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Hu Yaobang (20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989) was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China. He held the top office of the Communist Party of China from 1981 to 1987, first as Chairman from 1981 to 1982, then as General Secretary from 1982 to 1987. Hu joined the Chinese Communist Party in the 1930s, and rose to prominence as a comrade of Deng Xiaoping in the 1970s. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Hu was purged, recalled, and purged again by Mao Zedong.
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is head of the Communist Party of China and the highest-ranking official within the People's Republic of China. The General Secretary is a standing member of the Politburo and head of the Secretariat. The officeholder is usually considered the "paramount leader" of China.
After Deng rose to power, following the death of Mao Zedong, Hu was promoted to a series of high political positions. Throughout the 1980s Hu pursued a series of economic and political reforms under the direction of Deng. Hu's political and economic reforms made him the enemy of several powerful Party elders, who opposed free market reforms and attempts to make China's government more transparent. When widespread student protests occurred across China in 1987, Hu's political opponents successfully blamed Hu for the disruptions, claiming that Hu's "laxness" and "bourgeois liberalization" had either led to, or worsened, the protests. Hu was forced to resign as Party general secretary in 1987, but was allowed to retain a seat in the Politburo.
The Eight Great Eminent Officials, abbreviated as the Eight Elders, were a group of elderly members of the Communist Party of China who held substantial power during the 1980s and 1990s. In the English-speaking world, these men are often called The Eight Immortals as an allusion to the Taoist deities commonly known as the Eight Immortals.
Student demonstrations took place in a number of Chinese cities from December 1986 until mid-January 1987. The demonstrations started in the city of Hefei before spreading to other cities such as Shanghai and Nanjing. The movement was heavily influenced by the Chinese intellectuals Fang Lizhi and Wang Ruowang, who were critical of the Chinese government’s lack of political reforms. The demonstrations quickly dissipated by mid-January before achieving any of its stated goals. The lack of response from Hu Yaobang, who was General Secretary of the Communist Party of China at the time, would result in his removal from power on January 15, 1987 and his replacement by Zhao Ziyang.
Hu's position as Party general secretary was taken by Zhao Ziyang, who continued many of Hu's economic and political reforms. A day after Hu's death, in 1989, a small-scale demonstration commemorated him and demanded that the government reassess his legacy. A week later, the day before Hu's funeral, some 100,000 students marched on Tiananmen Square, leading to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. This was a part of the Chinese Democracy Movement. Following the government's violent suppression of the 1989 protests, the Chinese government censored the details of Hu's life within mainland China, but it officially rehabilitated his image and lifted its censorship restrictions on the 90th anniversary of Hu's birth, in 2005.
Zhao Ziyang was a high-ranking statesman in China. He was the third Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1980 to 1987, Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1981 to 1982, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1987 to 1989. He lost power in connection with the reformative neoauthoritarianism current and his support of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Hu Yaobang's ancestors were Hakkas   from Jiangxi. During the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) they migrated into Hunan, where Hu was born.  Hu Yaobang was born into a poor peasant family, and received little formal education. As a child he never attended school, and he taught himself to read. Hu participated in his first rebellion when he was twelve, left his family to join the Chinese Communist Party when he was only fourteen,  and became a full member of the Party in 1933.  During the factional struggles that polarized the CCP during the 1930s, Hu supported Mao Zedong and opposed the 28 Bolsheviks.
Jiangxi is a province in the People's Republic of China, located in the southeast of the country. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest.
Hunan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed in South Central China; it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Guangdong and Guangxi to the south, Guizhou to the west, and Chongqing to the northwest. With a population of just over 67 million as of 2014 residing in an area of approximately 210,000 km2 (81,000 sq mi), it is China's 7th most populous and the 10th most extensive province-level by area.
The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang army. There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west. The best known is the march from Jiangxi province which began in October 1934. The First Front Army of the Chinese Soviet Republic, led by an inexperienced military commission, was on the brink of annihilation by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's troops in their stronghold in Jiangxi province. The Communists, under the eventual command of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, escaped in a circling retreat to the west and north, which reportedly traversed over 9,000 kilometers over 370 days. The route passed through some of the most difficult terrain of western China by traveling west, then north, to Shaanxi.
Tan Yubao was a Chinese communist. He was born in Chaling County, Zhuzhou, Hunan Province. He was chairman of the communist base (Soviet) on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi Provinces. He once intervened to save the life of Hu Yaobang. He was a delegate to the 3rd National People's Congress.
Mount Lu or Lushan, also known as Kuanglu (匡庐) in ancient times, is situated in the northern part of Jiangxi province in Central China, and is one of the most renowned mountains in the country. It is located primarily in Lushan county-level city in Jiujiang Prefecture, although the northern portions are found in Lianxi District which was formerly known as Lushan District and until 2016 covered the majority of the Mount Lu. The oval-shaped mountains are about 25 km long and 10 km wide, and neighbors Jiujiang city and the Yangtze River to the north, Nanchang city to the south, and Poyang Lake to the east. Its highest point is Dahanyang Peak (大汉阳峰), reaching 1,474 m above sea level, and is one of the hundreds of steep peaks that towers above a sea of clouds that encompass the mountains for almost 200 days out of the year. Mount Lu is known for its grandeur, steepness, and beauty, and is part of Lushan National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996, and a prominent tourist attraction, especially during the summer months when the weather is cooler.
Zunyi is a prefecture-level city in northern Guizhou province, People's Republic of China, situated between the provincial capital Guiyang to the south and Chongqing to the north, also bordering Sichuan to the northwest. Along with Guiyang and Liupanshui, it is one of the most important cities of the province. The built-up area made of three urban districts of the city, Huichuan, Honghuagang, and Bozhou, had a population of 1,095,189 people; and the whole prefecture, including 14 county-level administration area as a whole, has a population of 6,127,009 at the 2010 census.
The Zunyi Conference was a meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in January 1935 during the Long March. This meeting involved a power struggle between the leadership of Bo Gu and Otto Braun and the opposition led by Mao Zedong. The result was that Mao left the meeting in position to take over military command and become the leader of the Communist Party. The conference was completely unacknowledged until the 1950s and still no detailed descriptions were available until the fiftieth anniversary in 1985.
In 1949, the CCP successfully defeated Nationalist forces on mainland China, and the communists founded the People's Republic. In 1952, Hu accompanied Deng to Beijing, and Hu became the leader of the Communist Youth League from 1952–1966.  Hu rose rapidly up the Communist Party hierarchy, until Mao sent Hu to work as First Party Secretary of Shaanxi in 1964, saying: "He needs some practical training". Hu may have been assigned to work outside of Beijing because he was judged as being not sufficiently enthusiastic about Maoism.  Unlike many of his colleagues, Hu was able to keep his membership within the Party Central Committee until the 9th Party Congress in April 1969.
On April 22 1989, 50,000 students marched to Tiananmen Square to participate in Hu's memorial service, and to deliver a letter of petition to Premier Li Peng.  Many people were dissatisfied with the party's slow response and relatively subdued funerary arrangements. Public mourning began on the streets of Beijing and elsewhere. In Beijing this was centred on the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square. The mourning became a public conduit for anger against perceived nepotism in the government, the unfair dismissal and early death of Hu, and the behind-the-scenes role of the "old men", officially retired leaders who nevertheless maintained quasi-legal power, such as Deng Xiaoping.  The protests eventually escalated into the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Hu's promotion of the ideas on freedom of speech and freedom of press greatly influenced the students participating in the protests.
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 eventually ended in the violent suppression of protesters on 4 June 1989, in which hundreds of civilians were killed. Because the protests had been sparked by the death of Hu Yaobang, the government determined that any public discussion of Hu and his legacy could destabilize China by renewing debate about the political reforms that Hu supported. Because of the public association with Hu and the "Tiananmen Massacre", Hu Yaobang's name became taboo on the mainland, and the Chinese government censored any mention of him in the media.  In one example of government censorship, printed media which commemorated the anniversary of his death in 1994 were withdrawn from publication.
The official three-volume biography and a collection of Hu's writings were slated for release in China. The project was originally begun by a group of Hu's former aides, led by Zhang Liqun (who died in 2003). After the government learned of the project, it insisted on taking control of it. One of the main issues that government censors identified was the concern that details of Hu's relationship with Deng Xiaoping (especially details of Hu's removal from power after resisting orders to crack down on student demonstrators in 1987) would reflect poorly on Deng's legacy. The authors of Hu's biography subsequently rejected offers from the government to released a censored version.  Only one volume (dealing with events up to the end of the Cultural Revolution) of the biography written by Hu's former aides was eventually published, with the other two volumes held by the government and remaining unpublished.
Although magazines publishing commemorative articles were initially stopped from being released, the ban was lifted in 2005 and these magazines were publicly issued. Yanhuang Chunqiu , a reform-minded magazine, was allowed to publish a series of articles in 2005 commemorating the birthday of Hu Yaobang, but the government acted to limit the availability of the magazine. The issue commemorating Hu sold 50,000 copies, but the remaining 5,000 copies were destroyed by propaganda officials.  This was the first time since his death that Hu's name appeared publicly.
On 20 November 2015, the 100th Anniversary of the birth of Hu Yaobang, Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping held a high profile commemoration ceremony for Hu Yaobang in Beijing. In contrast to the event held by the previous leadership ten years earlier, the 100th anniversary event was deliberately high-profile and attended by all members of the Politburo Standing Committee. Xi lavished Hu with praise for his accomplishments, and said that Hu "dedicated his life to the party and to the people. His led a glorious life, a life of struggle... his contributions will shine in history."  Hu appeared as a character in the 2015 historical drama Deng Xiaoping at History's Crossroads .
Li Peng is a retired Chinese politician. Li served as the fourth Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1987 to 1998 and the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from 1998 to 2003. For much of the 1990s Li was ranked second in the Communist Party of China (CPC) hierarchy behind then Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin. He retained his seat on the CPC Politburo Standing Committee until 2002.
The Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, sometimes also referred to informally as the "Prime Minister", is the Leader of the State Council of China, who is the head of government and holds the highest rank in the Civil Service. This position was originally known as Premier of the Government Administration Council of the Central People's Government from 1949, but changed to its current name in 1954.
Yang Shangkun was President of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and was a powerful Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission under Deng Xiaoping. He married Li Bozhao in 1929, one of the few women to participate in the Long March, as did Yang.
Wan Li was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. During a long administrative career in the People's Republic of China, he served successively as Vice Premier, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), and a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Secretariat and its Politburo.
Hu Qili is a former high-ranking politician of the Communist Party of China (CPC). He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and a member of the Secretariat between 1987 and 1989. In 1989, he was purged because of his sympathy toward the students of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and his support for General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. However, he was able to get back into politics in 1991. In 2001, he was named chairman of the Soong Ching-ling Foundation.
Song Renqiong, born Song Yunqin, was a general in the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and one of the Eight Elders of the Communist Party of China.
Chen Xitong was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and the Mayor of Beijing until he was removed from office on charges of corruption in 1995.
Wang Zhaoguo is a retired Chinese politician who came to prominence during the era of Deng Xiaoping. An automobile factory technician by trade, Wang had a long and varied political career, known for having acquired a ministerial-level position at the age of 41. He successively served as the First Secretary of the Communist Youth League, the chief of the party's General Office, Secretary of the Central Secretariat, Governor of Fujian, Head of the United Front Work Department and Vice-Chairman of the CPPCC.
The 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was in session from 1987 to 1992. It held seven plenary sessions. It was preceded by the 12th Central Committee. It was securely succeeded by the 14th Central Committee.
Qin Jiwei was a general of the People's Republic of China, Minister of National Defense and a member of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo.
The Critical Moment – Li Peng Diaries is a book issued in 2010 in the United States by West Point Publishing House, a small publisher established by Zheng Cunzhu, a former 1989 pro-democracy activist. The book contains entries from a diary believed to be written by the former Chinese Premier, Li Peng, covering the events leading up to and shortly after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
The Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation (BWAF), or Beijing Workers’ Autonomous Union was the primary Chinese workers' organization calling for political change during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The group was formed in the wake of mourning activities for former General Secretary Hu Yaobang in April 1989. The BWAF denounced political corruption, presenting itself as an independent union capable of "supervising the Communist Party," unlike the Party-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU).
Yan Mingfu is a retired Chinese politician. His first prominent role in government began in 1985, when he was made leader of the United Front Work Department for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He held the position until the CCP expelled him for inadequately following the party line in his dialogues with students during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Yan returned to government work in 1991 when he became a vice minister of Civil Affairs.
Deng Liqun was a Chinese politician and theorist who was one of the leading figures of the Communist Party of China during the 1980s, most well known for his involvement with the party's propaganda work. Deng was born in Guidong County, Hunan province, and joined the Communist Party in 1936. He came from an intellectual family and joined the party out of intellectual commitment. He was often referred to as "Little Deng", to be distinguished from Deng Xiaoping, the "Old Deng".
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were a turning point for many Chinese officials, who were subjected to a purge that started after June 4, 1989. The purge covered top-level government figures down to local officials, and included General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and his associates. The purge took the form of a massive ideological campaign that lasted 18 months. At least 4 million party members were under some sort of investigation. The government stated that the purge was undertaken for the purpose of “resolutely getting rid of hostile elements, antiparty elements, and corrupt elements" as well as "dealing strictly with those inside the party serious tendencies toward bourgeois liberalization” and purify the party.
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Community volunteers and keen amateur archaeologists have been uncovering historical finds from sites around the Flodden battlefield.
Their work was undertaken as part of the Fodden 1513 Ecomuseum project, and is set to continue with free events through the autumn, concentrating on pottery finds.
The next pottery workshop, open to all, will be held on Saturday, September 10, at Coldstream Museum.
Throughout the Flodden 500 project, volunteers have taken part in excavations uncovering a range of pottery from prehistoric to modern times.
Richard Carlton, a specialist in pottery technology and a potter himself, who has been involved in many of the excavations, will lead the workshop.
He will begin by introducing the variety of pottery that is typical of the area, before showing some of the best examples of the pottery found over the recent years by community volunteers.
This will be followed by a demonstration of the different stages involved in pottery-making, and there will also be the opportunity for people to roll up their sleeves and have a go on a potter’s wheel.
“This is a great opportunity for people to come along and learn all about the pottery we have unearthed throughout of the project,” said Alistair Bowden, part of the Flodden 1513 Ecomuseum project.
Similar events are also scheduled to take place throughout October. The second in the programme will be a workshop on flint tools hosted by Dr. Rob Young, where participants will have the chance to do some flint knapping. This will be followed by an event on October 22, led by Dr. David Caldwell, looking at military objects, including a demonstration of period weaponry by Dr. John Sadler.

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So initially, I considered tearing paper into little bits and arranging them. But, I seem to have a psychotic aversion to creating something temporary.
Then, I remembered a high school art project involving making our own paper by putting colored paper in a blender…paper smoothie anyone?
Well, the results are in and they’re not perfect. I didn’t have all the tools needed, like a mould & deckle and couching material & a press. All those goodies are on my amazon.com wish list now though.
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About 75 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water. A vehicle that could travel on land and water could potentially change current transportation models. For an amphibian to work, it must be able to float, prevent leakage and corrosion, and successfully transition from land to sea and back.
The Aquada has no doors, which helps prevent leaks. The basic structure is an aluminum-bonded space frame. To address the issue of corrosion, Gibbs has tested its materials under extreme conditions. Every component has undergone a 2,000-hour salt-spray test, which is about four times longer than a standard automobile is tested. Jenkins said that the company has gone to extra lengths to ensure safety.
"There's residual buoyancy, so you can't sink the vehicle," says Jenkins. "If you chain it to the bottom of the English Channel for a week and then let it go, it would pop to the surface."

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Paul Jolley never really stood a chance on this season of American Idol.
It was a bittersweet night for Paul, who was presented with a proclamation from his hometown in Tennessee declaring it Paul Jolley Day practically in the same breath as host Ryan Seacrest telling him he got the least amount of votes and had to sing for survival.
It was pretty clear poor Paul knew he had no chance of earning the judges’ one and only save of the season, as he phoned in a lackluster performance of Heart’s “Alone.” And, indeed, the judges passed on having him stick around. “Go away! You’re not welcome here, white boy!” Nicki Minaj squawked with the flip of her hand. OK, so we just totally made that part up. But we’d give the show way more credit if they’d let a truth bomb like that slip through every once in a while.
Speaking of truth bombs, mentor Jimmy Iovine ripped the judges (and some poor lowly production intern) a new a-hole during the night when he called them out for “coddling” the contestants and being too nice.
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I recently read Peter Bregman’s book “4 Seconds – All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want.” The section on accepting criticism was particularly helpful.
My personal tendency is to blow criticism out of proportion. It takes a while for me to stop being defensive and analyze what I’m being told so I can change and improve. While we can’t please everyone all the time, and some criticism might be exaggerated, I believe there is some truth in every comment. This is sometimes masked by the way in which feedback is delivered, which can often be harsh and hurtful.
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text: The Tatoosh Range, located in the southern end of Mt. Rain-Here Nat. Park, is made up of 11 named peaks. This 3 peak link-up is one of the most popular, if only because of the easy access from the trailhead. A popular Mazamas climb, this classic alpine scramble has a round trip hike of just 4 miles and 1,700 vertical feet, and thus can be done by most climbers of moderate fitness in a reasonable day. Along with a park entrance fee, all of the Tatoosh peaks offer spectacular views of Mt. Rainier - given clear weather, naturally. This is good beginner trip and fairly close to home. Be prepared for a short rappel on Castle and possible a handline on Pinnacle, depending on your comfort level on exposed 3rd or easy 4th class rock. In early season, an ice axe can be useful. "Tatoosh" means 'nourishing breast " in the local native American language. If you are looking for more solitude and similar scramble peaks, check these other options for Tatoosh climbing.

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Maybe it should be called Module.refinements (a la Module.nesting).
> Issue #7418 has been reported by charliesome (Charlie Somerville).
> I'd like to propose a method that returns an array of all refinements visible from the current scope. I have documented the ordering of the return array as undefined to allow a bit of flexibility in how it is implemented across the various Ruby implementations.
> One of the criticisms of refinements is that its use makes code harder tounderstand - especially when non-lexical refinements are being used. This method slightly improves the situation by making debugging of code using refinements easier.
> I've named the method 'used_refinements' for now, but I'm open to changing that to something else.
> I've already done the initial implementation which is attached as a patch. Feedback would be most appreciated.

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I've just completed another military move (phew)! I learn something new every single time I complete the process.
This time, I really tried to strike a balance between keeping things I need, love and will use again ... and winding up on an episode of Hoarders.
Since this isn't my first rodeo, I've picked up some wisdom along the way. Gather around and let me share some tips with you.
1. Start preparing before the move. On the front end of our move, I purge things that I don't want to bother unpacking on the back end. Need cash? Start a few months ahead of time and sell on eBay and Craigslist, or have a yard sale. Feeling flush? Give it to Goodwill in one fell swoop. If you don't feel like unpacking it, don't let them pack it in the first place.
2. Plan where things are going to go ahead of time. Do you have pictures or a floor plan of your new house? Then you can plan where things are going to go ahead of time. The movers totally appreciate not moving the piano around while you decide where you want it, too.
But I will admit even though I try to plan where things will go in the new house ahead of time, at the end of our unpacking period, I am usually still left with items that just won't fit in this particular house.
Quick tip: An unbreakable rule of moving is that two houses, even if they are exact same square footage, will not hold the same amount of furniture in the same configuration. It is what it is.
3. Impose a two-week deadline. My goal is to get all of my boxes unpacked within two weeks of the unload. By then, I usually know what fits and what doesn't.
In the past, I used to try to get rid of everything that didn't work in this particular house, and then I'd wind up re-purchasing the same item when I needed it in the next house.What a waste of time and money!
If you love a piece and intend to use it again, try with all your might to make it fit. I currently have a dresser in my closet, a table in my hallway, and a bookshelf in my bathroom. I promise it all works -- it even makes me decorate more creatively.
If all else fails, I stash things in my garage, attic or pool shed. If I used it in the last house and will use it in the next house, it's not hoarding!
4. Beware holiday decor! I donate unused holiday decorations when I pack up after the fact. If I haven't used them in two years, they are gone. Sometimes, they get the ax after one year -- I'm trying to simplify.
5. Impose the one-year rule. It's OK not to ditch my sweaters and scarves if we're spending a few years in the Deep South. However, if I haven't worn a piece of seasonal clothing in my closet in a year, it's outta there! I also have a strict one-in-one-out rule for shoes, mostly because I keep them in nice plastic bins and I have a set number. Sad, but true.
6. Create memory boxes for the kids. My kids get to have a few boxes of "memories" that we drag all over the place, no questions asked. "Normal" people have basements, attics, garages etc. and don't have to throw away their childhoods; my military brats should be able to do the same.
7. Unopened boxes are telling you something. This doesn't happen as often with military families as it does with civilians, but if you haven't opened a particular box in several moves, then it might be time to reassess the importance of said box. This excludes the memory boxes mentioned above, although I'll still go through those every few years and weed things out.
8. Things get “lost” in a move, don’t they? Please don't tell my kids this, but sometimes things get "lost" in the move. I'm not talking about a favorite stuffed animal here, but maybe a drawerful of kids' meal toys, or a foot-high stack of school papers and artwork. The corollary to this is that you shouldn't "lose" your husband's things in the move the way you "lose" your kids' things, however tempting it may be. Seriously.
Quick tip: Because we all have artwork made by tiny hands that we want to keep throughout the years, I tape two large pieces of posterboard together on three sides to make a huge pocket. I make one for each child, and as we save particularly special pieces of artwork, we date them and slide them into the pocket. The pockets can be stored under the bed, or even slid between the mattress and box springs in each child's room.
9. Kick 'em to the curb, not the garage. Once I've sorted through my stuff in my new house and made the decision to get rid of things, I just get rid of them. I don't let them hang around in my garage until the next yard sale -- they go away that same day. It's worth it just to restore a feeling or order and organization to my world after weeks of chaos.
10. Storage units are for locals. Some houses don't have storage; then (and only then) it's OK to get a storage unit. My rule of thumb is that if it fits in my house and we can still park the cars in the garage, we can keep it. However, the house we're living in now doesn't have a basement, or attic storage, or linen closets. When things like that happen, I call an audible and we're allowed to rent a storage unit, or hubby can park in the driveway. His choice.
See, I'm flexible! And that, friends, is the key to a successful move -- and a happy marriage!
-- Christy Black is a semi-professional mover after 18 years of wedded bliss to an Army pilot. She's also the proud mom of two awesome kids and the keeper of a small zoo that includes two rescue dogs, a senile cat and a hamster. The Blacks currently live in Savannah, Ga., and Christy blogs about life, DIY and home decor with her friends Amy and Terry at www.11magnolialane.com. Follow her on Pinterest and Facebook.


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Dark tide rising : a William Monk novel / Anne Perry.
289 pages ; 25 cm.
"When a ransom exchange turns violent in the latest mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, Commander William Monk faces an unthinkable possibility: betrayal by his own men. Local businessman Harry Exeter doesn't want the aid of the Thames River Police in tracking down the men who kidnapped his wife, Kate. He only asks them to help him navigate Jacob's Island, a creepy mass of decrepit buildings where he will hand off a large sum of money in exchange for her life. But when they arrive at the meeting place, Commander Monk and five of his best men are attacked from all sides, and Monk is left wondering who could have given away their plans--and why anyone would want to harm Kate Exeter. As Monk follows leads from Kate's worried cousin and a crafty clerk at the bank where Exeter gathered the ransom money, it seems inevitable that one of his own men has betrayed him. Delving into their pasts, he realizes how little he knows about the people he works with every day, including his trusted right-hand man Hooper, the one colleague Monk has always been certain he can count on. Even as they identify one of the kidnappers, the case runs into hurdle after hurdle, causing Monk to choose between his own safety and the chance to solve the case--and figure out where his men's loyalty really lies"-- Provided by publisher.
Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including An Echo of Murder and Revenge in a Cold River, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Murder on the Serpentine and Treachery at Lancaster Gate . She is also the author of Twenty-one Days, the start of a new series featuring Charlotte and Thomas Pitt's son, Daniel, as well as a series of five World War I novels, sixteen holiday novels (most recently A Christmas Revelation ), and a historical novel, The Sheen on the Silk, set in the Ottoman Empire. Anne Perry lives in Los Angeles.
chapter 1 Monk sat beside the fire and felt the heat seep through him. Outside was the kind of clinging silence that only fog brings. The river was shrouded, and dusk came early this time of the year. Monk was unusually conscious of being happy. This deep sense of peace was not a casual thing. He looked at Hester in the chair opposite him and found himself smiling. He was not aware of the first knock on the door. It was only when Hester stood up that he realized what the sound had been. He rose quickly. "No, I'll go." Reluctantly, he went into the hall and unlocked the front door. Sir Oliver Rathbone stood on the step, the porch light glistening on droplets of fog that covered his gray hat and the shoulders of his coat. His lean face was without its usual aura of wit. There was no wind at all, and yet a breath of chill accompanied him. "Come in," Monk said quickly, stepping back to allow him room. Rathbone obeyed and pulled the door closed behind him. He shivered, as if suddenly aware of how cold he was. He took off his hat and coat and hung them on the hall stand, stuffing his gloves in his pockets. "It must be bad," Monk said. They had known each other for years--in fact, for nearly all of the fifteen years since the Crimean War had ended in 1856. There was no need for social niceties. "It is," Rathbone replied. He both worked and lived on the north side of the Thames, so for him to have crossed the river to visit Monk at home meant the issue could not wait, even just until morning. Monk led the way to the sitting room and opened the door into the warmth. "I'm sorry," Rathbone said to Hester. They, too, had known each other long and well. Rathbone had met her when she was a nurse, newly home from the Crimea and still believing she could change the world of medical treatment and its attitude toward nursing, and women in medicine in general. That seemed like a long time ago now. But the cause, even now, was hardly begun. "You look frozen," she said with understanding. "Tea?" Then she reconsidered. "Whisky?" Rathbone smiled very slightly. "No, thank you. I need to keep a clear head." He turned to Monk. "I know I'm intruding, but it can't wait . . ." He sat down in one of the chairs next to the fire. Hester said nothing, but she prepared to listen intently. Monk merely nodded and took the seat opposite Rathbone. "A man came to me an hour or two ago in a state of extreme distress." Rathbone's expression reflected his own understanding of pain. "His wife has been kidnapped. Her life is forfeit if he does not pay a ransom, which is a fortune. He is a wealthy man, and has succeeded in raising the amount--" "When was she taken?" Monk interrupted. "I know what you must be thinking," Rathbone replied with a bleak smile. "How did he raise the money so quickly? Unless he had it in a safe somewhere, this would not have been possible. She was taken yesterday, which, if you remember, was actually a beautiful day for this time of year. He was given until tomorrow, at about this time. The exchange is to take place--" "Why the devil didn't he report it immediately?" Monk interrupted him. "He intends to pay. What he wants of us is--" "Us?" Monk cut across him again. "If he wants the police, he should have gone to the regular London police, and yesterday, for heaven's sake, when the trail was hot!" Rathbone shook his head. "He doesn't. She was taken from the riverbank, which makes it your area. And the ransom is to be paid on Jacob's Island, which--" "I know what it is!" Even though several years had passed since that bleak case, Monk shivered involuntarily at the memories the name "Jacob's Island" conjured in his imagination. He could still see the fat man sinking slowly into the tidal ooze, his mouth open, screaming, until the mud cut him off, and inch by inch he disappeared from sight. His body had never been found. Monk came back to the moment: to the firelight, to Hester, now sitting and leaning toward him, concern in her face; to the lamplight on Rathbone's hair, which had more silver in it than before. Jacob's Island was one of the worst slums in London. On the river's edge, it was not literally an island, but a region of interconnecting waterways with old offices and wharfs. The warehouses built upon them were sinking slowly into their foundations as they rotted away and collapsed one on top of another. Jacob's Island could be reached by land across one bridge, and by water through several landing piers. "He wants the River Police to go with him to the exchange, the payment for his wife's--Kate Exeter's--life," Rathbone said quietly. "That's all he came about. He doesn't expect you to catch the kidnappers, or to save the money, just to see that the exchange is made, and he and Kate leave there safely." "Kate Exeter?" Monk turned the name over in his mind. There was something familiar about it, but he could not place it. "Harry Exeter," Rathbone said. "His first wife died. Kate is his second. About twenty years younger than he. He's devoted to her." Compassion showed in Rathbone's face. He himself had married a second time, only recently. He had a happiness he had never believed possible, after the disappointment of his first marriage, followed by bitter loneliness. Rathbone knew how exquisitely precious happiness was, and how fragile. He tried not to think of the possibility of losing it again, but it was clear in his eyes, in the strain of his position, that his empathy with Harry Exeter was based in his own emotions, not imagination. Monk did not need explanations. "So, he spent yesterday and today getting the money," he concluded. "Yes. He has nearly all of it, and his assurance of the rest tomorrow. It's the price of five good-sized London family houses, in a decent area," Rathbone replied. "I came to you tonight because Exeter's in my chambers now. I want you to meet him. Get all the information you can. You'll need tomorrow to plan. He has to hand over the money himself. It's part of the bargain." "And bringing the police into it?" The consequences of even one slip were appalling. "Doesn't matter," Rathbone said gravely. "He's allowed to have at least one man go with him. He insisted on that. He doesn't know the place, and he pointed out that alone in an area like that, carrying a bag full of money, he'd be lucky if he made it as far as the agreed rendezvous spot." "Why wouldn't they pick some reasonable place?" Monk asked, but already he knew the answer. Jacob's Island was a warren that the ordinary Londoner would be utterly lost in, frightened, disoriented, always afraid of the rising tide. "I'll come and meet him," he said before Rathbone could answer him. He stood up. "Get all the information I can. Tomorrow I'll choose my men and speak to them. Some of them know Jacob's Island fairly well. Although the damn place is changing all the time." Rathbone stood as well. "Thank you." He turned to Hester. "I apologize," he said, "but it should all be over after tomorrow night. Exeter will be considerably poorer, but his wife will be safe, even if she does have nightmares for a while." "They pass," Hester said ruefully. Monk looked at her, concerned. She had been kidnapped not so long ago. He could recall her waking in the night, gasping, fighting the blankets, once even weeping uncontrollably. He had held her close, assuring her. And now she was thinking of this woman who had been kidnapped and was waiting, terrified, perhaps on Jacob's Island, trusting her husband could and would pay the ransom. "We'll get her back safely," Monk promised. "It's the money they want. And thank God Exeter seems to have it, and is willing to pay." He glanced out the window. It was dark outside now. The fog smothered everything. Hester smiled. "If she's as lucky as I was, the kidnappers will be caught as well. Go now! Poor Exeter will be frantic with worry. Assure him, as much as you can." He smiled and leaned forward to kiss her quickly on the cheek. Her skin was warm, soft as always, and he inhaled the fragrance of her hair. Rathbone was already waiting at the front door, his hat and coat on. He undid the latch, grimaced as he saw the fog was thicker than before, and stepped out into it. Monk followed after him, his coat on, too, though he still felt the damp cling to him immediately. He closed the door behind him and heard Hester lock it. He followed Rathbone down the familiar path to the street. By the time he reached it and looked back, the house was already swallowed up in the thick darkness. From somewhere down the river a foghorn gave its long, mournful cry. There was no other sound. Even their footfalls were muffled on the pavement. "There'll be no ferries over the river," Monk remarked. "We'll have to see if we can find a hansom on Union Street. The Rotherhithe road is right on the water, and it'll be even thicker there." Rathbone fell in step with him without commenting. The nearest bridge was a stiff walk from where they were, and Lincoln's Inn, where Rathbone's chambers were, was a good deal farther than that. It was half an hour before they found a cab, almost on the bridge. They heard the horse's hoofs on the cobbles, muffled by the distorted echoes. It was almost upon them before they saw its lamps approaching. Monk stepped into the street and caught the horse's bridle, bringing it to a stop. "Hey!" the driver shouted, fear sharpening his voice as he raised his whip. Monk saw the shadow of the whip before it could strike him. "Police!" He moved forward, allowing his face to be seen, if dimly, in the small circle of light. "We need a ride to Lincoln's Inn, please. Double fare." The driver grunted. "Up front?" he asked. Monk fished in his pocket, and Rathbone did the same. They handed over the coins gratefully and climbed inside. It still took them nearly three-quarters of an hour. Rathbone's chambers were all lit, and his clerk opened the door before Rathbone had time to ring the bell. "I'll get you tea, sir," the clerk said. "And a couple of sandwiches. Would cold beef be satisfactory?" "It'll be perfect," Rathbone said warmly. "I already took the liberty of serving Mr. Exeter, sir. He doesn't look well, poor man." Rathbone thanked him and led the way to his own suite of rooms. He opened the door, Monk on his heels. Immediately a man standing at the hearth turned to face them. He was above average height. His thick, fair hair was liberally sprinkled with gray, visible mostly at the temples. Monk guessed he would have been good-looking, were he not frantically worried, his skin slick with sweat. "Monk?" he asked, stepping forward. "Are you the commander of the Thames River Police?" Without waiting for an answer, he grasped Monk's hand. "Thank you for coming. It's a filthy night, I know. But this can't wait. I am Harry Exeter . . ." "Yes, I'm Monk." He took the man's hand briefly. "Rathbone told me about your situation." Exeter was shaking, in spite of the warmth of the room. "I've got almost all the money. I'm picking up the rest tomorrow. I have to be the one to hand it over. Don't argue with me about that. They insisted. Kate . . ." "I won't argue with you, Mr. Exeter," Monk assured him. "I'd like to know as much as you can tell me. That's the best we can do tonight. Tell me what you know, and what you suspect. If you have ideas of who could be behind this. And, for heaven's sake, sit down, man! Clear your head as much as you can. I have some idea how you feel." "How can you?" Exeter asked, his voice raised as if a sudden fury moved him. "How can you possibly know?" "Because my wife was kidnapped a little while ago. I was lucky, I got her back. And we'll do everything possible to get your wife back," Monk replied. "Oh . . ." Exeter looked at the floor. "I'm sorry. I . . . didn't think. When something like this happens, you feel so helpless . . . so alone. Everyone else looks safe, and you . . . you don't think anyone else can know how you feel." "I know. I felt desperate, too. But we got her back safely." Exeter searched his face, as if trying to judge how much of what Monk said was true, how much an attempt to calm him. Monk gave him a brief, tight smile. "Don't worry, Mr. Exeter, your wife will be returned to you before we do anything to catch the kidnappers. Have you any idea who they are or why it was she who was taken? Any enemies?" "Kate? Never!" he said vehemently. "I meant you . . . your enemies." "Oh! Yes, I suppose so. Every successful man makes enemies. I'm good at what I do. When I win a contract, it necessarily means that someone else loses. But that's business. I lose, sometimes. I don't hate the man who wins. I learn from it!" "If anything comes to your mind, do let me know," Monk dismissed the subject. "Now tell me what happened." "Kate had luncheon with her cousin, Celia Darwin. They are quite close. It was a lovely day, if you remember, nothing like today. They walked along the riverbank in the afternoon." "Where, exactly?" "Over Chelsea Bridge, and then along Battersea Park--" "Were there many people about?" "I suppose so. I really don't know. Celia was distraught! Poor woman felt as if it were somehow her fault. I couldn't get a lot of sense out of her. I'm sorry." "It doesn't matter. We can ask your wife when we get her back. What did Celia say?" "That a young man came up and asked the way, then started some sort of conversation. Celia's attention was diverted, and the next moment a group of people came by and Celia and Kate were separated, and when the newcomers were gone, Kate was, too . . . and so was the young man. She thought at first it was nothing, just silliness, but then when Kate didn't come back, she grew frightened and called for help. The police came, but there was no sign of Kate." "The police looked for her?" Exeter's expression filled with a mixture of anger and desperation. He seemed to be trying everything he could to keep his voice steady. "One pretty young woman, one plain one. A young man who apparently was handsome." He spread his hands helplessly. "They drew their own conclusions. Celia told them Kate was married, and would never do such a thing. Celia was so upset. She is plain and older, and she has a pronounced limp. They thought she was feeling alone, unwanted, and they didn't believe her. They intended to reassure her, but they only ended up insulting her." Excerpted from Dark Tide Rising: A William Monk Novel by Anne Perry All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. 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Kate, the wife of Oliver Rathbone's newest client Harry Exeter, has been kidnapped, and the abductors have demanded an enormous ransom for her safe return. Exeter, while a wealthy man, still scrambles to pull the money together. The kidnappers want the ransom exchange to take place on Jacob's Island, a dangerous place. Since he's familiar with the river and with Jacob's Island, Monk is the perfect person to accompany Exeter to make the exchange. He gathers his team, including his trusted second-in-command Hooper, to go with him. When they are attacked by the kidnappers and Kate is found brutally murdered, Monk suspects that one of his own men betrayed the operation. He lived through the abduction of his own beloved wife Hester and is especially eager to close this case. As Monk digs deeper into his team's past, old secrets are uncovered and many suspects emerge. VERDICT The 24th title in Perry's long-running William Monk series delivers an excellent atmospheric Victorian mystery. While astute readers will identify the villain long before Monk does, longtime fans will delight in the camaraderie among the series regulars and the return to the dark underbelly of polite British society.-Lynnanne Pearson, Skokie P.L., IL © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
In Edgar-finalist Perry's riveting 24th William Monk novel set in Victorian England (after 2017's An Echo of Murder), an attorney approaches the Thames River police commander on behalf of Harry Exeter, an affluent man whose wife was abducted in broad daylight from a London riverbank the previous day. Exeter, who has assembled the considerable ransom demanded, wants Monk's help with handing it over at the site that the kidnappers have set for the exchange: Jacob's Island, not literally an island but a "region of interconnecting waterways with old offices and wharfs." Monk agrees to accompany Exeter there the next day, and assembles a group of his most trusted officers to be on the scene in disguise. But despite Monk's careful planning, the exchange ends in bloody failure, and he's left to wonder who on his team gave the kidnappers the details of his operation. The added suspense from Monk's mole hunt makes this one of the series' more powerful recent entries. Agent: Donald Maass, Donald Maass Literary. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Cmdr. William Monk, of the Thames River Police, agrees to join a distraught husband in the ransom exchange for his kidnapped wife only to find every conceivable thing going disastrously wrong in Perry's latest slice of Victorian skulduggery.When his wife, Kate, is lured away from her cousin Celia Darwin, who's joined her for lunch in Battersea Park, wealthy developer Harry Exeter is perfectly willing to pay the enormous sum her kidnappers demand even if it means exhausting his own resources and tapping into an inheritance Maurice Latham, another cousin, is holding in trust for Kate for another 18 months. Because the criminals have appointed dark, treacherous Jacob's Island as the place to trade their victim for the ransom, Exeter's attorney, Sir Oliver Rathbone, suggests that his old friend Monk accompany him, and Monk himself handpicks five members of the TRP to join them: officers Bathurst, Laker, Marbury, Walcott, and Hooper, his second-in-command. Upon their arrival at Jacob's Island, the party is ambushed by a crew that makes off with the money, leaving behind the brutally slashed corpse of Kate Exeter. Since their assailants clearly knew in advance the precise movements of Monk and his team, Monk (An Echo of Murder, 2017, etc.) is forced to concede that one of his own men may have betrayed him. As he struggles to fix the guilt on one of them (bantam street fighter Walcott? Bathurst, whose family is eternally in financial straits? Hooper, whom he'd trusted more than once with his life?), two other murders follow, and John Hooper complicates matters even further by falling in love with Celia Darwinan apparent tangent that will play a crucial role in precipitating the courtroom climax.One of the most successful of prolific Perry's recent Victorian melodramas. The opening chapters are appropriately portentous, the mystification is authentic, and if the final surprise isn't exactly a shock, it's so well-prepared that even readers who don't gasp will nod in satisfaction. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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In reaction to today’s European Parliament plenary vote, CECED notes some progress to improve the Directive. MEPs have however missed one central issue: the need for the revised legislation to cover all WEEE, and not only the WEEE that producers take care of. Today approximately 2/3 of the WEEE is not handled by producers and falls outside the treatment requirements of the Directive.
Says Luigi Meli, CECED Director General: “We welcome progress in some areas of the EP report. However some key issues have been missed. If policy makers want to resolve the problems of WEEE then they must ensure that treatment requirements and reporting obligations cover all WEEE, not just the WEEE handled by producers. This loophole of the present WEEE legislation is one of the main reasons why so much WEEE slips through the system today.
“Currently producers receive and treat approximately 1/3 of the WEEE, but 2/3 of the WEEE is collected by other actors who are not covered by the obligations of the current Directive. Producers have no authority over these actors that collect WEEE for economic reasons to make a profit of its value. Neither can enforcement authorities require that these actors treat WEEE in accordance to the WEEE Directive as these actors are not addressed by the Directive. This problem will increase in the future given the growing scarcity of resources and the resulting increase in material prices.
• In comparison to the original Commission proposal, the European Parliament has opted for an improved collection target based on the amount of WEEE that generated. MEPs have also confirmed that it is for Member States to achieve this target - not producers.
• MEPs have supported the positive proposal for financing the improvement of the collection of WEEE from households.
On the reuse of WEEE for which the European Parliament has proposed targets, CECED highlights that it is now essential to create quality criteria for refurbished appliances and the activities of refurbishers to ensure that refurbished products will not jeopardise environmental and consumer protection and do not become an alibi for illegal export of waste.
About CECED: CECED represents the household appliance manufacturing industry in Europe. Its member companies are mainly based in Europe. Direct Members are Arçelik, Ariston Thermo Group, BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH, Candy Group, De’Longhi, Daikin, AB Electrolux, Fagor Group, Gorenje, Liebherr, Indesit Company, Miele, Philips, SEB and Whirlpool Europe. CECED’s member associations cover the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.


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The best veg restaurant in Darbhanga is Rajasthan . Its is located in Darbhanga tower . if you've read my earlier posts you'll know which tower i'm talking about hehe.
a year back , this restaurant had no sense of interior decoration . it was just a big bright colorless place.
however now they've changed the whole thing . the walls are lined by timber (i find them so sophisticated), descent lighting system and table clothes that go with the timber color. the doorman is a sweetheart and all the waiters are very polite (don't you just love that?its a plus plus point).
the doorman decided to pose for me :) cuteee!!!
hehe there i go posing again!
manchurian fried rice- not spicey or saucy - everything in just the right amount.
its supposed to be "cheese pizza" with extra cheese- didn't like it too much.
the total came to around Rs.300.
usually we order some fizzy drinks or lemonade but we weren't that hungry so decided to skip all that and go straight to the main meal.
me tooooo!! i've completed internship. waiting around on documents. shifting to delhi.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


text: Kochi Castle is located in Kochi City, Kochi prefecture, in the Shikoku Region. The castle was built by Yamauchi Kazutoyo, who ruled the Kochi area about 400 years ago. The castle, famous for its elegant tenshu (*1), the massive walls and gates, is known as the “best castle in the Nankaido (*2)”. It is also precious as the tenshu and honmaru goten (*3), built in the Edo Period, still remain, and it has been chosen as one of Japan’s Top 100 Castles.


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What is the fifth wave?
The mid-January defeat in Congress of the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and its evil twin, the Stop Piracy Act (or SOPA), is a dramatic illustration of the decline of established authority in the face of a rebellious public. The authorities engaged in this particular farce were political and economic: a handful of senators and congressmen, and the organizational chieftains of the entertainment industry. The performance began with quiet murmurs behind drawn curtains, but ended with a pratfall-filled chase scene in the full light of day, worthy of the Marx Brothers.
The sponsoring politicians clearly believed this was a technical matter, to be settled among lawmakers and interested parties. It never occurred to them that anyone would be paying attention. For their part, representatives of the “creative” establishment felt entitled to reduce the web to something like an occupied country, and co-opt the Justice Department to secure their profits. It never occurred to them to question the outsourcing of their business needs to the government.
This being Washington DC, the line between political and corporate power was fuzzy.
According to Politico, Allison Halatei, former Deputy Chief of Staff to House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith, and Lauren Pastarnack, a Senate Judiciary Committee Senior Aide, just accepted jobs with two of the lobbying firms backing SOPA and PIPA. Halatei and Pastarnack helped write the bills. Halataei is now the National Music Publisher’s Association chief liaison to Congress, and Pasternak is now the director of government relations for the MPAA.
The head of the MPAA is Chris Dodd, a former senator. By law, he is banned from lobbying Congress, but as sultan of the music publishers he can throw fistfuls of coins to his friends from a $100 million lobbying war chest.
PIPA/SOPA enjoyed support from the Republicans who run the House and the Democrats who run the Senate. It was a rare bipartisan effort, mantled in the undivided power and prestige of the federal legislature. That it collapsed so quickly, and in such a comic opera atmosphere, should be considered a symptom of our strange moment in history.
The dispute over SOPA is often framed as pitting Washington-savvy Hollywood against the naïfs of Silicon Valley. This characterization is by no means false. I applied it in my previous post on the subject, and it pretty accurately describes the early phases of the conflict.
But something changed. As the knowledgeable Yochai Benkler observes, it wasn’t Google or Facebook which orchestrated the bills’ astonishing reversal of fortune. It was the eruption into the process – typically sudden and unforeseen – of the hordes of an aroused public.
It turned out many people had been paying attention after all. Marketing campaigns by tech companies helped call attention to the problems with SOPA, but this was largely an organic movement, an internet thing. I don’t know much about the internet, but I know this: virality is unforeseeable. Marketing geniuses, deploying the sexiest technical applications, will fail to achieve it. Yet teenage kids reproducing images of kittens go viral in a trice.
The web is overwhelmingly populated by cute cat communities and their like. This is Ethan Zuckerman’s insight, not mine. Building on the idea, Zuckerman has advanced a “cute cat theory” of web activism: if you mess with the governance of the internet, you will get into serious political trouble at the point when you truly and really piss off the cute cat users – the multitudinous, normally apolitical public. That, in brief, is what happened to Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, and to SOPA’s sponsors in Congress.
Some tech companies, in fact, seemed dazed by the ferocity of the public’s reaction. Within a week of Godaddy’s announced support for SOPA, a user boycott had moved over 70,000 domains out of the company’s hosting site, forcing a clearly disoriented management to distance itself from the bill.
The effort to publicize the fight over PIPA/SOPA involved web activists like Rebecca MacKinnon and new media mavens like Jeff Jarvis, nonprofit entities like Wikipedia and multibillion-dollar outfits like Facebook. On 18 January, while Congress continued to ponder various versions of the two bills, Wikipedia, Reddit, and thousands of additional sites – including, let it be noted, the most popular cute cat location – went dark in protest. Other websites maintained service but made their displeasure known. Google, for example, conspicuously blacked out its logo.
First, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a rising Republican star, took to Facebook, one of the vehicles for promoting opposition, to renounce a bill he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who leads the G.O.P.’s Senate campaign efforts, used Facebook to urge his colleagues to slow the bill down. Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina and a Tea Party favorite, announced his opposition on Twitter, which was already boiling over with anti-#SOPA and #PIPA fever.
Then trickle turned to flood — adding Senators Mark Kirk of Illinois and Roy Blunt of Missouri, and Representatives Lee Terry of Nebraska and Ben Quayle of Arizona. At least 10 senators and nearly twice that many House members announced their opposition.
“Thanks for all the calls, e-mails, and tweets. I will be opposing #SOPA and #PIPA,” Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, wrote in a Twitter message. Late Wednesday, Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, withdrew his support for a bill he helped write.
Two days after the Wikipedia blackout, both PIPA and SOPA were withdrawn without ever coming up for a vote.
There are lessons from this struggle, for those with eyes to see. Political power sought control, rather than the imposition of any particular ideology. The web is mostly illegible to government. Those who have absorbed James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State know that modern governments everywhere seek to transform the social landscape to make it more legible from the center. On this account, SOPA won’t be the last attempt to impose a policing regime on the web.
Political and business actors argued from authority, rather than the merits of the case. They suffered from tunnel vision, willfully ignoring the unintended consequences of patrolling the public’s means of communication on the web. Political players believed they worked within a club of friends. The entertainment industry looked at its business interests and saw a moral imperative. Neither expected opposition from outside their charmed circle, so neither could muster persuasive arguments when, to their complete surprise, that opposition materialized.
Established authority was blind to the information environment in which the public works and plays. It could not see where the revolt against SOPA came from. Authority emanates from hierarchical structures which once monopolized access to information and communication. Everything produced outside these structures appears worse than illegitimate: unreal. Dodd thus blamed his industry’s legislative disaster on “Internet companies” and their “ability to spread their message globally, without regulation or fact-checking.” He never saw the public that trounced him.
Finally, the nature of the conflict between authority and the public is what the Pentagon would call asymmetric: one is powerful and slow-moving, the other numerous and quicksilver. Principles of action diverge accordingly, with authority worshipping rank and orderly process, while the public, as public, displays informality and a contrarian streak sometimes verging on nihilism. With SOPA, authority tried to make the web more like itself. Disruptive change, I suspect, will soon flow in the opposite direction.


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Every business is unique and has its own specific needs. Some of them have a workflow where a customer walks together with an employee through a shop or warehouse and fills a cart with products on the go (E.g. building materials business or small wholesale distributor). The employee makes a list of purchases and then transfers it from paper onto an ERP system to make an invoice, start the accounting processes and update stock counts.
If this is what your business looks like and you want to avoid a routine paperwork by automating your sales workflow, this article is for you as we will show you how to create a sales order directly from your warehouse.
We will emulate a case where a customer shops together with a sales or warehouse worker while walking through the shop. The customer looks through the stocks and puts needed items into a cart. The employee has to track all the picked items in the system and prepare a sales order by the moment the client has finished his shopping.
The workflow described below uses Odoo ERP and the Android mobile app Ventor, which connects barcode scanners to the ERP system.
Make sure a warehouse worker who works with Ventor has the appropriate access rights and settings.
Note, if you need to add a few items of the same product, firstly scan a barcode once and click “OK” on the screen above. Then you can scan the product again and the quantity is increased (see the screenshots below). Or can just use a keyboard.
While it is still a quotation, the user can edit it via Ventor as on Odoo side.
7. After the order is confirmed, the system creates transfers and warehouse workers can manage them via “Warehouse operations” in the Ventor app.
Now you can simplify your sales workflow in Odoo with the Ventor app and get rid of paperwork. It became possible to create sales orders on the go, which speeds up goods movement in your warehouse.
If you still have questions about creating SO and PO in Odoo, please feel free to leave your comments below.


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industry_corpus2: Sports


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Yoghurt and cultured milk drinks account for around 20% of the value of global dairy consumption. It is a product category that places high demands on hygienic processing and heat transfer performance. These dairy products are typically produced in continuous batch processes, where efficient changeovers are critical. Alfa Laval’s range and scope of hygienic components helps processers to set up efficient dairy production processes, with the highest standards of hygiene.
Fermenting milk into yogurt and cultured milk products is an age-old tradition that was once a simple process. Today’s commercial processes, however, are much more complex and challenging. With consumer demand high, batch sizes as well as the variety and flavours of products have increased considerably. To ensure plant productivity, there are various aspects to take into consideration – from gentle handling of ingredients to enhance taste, texture, aroma, appearance and shelf life to hygiene, energy efficiency and plant optimization.
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industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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The Toradex Board Support Package for Windows CE is one of the most advanced BSPs available on the market. Aside from the standard Windows CE functionality, it includes a large number of additional drivers as well as optimized versions of standard drivers.
The Toradex bootloader and BSP were designed to be easily configurable. This relieves the application developer from the burden of creating a customized operating system image. Instead, the necessary adaptations can be made by registry settings and adding files to the on-board flash file system.
Toradex even provides the workspace for Microsoft's Platform Builder, which enables the customer to build exactly the same Windows CE image as the standard Colibri image.
The binary for our Colibri modules are available for download for free.
Before building your own Windows CE image, check if it is really required as our standard is very flexible and you can add a lot of drivers, components and programs without building your own image.
We do not provide the source code of our BSP. If you think you need source code, please contact us.


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Bean curd, pork skin, wonton soup, spring rolls,... Best pho in town, bomb service! ... Our first meal in Ventura County was a great success!
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The people are nice and and service is fast (Jimmy's awesome) and the food is great! I eat a lot of Pho across LA, OC, and Ventura Counties, and this place is by far my favorite.
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I feel that I'm far from having the credentials or qualifications to review a game, however as I'm want to talk quite a bit about video games, I'll be happy to share my impressions and opinions on this blog.
Far Cry 3 ended up being my only physically packaged "full release" video game acquisition of 2012 (2013 should keep my thumbs busier). Some lists have placed it among the years best games, especially among shooters, so I'm hoping my patience will be rewarded.
There may be some spoilers below, but I'll try to keep things to a minimum.
Disclaimer; I've not played the original Far Cry. I did however play, enjoy, and recommend Far Cry 2, Ubisoft's first Far Cry release following their purchasing the rights to the Far Cry brand and franchise from Crytek.
Far Cry 2, released in 2008 was a very good game. The problem was that it could have been great. When so much is so well executed, small flaws can seem gargantuan. When those flaws aren't so small, the can do what they did in Far Cry 2 and prevent it from reaching true greatness.
In their second outing with the franchise, Ubisoft Montreal fixed much of what ailed it's predecessor. Sadly they might have also thrown a baby or two out with the bathwater.
That said, what remains is a game that not only succeeds at bringing the Far Cry franchise to a wider audience, but also just may be the game that is the culmination of this entire console generations advancements.
Far Cry 2 was billed almost as a "Make Your Own Story" sandbox experience. You had a choice of character you play (though that really just meant who's hands do you see holding guns and swinging into jeeps) and the "story" elements weren't so much a narrative as they were simply a way to add life and "realism" to your sandbox world.
Now, as Jason Brody (who certainly puts the "bro" in Brody), you have a fleshed out backstory, dialog, and a far more hollywood-y or videogame-y action adventure story to play through. You have plenty of things to do on the island branching off of that story, but even while traipsing around the Rook Islands looking for a cassowary to kill that you can skin and craft into a new wallet (yes there's crafting this time around), you're bound to come across various memory cards or "Letter's of the Lost" to shed light on your mysterious vacation land and the larger story as a whole.
Even with this still being a "sandbox" environment, the main story is quite linear to the point that, as of this writing (admittedly only about 25% through the game), the main missions are single file unlike the Grand Theft Auto approach of multiple story lines that can be accessed at the same time.
Adding even more handholding are a few orchestrated missions where you end up seeking out yellow dots (think Call of Duty) more than finding your own way. One such mission led to an "on rails" sequence lifted straight from Uncharted: Drake's Adventure.
This isn't entirely a bad thing, as it's still a rather fun game that, when allowed, rewards creativity. You'll be sure to enjoy scenarios such as planting C4 on a shed, starting a fire on the other side of a camp corralling your enemies towards that same shed and then detonating the explosives.
While there are absolute new features, such as crafting, there are changes made from Far Cry 2, some better than others.
For example, in Far Cry 2 enemy checkpoints were notorious in that after you cleared them, the next time you come back they were completely restaffed and as pissed at you as ever. Just like every other inhabitant of Far Cry 2's world who would drop whatever errand they were doing just to chase after and try to kill you.
In this new installment, enemy checkpoints are claimed by you as a safe house after they've been cleared. Allowing for fast travel, equipment restocking, etc... Also, owning a checkpoint brings in friendlies (a rare sight to see in FC2) and the immediate area surrounding is now not a hostile environment. Cars and NPCs in non hostile environments will even peacefully pass you without trying to hunt you down!
Far Cry 2 did it's best to keep you in the game world at all times, and it tried it's best to make it a "realistic" game world. It was a pioneer in the FPS genre in that you often saw your appendages and body when opening doors, swinging into jeeps etc. Also you never left into menu screens. Your Map and GPS were held by your character and you could easily have them open while moving in the world. Now, every time you want to look at the map you're pulled out of the game and into a shotty videogame map screen. A major misstep in my opinion. Also you're frequently pulled into another video game menu for crafting and skill trees (more on that in a second).
Far Cry 2 had wildlife, but no predators. Far Cry 3 does. It works well and creates an even more unpredictable world when while you're stalking out an enemy position, a tiger may be stalking you. The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry...indeed.
While in FC3 you're still able to scope out an enemy compound, highlighting the position of enemy combatants, you can no longer tag points of interest like gun installments, ammo stashes, and explosive areas. I miss that.
But the trade off is in how you tag your enemies. This at first glance seems less realistic, but when enemies are tagged, you now get a silhouette of each tagged target even if outside your field of vision. Visually, this is very video-game-esque. However, in practice, it's a better representation of your actual awareness of people around you when hiding or behind a corner. Even with a surround sound headset, you don't quite get the sense of just how close they are, so this is an update I like...though if I was on the development team, I'd have a range limit to it where you only get this silhouette for close by enemies.
One major change that I miss quite a bit, was the ability to set the time of day. From any safe house in Far Cry 2, you could go to bed and set an alarm to whatever time of day you'd like. Granted I used this more for environmental preferences other than strategic purposes. I preferred to attack my objectives as the sun rose. In Far Cry 3, time simply marches on with little control to no control.
All changes aside, the game still works wonderfully and can't be marked down too much for any departures from it's predecessors.
As far as production of the game, another element that stands out in the positive is some of the acting and motion capture. Vaas, played by Michael Mando steals the show. It would be easy to outdo the performance of Dwayne Hill's The Jackal, antagonist/mystery target of Far Cry 2. But Vaas' performance is one that more video games need to elevate to. This is on par with Uncharted performance, easy. Sadly, it highlights how terrible some of the other acting is. There's a scene which is obviously aiming to convey banter as fluid and fun as the best of Nathan Drake and Elena Fisher, but it falls very flat. I can only assume this is dialog recorded in separate sound booths, where the actors are just reading the lines and it's later stitched together, because that's how flat and artificial it sounds.
Graphically, there is not a grand improvement on the PS3 version from Far Cry 2 to Far Cry 3, but that is surely due to the limitations of the system and not of the engine itself. Screen tear is ever present and some foliage looks flat. However, Far Cry 2 still stands high among graphical power houses on the PS3, so this is in no way a bad looking game.
Ubisoft also successfully implemented a co-op mode for some online or offline fun with friends. You lose the open world, but you gain some extra value out of the game and it's definitely fun to raid a camp with a buddy.
What make a Far Cry game such a pleasure is still there and in many cases has been improved. That is the freedom to get lost in the game world, approach each task however you'd like, and be challenged with good AI and progressively more difficult enemies.
For a very in-depth trailer, go ahead and watch below, but the bottom line here is that in a year that was light on heavy hitter games, Far Cry 3 does a great job at bringing a quality game to an even larger audience than it's predecessors.

industry_corpus2: Gaming