on the album himself including guitars, ukuleles, some piano and Wurlitzer organ. His main acoustic is a Maton cutaway his father bought for him in 2007. For electric, he used a Gibson SG which he enjoyed playing on ‘Wasted Time’ in particular.
What is the hardest guitar chord?
The six-string F chord is one of the hardest standard chord shape to play on the guitar. When many people try to play the F chord on guitar (and often succeed) it’s with far too much struggle and effort than is actually necessary. Even extremely influential guitarists can have a hard time with barre chords.
What are the 3 most used guitar chords?
According to my bud, Andy B, the three most common guitar chords every man should know are G Major, C Major and D Major. “You can play darn near anything with those beginning guitar chords (save Taylor Swift songs, cause they always have that dramatic teenage girl angst minor chord thrown in).”
What is the hardest guitar to play?
Steel guitars are “hardest”. If you mean hardest to play from a technical/musical standpoint, that’s tough. Flamenco guitar is probably the most technical, because of its idiosyncratic picking, strumming, and percussion techniques. Fingerstyle jazz is pretty demanding musically.

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Study Finds Housing Program Perpetuates Segregation
Report Advocates Changes to Expand Housing Choice and Reduce Segregation
New York, NY – On August 19, 2013, the Fair Housing Justice Center (FHJC) released a report entitled Choice Constrained, Segregation Maintained: Using Federal Tax Credits to Provide Affordable Housing, finding that a federal program that produces affordable housing, the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, perpetuates residential segregation.
The premise of the study is that where affordable housing is located matters. The location of affordable housing can determine whether families have access to a variety of areas, including low-poverty communities that may offer greater employment opportunities, high-quality educational opportunities, and other important amenities. The study examined the location of low-income housing units based on the poverty concentration and racial composition of neighborhoods.
From January 1, 1998 to December 31, 2007, the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), the New York State Housing Finance Agency (HFA), and the New York City Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) collectively issued tax credits that resulted in over 52,000 units of affordable rental housing being placed into service in the New York City region. In the study, the region was defined as including New York City and seven surrounding New York Counties of Dutchess, Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester.
Some of the key findings contained in the report include:
• Most LIHTC affordable housing units (71%) were located in areas of high or extreme poverty.
• Most LIHTC affordable housing units (77%) were located in minority neighborhoods.
• Nearly half of all LIHTC affordable housing units in suburban areas were elderly units. 63% of the elderly units were located in low-poverty areas, while only 25% of the family units were located in these areas. Similarly, 74% of the suburban elderly units were developed in white or predominantly white areas, while only 31% of family units were located in these areas.
• LIHTC affordable housing units were concentrated in poor and minority neighborhoods regardless of whether they involved the rehabilitation or new construction of multifamily housing.
The report includes more than a dozen recommended action steps to be taken by the U.S. Department of Treasury and three New York tax credit allocation agencies. These recommendations are aimed at ensuring that the LIHTC program operates in a manner that:
1. Complies with the federal Fair Housing Act and the duty to affirmatively further fair housing;
2. Expands housing choices available to lower-income and minority family households;
3. Deconcentrates poverty and reduces residential racial segregation;
4. Identifies and eliminates barriers to developing LIHTC housing for families in low-poverty areas; and
5. Provides incentives to promote the development of mixed-income housing.
In commenting on the study, FHJC President Gene Capello stated, “This well-researched and timely report shows us that legislation alone will not remedy residential segregation. It will take leadership and the will of those we entrust in government to step forward and execute their duties to ensure that programs comply with civil rights mandates and expand opportunity for all.” FHJC Executive Director Kumiki Gibson added, “This report underscores why it is important for government agencies to take their duty to affirmatively further fair housing seriously. Had they done so over the decade studied in our report, the LIHTC program could have expanded housing choices for lower-income families and contributed to a reduction in residential segregation. Our hope is that, going forward, these agencies will take steps to ensure that tax credits are used to create more mixed-income housing opportunities in low-poverty areas.”
The report was authored by Simon Kawitzky, Fred Freiberg, Diane L. Houk, and Salimah Hankins. Funding for the study was provided by the Ford Foundation. The full report is available on the FHJC website at www.fairhousingjustice.org/resources/publications.
About FHJC: The mission of the FHJC is to challenge systemic housing discrimination, promote open, accessible, and inclusive communities, and strengthen enforcement of fair housing laws. The FHJC assists individuals who encounter illegal housing discrimination by providing counseling on fair housing rights, investigative assistance, and referrals to administrative agencies and cooperating attorneys. Individuals who need assistance with housing discrimination complaints are encouraged to call the FHJC at (212) 400-8201.


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ALEX GORDON writes on the critical need for solidarity with the people of Ukraine from the labour movement as they fight against a corrupt regime
THIS coming Friday November 18, Liberation (formerly the Movement for Colonial Freedom) will host a public meeting at London’s Marx Memorial Library in Clerkenwell, with Ukrainian legislators, lawyers and academics talking about the continued descent of their country into authoritarianism and chaos.
Amnesty International and the Organisation for Security in Europe (OSE) have both protested at the gross violations of civil liberties in post-coup Ukraine.
The banning of the Communist Party of Ukraine (previously, the country’s third largest political party in terms of electoral support), the arrests of its members and the ban on “communist symbols and ideology” makes distributing Marxist texts — or any books which show the Soviet Union in a favourable light — a criminal offence.
The ridiculous denial of Ukraine’s own history reached bizarre proportions last week as Kiev upheld a ban on a new action movie distributed by US media giant Warner Bros because it depicts a security service agent of the Russian FSB in a positive light.
“In his latest film, Off Duty, [...] the main protagonist, played by German actor Til Schweiger, searches for his kidnapped daughter in Moscow and ‘a gallant FSB major’ saves the situation,” Sergey Neretin, the deputy head of Ukraine’s state Agency for Cinema, explained recently in a radio interview.
“We discussed the film and the law clearly says that we should ban it, despite who owns the distribution rights if it depicts a positive image of an employee of the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation,” Neretin said.
Ukrainian authorities have so far banned from the country over 140 figures of Russian culture and art.
A leader of the parliamentary opposition, Vadim Novinsky, has faced threats of criminal prosecution after he tried to stop attempts by the authorities to restrict the Orthodox Church (another symbol of Russian culture).
While the ban on symbolic and cultural expressions that conflict with the Kiev regime’s anti-communist ideology are bad enough, worse is their failure to honour the Minsk II Agreement on civil rights and elections in the eastern territories of Donetsk and Lugansk, where shelling of civilian areas by the Ukrainian Army and its ultra-nationalist auxiliary forces has escalated in recent weeks.
Indeed Kiev’s tenuous grip on large parts of the country is only possible through a widespread assault on public and civil rights of Ukraine’s citizens.
On September 4 2016, right-wing radicals attacked TV channel Inter and burnt down its offices. Only a miracle prevented mass casualties and loss of life.
Threats of physical violence against journalists and editors of the channel News One are commonplace. In fact, all of Ukraine’s independent media face direct violence or the threat of violence from nationalist organisations.
These attacks on independent media have been synchronised with pressure on opposition leaders by the Kiev authorities.
Ukraine’s right-wing radicals are controlled and directed by high-ranking state officials and are embedded in leadership positions of law enforcement authorities.
Alla Alexandrovska, a 68-year old former Communist Party MP, remains in indefinite detention without trial in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv despite serious health problems. The Kharkiv court has twice prolonged her detention.
The official excuse — common to many cases concerning members of Ukraine’s political opposition where court hearings are delayed for years and political opponents are held in detention without trial — is that a prosecution witness has gone missing.
In reality, the Kiev regime’s authoritarian, illegal and brutal methods are a clear indication of their weakness and reliance on outside support from the US State Department.
In an act of futile damage limitation following last week’s US presidential elections, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Arsen Avakov scrambled to delete Facebook posts he had posted attacking US president-elect Donald Trump.
On July 31 2016, Avakov called Trump a “dangerous misfit” because of Trump’s attitude over the Russian peninsula of Crimea. Avakov also deleted a large number of posts written between July 27 and August 17 this year.
Avakov’s original post read: “Trump’s statement about a possibility to consider recognition of Russia’s Crimea is a diagnosis of a dangerous misfit.”
As Kiev’s Western-installed coup leaders find their paymasters in Washington difficult to get hold of over the coming weeks, there is a real risk of the repression against Ukrainian citizens and political opposition further intensifying.
The need for solidarity from the trade union and labour movement in Britain for Ukraine’s citizens and political opposition leaders who are resisting an authoritarian and corrupt regime is now critical.
- Alex Gordon is chairman of the Marx Memorial Library & Workers’ School and member of Solidarity against Racism and Fascism’s steering committe. The public meeting, chaired by Liberation’s general secretary Maggie Bowden, will include speakers John Foster, the international secretary of the Communist Party of Britain; journalist and professor Dr Viktoriia Georgiievska and barrister and law professor Dr. Yevgenii Gerasymenko. It will be held on Friday November 18 at 7pm at the Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU.

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Compeyson is the one responsible for Miss Havisham's broken heart, as he was in league with her half-brother Arthur in a scheme to rob her of her fortune and leave her at the altar. How did I know it?
", Herbert had been writing with his pencil in the cover of a book. I am not a going fur to tell you my life like a song, or a story-book. In jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail. "Of course he'd much the best of it to the last,—his character was so good. 7 notes. Same place. In Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations, Arthur Havisham is Miss Havisham's younger, rebellious half-brother who was a result of Mr Havisham's affair with the cook after Mrs Havisham died. "'To judge from appearances, you're out of luck,' says Compeyson to me. We was in the same prison-ship, but I couldn't get at him for long, though I tried. When the prosecution opened and the evidence was put short, aforehand, I noticed how heavy it all bore on me, and how light on him. And such-like.
"I went to Compeyson next night, same place, and Compeyson took me on to be his man and pardner. I smashed his face. ', "I says, 'I hope it may be so.
Representations. honestly though we’ve had an entire series of characters almost taking compeyson down but not quite managing - and i know they’re limited as to what they can do because of the books but i am so ready for someone just to rip him apart. He was good-looking too. 'Go up alonger this drivelling sick man,' he says to his wife, 'and Magwitch, lend her a hand, will you?' He was in cahoots with Arthur Havisham all along, and eventually he linked up with Magwitch. As an adult, he made his living through forgery and financial schemes.
Dodger View Dodger. I didn't stop for life, dear boy and Pip's comrade, being here.". I've no more notion where I was born than you have—if so much. Don't you see her? When the evidence was giv in the box, I noticed how it was always me that had come for'ard, and could be swore to, how it was always me that the money had been paid to, how it was always me that had seemed to work the thing and get the profit. But when the defence come on, then I see the plan plainer; for, says the counsellor for Compeyson, 'My lord and gentlemen, here you has afore you, side by side, two persons as your eyes can separate wide; one, the younger, well brought up, who will be spoke to as such; one, the elder, ill brought up, who will be spoke to as such; one, the younger, seldom if ever seen in these here transactions, and only suspected; t'other, the elder, always seen in 'em and always wi' his guilt brought home.
Compeyson is the man who professed to be Miss Havisham's lover." "I never heerd no more of him. Him and me was soon busy, and first he swore me (being ever artful) on my own book,—this here little black book, dear boy, what I swore your comrade on. ), "'Luck changes,' says Compeyson; 'perhaps yours is going to change. "There was another in with Compeyson, as was called Arthur,—not as being so chrisen'd, but as a surname. When they are caught and brought to court, Compeyson easily puts all the blame on Magwitch, without a second thought. Miss Havisham is devastated by his abandonment and spends the rest of her life mourning their supposed love.
just once. Him and some more was a sitting among the tables when I went in, and the landlord (which had a knowledge of me, and was a sporting one) called him out, and said, 'I think this is a man that might suit you,'—meaning I was. "By my boy, I was giv to understand as Compeyson was out on them marshes too. He had so heated himself that he took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and head and neck and hands, before he could go on. 'Yes,' says Compeyson's wife. "Dear boy and Pip's comrade. The black-hole of that ship warn't a strong one, to a judge of black-holes that could swim and dive. 'Yes.' Other major characters include the Cratchits, the Barbarys, and Fagin's gang. And when it come to speech-making, warn't it Compeyson as could speak to 'em wi' his face dropping every now and then into his white pocket-handkercher,—ah!
He regarded me with a look of affection that made him almost abhorrent to me again, though I had felt great pity for him. But to give it you short and handy, I'll put it at once into a mouthful of English.
And over where her heart's broke—you broke it!—there's drops of blood.'. to do it. Arthur was jealous that Mr Havisham favoured his sister and was extravagantly greedy with his money. Arthur lived at the top of Compeyson's house (over nigh Brentford it was), and Compeyson kept a careful account agen him for board and lodging, in case he should ever get better to work it out. His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night. ", He had worked himself into a state of great excitement, but he checked it, took two or three short breaths, swallowed as often, and stretching out his hand towards me said, in a reassuring manner, "I ain't a going to be low, dear boy!". He has a watch and a chain and a ring and a breast-pin and a handsome suit of clothes.
She's lifting me up. And I'd have swum off, towing him by the hair, if it had come to that, and I'd a got him aboard without the soldiers. She's coming out of the corner. Sarcastic Confession: Compeyson outright tells Pocket that he plans to steal Miss Havisham's fortune, but passes it off as a joke. My Missis as I had the hard time wi'—Stop though! AU - Amelia Havisham and Meriwether Compeyson are married, as despite Mr Jagger's suspicions, Arthur does not speak up. She's coming to the bed. Don't let her throw it over my shoulders. He abandoned Miss Havisham at the altar, and later got Abel Magwitch arrested. ', "Says Compeyson: 'Why, you fool, don't you know she's got a living body? Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ).
'Why look at her!' At last, me and Compeyson was both committed for felony,—on a charge of putting stolen notes in circulation,—and there was other charges behind. That's my life pretty much, down to such times as I got shipped off, arter Pip stood my friend. Upon my soul, I half believe he escaped in his terror, to get quit of me, not knowing it was me as had got ashore. "This is the way it was, that when I was a ragged little creetur as much to be pitied as ever I see (not that I looked in the glass, for there warn't many insides of furnished houses known to me), I got the name of being hardened. He was younger than me, but he'd got craft, and he'd got learning, and he overmatched me five hundred times told and no mercy. And when we're sentenced, ain't it him as gets seven year, and me fourteen, and ain't it him as the Judge is sorry for, because he might a done so well, and ain't it me as the Judge perceives to be a old offender of wiolent passion, likely to come to worse? I escaped to the shore, and I was a hiding among the graves there, envying them as was in 'em and all over, when I first see my boy!".
Compeyson was also the man who left Miss Havisham at the alter, doing business with her half brother. "I had said to Compeyson that I'd smash that face of his, and I swore Lord smash mine! She's all in white,' he says, 'wi' white flowers in her hair, and she's awful mad, and she's got a shroud hanging over her arm, and she says she'll put it on me at five in the morning. Shipper with an Agenda : Frances for Honoria and Sir Leicester Dedlock, the family is bankrupt and Honoria marrying the wealthy Sir Leicester would solve this. 'Yes, yes, all right.' "'Yes, master, and I've never been in it much.' "Compeyson's wife, being used to him, giv him some liquor to get the horrors off, and by and by he quieted. Compeyson works as a con artist, but he makes Magwitch do all his "dirty work".
Take it away from her, take it away!' There's room. And I was so miserable poor, that I sold all the clothes I had, except what hung on my back, afore I could get Jaggers. Arthur Havisham Delirium tremens "There was another in with Compeyson, as was called Arthur…He was in a decline, and was a shadow to look at." AU - Amelia Havisham and Meriwether Compeyson are married, as despite Mr Jagger's suspicions, Arthur does not speak up. "Compeyson spoke hardy, but he was always a coward. And when the verdict come, warn't it Compeyson as was recommended to mercy on account of good character and bad company, and giving up all the information he could agen me, and warn't it me as got never a word but Guilty? SparkNotes is brought to you by Barnes & Noble. He wiped himself again, as he had done before, and then slowly took his tangle of tobacco from his pocket, and plucked his pipe from his button-hole, and slowly filled it, and began to smoke. And when it come to character, warn't it Compeyson as had been to the school, and warn't it his schoolfellows as was in this position and in that, and warn't it him as had been know'd by witnesses in such clubs and societies, and nowt to his disadvantage? Pip connects this news... (full context) Compeyson had a good education when he was a child. 'She's a shaking the shroud at me! dickensian compeyson arthur havisham. Visit BN.com to buy new and used textbooks, and check out our award-winning NOOK tablets and eReaders. And how should she be up there, without coming through the door, or in at the window, and up the stairs? "He set up fur a gentleman, this Compeyson, and he'd been to a public boarding-school and had learning. One of his fellows in crime was Miss Havisham's half brother, known in the novel only by his forename, Arthur.
At last I come behind him and hit him on the cheek to turn him round and get a smashing one at him, when I was seen and seized. All sorts of traps as Compeyson could set with his head, and keep his own legs out of and get the profits from and let another man in for, was Compeyson's business.
"Young Havisham's name was Arthur. I ain't brought her in—". Arthur Havisham. ain't it Compeyson as prays the Judge to be protected, and gets two turnkeys stood betwixt us? She's got the shroud again. Did I tell you as I was tried, alone, for misdemeanor, while with Compeyson?". She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life.She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella.Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place". I was always in debt to him, always under his thumb, always a working, always a getting into danger. All of their lives have changed, but Arthur refuses to recognise Compeyson as the new master of Satis House and Compeyson must find a way to make him submit. "There ain't no need to go into it," he said, looking round once more.
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Alexander Wolff of Sports Illustrated, who has covered professional and college basketball since the early 1980s, and Jim Durham, the former voice of the Dallas Mavericks and Chicago Bulls, are the 2011 recipients of the Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Sports Illustrated is reporting.
The award is named in honor of the late sports broadcaster and former president of the Hall of Fame board, and is given to both print and electronic media members.
Wolff and Durham will be honored during the Hall’s enshrinement ceremony on Aug. 11 in Springfield, Mass.
- Here's a Sure Sign of Spring: MLB Network Announces Spring Training Schedule
- Thomas Roberts: If NFL Can Overlook Alleged Murderers, Why Not 'Nice, Clean-Cut Gay Guy'
- CBS Lands NFL Thursday Night Games for 2014 Season
- What Happens When 112 Million People Change the Channel Around the Same Time?

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Samsung NP950SBE-X01US-RB Notebook 9 Pen 15" FHD i7-8565U 16GB 1TB W10H, Blue - Certified Refurbished
DescriptionThe 15" Notebook 9 Pen Multi-Touch 2-in-1 Laptop from Samsung is a thin and light system designed for the on-the-go user. It features a 15" 1920 x 1080 multi-touch display, driven by an NVIDIA GeForce MX150 graphics card, and has a 350-nit brightness rating with a peak of 500 for outdoor use. Moreover, it folds up to 360° so you can easily share what's on your screen or use it as a tablet. Included with the Laptop 9 is an S Pen, which you can use to take notes and draw. It even has its own storage compartment so you won't lose it. Specs-wise, it's powered by a 1.8 GHz Intel Core i7-8565U quad-core processor, 16GB of LPDDR3 RAM, and a 1TB PCIe SSD. If you need more space, you can connect external storage solutions using its USB ports as well as its microSD card reader. Other integrated features include 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, Thunderbolt 3 ports, a backlit keyboard, a webcam, a microphone, speakers, and a fingerprint reader. The operating system installed is Windows 10 Home.
- 15" 1920 x 1080 Multi-Touch Display
- 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7-8565U Quad-Core
- 16GB LPDDR3 | 1TB PCIe SSD
- NVIDIA GeForce MX150 (2GB GDDR5)
Light & Durable
The Laptop 9 features a full metal frame and magnesium alloy construction for durability that's also portable. It weighs just over three pounds and easily fits into your bag or backpack.
Use the included S Pen to quickly take notes or draw a rough sketch. The Laptop 9 has a dedicated storage slot for it so you won't lose it.
With a USB Type-C port, the Laptop 9 can be charged via a compatible battery pack for convenient power on-the-go.
Aside from the Full HD resolution, the Laptop 9's display can also reach a 500-nit brightness rating for outdoor use. Moreover, it supports touch input so you can use it with your fingers or the included stylus.
A built-in far-field microphone lets the Laptop 9 pick up audio clearly. You can also use the optional Voice Note software to add bookmarks to your audio recordings.
A built-in fingerprint reader lets your quickly, easily, and securely log into your notebook.
The Laptop 9 has a backlit keyboard, which lets you work in challenging environments such as dark or dimly lit settings.
Thunderbolt 3 is a hardware interface that utilizes the reversible USB Type-C connector. Doubling the speed of its predecessor, Thunderbolt 3 features a maximum throughput of 40 Gb/s when used with compatible devices. The connector also transmits data via USB 3.1 at up to 10 Gb/s, and dual-bandwidth DisplayPort 1.2 allows you to connect up to two 4K displays simultaneously. Additionally, you can daisy chain up to six devices from a single Thunderbolt 3 port.
Windows 10 Home
After its hiatus in Windows 8, the Start Menu has returned. Utilizing a combination of the traditional menu system and Windows 8's Live Tiles, the improved Start Menu gives you more information at a glance, showing notification information alongside your applications and other pinned items.
Microsoft's digital personal assistant, Cortana can answer your questions with information gleaned from both your device and the internet at large. You can type or even talk with her, if your system has a microphone. Using her Laptop, Cortana keeps track of your needs and wants, and she learns over time to improve her information gathering skills.
After nearly 20 years, Microsoft has finally replaced its Internet Explorer web browser. With Microsoft Edge, users can write directly on web pages and share notes with friends and colleagues. It also improves the online reading experience by adding a distraction-free mode and read-it-later functionality. Edge also has built-in Cortana integration; you can have her help you find a restaurant, make a reservation, and pull up directions without leaving your browser.
For Windows 10, Microsoft has unified the Windows Store. Now, apps for PCs, tablets, and phones will all be accessible from one place. And with support for Universal Apps, one version of an app can work across all your compatible devices automatically.
Windows 10 was designed for a variety of screen sizes and input styles, and with its Continuum feature, it automatically adapts to fit your needs. A Windows 10 tablet on its own requires a touch-centric approach, but attaching a mouse and keyboard will shift everything to a more traditional interface. You can even attach an external monitor to your Windows 10 phone for a near-desktop experience. But it's not just the operating system; Windows Universal Apps take advantage of Continuum as well.
Xbox on Windows 10
Gaming is a big focus of Windows 10. Xbox integration allows for PC players to match up against Xbox One players on supported games, and if you have an Xbox One, you can even stream compatible titles to your PC. Native support for recording with the new Game DVR feature makes it easy to capture and share your gameplay. The new DirectX12 takes better advantage of multi-core processors, giving games a performance boost, even on older hardware. Windows 10 also features native support for virtual reality headsets, such as the Oculus Rift.
Operating System Windows 10 Home (64-Bit)Performance CPU 1.8 GHz Intel Core i7-8565U Quad-Core Maximum Boost Speed 4.6 GHz L3 Cache 8 MB Memory Type LPDDR3 Total Installed Memory 16 GB Maximum Memory Capacity 16 GB Memory Slot Type 204-Pin SO-DIMM Memory Slots None Buffered Memory No ECC Memory No Graphics Type Dedicated GPU NVIDIA GeForce MX150 with 2 GB GDDR5 VRAMDisplay Panel Type Unspecified LCD Size 15" Aspect Ratio 16:9 Resolution 1920 x 1080 Touchscreen Yes Maximum Brightness 350 cd/m2 Adaptive-Sync Technology NoneStorage and Expansion Total Installed Capacity 1 TB Solid State Storage 1 x 1 TB Integrated PCIe Optical Drive NoneI/O USB Type-C 2 x Thunderbolt 3 1 x USB 3.1 / USB 3.2 Gen 1 Audio 1 x 1/8" / 3.5 mm Headphone/Microphone Input/Output Built-In Speakers Yes Built-In Microphones Yes Media Card Slots 1 x microSD/SDHC/SDXCCommunications Ethernet None Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac); Dual-Band (2.4 & 5 GHz) MU-MIMO Support 2 x 2 Bluetooth 5.0 GPS None NFC None Webcam User-Facing: 720pBattery Battery Chemistry Lithium-Ion Capacity 4-Cell: 54 Wh Maximum Runtime 15 HoursKeyboard & Mouse Keyboard Notebook Keyboard with Backlight Pointing Device TouchPad, StylusGeneral Security BIOS Booting, HDD User Password Protection, Infineon TPM Software Professional Package, Fingerprint Reader Power Supply 65 W Dimensions 13.7 x 0.67 x 9.02" / 347.98 x 17.02 x 229.11 mm Weight 3.44 lb / 1.56 kgPackaging Info Package Weight 4.92 lb Box Dimensions (LxWxH) 15.3 x 10.6 x 2.7"


Waves Vienna 2021
From September 9 to 11 2021, the WANDERLUST stage at WUK Beisl presents showcases of outstanding acts from Germany at WAVES Vienna 2021.
Twelve acts are part of the WANDERLUST – New German Talent Showcase. WANDERLUST is a cooperation of Initiative Musik and the regional pop music funding organizations Musicboard Berlin, popNRW (Landesmusikrat NRW), Pop-Büro Region Stuttgart, RockCity Hamburg e.V. and Verband für Popkultur in Bayern with the aim of increasing the presence of young German acts abroad in the long term.
Burkini Beach & Sir Simon, Discovery Zone (ETEP), June Cocó (INES#talent), Mira Mann, Wolfgang Peréz and Sparkling (INES#talent) are another seven musicians and bands from Germany that will also be taking part in the Waves Vienna showcase programme.
Thursday 9th September, 11:30 – 12:30 h @ WUK Conference Room 1
What’s up Germany? Music festivals beyond the mainstream, hosted by Initiative Musik
Speakers: Alex Härtel (Summer Breeze Open Air/DE), Christoffer Horlitz (Fuchsbau Festival/DE), Friederike Tesch (Immergut/DE), Florian Zoll (Taubertal/DE)
Moderation: Neus López (Initiative Musik/DE)
Friday 10th September, 12:30 – 13:30 h @ Cafe Weimar
Meet the Germans!
Apply to participate at the Speed Meeting session with representatives of the German acts playing in Vienna this year!
For music professionals only, registration required until 5th September.
Friday 10th September, 17:30 – 18:30 h @ WUK BEISL
Join us at the German WANDERLUST Reception and meet all the German participants, before we start with our second showcase day.


In an article titled Do Positive People Live Longer? David Hamilton reports on studies that show that positive people do indeed live longer. He gives the following advice:
How do we turn our minds to more positive things? Counting blessings is a simple way. Make a list of five to ten things that you are grateful for that have happened in the last 24 hours, and do this every day for a month. Or challenge yourself to go three weeks without complaining, moaning, or criticizing.
Or do you have a tendency to "make mountains out of molehills"? If so, try out the opposite just for a week. Try making molehills out of mountains.
Read full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-r-hamilton-phd/positive-people-live-long_b_774648.html
Anyone who has heard Rabbi Paysach Krohn speak may have heard him offering the same sage wisdom. He advises people in the audience to think of five positive things in their lives when reciting the prayer of Modim anachnu Lach (we give thanks to You) in the daily amidah.
Speaking of Paysach Krohn, below is a one minute clip about what made Moshe a great leader. Appropriate for an election day in which we are choosing new leaders.