How does a filmmaker weave a multi-volume book series into a cohesive, coherent film?
If your name is Peter Jackson and you possess a $300 million budget, the answer is simple. You don't. You recognize the wealth of material that would be left on the cutting room floor, and you turn that multi-volume series into multiple films.
If, however, your name is not Peter Jackson and you don't possess a $300 million budget or, for that matter, even the promise of ever working again then you commit yourself to the most significant and beloved plot points of the book series and build them film around them.
In a nutshell, the latter approach explains director Waters' ("Just Like Heaven," "Mean Girls") "The Spiderwick Chronicles," the latest entry into the ever growing genre of CGI-centered family films based upon a five-volume children's series by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi.
While Black and DiTerlizzi's book series is a graphic intensive, large print collection, it is still a 500+ page series and, despite the rather basic plot, condensing Arthur Spiderwick's metaphysical world of ogres, fairies, goblins and such into an understandable and entertaining family film is no small task.
In the film, Helen Grace (Mary Louise Parker) has just divorced her husband Richard (Andrew McCarthy) and for financial reasons has moved herself and her three children, the subservient Simon (Freddie Highmore), angry Simon (Highmore, in a dual role) and the eldest, Mallory (Sarah Bolger, "In America"), into a huge estate left to her by Arthur Spiderwick's daughter, Lucinda (Joan Plowright, "Enchanted April") who is said to be at a sanitarium.
What is true in horror films is also typically true in family films, and that is that moving into an old, decrepit estate inevitably isn't all its cracked up to be. Within 24 hours, Jared has discovered that they are not alone in the house and, when he stumbles upon Spiderwick's "Chronicles," a field guide to the spiritual realm of living creatures, suddenly Jared, his family and all living creatures are in grave danger.
The problem is that, as Arthur Spiderwick (David Strathairn, "Good Night, and Good Luck") learned, "The Spiderwick Chronicles" really shouldn't be read and possessing such powerful knowledge of the magical world is considered too much knowledge for one human being.
At first, Jared seems unphased that he has disregarded a written warning to not read the book. His first encounter with a magical creature is, Thimbletack (voiced by Martin Short), a trusted confidante of Spiderwick's and longtime protector of the book. Rather quickly, however, bad things start happening to his siblings and, despite the continued disbelief of his mother, the three begin their adventure to determine what to do with the book and how to keep it out of the hands of the shape-shifting Mulgarath (Nick Nolte), the most powerful Ogre who desires this knowledge that will allow him to conquer the world.
Along the way, they will encounter hobgoblins and will be aided by the likes of such delightful characters as HogSqueal (voiced by Seth Rogen).
While the film is far more entertaining and emotionally resonant than New Line's attempt to create another "LOTR" style series with "Golden Compass," "The Spiderwick Chronicles" falls short of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and even the "Narnia" films. Much of this can undoubtedly be attributed to Waters and screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and David Berenbaum simply having too much material to include in too little time and, even more disappointingly, altering the story's ending with a far too typical Hollywood-flavored resolution that isn't faithful to the series' conclusion.
Whereas "Golden Compass" got bogged down in trying to explain itself, "The Spiderwick Chronicles" takes only a few minutes before the action begins and seldom does the pace let up.
While the dual casting of Freddie Highmore seems unnecessary given the rather one-note development of the twin siblings, Highmore continues his streak of top-notch performances and even brings a rather spot-on American accident this time around. The only problem with Highmore's performance, which becomes more obvious as the film moves forward, is that the script's lack of cohesiveness and multiple plot jumps become obvious with an actor who is so readily able to emote freely. It was, at times, difficult to buy into Highmore's emotional depths largely due to a story that consistently left out chunks of the story that will be most bothersome to those familiar with the literary version of the story.
Mary Louise Parker performs nicely, especially in the film's latter half, as the mother who is trying to start over but hasn't a clue how to do so, while Sarah Bolger gives the most consistent performance despite occasionally not balancing well with Highmore's more emotional performance.
The voice work from Martin Short, Seth Rogen and Nick Nolte is all fine, though none particularly stand out from the non-stop CGI effects. In what amount to relatively minor roles, David Strathairn and Joan Plowright offer their usual strong performances as Arthur and Lucinda Spiderwick.
James Horner's original score, despite sounding remarkably familiar, accompanies the action nicely, while Caleb Deschanel's cinematography utilizes darkness quite nicely and keeps the action suspenseful without becoming too frightening for the film's target younger audience.
Somewhat surprisingly, "The Spiderwick Chronicles" is rated PG and parents bringing young ones should be prepared for quite a few scenes involving ogres and goblins in fight scenes and attacking the three children in such a way that may potentially be frightening to smaller children.
While "The Spiderwick Chronicles" doesn't seem likely to end up a cinematic classic, it is an entertaining and family friendly film based upon the books that are beloved by many children. Filled with enough fantasy and action to delight children yet intelligent enough to maintain a hold on accompanying parents, "The Spiderwick Chronicles" garners a modest recommendation despite a touch of disappointment at the story left untold and warm and fuzzy ending that left me cold.


1) Bring all ingredients to a boil and stir to dissolve sugar and salt.
3) Place turkey breast side down into brine and then add as much water is necessary to completely submerge. Use a few plates to hold under water.
1) Brine the thawed turkey one full night prior to cooking (recipe above).
2) Preheat the oven to 500 degrees. Take the turkey out of the brine and rise inside out with cold water.
3) Pat dry and coat liberally with vegetable oil.
4) Insert any aromatics (see below) as desiered once brine is no longer used.
5) Pop turkey in the fully heated oven for 30 minutes.
6) After 30 minutes have passed, reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees and cook until thickest part of the breast reaches 160 degrees.
7) Pull the turkey out and let rest for 15 minutes prior to carving.


Wrote one investigator in the early part of this century: The Ophidian Order is a worldwide criminal syndicate that seeks to encircle the planet and control world affairs, like the giant snake in Norse mythology that encircles the Earth and cannot be killed.
Their activities go far beyond petty crime or even mob activity. The Ophidian Order is the "organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected" on the globe. Their agents are numerous and splendidly organized. Agents have been caught but mysteriously die soon after. No information is available about the central power behind the order.
Unfortunately, surprisingly little more has been learned about the nature of the organization and those behind it since. Nothing is known about the existence of any central headquarters or authority behind the Ophidian Order, nor do they appear to have any specific political goals or leanings in their dealings, selling weapons and secret information to anyone willing to pay for them.


Who got more out of Scouting - the boys in Rose Valley's merit-badge assembly line, or Wallingford's fun-loving campers?
In our town in the 1960s there were two Scout troops. We Scouts identified them by the neighborhoods they served, Rose Valley and Wallingford.
The Rose Valley troop distinguished itself as few other troops ever have and became known as the "Eagle Factory." On the other hand, Wallingford--my troop--had contributed to Scouting in its 20-some-year history only one solitary Eagle. And he had long since moved on to Exploring.
Fellows from both troops attended the same schools. We swam in the same creeks and hiked the same woodlands of eastern Pennsylvania. We played sports in the same leagues and attended the same Scout camps. We caddied together at the local golf course and in the hours afterward spent our caddie money together at the same movie theater on State Street.
Still, it hurt a little whenever the local paper came out with its periodic, full-page spread announcing "Eagle Night at Rose Valley." There they were, our Rose Valley pals, awash in merit badges and solemnly receiving their coveted Eagle Scout medals.
The difference between our troops was this: At Rose Valley's Wednesday night meetings, held in the wilderness setting of a restored grist mill, they focused on merit badges. Their leader kept a chart. It tracked which Scouts were aiming at which badges. Why, he even phoned you at home if you appeared to be lagging behind. He got your parents involved. His pep talks renewed your vigor.
Not so at Wallingford's Wednesday meetings. We met in the cavernous girls' gymnasium at the high school, where splinters chipped off the creaky floors and our sessions usually degenerated into hysterical games of kick ball. Or worse, we would terrorize the night custodian by racing through the hallways and turning off the master electrical switches.
One other difference set our Scout troops apart. Rose Valley spent weekends at council meetings, exhibitions, and similar academic pursuits. Wallingford's troop opted instead to get out and camp.
Camping became our religion. We made certain, year-round, to stage one major camp-out per month, one 10-mile hike per season, and numerous shorter trips. We hiked all over the Appalachian foothills. We canoed the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers. We camped at Gettysburg and along Brandywine Creek. We bivouacked along the Chesapeake Bay and piloted sailboats, loaded with camping gear, along the New Jersey shore.
Our midwinter 10-miler, which ended in a farm woodlot alongside French Creek, in a place called Pughtown, Pa., was made better only by the swirling depths of snow that piled up against the tents. You were not a "genuine" member of Troop Wallingford until you had survived that trip.
One year it was so cold that the farmer trudged down, lantern in hand, and suggested we sleep in his hay loft above his cows, where steamy bovine bodies would warm us. No one budged. We remained snug in our green, open-fly baker tents, feeding our reflector fires, of which each of us--and not one an Eagle Scout, mind you--was proud. How cold did it get that night? In the morning we dangled our boots from sticks over our campfires, just to thaw out the leather.
Along came the council camporee, on the sacred ground at Valley Forge National Historical Park, where Washington's men wintered during the American Revolution. All the Scout troops would be there. Hiking and camping would be the order of the day, with a massive, hillside campfire on Saturday night and all day Sunday to swap patches and visit neighboring campsites.
We from Wallingford planned the thickest of meat stews for supper, with our own homepressed hot cider and bread that we baked, trapper style, in a huge, black frying pan leaned cockeyed between hot rocks and the cook fire. For breakfast, we scheduled a wild omelet of hamburger, onions, and (believe it or not) apples and raisins. It became a habit with us, at these multitroop affairs, to serve the best chow of the encampment.
We liked the way other troops talked enviously of our cooking, and the way they wandered by to check out the delicious smells that wafted from our circle of tents.
Few troops could boast the teamwork necessary to cook one meal for all its campers. While they were scraping black toast off a stick in their campsites, we were dishing out stuffed pork chops.
What a weekend it promised to be--until we set out Saturday morning, marching single file under leaden October skies. By noon it had turned into a bone-chilling rainstorm, one of those where the rain came down sideways, blowing across your face in stinging sheets. We spent most of the six-mile hike bent over, heads down, draped like donkeys beneath our ponchos.
We finally arrived at our thoroughly-soaked campsite. All the firewood lay scattered and soggy, and the ground squished with every step. "Wallingford," we grittily told one another, "this is your kind of camping weather!"
It was more than an hour before another troop arrived and occupied the campsite next to ours. Instead of hiking in, these fellows arrived by car. It seems the rainy, wind-tossed conditions had been a bit too much for them, and instead of hiking, their leader had summoned motorized transportation to ferry them to the campsite.
And look! Of all places...These Scouts were from Rose Valley.
We greeted them warmly, with lots of "Hey, guys!" and "How're yours?" It didn't occur to me to rib them about abandoning their hike, at least not until some of our older Scouts laid in an insult or two. "Couldn't finish the hike, huh, Rose Valley?... Pretty as a rose and just as soft!...Ought to call you guys Toes Valley!"
But hey, so what if they quit the hike? We were both here now, we and our crosstown buddies, side-by-side at a dynamite camp-out.
On that frigid day in late October there was something not quite right about a campsite with no smoke, none at all, curling up from anywhere, not from a cook fire, not from a ceremonial campfire, not even from a reflector fire.
Nor did a campsite look smart when the tents sagged to one side, forming pockets that collected little pools of rain water. A campsite where kids stood around shivering in dripping ponchos, striking vainly at soggy matches, was no campsite at all. No smoke, no fires aglow, no chow on the grill, no piles of split wood.
And that was what we saw that night. Rose Valley's campsite looked almost abandoned. They were not dealing with the elements but buckling under to them.
Rose Valley finally got one fire started, but it failed after nightfall for lack of wood. I doubt the troop got past dinner before the fire sizzled out under what had become an intense ice storm. At their darkened campsite, the fellows stood around like statues, as if they were waiting for their leaders to sound retreat on the bugle and head for the nearest pizza shop.
Over at Wallingford we knew we had a decision on our hands. One by one the Rose Valley Scouts began drifting into our circle, drawn by our crackling fire and the thick smoke that puffed around our supper.
We didn't have to take a vote; we knew what was best. An older Wallingford Scout finally put a voice to it, shouting into the stormy darkness, "Hey, Rose Valley! C'mon over and warm up to some of this stuff. It's supper time at this end."
Soon the two troops were as one. We ate together that night, mixing up two extra pots of hot corn pudding to accommodate the visitors. Then we built our fires into wood-splitting roars and dried out their sleeping gear. We remade our cook tent into sleeping quarters, where the worst-off of Rose Valley's crew could bed down and stay dry during the night. To others, we gave away our precious firewood.
The songs and ghost stories generated a special warmth that night. Then a Rose Valley lad arose to thank us one and all. He mentioned that his troop stood indebted to us.
This was all the opening needed by my tentmate, a wisecracker of the first order. "Hey," he wondered out loud, "now maybe you guys could teach us how to make Eagle."
Newspaper reporter and writer Tom Baldwin eventually made Eagle, after leaving "Wallingford" when a third troop began in town. He lives in New Hope, Pa., near where he started in Scouting.
The article "The So-So Troop vs. The Eagle Factory" (in our January-February 1995 issue) posed the question: Which boys got more out of Scoutingone troop's "fun-loving campers" or the members of a "merit badge assembly line"? Several readers suggested how the question should be properly answered.
The [over]emphasis Wallingford placed on outdoor activity was just as wrong as the [over]emphasis Rose Valley placed on advancement. Unit leadership must use all eight Methods of Scouting (outdoors, patrol system, advancement, adult association, uniform, leadership, ideals, participation) to achieve the Aims of Scouting (citizenship, character, fitness).
A unit that places overwhelming importance on one or two methods or knowingly ignores some methods, defeats and damages the purpose of Scouting...and gives way to Rose Valley's Wednesday night focus on merit badges or Wallingford's meetings that "... degenerated into hysterical games...."
Unit leaders need to step back and look: Are you using all eight Methods of Scouting?
I am not sure what the moral of the story was [but] I was a proud member of Troop 513 in the Philadelphia, Pa., council which produced an average of one Eagle Scout each year. Our Scoutmasters were diligent in both promoting advancement and producing a monthly hiking and camping program.
The troop earned the council's winter camping award each year. I remember building a lean-to in 16 inches of snow during a winter camp-out for Pioneering merit badge, one of the badges earned while working toward my Eagle Scout Award.
I strongly believe that a successful troop will have both goals of advancing their Scouts and teaching them Scouting through camping.
I was vaguely amused by the story [because] I was a member of a so-called "kick ball troop" and one of only two Eagle Scouts the troop ever produced.
have a planned, boy-led program that evolves around a monthly theme.
work on advancement and have merit-badge clinics.
attend summer camp and have high adventure activities for older boys.
have trained adult leadership with an active committee and participate regularly in district and council activities.
track boy participation, encourage boys to advance in rank, and help identify worthwhile Eagle projects.
In short, they give the boys of their community the Boy Scout program.
During our years as camp staffers, my two brothers and I (all Eagle Scouts) have seen examples of Eagle Scouts from so-called "Eagle factory" troops who had [obviously] been pumped out on a merit badge assembly line. At the same time, we've worked with Scouts so proficient in outdoor skills it was hard to believe they were not yet Eagle Scouts.
Copyright © 1995 by the Boy Scouts of America. All rights thereunder reserved; anything appearing in Scouting magazine or on its Web site may not be reprinted either wholly or in part without written permission. Because of freedom given authors, opinions may not reflect official concurrence.


Op-ed: Hillary Clinton is building a double-digit lead in the U.S. presidential race despite all the hijinks of Bernie Sanders and golfing blunders of Donald Trump.
Pundits, who depend on a race for their jobs, are focusing on a poll that shows the race close. MSNBC has Clinton ahead by only one point when all the third-party candidates are thrown in.
The Washington Post-ABC poll released Sunday shows Clinton leading by 12 points. NBC only mentions its own poll.
What kind of journalism includes only the news that supports its views? Later, they did mention the 12-point lead but played it down.
NBC says the polls are worrisome. Will they continue to say that if Hillary gets a 20-point lead?
The most respected Republican columnist, George Will, had said he would support Clinton. On Sunday he said he was no longer a Republican.
If Sanders begins supporting Clinton her numbers could rise.
“Support for Donald Trump has plunged as he has alienated fellow Republicans and large majorities of voters overall in the course of a month of self-inflicted controversies, propelling Democrat Hillary Clinton to a double-digit lead nationally,” the Washington Post and ABC said.
It didn’t help that the whole world watched as Trump admitted he didn’t know what Brexit was.
As he did when the recession hit a decade ago Trump saw the decline of the British pound as good news for him.
It meant more people would travel to his Scottish golf course.
For Americans, as Clinton worried, it would mean fewer British tourists in the U.S.
Wow. George Will supports Clinton. Maybe he can campaign for her along with supposed socialist Bernie Sanders.


What is the largest file size that can be compared using binary comparison?
I tried comparing 2 identical zip files (each one containing 2 files: a small text file and a 30 GB data file).
When opening the comparison and trying to force a CRC comparison or a Rules-based comparison, BC would simply indicate instantly that all the files are a binary match. This is impossible for it to know because the comparison takes no time at all, and one of the zip files is on an internal drive and the other one on an external USB drive). Force refreshing would result in the same thing: instantly I'm told that they're binary matches.
But then if I try to force a Binary Comparison (instead of CRC), then it actually starts doing some work. But after a few minutes, I just get an error and the comparison process fails. So I guess there is some kind of limit.
I'm running v4.1.9 64-bit on a Windows 10 system with 8GB RAM. In settings, I have configured the buffer size for binary compare to 33554432.
There's no known upper limit and we use smaller blocks when scanning so the amount of RAM doesn't increase with the file size. A Rules-based scan might fail depending on the file extension, as certain session types have upper limits on the file size. CRC and Binary scans should complete successfully after a scan period. Note: a binary scan can return unequal very quickly if the size is different or if it finds the difference early in the file. An equal scan, however, will take longer and scan the entire file. On my own machine, I quickly generated and tested 30 and 40gb files without seeing the same problem.
If you reboot your machine and power cycle the external hdd, does this impact the issue? If you compare a pair of test folders that are only on the external drive, do they show the same issue? Or a sample pair of files that exist only on the local drive?
Internal vs external drive makes no difference, and rebooting makes no difference.
It is still the case that CRC Comparison instantly says the files inside the ZIP "folder" are binary matches. And Binary Comparison still fails after a few minutes.
I believe it is the ZIP file itself that is causing problems for Beyond Compare. Let me tell you more about the file.
I created a system restore USB flash drive for my laptop, so that it can be restored to factory settings by booting from the USB flash drive. That process copied about 10GB of uncompressible data to the 32GB USB flash drive. I then used a popular utility program called ImageUSB to create an image file of that USB flash drive. The file it created is 32GB in size, which I guess is mostly empty blocks. I then used WinRAR to create a zip file of that 32GB mostly-empty file, together with a small text file describing the image, which resulted in a 10GB zip file.
So maybe you can replicate this scenario on your side? Perhaps partially fill up a USB flash drive, then use ImageUSB to create an image of it (which will include empty blocks), and then use WinRAR to create a zip file containing that image file. Then make 2 copies of that ZIP file and try to compare them in Beyond Compare.
Ah hah! I missed "zip" in the first post. Sorry about that. I've created the large archive with very large content and I'm seeing the same behavior you are. I'll make a tracker entry to investigate. If you use the right-click Compare Contents command to perform a foreground scan, how does this work for you?
If you use the right-click Compare Contents command to perform a foreground scan, how does this work for you?
CRC Comparison instantly says the files are binary matches. And Binary Comparison fails after a few minutes (see the log file contents I posted in the previous message).
When you say you are seeing the same behavior, do you mean that you see both of these incorrect things happen?
Chatting with a dev, I've learned something new: when working with a .zip the CRC values are stored as part of the zip and we use those for both CRC and Rules-based scan results (if CRC equal). This will return nearly instantly. A binary scan will ignore the stored CRC and will take a long time to scan the files. This is all intended behavior; does your scenario differ in any way?
OK, but are you seeing the problem where the Binary Comparison fails after a few minutes, like I do where it fails after 4 minutes and 5 seconds in my example?
Concerning the other problem, i.e. the CRC Comparison, I think it's a very bad idea to rely on the CRC in the ZIP when trying to compare the actual contents. Sometimes the contents of a zip file are corrupt, and then the content won't match the CRC saved in the metadata of the zip. Just the other day I was extracting some RAR files, and WinRAR warned me when extracting that some of the files did not match their stored CRC values. Somehow, the contents of the archive had become corrupt. That is why archive tools usually also have a Test function where they compare the contents to the stored checksums.
When using Beyond Compare to compare the actual contents of an archive, the expectation is that it is comparing the actual contents by calculating CRC values. Surely it should be doing pretty much the same thing that WinRAR/Winzip do when extracting/testing, i.e. check the actual contents to find out whether there's any corruption/difference in the actual data.
Currently, if using Beyond Compare's CRC comparison to compare a good ZIP with a corrupt ZIP, it will report that they're identical because of course the metadata will still match.
No, the binary scan is finishing without error and without needing to alter the binary buffer option. If you extract these items out of the zip, do you encounter any errors during a binary scan of those contents?
Trusting CRC values is something BC4 will do if CRC is selected, while Binary does not compute CRC and would bypass these values. If CRC corruption is a concern, then you would want to use Binary (and we'll troubleshoot getting this working).
No, the binary scan is finishing without error and without needing to alter the binary buffer option.
It took a lot of back-and-forth but I'm glad you now finally see that I was reporting 2 separate problems.
If you extract these items out of the zip, do you encounter any errors during a binary scan of those contents?
If I extract the items out of the zip and do a binary scan on them, there are no errors.
Can you please ask the developers to read this thread in its entirety? I still strongly disagree that even when explicitly choosing to Compare Contents via the Rules dialog, or by right-clicking on a specific file within an expanded ZIP and choosing to Compare Contents, the contents by default are not actually compared at all. At best, it could be called 'Compare metadata'. In the current implementation the little icon in the middle that shows a binary match is highly misleading, due to the contents not having been compared at all by Beyond Compare. Any corrupt content within zip files will be shown by Beyond Compare to have a little binary match icon. I need to be able to trust that there is no possibility that my file comparison tool is showing me false information. For other file types, Beyond Compare calculates the CRC values itself. I bet that not many people know or expect that when they ask Beyond Compare to compare their archive files' contents, by default Beyond Compare is not comparing the contents at all, and this can surely get people into trouble. Relying on an archive's built in CRC values in its metadata is fine for a quick comparison, but is of no use when doing a content comparison by any method. It should not be necessary to have to choose Binary Comparison. CRC Comparison should be reliable too.
Sorry, I missed mentioning that I expected foreground Binary scan to work when I suggested you try it. Binary scan was always functioning for me, and I was attempting to troubleshoot your "instant results".
A dev has reviewed this, hence the my post that it's expected behavior and updating my explanation with what they told me. The Binary scan is designed for full data verification, while CRC and Rules-based are by design made to be quicker or ignore differences. If CRC always ignores the stored CRC code in the Zip, then it's simply a slower, less reliable Binary scan and affords no advantage. CRC scan is provided specifically in scenarios where you can trust CRC codes, so scans against zip files or FTP servers that provide xCRC codes can be done quickly. Similarly, a corruption that occurs outside of visible data would not be caught by a Rules-based scan. If you need verify an exact match and expect to deal with corrupt sources, then you need to use the Binary scan.
If you are dealing with corrupt archives, this could be part of why the binary scan is failing. If you attempt to run the WinZip "Test" function both archives (left and right) do either of them report failure? If you work with new, test archives you create by manually zipping up some large files, do all archives crash similarly?
If you are dealing with corrupt archives, this could be part of why the binary scan is failing.
There is no corruption involved in the particular case we are discussing in this thread. It is a healthy ZIP file.
There's nothing wrong with the zip. It's a new, healthy archive, and extracting it works fine.
If I use Beyond Compare to do a binary scan of the extracted contents, everything is fine.
If I use Beyond Compare to do a binary scan of the contents of the ZIP, while they are still in the ZIP, it fails with the error messages I quoted previously.
I wonder if you tried the steps I outlined a few posts back, where I described exactly how I'd created this zip file.
In my original testing, I did not have a system image, so I used another set of very large test data (30gb nearly empty file, and a 30gb random file), and compressed with the latest release of WinRAR 64bit Windows. These neither hung the application or threw an error. I've taken the same data, placed it on a USB drive, captured it with ImageUSB, re-zipped, and I do see a logged failure after several minutes. I'll pass this on to our developers on Monday to investigate what is triggering it.
As for the concentration on the corruption, you asked that I pass on your concerns to our developers, which I did, and this is the reasoning and response for our design choices with CRC vs Rules-based vs Binary. My follow-up was to determine if the same archive files were exhibiting a mix of both failures, one, or the other.
I've taken the same data, placed it on a USB drive, captured it with ImageUSB, re-zipped, and I do see a logged failure after several minutes. I'll pass this on to our developers on Monday to investigate what is triggering it.
Investigating. How much disc space is available on your C:\? BC4 would need to fully extract both items into your temp location when comparing within an archive; C:\ may have run out of disc space during the operation and we have a non-descriptive error message.
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There is nothing quite like a memoir to humanize the inhuman. Barack (as she calls him and now so do I) and Michelle are as warm-blooded as they come. While they may be smarter and way harder working, they are, at the core, just like us. I am so grateful she took the time to pen this novel and give us a window into an often closed and shut process. Michelle is brains and grace and everything our country needed and never deserved. The writing is simple and mostly no fluff, but what an amazing peek into her world and then into The White House! I fear we (I) didn't appreciate her enough when she was our Queen.
By the end, I felt like I was ripping open an old womb reliving inauguration day 2017. TBH I wanted her to spill a little more tea on what it was like to be around the Trumps, but Michelle is classy as always and leaves that bit to the imagination.
IF you can stick with this book (yes, it is frightening and MORE infuriating then anything I have ever listened) you will not be disappointed!
Even though this story is framed in so many extreme situations that most of us can not relate, it somehow managed to shine a light on my own life and my own family and my own estrangements. I can hardly believe the beautiful things this book made me think and the deeply sad and freeing feelings it made me feel.
NOT a gamer STILL LOVED it.
The super deep and sometimes obscure 80's geek culture drones on in the beginning but it is worth getting through for the imagination and adventure that follows.
Funny! BUT whiny vocal fry gets o l d.
I love Matt and he is downright hilarious but it became hard to listen to the whiny vocal fry for hours on end. The bit and delivery that made him famous are best received in small doses. I never say this about comedians books but this one might be better read yourself.
Hillary is a actual human being! Who'd a thunk it?
I went in a skeptic, believing her to be our "lesser of two evils" option. I felt desperate for someone, ANYONE, to rise up and make sense and lead us out of scandal and stupidity. I didn't think she could do it, and maybe, in the end, she wouldn't have been able to, but it would have been a fault of society not an inability on her part. I know now, more than ever, that she does have the experience, the know-how, AND the genius to be the President of the United States. I don't even agree with all her politics. Careful your brain might explode.
She is an actual human that cries and has a mother. Hillary isn't an evil robot who wants to eat your children (something she was accused of. da f***?) Listen to the book with an open mind and you are guaranteed to learn a little something.
Just shy of 5 stars Sarah charms me AGAIN!
FIRST OF ALL, the new narrator is FINE I don't know what all the fuss is about here. Because of the reviews I bought this book on Kindle instead and read most of it on vacation then when I got back to work I started listening (because I couldn't go 8 hours without reading this book!) and I expected to hate it BUT she is good. Yes, she is new, okay that is annoying, but she does a fine job and she is certainly no reason not to listen.
NOW the book itself is also great but if you have made it this far in the series you already agree. I got a little tired of the battles they just seemed to really drag but that is par for the course in war I assume. Lots of great rabbit trails and surprises a feast for imagination for sure.
Holy Mother, caldron boil me.
Good God in Heaven thank you for stories like these... WHAT A RIDE!
SJM has again outdone herself. This is her best book yet no doubt and I cannot wait to continue this series.
Surprises! Twist! Turns! I was left panting more than once for oh so many reasons.
This book took forever, and I mean f o r e v e r, to get to the point, and then it was over.
Not my favorite Susanna Kearsley but I still very much enjoyed it.
Unique concept full of very slow surprises. Lovely narrator.
Love catches you by surprise.
I just.... I don't know... wow.
I almost stopped listening to this book twice! It is the strangest thing how sometimes you don't have the ability to love something properly until it's over.
I am very glad I stuck through the hard stuff. I am sure that if I read it again I would love it so much more. Something about Ove's heart that is so human and "too big" for this world. Once you get to know his heart of hearts there is no turning back. You love him and it totally catches you by surprise.
It's a book that reminds us to be people who love, who show up, we give other people the chances they might not have earned. It reminds me to be like the strong women in this book, to see the world as it is, and do everything I can to make it better.
Cheers to Ove and this heartwrenching story. Give it your time, in the end you will be glad you did.
Couldn't stop listening then it was O V E R.
I am going to start with this I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED BY THE END.
Alas, you really have to love the rest of the book to be disappointed by an end AND YES I loved this book. I mean, most of the time I loved it. Kinda like you love your family most of the time and sometimes you just really don't. You don't love them and you can't listen to one more minute of their whiny useless drivel. There were plenty of times I wanted to pull Caths ponytail right out of her head.
This book is so well written. It's smart, funny, sad, moving, and snarky! I literally could not stop listening.
I have lots of criticisms.... and really that just means it has substance and curves and nooks and little places to get lost and found. I mean the book enthralled me, made me feel something, made me invest and wish for other things. Really everything a novel should do.
So I highly recommend you listen or read or whatever, just do it, add Fangirl to your list, and then come and complain about it with me.
OH and the narrators are great.


I have few questions on the display options on the windows XP box.
I have Intel 2.8Mhz ,512Mb, Intel 865 mother board. do not have any extra graphic card in my system yet but I am planning to get one soon .
I understand that , if I have to connect two monitors to monitors to my system I do need to have an extra display card.
1. How to connect two computer monitor in such a way that the two screens should divide the content to be displayed into two equal parts?
2. and also how to connect the 2 computer monitor, that they should be able to display a completely different content? like two different application.
1. 2 cards, 1 monitor connections each. Or, 1 good card, with 2 connections.
2. That will depend on the graphic card and the software it provides. Nvidia has a clone option, widescreen, and dual screen option. But yeah... depends on the card.
There is also the possibilty to get a graphics card on which you can connect 2 screens like this card for example.
Most of the time there is even the special DVI connector included.
But you gotta pay attention when you buy such a card ..it has to support dual monitors ..most modern (newer) cards support this now but still pay attention.
yeah Nview it is called, the app from Nvidia....u can also go to properties-> Settings-> And check Use this as my primary moniotr, or use the second as the primary monitors, or there is an option " Divide the screen or something like that, so you can basicly open up an application and drag it to the other monitor....I would recommend buying an Nvidia GCard.... ....the Nview tools is very nice, it allows you to select different wallpapers, and everything else you need. I use two monitors 4 motnhs now, the Nview was great.
Cemetric I looked at the "This card" link , but the price is 133 pounds( out of my buget ) and I do not think that this card is vailable in India . any cheaper options??
I would expect your system to only accept one card/chipset...........I have machines (old ones) that will use either the newer card or the onboard video........depending on where I plug in the video lead. They will NOT run two screens at the same time though.
What is it you are trying to do.............would "TV out" be satisfactory?...........that gives you one computer monitor and a television/projector duplicate?
Otherwise you need a specialist card, but I would expect them to be not more than £60 for a reasonable quality one.
resolutions and refresh rates so no need for two cards.
Hope this helps ... you can even order it on this page I think ... if that's an option for you offcourse.


EXCERPT FROM "THE JOURNEY TO SPIRIT"
I came across this interesting article today and certainly there are many similarities such as the lethargy. Depression however it's caused still has a physical affect on the body be it the changes in the brain's neurotransmitters or the extreme lethargy so it's much more than an an emotional disease. I hope there will be more research on this theory.
Dr. Turhan Canli is a professor from Stony Brook University, in the U.S.
Depression should be re-conceptualised as an infectious disease caused by parasites, bacteria or viruses, argues Dr Turhan Canli, a professor at Stony Brook University, U.S.
He divides his theory into three arguments.
He said patients with depression exhibit sickness-like behaviours.
They lose their energy, have difficulty getting out of bed and lose interest in the world around them, displaying the same symptoms as people who have an infectious disease.
Studies of the patients with depression also show the presence of inflammatory markers in their brains, he said.
These inflammatory markers might indicate the immune system has been activated in response to some kind of pathogen, which could be a parasite, bacterium or virus - this being what is causing the symptoms of depression, he argued.
Women in positions of power at work are at risk of poorer mental health than women further down the career ladder, a study has found.
Researchers found that while men tend to feel better the more authority they have, the reverse is often true for women.
‘In contrast, men with job authority have fewer symptoms of depression than men without such power.
‘What’s striking is that women with job authority in our study are advantaged in terms of most characteristics that are strong predictors of positive mental health,’ she added.
‘These women have more education, higher incomes, more prestigious occupations, and higher levels of job satisfaction and autonomy than women without job authority.
His second argument is that there are examples of parasites, bacteria or viruses affecting emotional behaviour throughout nature.
The best known example is Toxomaplasma gondii (T.gondii), a parasite which lives in the intestinal tract of a cat.
There, it lays eggs which are dispersed into the environment when the cat excretes.
When a rat comes in contact with these eggs and becomes infected, it becomes attracted to the scent of cat urine.
The rat’s behaviour is through parasitic cysts being deposited across its brain, activating the same pathways involved in sexual arousal.
He says one third of the world’s population is thought to be infected with T.gondii. The infection is associated with markers of inflammation, as observed in depressed patients.
Of patients with a diagnosed major depression or bipolar disorder, those with a history of attempting suicide had higher levels of antibodies created to fight T.gondii bacteria.
‘Yet, large-scale studies of major depression and T. gondii or systematic searches to discover other potential parasitic infections have not yet been conducted,’ Dr Canli argued in his paper.
Similarly, he cites a number of studies in which rodents’ emotional behaviour changes when they are exposed to bacteria.
Large studies looking at associations between viruses and depressions exist already too, he said.
He cites an analysis of 28 studies, which found a link between viruses and depression. These included the Borna disease virus (BDV), the herpes virus responsible for cold sores, varicella zoster virus, which causes chicken pox and and Epstein-Barr virus, which causes glandular fever.
One study found BVD virus was 3.25 more likely to be found in depressed people than in non-depressed people, he said. Another found BVD in the brain’s of two out of 30 depressed patients.
His final argument is that re-conceptualising depression as an infectious disease is useful when thinking about the genetics of the disease.
While studies have looked for internal changes in human genes, which might explain depression, 8 per cent of the human genome is based on external changes, such as from viruses.
Bacteria, viruses and parasistes could transfer genes into our cells, leading to changes in our genetic structure.
They could also be passed during birth or through contact between parents and their children, he said.
He concluded that large scale studies involving patients with depression and people without the condition should be carried out to see if parasites, viruses or bacteria could be the cause.
I am glad to see this development as there has been no significantly new antibiotics for sometime. Over prescribing of antibiotics is something that really annoys me, it's all too easy to blame doctors but its the public who are at fault and its the public who have created the super bugs such as MRSA, through their ignorance, though there's been plenty of attempts to educate them on the use of antibiotics. Many countries sell antibiotics over the counter without a doctors prescription, this is wrong as taking antibiotics for relatively minor conditions leads to the bacteria developing resistance to the antibiotic. If you are ill enough to feel you need antibiotic please see a doctor to get a proper diagnosis. Even ointments containing antibiotics, however how much are still antibiotics at the end of the day and the body does have the capacity to deal with minor infections, if the condition continues to worsen please see a doctor. Antibiotics have no effect on viruses or fungal conditions, so going to the doctor when you have a cold and asking for antibiotics is pointless. Doctors I have to say are now aware of this more. And one of the worse culprits for leading to resistance is failing to finish the course prescribed, this leads to the bacteria developing immunity to the antibiotic, so if you are prescribed an antibiotic finish the entire course even if you are feeling much better. When I was a young nurse I was trained to gown up i.e. to wear gloves, a mask and a protective gown when administering antibiotic injections, this was to prevent us becoming sensitive to the antibiotic, this no longer is the case, for the less we are exposed to antibiotics the less we are likely to develop allergies and for bacteria to become resistant. I hope in the future people will become aware to how valuable and wonderful antibiotics are and not take them for granted and listen to medical advice.
Scientists claim the rise of untreatable bacteria is one of the biggest health threats facing the world.
To prevent minor infections killing people globally, researchers are in a race against time to develop new and better types of antibiotics.
Now scientists in Switzerland believe they have found one solution to the problem in an unlikely place: the gray shag mushroom that grows on horse dung.
ARE WE FINALLY WINNING THE WAR AGAINST SUPERBUGS?
The substance, known as copsin, has the same effect as traditional antibiotics, but belongs to a different type of biochemical family because it is a protein.
The researchers led by Markus Aebi, a mycology professor at ETH Zurich, discovered the substance in the common inky cap mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea.
Copsin belongs to the group of defensins, a class of small proteins produced by many organisms to combat microorganisms that cause disease.
The human body also produces defensins to protect itself against infections. They have been found, for example, on the skin and in the mucous membranes.
For Professor Aebi, the main focus of this research project was not primarily on applications for the new substance.
'Whether copsin will one day be used as an antibiotic in medicine remains to be seen. This is by no means certain, but it cannot be ruled out either,' he says.
The ETH professor is now looking at how fungi have used defensins and other naturally antibiotic substances for millions of years to protect themselves against bacteria - without becoming resistant.
Scientists have created the first viable alternative to antibiotics, marking the next step in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs.
A small test study has found the new drug is effective at targeting the bacteria that causes MRSA.
Researchers believe the likelihood of the bug developing a resistance to the new drug is 'very limited'.
A version of the drug is already used in specialist creams to treat conditions including acne, eczema, rosacea and skin irritations.
Dutch biotech firm Micreos claims Staphefekt is the first endolysin - a bacteria-killing enzyme - available for use on human skin.
While targeting MRSA and other strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, the drug's make up means it leaves 'good' bacteria unharmed - important in the case of long-term use.
The firm unveiled its discovery at the EuroSciCon meeting, Antibiotics Alternatives for the New Millenium, in London last week.
'Fungi have internal instructions on how to use these substances without resulting in selection of resistant bacteria. How to decode these instructions is an intriguing problem for basic research,' explains Professor Aebi.
In addition to being used as an antibiotic in medicine, it may also be possible to use copsin in the food industry as well.
This is because copsin kills many pathogens including Listeria, a type of bacteria that can cause severe food poisoning and is therefore feared, especially in the production of non-heat treated foodstuffs such as raw milk cheeses and dried meats.
Girls who are stressed and prone to depression may age prematurely, a new study has found.
The research shows girls with a family history of depression respond to stressful situations by releasing higher levels of the hormone cortisol.
Scientists believe that in large amounts, cortisol can damage the immune system and organs, including the brain.
Girls with a history of depression also have telomeres that are shorter by the equivalent of six years in adults, researchers found.
Telomeres are caps on the ends of chromosomes, which get a little shorter every time a cell divides, or as a result of exposure to stress.
Telomere length is like a biological clock corresponding to age, getting shorter as adults grow up.
Previous studies have shown links between shorter telomeres and premature death, more frequent infections, and chronic diseases in adults.
Professor Ian Gotlib, from Stanford University said the findings came as a surprise.
For the study, researchers recruited 10 to 14-year-old healthy girls with a family history of depression and compared them to healthy girls without that background.
They measured the girls' response to stress tests, asking them to count backward from 100 by seven, and interviewing them about stressful situations.
Before and after the test, the team measured the girls' cortisol levels and also analysed DNA samples for telomere length.
'No one had examined telomere length in young children who are at risk for developing depression,' before the study, Professor Gotlib said.
Healthy but high-risk 12-year-old girls had significantly shorter telomeres - a sign of premature aging.
Professor Gotlib said: 'It's the equivalent in adults of six years of biological aging.
But he added that 'it's not at all clear that that makes them 18, because no one has done this measurement in children'.
Exercise has been shown to delay telomere shortening in adults, so girls at high-risk girls should learn stress reduction techniques, he advised.
Other studies show that neuro-feedback and attention bias training – which redirects attention toward the positive - appear promising.
Other investigators are studying techniques based on mindfulness training.
Professor Gotlib said he and colleagues are continuing to monitor the girls from the original study and it seems as though those with shorter telomeres are more likely to become depressed.
'It's looking like telomere length is predicting who's going to become depressed and who's not' he said.
Any kind of exercise will lift mood as the body's natural endorphins are released, these are the body's natural painkillers, they also induce a natural euphoria.
So even walking is beneficial however being amongst nature amongst trees and woodland or even by a stream enhances the benefits. Trees and plants give off positive energy and running water as well as soothing releases negative ions into the atmosphere.
Negative ions increase your sense of well-being and mental clarity by removing positive ions in your environment.
Negative ions clear the air of dust, pollen, mold spores and other potential allergens.
Negative ions have a relaxing effect and have been reported to normalize your breathing rate, decrease blood pressure and relieve tension.
Reduces instances of headaches and sickness. .
Helps mental concentration and performance.
If you're feeling sluggish, low and hopeless you might want to reach for your trainers, or even head for the woods.
Taking a walk beats stress without the need for drugs such as anti-depressants, according to a new study.
It was especially beneficial for people going through a tough time, such as death of a loved one, becoming unemployed or splitting up with a partner, U.S. researchers found.
And walking in a natural setting such as woodlands, up in the mountains, or around a beautiful lake might be better for relaxation than in urban settings, they advised.
Professor Sara Warber, of Michigan University in the U.S., said: 'We hear people say they feel better after a walk or going outside.
She added: 'Walking is an inexpensive, low risk and accessible form of exercise .
'And, it turns out that combined with nature and group settings, it may be a very powerful, under-utilised stress buster.
'Our findings suggest something as simple as joining an outdoor walking group may not only improve someone's daily positive emotions but may also contribute a non-pharmacological [non-drug] approach to serious conditions like depression.
The findings add to the growing body of research on the benefits of taking a stroll.
Previous studies have found that walking can delay the onset of cancer, help stave off obesity, heart disease and diabetes as well as lowering blood pressure.
Government health recommendations are for us to exercise for 30 minutes daily, for a minimum of five days a week.
But you can split the walk into a couple of 15-minute journeys each day or make up for lost time with an extra-long walk at the weekend.
Dr Craig Williams, a sports science lecturer at the University of Exeter says: 'Where walking beats other forms of exercise is that there are excellent strategies for boosting the amount you do.
'For example, getting off at an earlier bus-stop than your usual one will add on a two to three minute walk. That may not sound much, but if you do that twice a day, every day, it all adds up.
Walking for 40 minutes a day seemed to increase the size of people's brains, according to one study, improving their memory and protecting against dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
As part of the new research, experts evaluated 1,991 participants from the Walking for Health programme in England.
The programme helps facilitate almost 3,000 weekly walks and draws more than 70,000 regular walkers a year.
They found people who had recently experienced stressful life events like a serious illness, death of a loved one, marital separation or unemployment appeared to see more of a mood boost after outdoor group walks.
Experts said walking in natural settings like a woodland or in the mountains may be especially beneficial, due to a theory which suggests people concentrate better after spending time in nature.
The theory argues that those in peaceful settings are not bombarded with distractions which tax their working memory and attention systems.
As a result, the brain can properly relax and enter a state of contemplation.
Two years ago a study found walking in woodland sparked a 16 per cent increase in attention and memory compared to the same time strolling on a busy street – although both types of walk improved participants' mood significantly.
Another study showed adults who had not been diagnosed with any illness received a mental boost after an hour-long walk in a woodland park.
Their performance on memory and attention tests was improved by 20 per cent compared with after an hour-long walk in a noisy urban environment.
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Is there any point in holding on to grudges, sulking and not talking to anyone? You may not have any control of how others treat you but you can set and live by example. How is there any hope of solution or compromise, if one or neither party is talking to the other? This goes for all arguments and this goes for wars too, someone has to make a move and this should be you. You will never make a "right" from two "wrongs", be the bigger person and make a special effort to hold out an Olive branch and I will tell you why.
Holding on to grudges, resentment like other negative emotions only damages your own soul in the long run, it will affect your health and well being for when you dwell in negativity this causes changes in your auric field causing it to shrink in on itself, this in turn then affects the functioning of the Chakras (energy vortices within the body and responsible for conducting the body's life force through the body and maintaining homeostasis). Each Chakra governs a major endocrine gland thus affecting hormone balance, hormones are chemical messengers within the body that instigate actions in their target organs e.g. stress hormones such as cortisol instigating a rise in blood pressure, which in turn can damage the kidneys and heart long term. So can you see, how resentment and other negative emotions do us no favors?
So you hold out the Olive branch the other person has a choice, they can take it or they carry on with their resentment. You may even find they will apologise, this may even get them to talk and both of you together may then see the other's point of view. I would suggest you try this tact a few times appealing to the other party you want to resolve your differences, only by talking will you resolve your differences.
Supposing they turn away and refuse and want to carry on with their grudge in spite of all your efforts, supposing after you have tried appealing to them a few times even in a letter if they still wont talk and wish to carry on? Well then you walk away, knowing you have done your very best and leave this to Universal law. We live in a Universe where there is a constant balance and exchange of energy. What you give out, you will get back tenfold, this applies to Positive thoughts as well as Negative, if you are constantly giving out positivity to others you have nothing to worry about and all this positivity will be returned to you. However if you constantly want to be wrapped up in Negativity and things go wrong in your life you only have yourself to blame, this is the Universe's way of showing us if we don't learn by our own actions then we will have to take what comes to us. We all have personal responsibility. Sometimes we do have to walk away from toxic people all we can do is pray that spirit will help them see the errors of their ways. Walk away but send them love and hopefully that kind and loving thoughtform will instigate a change and help them for their own good.
Why am I not happy? Many people say this without stopping to think. This is often not because they are unhappy but in a period of stasis. We do need a certain amount of stress to motivate us, yet the curious thing is no stress at all is also stressful, we find we have too much time on our hands or we get stressed from the repetition of the same routine, change and variation keeps everything fresh and alive. This goes for all aspects of our lives, be it at home or work. However if you know the reason you are unhappy is the result of another's behavior rather than leave it to fester it is best to tell the other party in order hopefully leading to a resolution, and not resulting in an argument.
When it comes to arguments and disagreements, these can be healthy as they help clear the air. For how are we able to know if our behavior is affecting others, if no one tells us and likewise if we find others are upsetting us, instead of berating the other person we should tell them how we feel. The problems arise though because instead launching into a tirade of insults, it is much constructive to start with, "I feel" and then go on to explain how YOU are feeling, without being insulting. You will then find it a lot easier to find some common ground and a solution. Another problem arises when airing grievances and that is one where old arguments are brought up, this is neither healthy or constructive. However what do you do, when you are trying to air your grievances healthily, you've started off by saying how you feel, you haven't insulted the other party, nor have you brought up the past but the other party has taken offense and gone on the defensive and started dredging up the past? Well keep calm, take a deep breath talk slowly and state you do not want an argument and that we are discussing ….etc and its unfair to bring up the past. If you are in a relationship with this person reassure them that you love them and that you don't want to argue but this is what I am feeling and I'm telling you because I love you and want to be truthful and honest and you are also my best friend and I am asking for your help. As soon as you say you are asking for their help you will generally find the whole atmosphere will change. However if they are still acting negatively keep calm and try the broken record technique. If this doesn't help and you have done everything else correctly, then its best to wait until they have calmed down, so walk away and politely tell them we will talk when we are BOTH calm. Now I know you are calm but if you say "YOU" it is more than likely they will flare up further.
When you have given them a suitable calming off period try again by stating you care and love them but you really want to resolve this as you genuinely didn't mean to cause distress, chances are they will have had time to think and you should be able to resolve your differences constructively. Of course you will get the sulkers and they require a different approach. Sulking is not a very mature thing to do, as it solves nothing for in order to come to a conclusion you need dialogue. Sulking is the adult version of a tantrum in my opinion, its a desire to be noticed and for attention. So you treat the sulker as you would a toddler having a tantrum. When a child has a tantrum its because they are too little to understand strong emotions and they are unable to cope, so the result is a tantrum. To dissipate a tantrum you walk away or remove the child to a quiet place firstly to help them calm down. You keep calm, you must not lose your temper as you have to control the situation for them. Calmly you talk and pretend the tantrum is not happening, you reassure the child you love them and talk quietly and lovingly to them, this does not mean to you have to give in, to what they wanted that caused the tantrum in the first place, but by being quiet and loving gradually the child will calm down and you can hug them when its all over. Its similar to what you do with a sulking adult, give them their space to calm down a bit. Talk quietly and calmly and reassure you care/love the person, you don't want to argue you really don't, but you do want to resolve things but in order to do this, we do need to talk. Now for persistent die hard sulkers you may have to leave them alone if they flare up at that and try this tact a few times but it does work.
The jar should be kept near to your front door as the idea is you place all your worries in the jar e.g. worries about work, money, health etc. You will also require something like string, or wool, you can have different colors for different things e.g. green for health, yellow for money, it really doesn't matter but the more you can relate to the worries the better.
You will also need a pair of scissors and you keep the scissors and wool/string beside the jar by your front door. For every worry you have cut a length of wool/string you think represents how big your worry is e.g. for a big money worry cut a piece of yellow wool 12 inches long say and for a little health worry cut a piece of green wool 1inch long and place them in the jar and replace the lid. I am sure you will get the idea.
Over time you will find the lengths you cut will get shorter and shorter until you don't see them as worries at all. When the jar is completely full and full of all your worries you can either bury it in the garden or put it in the trash can, then you can begin a new worry jar.
Becoming beautiful inside is what radiates beauty evergreen. This means looking at ourselves as people and reflecting what makes us who we are. Remember the world does not owe us a living, we are what we ourselves have created. Ask yourself, "Do I like who I am?" "Am I a good person?" When you give "of" yourself and start loving people in a unconditional way, liking them without being judgmental you begin to radiate beauty from within, you radiate it from your soul. It is through this you will achieve "Inner Beauty".


When fraud coincides with a stock market crash, one question inevitably looms large. What caused the investors' losses: the fraud or outside economic forces?
When fraud coincides with a stock market crash, one question inevitably looms large. What caused the investors' losses: the fraud or outside economic forces? In the present economic environment, widely regarded as the worst financial crisis since the stock market crash of 1929, the courts will have to grapple with this central question of causation.
Causation was front and center in a recent decision in Countrywide Financial Corporation Securities Litigation. There, in what appears to be the first ruling to address causation in investments tied to the subprime mortgage industry, the United States District Court for the Central District of California held that plaintiffs had adequately pled causation despite the market crash. This article discusses the court's analysis of causation in the Countrywide case, and addresses generally the impact of the current financial crisis on the requirement that plaintiffs plead loss causation in securities fraud cases.


The result of the questionnaire is above: The answer [yes] was 63%, [NO] was 35.2% and [Other] was 1.9%. Seeing this can tell that more than half of the nurses have time to eat break fast, which relieves me. Few! At least they do seem to have a normal human bings’ lifestyle. In terms of break fast there is no difference compare to how people with the other jobs’.
Golden Bread, Coffee, Dannon Bio, all the same!
The same as you mrs,. If I don’t have it then it would be hard to work. I’m into Tofu Salad at the moment.
I have kids so I am trying to have breakfast with them. Otherwise I cannot last till lunch.
For the daytime shift, I have some Soymilk, Bananas and a slice of Cheesy toast! On the day off, I skip it and sleep till midday.
My wise eats some really sweet looking bread everyday before work.
A cup of rise with Natto and some fried egg.
I eat breakfast every morning no matter what. Otherwise I can’t work!
I don’t have much time so normally eat cereals.
Kinda same. I want to have my life routine which I could have Japanese food every morning without being rushed.
I get stomachache so if I do then I will get massive one.
I want to sleep more rather than having breakfast.
I sleep until very edge of it.
Sleeping is more important than breakfast. I really can’t wake myself up..
I only have some coffee in the morning. Then I get really hungry aroung 10:30.
I sleep until just right before the time I leave.
I was sleeping sacrificing the breakfast time.
After all, [NO] group’s reason was just that they want to sleep which actually means that “cannot be bothered” isn’t it? Lol I get it though.


You would be forgiven for wondering why the Ivanka Trump coffee date auction wasn't a ludicrous enough idea to get squashed before it ever became a reality. It's been a busy few weeks: Donald Trump's cabinet picks defy reality; Russian intelligence has managed to interfere with a presidential election; people are walking into pizza joints with guns because of an idiotic conspiracy theory; and the president-elect is bringing washed-up reality star Omarosa onto his transition team. With this kind of decision-making becoming the norm—even before the Orange Emperor's gaudy helicopter lands on the south lawn—it's difficult to pinpoint one single instance of rampant nepotism, cronyism, and narcissism that stands out among the rest.
In fact, it's possible that you didn't even hear about the Ivanka Trump coffee auction in the first place. If you're one of the lucky ones who didn't, here's a brief synopsis: Ivanka Trump, the president-elect's eldest daughter, auctioned off an exclusive coffee date with herself to the highest bidder via CharityBuzz, a site that allows people to "bid on amazing celebrity, travel, and sports auctions." Normally, CharityBuzz auctions consist of meet-and-greets with TV and film stars, autographed memorabilia from famous athletes, and exclusive tickets to sold-out concerts. But given that Trump has allowed Ivanka to play an outsized role in his transition team, she's as much a political figure as she is a celebrity. This makes Ivanka's coffee auction an ethical problem, as no other president has allowed his inner circle to auction off their time to the highest bidder so publicly.
Make no mistake: This is not normal. President Barack Obama's administration banned the first family from seeking charitable donations personally, and only offered up auction items for others to use. The Obamas never personally offered up their time at auction. Nor have other presidential administrations. Up until Trump's victory, the notion of using the White House for personal gain—even in the name of charity—was an unquestionable no-no. But then again, Ivanka did use a meeting with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe to pitch her bracelets. What she was doing in this meeting in the first place is still anyone's guess, as there are federal anti-nepotism laws in place that typically prevent this kind of thing from happening.
But this glaring ethical lapse isn't the scariest part of Ivanka's coffee date snafu. Nor are the other Trump campaign finance violations that arose during his campaign. The real issue is that neither Donald nor his family have any understanding of how ethics work once a campaign is won. There are certain practices—let alone laws—that govern the behavior of elected officials. There's no room for "learning on the job" or using your reality show negotiating skills to redraw the boundaries of the liberal western order. One does not simply "negotiate" the nation's stance on Taiwan in order to look like a grandstanding tough guy. But this is the reality we now live in. Our president has failed to draw a line between his family and his new job. He's refused to draw a line between his business and his administration. And, worse than anything else, he's incapable of drawing a line between intelligence and reality show hucksterism, which is the most dangerous ineptitude of them all.


Great detail is used describing how everything is done by hand or with animal power. What has held her back before, and how does she learn to overcome it? Dangers of Solitude or Desire for home Question 4: Name the two major characters of Cold Mountain. That is not to say that Frazier wastes the reader's time or goes off on unnecessary tangents although for those who like quick narratives, it may seem that way , but he is in no hurry to rush the novel to its conclusion. . With the male work force in shambles, women had to work harder and take on more physically demanding jobs than ever before.
Like any other author, Charles Frazier uses the undertones and downfalls of a country divided in two to portray the lasting consequences both sides will eventually face. For Ada, this means learning to come out and say what she feels, and maybe even learning to let herself feel it. Hundreds of books, movies, and documentaries have been published on the Civil War. The story is woven around the experiences of Inman and Ada trying to rebuild their lives from the desperation and disaster of the war, all the while trying to find a way to see each other again--whilst they are so far apart. He found , who played banjo, the Reeltime Travelers, an band from Tennessee, and , a vocalist and guitarist who was familiar with music.
Fortitude This theme is closely connected with the first one. Many felt their cause was hopeless and that further sacrifices were useless. The meaning it holds in relation to the entire work is how much both the lovers changed over the course of the story. Anthony Minghella is the director of Cold Mountain, while Dante Ferretti is the production designer. The soundtrack consists of , , and to accompany the era of the movie. He knew their names and said them to himself like the words of like the words and spells of incantations to ward off the things one fears about most.
Cold Mountain, all its ridges and coves and watercourses, Pigeon River, Little East Falls, Sorrell Coves, Deep Gap, Five Scald Ridge. Initially, she questions the merits of intellectualism in light of knowledge gleaned from sensory understanding. That morning though, it surprised him, for it brought to mind a lost memory of sitting in school, a similar tall window beside him framing a scene of pastures and low green ridges terracing up to the vast hump of Cold Mountain. He is surrounded by death, violence, and most of all, loneliness. Having been surrounded by the dying, having witnessed the horrors of the first industrialized war which pitted countryman against countryman through the eyes of Inman, one feels deep sympathy. But they keep their troth, the promise which was said not with the words, but with their souls.
Each little task had brought with it a new round of mourning and a string of mpty days that eventually ran together until now she had arrived at such a state that the inevitable answer to the question, What have you accomplished today? Throughout the book, Inman faces not only his own persecutions, but the perils of other souls that have also found themselves hardened by the efforts of the war. No further distribution without written consent. As we see into the characters we find they each have a unique point of view about the significance of the land, but the poignancy of each nuance of nature prevails in their thoughts. He knew their names and said them to himself like the words of like the words and spells of incantations to ward off the things one fears about most. Or is the ending wholly tragic? Monroe moved with his daughter to Black Cove to speed his recovery from consumption.
The theme of the danger of solitude is also presented. For Inman it is a journey to the home he knows and remembers. Title Writer s Performer s Length 1. However, by the time of the Civil War their isolation had bred illiteracy due to the inaccessible terrain and economic inadequacies. Few, if any, contemporary readers thread beans to make leatherbritches or make home made harrow, yet these and other early nineteenth century practices are paid homage to in the writing of this book. Death reunited with love at the end of his journey however Frazier's choice to end Inman's life suggests that only true redemption can occur with escape from the rancor world 4. The Cold Mountain is the destination Inman wants to arrive at, and a place where Ada transform from a city girl into a mountain woman.
Rudy, Rudy's family, and Ada's daughter all serve emotional solace to Ada. Initially during the Civil War the mountain farmers volunteered with a sense of patriotism and loyalty, thinking they were repelling an invasion of their homeland. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1997. One of them was written by Charles Frazier called Cold Mountain. It is only in this death that Ada breaks completely with her old self. It also blends the horrors of war into their current lives, and the corruption that has scarred them forever.
Cold Mountain also alludes to more subtle cultural changes in the middle of the 19th century, such as the liberalization of women following the Civil War. The story is woven around the experiences of Inman and Ada trying to rebuild their lives from the desperation and disaster of the war, all the while trying to find a way to see each other again--whilst they are so far apart. It spent 45 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. She sorted and labeled and boxed Monroe's papers, his sermons and botanical notes and commonplace journals. For Ada the desire for home is less physical. Inman, as previously stated, is a Confederate soldier who in the opening chapter is introduced with a war wound and escapes from the hospital in order to travel from present day Virginia to North Carolina to ask his lover, Ada, for her hand in marriage. Overall, the novel demonstrates this theme of isolation and loneliness through the course of the book.
Showed first 250 characters Cold Mountain, all its ridges and coves and watercourses, Pigeon River, Little East Falls, Sorrell Coves, Deep Gap, Five Scald Ridge. The women, Ada and Ruby, are entirely self-sufficient, and his role has been relegated to that of merely a begetter of children, which is subtly suggested in the epilogue. Is seems to have another half that is still in nature. We encourage you to read Cold Mountain Review before submitting your work. Cold Mountain, all its ridges and coves and watercourses, Pigeon River, Little East Falls, Sorrell Coves, Deep Gap, Five Scald Ridge.
A lesser theme is that of how the lives of soldiers and civilians alike are transformed by the war. The two lie in a double grave that Frazier came across while walking in the Smoky Mountains. The scenes that the character Inman describes in the novel were actual battles from the Civil War. The most obvious causes of the Civil War were the issues of states' rights and slavery. His journey becomes a solitary spiritual quest for communion with a greater power.


Mobs of men have damaged a number of vehicles in an outbreak of fresh violence in the southern Sydney suburb of Cronulla tonight.
A reporter from radio station 2GB said ``chaos'' had broken out in the beach shopping centre with vehicles damaged and police making arrests as mobs of men roam the streets.
``People are standing around in shock, just watching,'' the reporter said.
He witnessed police arrest a group of five people.
Some motorists were ignoring the road blocks, simply driving around the obstacles, he said.
Earlier, police moved quickly to prevent violence at potential new flashpoints in Sydney tonight following some of the worst race-based clashes ever seen in Australia.
Police guarding against any repeat of yesterday's race riot at Cronulla tonight blocked off streets around the Lakemba Mosque, in Sydney's south-west, after about 500 mostly Muslim men gathered, apparently after rumours of an imminent attack on the building.
Rocks and flares were thrown at police as the crowd dispersed, police said, and although no one was injured, tensions tonight remained high among Australians of Middle Eastern background, who were targeted in yesterday's race riot at Cronulla beach.
Earlier, cricket bats, rocks and lengths of steel were confiscated by police.
About 30 police seized the potential weapons from a park area in Maroubra, the scene of retaliation attacks that followed a day of violence in the southern Sydney beach area of Cronulla yesterday.
A crowd of up to 100 people had gathered near Maroubra beach earlier today but had largely dispersed by nightfall.
Superintendent Phil Rogerson from Maroubra police said so far it had been "very quiet".
"But we're prepared," he told AAP.
"We took possession of a number of cricket bats, rocks and bits of steel secreted around the park since about 3pm this afternoon."
He also said police would be taking possession of a stockpile of bricks left near a shop.
Supt Rogerson said there were "sufficient" police patrolling the streets opposite Maroubra beach and more in Broadarrow Reserve and adjoining parks if needed.
He said police also were worried about violence flaring up in Coogee and Bondi, and were keeping a close eye on the situation.
At Lakemba in Sydney's south-west, a crowd of about 500 mostly Muslim men gathered outside the Lakemba Mosque after rumours of an attack on the building.
One man said the crowd had gathered as a show of force.
Police blocked off the street 200 metres either side of the building and a police helicopter hovered overhead.
There were reports a camera crew had been set upon while covering the gathering outside the mosque but police said no one was injured in the incident.
The crowd began to disperse without incident about 9.30pm.
Police said as the crowd left the mosque, rocks were thrown at officers standing nearby on the corner of Lakemba Street and Wangee Road.
No one was reported to be injured in the incident and more police rushed to the scene.
Earlier, text messages were reportedly circulating in Sydney tonight, encouraging retaliation for yesterday's clashes at beachside suburbs including Cronulla and Maroubra.
Sixteen people were charged yesterday after a 5000-strong alcohol-fuelled mob, some waving flags and chanting racist slogans, chased and beat people of Middle Eastern appearance at Cronulla beach. Thirty-one people were injured.
The clashes were sparked by an attack on young Cronulla surf lifesavers the week before, and text messages calling for retaliation.
Within hours of yesterday's riot at Cronulla, reprisal attacks led to one man being stabbed at nearby Woolooware and more than 100 cars badly damaged in a rampage through eastern suburbs beach Maroubra.
Police today set up a task force and will study video footage and photos to try to identify offenders in the mob, which they say included white supremacists.
NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said he also was considering establishing street squads and implementing alcohol restrictions to prevent further problems.
Community leaders from Cronulla and from Australian-Lebanese community groups met Mr Moroney and NSW Premier Morris Iemma today and vowed to restore harmony.
But tonight, Sydney was braced for more violence, with reports that text messages were circulating within the Arabic community calling for revenge attacks against Cronulla locals, including this Sunday.
Police squads including the air wing and mounted officers were on alert tonight and police said they were prepared for any new outbreak of violence.
"We are keeping a watching brief - we will only say that we have sufficient resources deployed to deal with any contingency,'' said a spokesman.
Mr Iemma said further charges were expected to be laid as a result of the violence, using video and photo evidence to track down offenders who had shown the ``ugly face of racism in Australia''.
He announced Strike Force Seta had been set up to track down the instigators of yesterday's race riot.
``There is no way that this sort of behaviour, this disgraceful and cowardly behaviour, will be tolerated anywhere,'' Mr Iemma said.
``Strike Force Seta will be there to pursue a criminal investigation ... examining videotape information, other information that may come to hand, photographic information to bring to justice those that are were responsible for the incitement, those that conducted other activities on the weekend,'' he said.
Police Minister Carl Scully said white supremacists were among those who had taken part in the Cronulla riots.
``There appears to be an element of white supremacists and they really have no place in mainstream Australian society, those sort of characters belong in Berlin 1930s,'' he said.
Mr Moroney denied his officers had taken a ``softly, softly approach'' to crowd control or that they had miscalculated the level of anger in Cronulla, which bore the brunt of the trouble.
Mr Iemma also defended authorities' preparations, saying no more could have been done.
``They had the resources there ... the resources deployed with the riot equipment, the back-up, the dog squad, the mounted police, Polair, maritime police and up to 150 police and they performed outstandingly,'' Mr Iemma said.
Mr Goodwin today urged parents to dissuade their children from taking part in any further unrest.
``How a parent would allow a child of 15 or 16 to attend the areas and participate in that kind of behaviour is beyond me,'' he said.
Mr Goodwin said 14 men, aged 18 to 40, and two male youths had been arrested in relation to the violence and were so far facing 41 charges.
Six of those arrested are from Cronulla, a further three are from the Sutherland Shire, six are from Sydney's south or south-west and one is from Bondi Junction.
Mr Goodwin said he was confident of more arrests in the coming days.
``I am confident this behaviour will be shut down,'' he said.
Prime Minister John Howard, at a separate press conference, condemned the violence.
"Mob violence is always sickening,'' Mr Howard told reporters.
"Attacking people on the basis of their race, their appearance, their ethnicity, is totally unacceptable and should be repudiated by all Australians irrespective of their own background and their politics,'' he said.
"I believe yesterday's behaviour was completely unacceptable but I'm not going to put a general tag [of] racism on the Australian community.
"It is impossible to know how individuals react but everything this Government's said about home-grown terrorism has been totally justified,'' Mr Howard told reporters in Sydney.
Mr Howard said he fully supported the actions of police at Cronulla and said that anybody who broke the law yesterday or on the previous weekend, when two lifesavers and a camera crew were assaulted, should be apprehended and prosecuted.
Mr Howard warned anyone considering further violent behaviour they would face the full force of the law.
Opposition leader Kim Beazley also condemned the violence.


Major airlines build their routes around a "hub and spoke system". Using this scheme, smaller commuter planes fly passengers from smaller towns to hub cities where they board larger planes for longer flights to distant cities.
The goal is to fly the most economical aircraft on any given route routes to maximize profits. This has led to the popularity of the commuter airlines.


Always employed: Ecological confinement (not found in New England), split drive (separated drive components), wild populations seldom reproduce sexually (resistant to drive).
Always employed: Ecological confinement (exclusively tropical), split drive.
Rationale: We have little experience working with systems that will evolve over many generations, which makes it difficult for us to predict the likely behavior of gene drive systems in the wild. Any deliberate release would be recklessly premature without some way to experimentally studying outcomes in the laboratory.
- To what extent will drive systems remain stable as opposed to changing over generations?
- How likely are they to spread into closely related species?
- Will these 'cyclic drive' systems to maintain costly traits behave as anticipated over multiple replacement cycles?
- To what extent and how quickly can immunizing reversal drives undo changes spread by earlier gene drive systems?
The problem is that none of these questions can be answered by studying gene drive systems in the species to be altered. Wild populations are so much larger than laboratory colonies of the same organism that traditional laboratory studies will not be sensitive enough to detect rare but critical evolutionary events that could occur in nature.
We need an organism that can be readily grown in vast numbers in the laboratory and reproduces quickly enough to obtain answers in a short period of time.
Microscopic nematode worms are unique in that we can grow billions of them in the laboratory – and they reproduce so fast that fully 100 generations occur within a year's time. They are consequently the only model organism that can approximate the evolutionary dynamics of gene drive elements in the wild. The nematode genome can be easily engineered to encode the exact sequences of proposed gene drive elements, their target sequences, and those of related species. This will let us study particular drive systems in a variety of fitness and gene flow contexts.
To visually determine whether a given worm encodes a particular drive system, we will encode fluorescent markers in the genome to be erased or copied as the drive systems spread. We can pour worms from a liquid culture onto a plate, take a picture using a fluorescent microscope, and use existing software - a program called ImageJ with an extension that automatically identifies worms - to determine exactly how many worms of each type are present.
We are currently working with the model nematode worm C. elegans, which is not found in the New England area. This species normally consists of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites, which are highly resistant to gene drive systems because they seldom mate with one another. We're working with a particular laboratory strain with a mutation in the fog-2 gene that can only reproduce sexually. In parallel, we're experimenting with C. brenneri, an exclusively tropical species that naturally reproduces sexually.
Our work will provide vital information on the effectiveness of safeguards for controlling the spread of gene drive elements and dramatically improve our ability to predict their behavior upon release into the wild.
Nematodes silence foreign genes in the germline. We are currently licensing CRISPR proteins in these species by adapting methods pioneered by Craig Mello's group. Simultaneously, we are constructing split-drive systems that will function in licensed strains that express Cas9. Each drive system or its target site is labeled with a fluorescent protein, which will enable us to track the relative frequency of drive systems by simply measuring fluorescence at different wavelengths. To accelerate these efforts, we are building and optimizing a computer-assisted microinjection apparatus for high-throughput worm transgenes.


How to create a PDF ESC/POS virtual printer to make some tests? Is the PosBox needed to print directly from POS?
I need to send the tickets directly from the Point of Sale to an ESC/POS printer.
I was wondering if the only chance to print in a ESC/POS printer is to use the [PosBox](https://www.odoo.com/shop/product/pos-point-of-sale-posbox-312) to print tickets directly from Odoo or if there is another way.
How could I create a Virtual ESC/POS Printer? I would like to use something similar to the Virtual PDF printer, in order to print the tickets to PDF and make some test while I am programming. Is that possible?
What is there in the PosBox image ("Raspberry Pi Image") to make it work everything out of the box?
If I have the ESC/POS printer correctly installed and connected to a computer with Windows System. The Odoo Server is accessed remotely from this computer. I have installed the module [hw_escpos](https://www.odoo.com/apps/modules/8.0/hw_escpos/). Could this work or the use of the PosBox is mandatory?
So, I think your Direct setup of Printer with PC makes your development requirement, still if you require to make a PDF of receipt you might need to create a mechanism where you need to convert the XML type receipt to PDF.