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Hello all. This is my first post in this forum. I am in the second semester of a college Java class, so I'm pretty new. I just finished my first project on I/O. Unfortunately, the professor in this class has a habit of making assignments without first presenting the material, so on a new topic I sometimes get a bit lost trying to scour the internet for information that is relevant to my level of experience. We don't have a regular textbook that we follow either, so I cannot look to that for help.
My issue now is that I just had a lab due (which Ive already submitted, so this is not cheating) that asked us to do the following:
Have a file containing a few lines of questions, one on each line, that can be answered in one word. Like this:
How old are you?
What is your name?
What is the weight of a cat on Veda?
Our program was supposed to display each line one by one and let the user type in an answer, saving the answer on the same line as the question.
How old are you? 5
What is your name? Merriwether
What is the weight of a cat on Veda? 83_vlerps
At startup, the program was supposed to offer options to either open and print an existing file with the questions already answered, or answer the questions in a file. The question and answer were supposed to be on the same line so they could be split apart at the question mark and printed on separate lines if the user chose option 1.
How old are you?
What is your name?
What is the weight of a cat on Veda?
So I pieced together a program with what I read online, but I'm really a bit lost. It's a really messy program, and there were some things I was not able to do. One thing is that I was not able to save the data in the same file that I was reading, because the PrintWriter object deletes everything that is in the destination file when it is opened (I think). So I saved it to an output file, and then put in a convoluted renaming/deleting scheme that doesn't even work.
Also, the split() method that was meant to break the question and answer apart to be printed on separate lines doesn't seem to work either.
Can anyone offer some guidance on how this program should be written, while keeping at the same basic level?
Thanks to everyone for sharing their knowledge.
import java.util.*; import java.io.*; public class Lab5 { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException { int choice; String location; Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Let's answer some questions."); do { System.out.println("Would you like to open answers from a previously saved file? Enter 1 for yes and 2 for no: "); choice = input.nextInt(); }while (choice != 1 && choice != 2); if (choice == 1) { System.out.println("Please enter the file and path: "); location = input.next(); File answers = new File(location); if (!answers.exists()) { System.out.println("File not found."); choice = 2; } printAnswers(answers); }//end if else { System.out.println("That's okay, you can answer my questions."); location = "c:/BlueJ/mine/questions.txt"; File questions = new File(location); if (!questions.exists()) { System.out.println("File not found."); System.exit(0); } answerQuestions(questions); } }//end main public static void printAnswers(File answers) throws IOException { Scanner fileReader = new Scanner(answers); while (fileReader.hasNext()) { String line = fileReader.nextLine(); String[] ln = line.split("?"); System.out.println(ln[0] + "?"); System.out.println(ln[1]); }//end while }//end method public static void answerQuestions(File questions) throws IOException, FileNotFoundException { String answer; Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in); Scanner fileReader = new Scanner(questions); File outputFile = new File("c:\\BlueJ\\mine\\outputFile.txt"); PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(outputFile))); while (fileReader.hasNext()) { String line = fileReader.nextLine(); System.out.println(line); answer = input.next(); line = line.concat(" " + answer); writer.println(line); } writer.flush(); writer.close(); boolean rn1 = questions.renameTo(new File("c:\\BlueJ\\mine\\answers.txt")); boolean rn2 = outputFile.renameTo(new File("c:\\BlueJ\\mine\\questions.txt")); if (rn1 && rn2) { File file = new File("c:\\BlueJ\\mine\\answers.txt"); boolean deleted = file.delete(); if (deleted) System.out.println("Questions file altered."); else System.out.println("Original file could not be altered. A new file, answers.txt, was created."); } else System.out.println("Original file could not be altered. A new file, outputFile.txt, was created."); } }


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15 Minute Planning Routines
Planning Routine, 15 Minutes Each Night for a Better Tomorrow
Planning Each Night Creates a Better Tomorrow
Routines are powerful forces in our lives. So what we do every day is so much more important than the big stuff we try to do every once in a while. What do your routines say about you? What are they creating in your life? You can start today, right now, by creating routines that will foster success and productivity in your life. All it takes is a little forethought to create a great planning routine.
Nightly Planning Routine
For many Americans, a nightly routine might consist of mindless TV into the night, brushing their teeth, and then browsing their phone in bed for another hour before falling asleep much too late. With just 15 minutes of a more intentional routine, they could completely change their sleep as well as improve their days.
Take a look at your regular nightly routine. Do you wait until you're too tired to do all the things you know you should do before bed? Do you spend your mornings running around frantically, trying to get out the door on time? A well-designed nightly routine can fix that. There are unlimited steps you can add to your nightly routine, but all you need are a few steps that will be meaningful for you.
Read through our list of nightly tasks that are known to improve sleep, reduce stress, and create more peace for tomorrow. See if any of these might work for you to implement a planning routine.
5 Minute Tidy
- Waking up to a cluttered house will instantly start your day on the wrong foot, yet we do it all the time. Take just 5 minutes to do a quick sweep of your house to tidy and remove clutter.
Bedtime Alarm
- You use an alarm to tell you when to wake up – why not use one to tell you when to go to sleep? Set an alarm to remind you to turn off the Netflix and get into bed.
Prepare Tomorrow
- How much of your morning routine can be done tonight? Lay out your clothes, pack your lunch or work bag, load up your car, and prep your breakfast.
Peaceful Bedtime
- Do you collapse into bed unceremoniously? Try adding some peaceful, zen practices to get you in a calmer state of mind to promote restful sleep. Aromatherapy, a bath, using your favorite lotion, stretching, prayer, meditation, a gratitude practice, or even just deep breathing can make a difference.
Prioritize Tomorrow
- Look at your schedule and to-do list for the following day and re-prioritize. Delete any items that don't absolutely have to happen, and set alarms or reminders to ensure your greatest productivity.
- Reading helps your mind relax and unwind from all the stresses and questions of your daily life. Just a few minutes at the end of each day can help clear your head and prepare you for better sleep and a more productive day tomorrow.
Choose one of these tasks to incorporate into your nightly routine tonight and see what benefits it brings you. Then implement a planning routine, with just 15 minutes of planning each evening, you'll be sure to have a more successful tomorrow.


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Episode 23 – Recognizing the Path
I wake up in a medical bed again. I really should be getting used to collapsing for no reason, but it irks me deeply. Also, as usual, I don't remember how I got into this state. I feel like I've awoken from a horrible dream. I lay there staring at the empty ceiling, and the railings common to hospital rooms, even in my most distant memories. Hoping perhaps all that I know to be true is just a lie, an illusion. I'm terrified to look around the room, and be snapped back to reality as my mind seems to know it at this moment. I'm hoping I'm crazy, and I'll wake back in the 21st century in a hospital, and they'll tell me it's all a dream. Or maybe an insane asylum where they finally found a medication to treat my condition, and I'll wake up to find everything I experienced was just a delusion of my mind. Then I can get out of bed and say… "Whew, that was a crazy dream, now where is my complementary gelatin cup." Running over the last years of my life, I think of everything that's happened, and it makes me even more terrified to look around the room. In this moment, I'm thankful for generic ceilings that can allow me to pretend for just a moment, even if it's not true.
I start to wonder to myself, what's wrong with myself. Why is it that I try to run from reality. Why is it that when things are bad, I stare at the ceiling and hope to look around and see a different world than the one my mind is expecting. What is it I'm trying to escape from. I don't know. It's only in these semi-lucid waking moments that I can feel that way. As my consciousness level rises, my ability to pretend I'm living in another universe fades more and more. My sense of the corporeal comes more clear. My field of view widens to the point I start catching glimpses of other objects out of the corner of my eye. Objects that concrete my reality. As I realize that laying here and pretending I don't see the objects in my periphery, I sit up. I'm in a different medical room than before, and some of the beds have those clunky medical machines that commonly hang from the ceiling in advanced Icelandic Hospitals. As my senses return to me, I feel Fallon holding my hand on one side, and Sylphie holding my hand on the other. They scooted her bed and mine together so that she could hold my hand… My movements wake them both.
This room is a bit different, in that there is transparent AMOLED screens at the foot board of the beds, with vitals on them. And there is fewer medical machines on the ceilings, which seem to only be moved to the beds that need them.
Fallon begins to speak, kind of squeaking a bit because she just woke up, "You like to pass out and scare the shit out of people just as bad as ever, I see". She yawns and stretches herself out, over top of me in the bed. I remember having a bit of a fainting problem before due to a severe sleep disorder I had before the blue tempest took me. Sylphie beckons from my left, "I think I may have been wrong. About everything", she says. Fallon flops down on me after stretching, propping her head up to hear what Sylphie has to say. "I think I'm wrong about our powers, their origins, or what they're actually doing. I realized this last night, while you were sleeping. So I summoned the cups we drank from again, and they still had coffee in them, albeit residue".
She reaches up behind hear, and pulls something out from under a pillow. "Here, remember this cup, from yesterday by the antenna on the roof", she says to me and Fallon, holding out the cup. I grab it from her hand with a "Yeah", and hold it close enough for Fallon to see. "Remember what Fallon did to one of your cups while you two were just dating? Relating to the fact that she came over a lot for your coffee after work", Sylphie continued. For the life of me, I couldn't remember what she was talking about. Fallon's eyes go wide, as she practically rips the cup out of my hands in the process of looking at the bottom of the cup. She gasps, and leans up, taking the cup in both hands and rips it out of my grip. She stands next to the bed, with mouth agape. "Sylphie, I thought you made these cups", she says to Sylphie suspiciously, "I thought this was materialized using our powers combined". Sylphie replies, "I thought so too. But, it's clear that they aren't. Alira bought those cups, so they were definitively part of her memories, not yours. But the mark on the bottom of the cup. She was not at all aware of that. Moreover, the method in which I manifested them contained no thought about the marking on the bottom of the cup. Therefore, I believe this is the actual cup."
A strange thought occurred to me, but I couldn't crystallize it. "Remember how you used to always say that, 'Damn, it's like my cups teleport around the house', to me that once, Alira?", Fallon chirps at me. "Vaguely, yes", I say to her, to which she immediately cuts in, "But, I thought you only had 2 cups."
"No, I had 4… I think one melted in the microwave, and the third one was tucked away in a cabinet because I never had 3 guests in that place that all drank coffee, much less out of mugs", I retort. Fallon shows me the bottom of the cup, with what appears to be her name 'Yuzuho' carved into the bottom with a hot paperclip or butter-knife. My tired mind finally puts the pieces all together, "TIME TRAVEL…. A paradox"… I just felt all the blood leave my face. "So, wait… DO you think?…", I look at Sylphie. She smiles very sagely at me, "I'm not for certain. But it would seem likely that all of this exists because of a predestination paradox. That at some point in the future, the 3 of us will set forth the causality that completes the loop. I can't convert energy into matter. I tried 109 times last night after I woke up to duplicate simple objects, with you in the loop. Our powers activated, even when you were asleep. But it didn't matter. I could only summon objects I remembered, all of which we tested with Bjorn's help, and determined they were out of temporal sync, carbon dating to be exactly 200 years out of sync. The reason your household items always seemed to move around, was because I didn't know where I'd gotten them from, precisely. In returning them, they'd go all over the apartment. It's one of the time periods we both remembered well enough to do it for. Also, I'm the one who melted your coffee mug. Sorry. It happened before I sent them back last night."
"But you have no idea how we trigger the conclusion of the loop? At all?", I say to Sylphie, to which she responds,"No, and even if I did, that's not how predestination paradoxes work. Whether we know, or don't know, until the loop is completed it won't matter. We are here because this is a predestination. Our knowledge or lack there of is irrelevant, because we're destined to complete the loop because of the conditions that we are still here, in the loop, period."
I just shake my head and look at her dumbfounded, and flabbergasted. "So then it's all pointless", I say in utter defeat.
Fallon and Sylphie chime in at the exact same time, "The Meteor!", loudly.
"What meteor", I ask. Fallon looks over her shoulder and jumps, startling the rest of us, as she noticed Bjorn standing over our shoulders, with Bueller, and Amma. Bjorn chimes in, "We're going. The fates of Valhalla have us walking to heaven's door and knocking on it". "The meteor, designated Looper 1 is heading towards and impact with Neo Zion, the same location as the impact 200 years ago. So basically, the die has been cast, or something like that", Bueller says then continues, "But I can't go with you. My partner doesn't want me to go. He thought he'd lost me already, so I just can't leave him again. Plus… After I sensed the meteor, my tempest stopped working. The docs tested me and I am no longer a tempest user." Amma puts her shoulder on him and adds, "Neither am I. It actually happened about an hour before. I'd cut myself, and couldn't auto-heal it", she says then grabbing and holding my hand.
Bjorn jumps in with a fatherly, Icelandic accented tone, "Now, lets not be so down on ourselves. But this is a problem. It's also incredibly wide spread. Stormur are reverting all over the place. At last count, 25% of all stormur ceased to have any powers. Higher level ability seems to be holding, but nearly everyone is weakening at an alarming rate. It's likely that this has caused a great deal of chaos in Neo Zion, as it has everywhere else. Further, realizing that this is a paradox, and that there is literally nothing they can do about it, plus the meteor, it sealed the deal."
Dr. Arisdottir jumps in to add, "Also, af gyðjunni, the Sylph, Alira and Fallon's powers are growing, magnified by a factor of 10 already. They are now the largest stormur merki on our planet now. Every detector around the world and in orbit is lighting up that you're here. Which also means, the moment you make a move, they're going to know you're coming", she says. She walks away pressing her tablet against her chest, then returning to her rounds, and going out of my field of view again. Slyphie chimes in again, "Well, I guess there is nothing else to do then. No sense in worrying about it now. What time are we leaving?", she says turning her head to Bjorn. "Right now", he responds with resound, "We're taking all the functioning stormur we can and leaving immediately. If you hadn't woken up, (He looks at me now), we'd have had to take you while still unconscious." "I don't know that I can walk yet", I say but am abruptly interrupted by Amma who wheels an transparent/acrylic wheel chair into the room, with black rubber for the tires, breaks, and blue canvas seat cushions. "Here, let me lift you out of bed, barn", Bjorn says, hoisting me out of bed, blankets and all, and dropping me into the wheel chair. Sylphie sits up more and yanks out her IV, healing the wound, and jumps down and walks around to where I am, and we all leave the ward. The wheelchair is so well made that it makes nearly no noise, and moves fluidly. I can smell that "hospital smell", as we go down the corridors, and to the elevator.
"Well, this will probably be the last epic adventure we go on, ladies", says Sylphie says to both me and Fallon, while the doors close and Fallon takes my hand, "Fate calls us, I fear". I look up at Sylphie's friendly, yet concerned face, and say, "What do you mean?"
She sighs deeply and pets my hair, "It's likely that we'll revert to normal as well, as soon as we've completed the loop. However, we need to figure out how to stop the meteor as well as how to get Eduardo to safety first. The meteor is predicted to impact the atmosphere at 12:21am tomorrow night. Furthermore, it's my power that's preventing me from disintegrating. Which means…". Slyphie's composure finally breaks, as tears stream down her face. Amma grabs her and embraces her without hesitation, and pets her hair, "Shhh, now sweetheart… We don't know what will happen, only that the circumstance, and danger is forcing us into a situation where we have to act." Sylphie continues to sob in Amma's arms, then leans up and says though her tears, "If we do nothing, the timeline resets, and I cease to exist. If we do something our powers cease to be, and I die. Even doing nothing could be what causes the loop, because we only know that we're destined to complete the loop. In either case, this timeline or all life on Earth ends or we stop the meteor, I die… I will always die. There is not one reality where I live, that I can think of."
We've never seen her cry or break down, but given that she now has an identity and will of her own, we understand her pain. Fallon wipes Slyphie's tears, and kisses her deeply, in a way she usually only kisses me. She pulls back and the tears are drying and Slyphie is no longer crying, "Why'd you…". She tries to speak, but Fallon cups over her mouth, "We won't let that happen", she says. Slyphie wipes her eyes, and says, "Thanks Yuzu. You always did try to comfort me when I was feeling futile and fatalistic".
I look over at Bjorn and Bueller and see them both trying to stifle their tears, when Fuel says, "Bjorn got me in the eye with his beard, that's all". Bjorn chuckles jovially, and retorts, "Is that so". As he says this, he puts Fuel in a head lock and starts rubbing his beard all over Bueller's face, and they tussle for a moment. We all burst into uncontrollable laughter at this very moment as we watch the two burly men wrestle with each other over the one rubbing his beard in the others' face. Bjorn finally lets up, and grabs Bueller's face, and looks at his eyes like a doctor examining them. "Did I get them", he says to Bueller, playfully. "Yeah", Fuel chuckles, "I think you did, you old coot." Bjorn laughs and says, "What!? I'm only 145 years young now, I'll have you know", he retorts again while chuckling. We laugh for a moment more. I look at the OLED elevator console as it stops, and says "Landing Bay", The door opens, and I can feel the wind from the Sleipnir's engines spooling up. They wheel me out, and it's a brisk mostly cloudy day, and the science fictionesque scene looks just as amazing in inclement weather.
Bueller leans over to the side of us, and this beautiful, sort of feminine looking man, walks up besides him and they have a beautiful kiss. "Ah, Alira, Fallon, Sylphie, this is Albert, my husband of sorts", says Bueller. His partner pinches him for the way he introduced him, "Hello ladies, it's nice to finally meet you in person. I've hear quite a bit about you two in the past few days." I sort of snark a bit about the gesture and the irony of his partner's name. "What's so funny", he asks, to which I respond, "Nothing, it's just that I find it ironic, or coincidental is all". Bueller, looks down at me. "Anyways", he says talking louder now to speak over the growing noise of the engines, "This is where I must part ways. I hope you come back to us, you here me?" I nod to him. From behind him, I hear the doors open, and hear a panting Amelia run up behind him. "Damn you people, always in such a damned hurry to get some where", she says out of breath. Amelia leans in and hugs me and kisses me on the cheek in a sisterly way, "You better not get your ass killed out there, you hear me. Or I'm going to revive you and beat your ass, and my ogre of a brother over here for not going with you. I suppose I understand. Also, Slyphie, try not to touch anyone with a power anymore."
Sylphie looks confused as Amelia continues, "As this event started, I accidentally touched you, trying to send my best wishes and you leeched my power. My tempest is gone, and I believe it's inside you now. And I'll never forgive you either, if you fail to bring these two back to me in one piece. Understand?" Sylphie stands up and salutes Amelia, and she salutes her back, then the two women hug. "Take care of yourself now, too, alright?", Amelia says, to which Slyphie says, "I'm the most powerful, ever", jokingly. Amelia just shakes her head at her, with tears starting to well up in her eyes. She waves, and blows us a farewell kiss, and runs back inside to get away from the very loud and increasingly noisy engines. Bueller shakes Bjorn's hand and hugs him, then says, "You best look out for them, or my little sis is going to strangle you". Bjorn chuckles, "Don't worry, they're in good hands. Plus, the crew of the Sleipnir volunteered for this suicide run without even batting an eyelash, barn. After Sylphie saved them, they were so eager to help that no one could stop them. By the goddess, they even threatened mutiny if not given orders", Bjorn chuckles cutely. "Take care of yourself, and your husband, okay", Bjorn says to Bueller with his hand on their shoulder.
"Don't die now, Old Man", Bueller yells to be heard. The two men salute each other and we return to boarding. Bueller and Albert walk away from us ducking from the blasts of air of the engines, holding hands, and walk back inside. Shouting over the engines at Bjorn, "Hey, why don't we just take this to the meteor and stop it in space, then go save Eduardo." "HUH!?!", Bjorn shouts back with his had cupped at his ears, unable to hear. "Why can't we stop the meteor in space!", I shout back. He hurries us inside the ship, and closes the ramp.
As the nearly deafening blast of the engines going to full RPM flanges away with the closing of the door, he says, "We can't go into orbit", he says and continues, "The micro-meteor field is making going into space dangerous. Even with shielding, objects moving that fast can do a lot of damage. Conventional arms just don't pack the same punch as a bunch of space rocks moving at nearly 3% of the speed of light." "HOLY SHIT!", I shriek, "Sorry, I didn't know that there was debris moving that fast". Amma wheels me to the bridge with the other 3 in tow, and the inner door squeaks ever so slightly as it opens to the bridge itself. "Hmm, going to have to get one of my lazy lieutenants to oil that door for me soon", Bjorn says. I look around the bridge and I can't readily recognize anyone. Bjorn motions us to strap ourselves in, and straps himself in next to us, as the captain of the mostly repaired Sleipnir is ordered to take off. I hear some of the officers talking indiscernible in Icelandic, occasionally looking at me, Fallon, Sylphie, and Amma.
Amma looks at me, and pets my hair as I turn my face to her, "I won't be going down there with you, but I'll be on the ship rooting for you, kitten. Okay". I just nod nervously to her. The crew on the bridge seemed to be anxiously watching us, when one of the helmsmen hands her duties over the her fellow helmsman, and walks up to us. Seeing this, the Sleipnir's yeoman and Captain come over as well. Their name-tags read from left to right as Svalbard, Unser, and Torsdottir, the captain, yeoman and helmsman in that order. The captain bowed to us 3 tempests, "On behalf of my crew, who seems rather eager to meet you, I thank you for saving and returning our lives to us, gyðjurnar". The Yeoman and Helmsman salute us, in Icelandic style, and the rest of the bridge crew says "Þakka þér", or thank you in English. On the view screen, I can see the ship finally ascending above the clouds to cruising altitude, heading towards Neo Zion. I feel a sense of dread come over me again, and Yuzu and Sylphie both feeling it from me, hold my hand to calm my nerves. Bjorn hugs Fallon and me from his seat the best he can, "Don't worry, you're the most powerful gyðjurnar that have ever existed. You'll do fine, börn." I lean towards Bjorn, over Fallon a bit to ask him, "What's that word you called us", to which he responds, "Goddesses".
Everyone on the crew seems nervous, and has their game faces on, it seems. "How long do we have until impact", I ask Bjorn.
Bjorn turns to the captain of the ship, "Hversu lengi þar til loftstein áhrif?" The captain talks to a crewman near the consoles behind him and shouts towards Bjorn, "Um 15 klst". Bjorn translates this to me as "15 hours". "That's not a lot of time", I retort. Sylphie tugs at my sleeve, "Don't worry. I know we have sufficient power now to destroy the meteor, regardless of what happens to me in the process." I smile meekly back at her, and she pets my cheek a bit, and I sigh at her. This crew seemed more "militaristic" and less family like than Bjorn's crew, but I suppose I couldn't be for certain with such an anecdotal sample length of time, and the circumstances. The captain called over to Bjorn, who unfastened himself to go over and talk to him. He looks at me, Fallon and Sylphie, "We have a communique for you in the briefing room, follow me". He leads us into a room right next to our seats on the side, out of the way of the bridge's normal operations area. It looks like a very sci-fi briefing room, which I feel like I've said far too many times to myself through my experiences in this world. "This world looks in a way that makes me feel like I'm going to wake up from it all the time", I say to Bjorn.
He turns to us, and says, "Your friends are on the line, sit here, and push the red light when it pops up and the OLED screen will pop up. I'll leave you to it", he finishes then leaves the conference room. Rush, Partridge, and Dawson are on the screen, "Sorry we couldn't see you off. Shortly after the event, we all lost our tempests. Otherwise we'd be right there with you", Dawson says. "Except for me", Partridge says, who holds up her hands and her aura is much weaker than before, "But I'll probably be completely inert by tomorrow, according to Arisdottir. Sucks too, because I went through a lot because of these powers. I was hoping I could keep them". Partridge starts to blush profusely, and then looks towards Fallon respective to the camera and screen, "Fallon… I… have… Um… Sorta been crushing on you for a long time. And I think I might sort of have a thing for Sylphie too… I uh… I just… Didn't want to not say it if anything happened to you. I'm sorry, that was selfish of me, I'll shut up now." Sylphie just chuckles, as Fallon blushes, "We're polyamorous, by the way. But you need not worry. I understand. Also, I can sort of speak for Fallon as well… We think you're cute"
Partridge and Fallon both turn bright red, and Fallon hides her face in her arms against the table. Partridge says, "I… Um… Okay… Well, ya'll take care", and then darts off screen, which only pushes Sylphie to laugh more. Rush just shakes his head at us, "You lesbians, I swear", he says then chuckles. "Thank you for getting me out of that hell", Rush says, with Dawson following up with "Me too". "Mind you, I still think Alira's lustrous beauty is going to be the death of me. But who am I to say that. Well, you saved our asses. So you better come back so we have the chance to repay that debt. It may be old fashioned, but I like to repay my debts, especially when it comes to my own life that I owe", Dawson says. Rush adds, "It was an honor to serve with you as cadets, mind you, your time there was not without severe complication. I'm afraid your strength, capacity, and new found age put me as your junior, rather than your senior".
"Either way, I hope you bring back your friend, and that you're able to save us all, one more time. And with that, we must end this call. You're about to go into communication blackout, and the ship has to put up it's shields to hide your approach. Especially with your power signal. We can see you from here", he muses and laughs. "God Speed to you all", Rush says, "Over and out". The screen goes white, then transparent again, and lays flat with the table once again. I pick up the blushing and very warm Fallon from the table, and hug her, and this seems to relax her shyness and slight embarrassment. "Well, lets get back onto the bridge", Sylphie says. As we walk out, the captain barks, "Virkja skjöldu og laumuspil kerfi strax!", at his crew. The screen goes to instrumentation, and navigation, instead of the view above the clouds. The bridge lights dim, and the yellow flashing ones come on, and the tone becomes very serious. "Komutími, 15:45, skipstjóra", shouts Helmswoman Torsdottir. The captain takes a seat and straps himself in, and pushes a button. Music quietly plays on the bridge, and it appears to be a vocals less Icelandic Battle-song. Bjorn seems to slowly and only slightly rock his head back and forth, murmuring the unsung lyrics to the song. Others on the bridge do the same thing.
The tension is almost palpable as me, Fallon, and Sylphie hold hands. "Oh, one thing I forgot to mention", Sylphie says, "The meteor has similar make up to the blue tempest meteor, except it's missing the exotic energy that was in the one that hit 200 years ago". "One of the science team urged caution when handling it. He was convinced of the possibility that the meteor was the paradoxical object. It's why we called it Looper-1. But he couldn't be for sure until he detected a singularity with the object", Bjorn chimes in. "Sylphie, that makes sense too. If this is indeed a paradoxical object that is part of the predestination paradox then that means that whatever it is we do to stop it, could complete the loop. Being that you are a loop object as well, as in an object that that exists only after the start of the paradoxical timeline, you could go with it, rather than ceasing to exist. But, I can't say with certainty either as to which way the loop will happen. As far as human history goes, we've never observed a singularity up close, at least not of this kind", I say to her. "You could be right, my other self, you could be. But, no sense in worrying about it now. We must do what we must do", Sylphie responds somberly. As we get closer and closer to our destination, her tension becomes almost unbearable. I can feel her anxiety, building up beyond anything I've ever sensed from her.
Can you blame her? I can't. If I knew a temporal paradox was about to end, and take me and my existence with it, I'd be too. Just thinking about what she must be going through made me sick to my stomach. When she sensed this, she turned her hand aflame with green, and touched me to calm me down. "Don't worry. You're both as much a part of me as I am of you. But I can't say that is of much solace, even knowing it", she says. The time seems to move so slowly. Even being an hour out from our destination, it feels as though every second is a lifetime. Each of us, with nothing else to do, periodically doze of and slump over on the others during the course of the trip. The ship shakes a few times, from explosions from outside the ship, waking up me and Fallon. Bjorn pulls up a tablet that the Captain gave him, "Just shockwaves from explosions on the surface. Seems as though all Hel has set loose down there. It's nothing but warring stormur and military grade explosions. Seems the disappearance of powers has created an imbalance which set the world down there ablaze." As we get closer, the thuds of shockwaves against the hull get louder and more frequent, deepening our fear and anxiety.
"Birta Neo Síon á skjánum", shouts the captain. As he does, we can see the scene of Neo Zion, just like I saw it on my first time in this world, but ablaze. Streaks of black smoke bellow up into the cloud darkened skies. The city is burning, and there is even fire billowing from some of the sky scrapers. There is a lot of flying cars trying to flee the city, and fighters flying everywhere, some of them targeting fleeing cars. The lower levels of the city are covered in smoke, under which you can see flashes of muzzles, explosives, and colorful blasts of tempest powers going off. "Where were they holding him, Bjorn", I ask him. "Where they hold all public execution prisoners", he replies confidently, "In the skyscraper church. The same one you were in right after you first arrived here." "Slökkva á laumuspil kerfi, og byrja að leggja eld gegn skipakví svæði", the commander shouts after gesturing the okay from the captain. The bluish tinge that was there from the shielding fades, making the image of the burning Neo Zion all the more clear. Then we can see artillery and laser fire go off, directed at the church tower itself. The building begins to fire back, and you can see the anti-air artillery being fired at us. Sometimes hitting the shields and violently shaking the ship. Smaller pictures pop up on to the screen, showing thermal, and radar images of the church roof landing area. The systems take aim and fire at people with lasers, which immediately explode like fireworks brightly in the infrared view. Nothing recognizable as a person remains after. The radar shows fighters being diverted to the Sleipnir, and they unload hell upon us.
The shield now lights up every few seconds from impacts, and the ship shudders even more violent than before. Sometimes lights in the ceiling blow out, showering the bridge with sparks. But the ship seems to be holding it's own. "Björn, senda þá til sjósetja skefjum, og skjóta á Skimmer", the captain commands. Bjorn instructs us to come with him, "Get up, it's time". We unfasten ourselves, and quickly follow Bjorn into the bridges airlock. After the second door opens, he finds this red door about half way down the corridor. He opens it, and inside is a red conveyor pole going down through the ship. The pole is segmented, to work like an escalator but stay relatively stiff to allow people to climb or slide down this shaft. "Grab on and follow me", Bjorn says. One by one we take the pole down to a bay similar to the one in the Visund, with a strange mirrored vehicle in it. He touches it's highly reflective, and polished surface, and the surface stops being a mirror, revealing a super fast air-car hull underneath. He pushes some buttons, activating a camouflage mode, that shows itself on the surface using a high resolution OLED matrix in the surface, and a door opens. We go to climb inside, and Danielle turns me around to give me a big hug. A few heavy blasts shake the ship and we almost fall over. "Take care, my cute little granddaughter, I want to see you again after all this is done. And please, take good care of Ed for me. He's a good man", she hugs me tight and I can feel her trembling.
"Hey, don't forget about me", Sylphie says, and she and Fallon both join me and Amma for a group hug. "Take care of my Granddaughter for me, will you two", Amma says, to which they both reply in unison, "We will". "Aight, you three get a move on now. Okay?", she says and then pushes us off into the aircar. The door closes, and we noticed that from inside, you can see out through the camouflage perfectly. Amma waves to us, and leaves the launch bay. Bjorn starts the car, and says, "Prepare Yourselves!", as he starts it and signals the release mechanism. As the car falls out of the Sleipnir, my stomach feels like it rose up into my chest with weightlessness. Pushing his foot to the floor, and kicking up the engines with a lever next to him, the acceleration of the ship changes our free fall into forward hurtling motion so intense we are slammed into our seats. He shouts over the sounds of explosions from the city, now much louder than when we were in the ship, "Hold on". He begins to dodge the trails of fire, and vehicles and flying cars all around us, as well as a few fighters here and there.
He makes a high G-maneuver, which is dampened a bit by the inertial system, but not by as much as the ship would. He groans aloud through the entire turn, and we struggle to move at all as we're suctioned into our seats. As we bank towards the churches tower, we can see the Sleipnir under fire, and see the bubble of it's shield deflecting rounds and explosives as it takes evasive action to leave the combat area. "Don't worry, they'll rendezvous with us later. Have no fear. They won't abandon us. They're just acting as decoy", Bjorn assures us. The building is coming into view now. Very few of it's once pristine stained-glass windows is unbroken, and there is many floors and windows with smoke and fire billowing out of them. There is aircars, and fighters going in every direction, and closer down we can see Neo Zionists and Neo Meccan fighters shooting at each other and unleashing lasers and lead upon the sky to hit their enemy.
As we approach the building the explosions and fire is getting more violent, and the air turbulence is shaking us around violently. As we are banking into make a fast landing into the pad, a stray round from a fighter hits our craft causing the outer cloak to go offline, bringing us under small arms fire from the landing area by Neo Zionists. The craft starts to crash, and Bjorn kicks it into high gear, almost kamikaze mode on the fighters. The craft starts to fill with smoke, and shake violently. I'm slammed into my seat by a violent impact, as pieces of glass from consoles inside the ship shatter. The craft hurtles end over end, as I hold on to anything and everything I can, for dear life. Eventually it lands flat, and I can see us skidding into the building… The impact is so hard my vision goes to stars, and I black out…
To Be Continued…
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When I go on my diving vacation at the end of this month, I won't be bringing this video mask. Why anyone would like to attach dumb headlights to vital diving gear is beyond me.
While Liquid Image Scuba Series HD320 is a huge jump over their previous toy-mask—reaching 115 feet and capable of capturing 720p video and 5 megapixel photos—didn't anyone tell these people that one of the first rules of scuba diving is not to have objects protruding out of your personal space beyond your tank and BCD?
Apparently not. Even if the lamps get off easily in case your mask gets stuck in the coral or some underwater plant, it still looks dangerous and complicated. You can use it without lamps, but then you won't be able to use its features to its full potential. Light and color quickly disappear when you go down. In addition to that, in terms of function you will be limited to the movements of your head as far as angles go.
In other words, if you are serious about getting good video or photographs underwater, forget about gimmicks like this and get external equipment. It will be more flexible and safe. [CES Show]


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The war in Afghanistan has been slowly winding down toward the scheduled withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops by December 2014. But the decisive and bipartisan vote in the Senate Friday favoring an accelerated withdrawal from Afghanistan is a clear indication that popular sentiment favors a much earlier date.
Dover Air Force Base has served as the major air supply hub for the war, now into its 11th year, and officials there say they've already started to bring home home more cargo than they're transporting to the war theater. The U.S. Senate vote Friday could spell an even heavier pace of operations for the 436th and 512th Airlift Wings as they perform the transport mission over the next couple of years.
News Journal photographer Suchat Pederson and I are on that same circuitous route over the next week, following Dover and other Air Mobility Command assets traveling to Afghanistan and back by way of Germany. We are talking to crews - particularly those based in Delaware or who call the state home - about the changing mission and the impact the work has on their lives. We're interviewing Dover-based airmen at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan who unload and load cargo aircraft. We're also going to talk with emergency medical providers who apply advances in trauma surgery that have extended the lives of many wounded troops, and we'll fly on an Air Mobility Command aeromedical evacuation flight from Bagram back to Germany to see first-hand the role these unique aerial medical teams play in that effort.
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AMALGAMATED UTILITY WORKERS v. CONSOL. EDISON CO. OF NEW YORK(1940)
Mr. Louis B. Boudin, of New York City, for petitioner.
Mr. William L. Ransom, of New York City, for respondents Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc., et al.
Mr. Isaac Lobe Straus, of Baltimore, Md., for respondents, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers et al.
Mr. Chief Justice HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.
The National Labor Relations Board ordered the Consolidated Edison Company of New York and its affiliated companies to desist from certain labor practices [309 U.S. 261, 262] found to be unfair and to take certain affirmative action. The Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Board's petition for enforcement of the order, and its decree, as modified, was affirmed by this Court. Consolidated Edison Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, 305 U.S. 197 , 59 S.Ct. 206. Petitioner, Amalgamated Utility Workers, brought the present proceeding before the Circuit Court of Appeals to have the Consolidated Edison Company and its affiliated companies adjudged in contempt for failure to comply with certain requirements of the decree.
The Board, in response to the motion, asserted its willingness to participate in an investigation to ascertain whether acts in violation of the decree had been committed and suggested that the court direct such investigation as might be deemed appropriate.
The Court of Appeals denied the application upon the ground that petitioner had 'no standing to press a charge of civil contempt, if contempt has been committed'. The court held that under the National Labor Relations Act 'the Board is the proper party to apply to the court for an order of enforcement and to present to the court charges that the court's order has not been obeyed'. 2 Cir., 106 F.,2d 991. In view of the importance of the question in relation to the proper administration of the National Labor Relations Act, we granted certiorari. 308 U.S. 541 , 60 S.Ct. 123, 84 L.Ed. --. October 16, 1939
Petitioner contends that the National Labor Relations Act1 'creates private rights'; that the Act recognizes the rights of labor organizations; and that it gives the parties upon whom these rights are conferred status in the courts for their vindication. In support of its alleged standing, petitioner urges that under its former name (United Electrical and Radio Workers of America) it filed with the National Labor Relations Board charges against the respondent companies, and that it was upon [309 U.S. 261, 263] these charges that the Board issued its complaint and held the hearing which resulted in the order in question. Also, that petitioner was permitted to intervene in the proceedings before the Circuit Court of Appeals where the companies had moved to set aside the Board's order and the Board had moved to enforce it; and that the petitioner had also been heard in this Court in the certiorari proceedings for review of the decree of enforcement.
Petitioner invokes the statement in Section 1 of the Act of 'findings and policy', with respect to the effect of the denial by employers of the right of employees to organize and to bargain collectively, and in particular the provision of Section 72 that
Neither this provision, nor any other provision of the Act, can properly be said to have 'created' the right of self-organization or of collective bargaining through representatives of the employees' own choosing. In National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, 301 U.S. 1, 33 , 34 S., 57 S.Ct. 615, 622, 108 A.L. R. 1352, we observed that this right is a fundamental one; that employees 'have as clear a right to organize and select their representatives for lawful purposes' as the employer has 'to organize its business and select its own officers and agents'; that discrimination and coercion 'to prevent the free exercise of the right of employees to self-organization and representation' was a proper subject for condemnation by competent legislative authority. We noted that 'long ago' [309 U.S. 261, 264] we had stated the reason for labor organizations,-that through united action employees might have 'opportunity to deal on an equality with their employer', referring to what we had said in American Steel Foundries v. Tri-City Central Trades Council, 257 U.S. 184, 209 , 42 S.Ct. 72, 78, 27 A.L.R. 360. And in recognition of this right, we concluded that Congress could safeguard it in the interest of interstate commerce and seek to make appropriate collective action 'an instrument of peace rather than of strife'. To that end Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act.
To attain its object Congress created a particular agency, the National Labor Relations Board, and established a special procedure. The aim, character and scope of that special procedure are determinative of the question now before us. Within the range of its constitutional power, Congress was entitled to determine what remedy it would provide, the way that remedy should be sought, the extent to which it should be afforded, and the means by which it should be made effective.
Congress declared that certain labor practices should be unfair, but it prescribed a particular method by which such practices should be ascertained and prevented. By the express terms of the Act, the Board was made the exclusive agency for that purpose. Section 10(a) provides:3
The Act then sets forth a definite and restricted course of procedure. A charge of an unfair labor practice may [309 U.S. 261, 265] be presented to the Board, but the person or group making the charge does not become the actor in the proceeding. It is the Board, and the Board alone or its designated agent, which has power to issue its complaint against the person charged with the unfair labor practice. If complaint is issued, there must be a hearing before the Board or a member thereof or its agent. The person against whom the complaint is issued may answer and produce testimony. Other persons may be allowed to intervene and present testimony, but only in the discretion of the Board, or its member or agent conducting the hearing. Section 10(b).4 The hearing is under the control of the Board. The determination whether or not the person named in the complaint has engaged or is engaging in the unfair labor practice rests with the Board. If the Board is of the opinion that the unfair labor practice has been shown, the Board must state its findings of fact and issue its 'cease and desist' order with such affirmative requirements as will effectuate the policy of the Act. Section 10(c).5
So far, it is apparent that Congress has entrusted to the Board exclusively the prosecution of the proceeding by its own complaint, the conduct of the hearing, the adjudication and the granting of appropriate relief. The Board as a public agency acting in the public interest, not any private person or group, not any employee or group of employees, is chosen as the instrument to assure protection from the described unfair conduct in order to remove obstructions to interstate commerce.
When the Board has made its order, the Board alone is authorized to take proceedings to enforce it. For that purpose the Board is empowered to petition the Circuit Court of Appeals for a decree of enforcement. The court [309 U.S. 261, 266] is to proceed upon notice to those against whom the order runs and with appropriate hearing. If the court, upon application by either party, is satisfied that additional evidence should be taken, it may order the Board, its member or agent, to take it. The Board may then modify its findings of fact and make new findings. The jurisdiction conferred upon the court is exclusive and its decree is final save as it may be reviewed in the customary manner. Section 10(e).6 Again, the Act gives no authority for any proceeding by a private person or group, or by any employee or group of employees, to secure enforcement of the Board's order. The vindication of the desired freedom of employees is thus confided by the Act, by reason of the recognized public interest, to the public agency the Act creates. Petitioner emphasizes the opportunity afforded to private persons by Section 10(f).7 But that opportunity is given to a person aggrieved by a final order of the Board which has granted or denied in whole or in part the relief sought. That is, it is an opportunity afforded to contest a final order of the Board, not to enforce it. The procedure on such a contest before the Circuit Court of Appeals is assimilated to that provided in Section 10(e) when the Board seeks an enforcement of its order. But that assimilation does not change the nature of the proceeding under Section 10(f), which seeks not to require compliance with the Board's order but to overturn it.
What Congress said at the outset, that the power of the Board to prevent any unfair practice as defined in the Act is exclusive, is thus fully carried out at every stage of the proceeding. The text of the Act is so clear in this respect that there is no need to comment upon its legislative history. But this puts in a strong light the [309 U.S. 261, 267] legislative intent. In the Senate, the Committee on Education and Labor in its report on the bill said:8
And the Committee on Labor of the House of Representatives in its report stated:9
After referring to the suitable adaptation of the Board's orders to the needs of particular cases, and especially to the power to reinstate employees with or without back pay, the Committee continued:
In both Houses of Congress, the Committees were careful to say that the procedure provided by the bill was analogous to that set up by the Federal Trade Commission Act, section 5,10 which was deemed to be 'familiar to all students of administrative law'. That procedure, which was found to be prescribed in the public interest as distinguished from provisions intended to afford remedies to private persons, was fully discussed by this Court in Federal Trade Commission v. Klesner, 280 U.S. 19, 25 , 50 S.Ct. 1, 2, 3, 68 A.L.R. 838, where it was said:
That sort of procedure concerning unfair competition was contrasted with that provided by the Interstate Commerce Act in relation to unjust discrimination. We said that 'in their bearing upon private rights' they are 'wholly dissimilar'. The Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C.A. 1 et seq., im- [309 U.S. 261, 269] poses upon the carrier many duties and creates in the individual corresponding rights. For the violation of the private right it affords 'a private administrative remedy'. The interested person can file as of right a complaint before the Interstate Commerce Commission and the carrier is required to make answer. We said that the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C.A. 41-51, 'contains no such features'. Id., 280 U.S. at page 26, 50 S.Ct. at page 3, 68 A.L.R. 838. The present Act, drawn in analogy to the Federal Trade Commission Act, contains no such features.
As Congress has in this instance created a public agency entrusted by the terms of its creation with the exclusive authority for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act, decisions dealing with the legal obligations arising under the Railway Labor Act11 cannot be regarded as apposite. Texas & New Orleans R. Co. v. Brotherhood of Railway & S. S. Clerks, 281 U.S. 548, 569 , 570 S., 50 S.Ct. 427, 433; Virginian Railway Company v. System Federation No. 40, 300 U.S. 515, 543 , 544 S., 57 S.Ct. 592, 597.
We think that the provision of the National Labor Relations Act conferring exclusive power upon the Board to prevent any unfair labor practice, as defined,-a power not affected by any other means of 'prevention that has been or may be established by agreement, code, law, or otherwise', necessarily embraces exclusive authority to institute proceedings for the violation of the court's decree directing enforcement. The decree in no way alters, but confirms, the position of the Board as the enforcing authority. It is the Board's order on behalf of the public that the court enforces. It is the Board's right to make that order that the court sustains. The Board seeks enforcement as a public agent, not to give effect to a 'private administrative remedy'. Both the order and the decree are aimed at the prevention of the [309 U.S. 261, 270] unfair labor practice. If the decree of enforcement is disobeyed, the unfair labor practice is still not prevented. The Board still remains as the sole authority to secure that prevention. The appropriate procedure to that end is to ask the court to punish the violation of its decree as a contempt. As the court has no jurisdiction to enforce the order at the suit of any private person or group of persons, we think it is clear that the court cannot entertain a petition for violation of its decree of enforcement save as the Board presents it. As the Conference Report upon the bill stated,12 in case the unfair labor practice is resumed, 'there will be immediately available to the Board an existing court decree to serve as a basis for contempt proceedings'.
The order of the Court of Appeals denying petitioner's motion is affirmed.
Mr. Justice MURPHY took no part in the consideration and decision of this cause.
[ Footnote 1 ] 49 Stat. 449, 29 U.S.C. 151, et seq., 29 U.S.C.A. 151 et seq.
[ Footnote 2 ] 29 U.S.C. 157, 29 U.S.C.A. 157.
[ Footnote 3 ] 29 U.S.C. 160(a), 29 U.S.C.A. 160(a).
[ Footnote 4 ] 29 U.S.C. 160(b), 29 U.S.C.A. 160(b).
[ Footnote 5 ] 29 U.S.C. 160(c), 29 U.S.C.A. 160(c).
[ Footnote 6 ] Section 160(e).
[ Footnote 7 ] 29 U.S.C. 160(f), 29 U.S.C.A. 160(f).
[ Footnote 8 ] Sen.Rep. No. 573, 74th Cong., 1st sess., p. 15.
[ Footnote 9 ] H.R.Rep. No. 972, 71th Cong., 1st sess., p. 21.
[ Footnote 10 ] 38 Stat. 719, 15 U.S.C. 45, 15 U.S.C.A. 45.
[ Footnote 11 ] 45 U.S.C. 151 et seq., 45 U.S.C.A. 151 et seq. See 50 Harvard Law Review 1089, 1090.
[ Footnote 12 ] Conference Report, Cong.Rec., 74th Cong., 1st sess., pt. 9, p. 10, 299.


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How can an adopted child prove the relationship to a birth mother? Mother and child are in contact with each other. Neither one of them is against proving the relationship. The birth was in Connecticut and the adopted child still lives in Connecticut.
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Friday, May 18, 2012
SCGS Jamboree - In THREE weeks
Three weeks from now I'll be at Jamboree in Burbank, California. (It's sponsored by the Southern California Genealogical Society.) I'm excited. I know I'll see familiar and new faces. It's not too late to register. http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/Jamboree/2012jam-home.htm. Yes, that's where you'll find all of the information. Hope to see you!!!
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It is a wide known fact among veteran real estate agents that prospect buyers can reject a house before even stepping inside to see it. Price is not usually a factor for most, but the reason most buyers decline on listings is due to curb appeal.
Basically what it means in the real estate game is that a house could be constructed with a solid foundation and ample room, reasonably priced, but if the house seems "bland" and less desirable, then the curb appeal is very low to non-existent. Buyers apparently like houses that look amicable and welcoming, by that, it could be any measure of things: a new paint job with eye-popping color, landscape beauty, to even something as simple as new doors and shutters for windows.
People know what they want and a basic rule of thumb to any business is to know what they want. The following tips are meant to guide and aid future agents that are new to the game and often wonder why buyers reject near-perfect listings. It is meant to inspire and shape up curb appeal to any house so that any person interested in buying it will have no doubts.
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Applying fresh coats of paint can never do any wrong. Painting a house with earth tones to bright colors can add curb appeal. The goal is simply to make the house stand out just a little from its neighboring homes. Never allow it to completely differentiate from other houses because people looking to buy usually don't like homes that call too much attention to it.
The procedure is to practically be eye-catching in a good way, for example, it blends well but it does uniquely stand out. Still, why stop there? Sprucing up mailboxes and toying with numbers could add that certain aesthetic brilliance that sums up a house's overall value and attraction to would-be buyers. [Read more…]


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The most immediate difference is portability. Gaming laptops are considerably lighter and far more compact. They can literally be taken wherever you go and are the perfect College and University companion allowing you to game or complete assignments. In addition to this, they are ideal for those who love to attend LAN events – no more hauling a heavy computer!
Gaming laptops contain a powerful on-board battery which means they can be used for hours at a time without being plugged in. Not only does this go hand in hand with portability but also means you can game on the go without being tethered to a plug.
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Laptops in general consume substantially less energy than a desktop so are much 'greener' and even save your electricity bill. Gaming laptops are additionally manufactured using far less materials than your typical gaming desktop so yet again you're doing your bit for the planet.
Ok, so gaming laptops aren't anywhere near as upgradable as a desktop PC but you can still upgrade some of the core components once your warranty has expired such as RAM, SSD, HDD and DVD/Blu-Ray reader/writer. In fact if your gaming laptop is running slow and doesn't contain an SSD we highly recommend the upgrade – It will make a huge difference to boot and loading times and can be bought from Overclockers UK!
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HP is one of the elite manufacturers pioneering the field of mobile gaming, packing in desktop-level performance into a footprint no bigger than a couple of books. At one time, this was almost impossible but thanks to constant innovations, manufacturers have pushed the bounds of possibility.
Compromising on performance due to form factor is now a thing of the past.
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|High End:
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|Graphics: Nvidia RTX 2080 8GB CPU: i9 8950HK RAM: 32GB
Laptop Accessories
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In addition to our wide range of gaming laptops and workstations, we also offer a multitude of laptop accessories including laptop backpacks, coolers and peripherals upgrading your overall experience and increasing productivity.
What Laptop Accessories do I Need?
This all depends on how you plan to use your laptop but in general, you will want a few key accessories. These include a laptop sleeve to protect your investment when not in use and if you decide to use on a desk: a laptop cooler will improve thermal efficiency and potentially extend its life.
Lets take a look at what accessories you might want to buy to compliment your setup:
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(a) As a result of broadened authority provided by the Government Securities Act Amendments of 1993 (15 U.S.C. 78o-3 and 78o-5), the FDIC is adopting sales practice rules for the government securities market, a market with a particularly broad institutional component. Accordingly, the FDIC believes it is appropriate to provide further guidance to banks on their suitability obligations when making recommendations to institutional customers.
(b) The FDIC's suitability rule (§368.4) is fundamental to fair dealing and is intended to promote ethical sales practices and high standards of professional conduct. Banks' responsibilities include having a reasonable basis for recommending a particular security or strategy, as well as having reasonable grounds for believing the recommendation is suitable for the customer to whom it is made. Banks are expected to meet the same high standards of competence, professionalism, and good faith regardless of the financial circumstances of the customer.
(c) In recommending to a customer the purchase, sale, or exchange of any government security, the bank shall have reasonable grounds for believing that the recommendation is suitable for the customer upon the basis of the facts, if any, disclosed by the customer as to the customer's other security holdings and financial situation and needs.
(d) The interpretation in this section concerns only the manner in which a bank determines that a recommendation is suitable for a particular institutional customer. The manner in which a bank fulfills this suitability obligation will vary, depending on the nature of the customer and the specific transaction. Accordingly, the interpretation in this section deals only with guidance regarding how a bank may fulfill customer-specific suitability obligations under §368.4.1
1The interpretation in this section does not address the obligation related to suitability that requires that a bank have " * * * a 'reasonable basis' to believe that the recommendation could be suitable for at least some customers." In the Matter of the Application of F.J. Kaufman and Company of Virginia and Frederick J. Kaufman, Jr., 50 SEC 164 (1989).
(e) While it is difficult to define in advance the scope of a bank's suitability obligation with respect to a specific institutional customer transaction recommended by a bank, the FDIC has identified certain factors that may be relevant when considering compliance with §368.4. These factors are not intended to be requirements or the only factors to be considered but are offered merely as guidance in determining the scope of a bank's suitability obligations.
(f) The two most important considerations in determining the scope of a bank's suitability obligations in making recommendations to an institutional customer are the customer's capability to evaluate investment risk independently and the extent to which the customer is exercising independent judgement in evaluating a bank's recommendation. A bank must determine, based on the information available to it, the customer's capability to evaluate investment risk. In some cases, the bank may conclude that the customer is not capable of making independent investment decisions in general. In other cases, the institutional customer may have general capability, but may not be able to understand a particular type of instrument or its risk. This is more likely to arise with relatively new types of instruments, or those with significantly different risk or volatility characteristics than other investments generally made by the institution. If a customer is either generally not capable of evaluating investment risk or lacks sufficient capability to evaluate the particular product, the scope of a bank's customer-specific obligations under §368.4 would not be diminished by the fact that the bank was dealing with an institutional customer. On the other hand, the fact that a customer initially needed help understanding a potential investment need not necessarily imply that the customer did not ultimately develop an understanding and make an independent investment decision.
(g) A bank may conclude that a customer is exercising independent judgement if the customer's investment decision will be based on its own independent assessment of the opportunities and risks presented by a potential investment, market factors and other investment considerations. Where the bank has reasonable grounds for concluding that the institutional customer is making independent investment decisions and is capable of independently evaluating investment risk, then a bank's obligations under §368.4 for a particular customer are fulfilled.2 Where a customer has delegated decision-making authority to an agent, such as an investment advisor or a bank trust department, the interpretation in this section shall be applied to the agent.
2See footnote 1 in paragraph (d) of this section.
(h) A determination of capability to evaluate investment risk independently will depend on an examination of the customer's capability to make its own investment decisions, including the resources available to the customer to make informed decisions. Relevant considerations could include:
(1) The use of one or more consultants, investment advisers, or bank trust departments;
(2) The general level of experience of the institutional customer in financial markets and specific experience with the type of instruments under consideration;
(3) The customer's ability to understand the economic features of the security involved;
(4) The customer's ability to independently evaluate how market developments would affect the security; and
(5) The complexity of the security or securities involved.
(i) A determination that a customer is making independent investment decisions will depend on the nature of the relationship that exists between the bank and the customer. Relevant considerations could include:
(1) Any written or oral understanding that exists between the bank and the customer regarding the nature of the relationship between the bank and the customer and the services to be rendered by the bank;
(2) The presence or absence of a pattern of acceptance of the bank's recommendations;
(3) The use by the customer of ideas, suggestions, market views and information obtained from other government securities brokers or dealers or market professionals, particularly those relating to the same type of securities; and
(4) The extent to which the bank has received from the customer current comprehensive portfolio information in connection with discussing recommended transactions or has not been provided important information regarding its portfolio or investment objectives.
(j) Banks are reminded that these factors are merely guidelines that will be utilized to determine whether a bank has fulfilled its suitability obligation with respect to a specific institutional customer transaction and that the inclusion or absence of any of these factors is not dispositive of the determination of suitability. Such a determination can only be made on a case-by-case basis taking into consideration all the facts and circumstances of a particular bank/customer relationship, assessed in the context of a particular transaction.
(k) For purposes of the interpretation in this section, an institutional customer shall be any entity other than a natural person. In determining the applicability of the interpretation in this section to an institutional customer, the FDIC will consider the dollar value of the securities that the institutional customer has in its portfolio and/or under management. While the interpretation in this section is potentially applicable to any institutional customer, the guidance contained in this section is more appropriately applied to an institutional customer with at least $10 million invested in securities in the aggregate in its portfolio and/or under management.


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PARIS — Andrée Putman was given an intimate farewell Wednesday at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
It was in the neighborhood where the interior designer, who died this past weekend at the age of 87, had spent all her colorful life, mingling with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Simone de Beauvoir, Georges Perec and Alberto Giacometti.
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Some 250 people gathered to pay their respects and exchange anecdotes about a woman they described as smart, engaging and fun.
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The setting was as minimalist as Putman's signature style, which consisted of "black on black, leather perfecto, high heels and plenty of jewelry, mostly large necklaces and lots of bangles," recalled Martine Sitbon, the designer behind Rue du Mail. "She was androgynous and feminine at the same time — very couture, but in a modern way."
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