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MJW Communications Group
Legal Name:
MJW Communications Group
Operating Name:
MJW Communications
Mailing Address:
202-1177 Yonge St.TORONTO, Ontario
M4T 2Y4
Location Address:
202-1177 Yonge St.TORONTO, Ontario
M4T 2Y4
Tel.:<PHONE_NUMBER>
Fax:<PHONE_NUMBER>
Company Profile
MJW Communications is a integrated marketing communications company that helps expanding or emerging companies make contacts and build relationships to increase awareness of the company, products or services resulting in increased sales. Services include: media relations, branding, marketing and communications.
Full profile
Full profile
Contact information
Company description
Product / Service / Licensing
MJW Communications looks for ways to enhance the news value of your story by creating speaking & photo opportunities, special events, one-on-one interviews, writing op-ed page articles, arranging editorial board meetings, and creating interest and coverage in community news papers and trade publications.
Working with the media, MJW Communications also provides advice and guidance on issues / crisis management.
T004-Public Relations Services (incl. Writing Services, Event Planning and Management, Media Relations, Radio and TV Analysis, Press Services)
Sector information
Key / Major clients:
Sears Hearing Centres, STAPLES Business Depot, priszm brandz, ROBTV, International Association of Career Professionals, Total Wellness Consulting, Biovail, Metrick System,Success stories:
STAPLES Business Depot, CanadaMedia Relations
Record media coverage set STAPLES apart from its competitors
Description:
Back to School Campaigns 2004 & 2005
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
Media Relations & Marketing and Communications
Seneca boosts awareness by 13%-Gains attention of government and business leaders.
Description:
Re-branding and a year long public awareness and stakeholder campaign gets results.
Project:
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology is the largest college in Canada with over 100,000 students. To support a campus expansion program Seneca required stronger brand recognition within the business and government sectors and a higher profile within the media. A year long campaign included re-branding its visual identity; repositioning Seneca to reflect a global image, extensive use of media and themed corporate events supported by a print and outdoor image advertising campaign
Results:
Awareness of Seneca was boosted by 13% in target audiences
priszm brandz
Corporate Communications
Building Corporate Profile nets results
Description:
A private company and the largest owner of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants in Canada, was eager to quickly build its image as an energetic and successful operation to strengthen its credibility within the Canadian and American financial communities and with suppliers.
Project:
MJW Communications developed a corporate communications strategy focusing on the companys senior leadership, namely its President. Favorable company and personal profile press in mainstream and trade media helped build an impressive record of media coverage and awareness. Meet and greet events designed to introduce potential suppliers and other stakeholders to the company also helped quickly launch the company as a player.
Results:
Company went public as income trust in 2004.
Project:
MJW Communications was asked to build product awareness and enhance the companys corporate image during this critical sales period. Developing solid story angles with Canada wide appeal, creating print and video advertorials plus rigorous media outreach set Staples apart from its competitors.
Results:
Campaign achieved over 12 million impressions of national media coverage-a record high -in daily and community news papers including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star & National Post and broadcast media.
Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell
Employee Communications
Bringing two cultures and companies together helps builds new spirit of entrepreneurialism.Description:
Strategic events and news letters were created to help build national spirit of enterprise in this newly merged company of 16,000.
Project:
When a new company in Canada was created that brought together some of the most high profile brands in the quick service industry- it also brought together 16,000 employees from two companies with very different corporate cultures. MJW Communications was asked to help convey the new spirit and culture of the company to a unified workforce. Employee newsletters, town hall meetings, sales award ceremonies, fundraising, and special events were strategically created and designed to ensure employees were aligned with the new companys corporate strategy of growth.
Results:
A reinvigorated and more productive workforce enabled company to go public.
ROB TV- Report on Business Television
Marketing Communications
Audience ratings increased by 2%
Description:
Define and create ROBTV marketing and communications plan to boost ratings and advertiser interest.
Project:
ROB TV, a specialty TV channel devoted to reporting Canadian business news and events, was celebrating its 5th anniversary. MJW Communications was asked to review its marketing strategy and develop a marketing communications plan to boost ratings and increase market share.
A comprehensive marketing and communications plan, based on practical tactics to strengthen existing market relationships combined with an outdoor billboard campaign and radio spots helped boost audience and advertiser interest. A 5th anniversary bash held at the TSX Exchange for Bay Streeters and sponsors, underscored the success and growth of ROB TV from a fledgling specialty channel into a permanent and successful fixture in the television and business community.
Results:
Audience ratings increased by 2%.
Description:
Strategic events and news letters were created to help build national spirit of enterprise in this newly merged company of 16,000.
Project:
When a new company in Canada was created that brought together some of the most high profile brands in the quick service industry- it also brought together 16,000 employees from two companies with very different corporate cultures. MJW Communications was asked to help convey the new spirit and culture of the company to a unified workforce. Employee newsletters, town hall meetings, sales award ceremonies, fundraising, and special events were strategically created and designed to ensure employees were aligned with the new companys corporate strategy of growth.
Results:
A reinvigorated and more productive workforce enabled company to go public.
STAPLES Business Depot, Canada
Celebrity helps build new brand
Description:
STAPLES opened new concept print and copy centres in Montreal. Quebec singer and broadcaster Mitsou adds celebrity power.
Project:
MJW Communications was asked to develop a Grand Opening event for DOSSIER stores, in downtown Montréal, and create media awareness. Quebec celebrity Mitsou became the face of Dossier in an outdoor marketing campaign and host of a grand opening media and VIP event.
Results:
Dossier received coverage in local and trade media.
Testimonial:
'Marjories professionalism and knowledge is a tremendous help to the PR department . She developed solid story angles and obtained TV and newspaper coverage setting us apart from our competitors resulting in over 12 million impressions over a two month period, a record high. She makes us all look good.'PR Manager, a major North American Retailer
'We have had great success in boosting our presence among our audience and advertising clients, both measurable outcomes to which Ms. Wallens contributed greatly. Her industry experience, creative ideas and practical approach to problem-solving are valued assets and just as important she understands her role as a consultant and how to manage her client relationships to everyones satisfaction.'
General Manager, a national specialty television channel
Marjories contribution has gone well beyond expectations, and we are now frequently sought out for comment and expert opinion by the general and trade media. She has been a true strategic partner to our Association providing invaluable input to our strategic planning process, and all communications and marketing strategies.
Elaine Sigurdson, President, ACP International, Toronto Chapter
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Contacts
Contact information
Description
Company description
Products, services and licensing
Product / Service / Licensing
MJW Communications looks for ways to enhance the news value of your story by creating speaking & photo opportunities, special events, one-on-one interviews, writing op-ed page articles, arranging editorial board meetings, and creating interest and coverage in community news papers and trade publications.
Working with the media, MJW Communications also provides advice and guidance on issues / crisis management.
T004-Public Relations Services (incl. Writing Services, Event Planning and Management, Media Relations, Radio and TV Analysis, Press Services)
Sector
Sector information
Key / Major clients:
Sears Hearing Centres, STAPLES Business Depot, priszm brandz, ROBTV, International Association of Career Professionals, Total Wellness Consulting, Biovail, Metrick System,Success stories:
STAPLES Business Depot, CanadaMedia Relations
Record media coverage set STAPLES apart from its competitors
Description:
Back to School Campaigns 2004 & 2005
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
Media Relations & Marketing and Communications
Seneca boosts awareness by 13%-Gains attention of government and business leaders.
Description:
Re-branding and a year long public awareness and stakeholder campaign gets results.
Project:
Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology is the largest college in Canada with over 100,000 students. To support a campus expansion program Seneca required stronger brand recognition within the business and government sectors and a higher profile within the media. A year long campaign included re-branding its visual identity; repositioning Seneca to reflect a global image, extensive use of media and themed corporate events supported by a print and outdoor image advertising campaign
Results:
Awareness of Seneca was boosted by 13% in target audiences
priszm brandz
Corporate Communications
Building Corporate Profile nets results
Description:
A private company and the largest owner of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants in Canada, was eager to quickly build its image as an energetic and successful operation to strengthen its credibility within the Canadian and American financial communities and with suppliers.
Project:
MJW Communications developed a corporate communications strategy focusing on the companys senior leadership, namely its President. Favorable company and personal profile press in mainstream and trade media helped build an impressive record of media coverage and awareness. Meet and greet events designed to introduce potential suppliers and other stakeholders to the company also helped quickly launch the company as a player.
Results:
Company went public as income trust in 2004.
Project:
MJW Communications was asked to build product awareness and enhance the companys corporate image during this critical sales period. Developing solid story angles with Canada wide appeal, creating print and video advertorials plus rigorous media outreach set Staples apart from its competitors.
Results:
Campaign achieved over 12 million impressions of national media coverage-a record high -in daily and community news papers including the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star & National Post and broadcast media.
Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell
Employee Communications
Bringing two cultures and companies together helps builds new spirit of entrepreneurialism.Description:
Strategic events and news letters were created to help build national spirit of enterprise in this newly merged company of 16,000.
Project:
When a new company in Canada was created that brought together some of the most high profile brands in the quick service industry- it also brought together 16,000 employees from two companies with very different corporate cultures. MJW Communications was asked to help convey the new spirit and culture of the company to a unified workforce. Employee newsletters, town hall meetings, sales award ceremonies, fundraising, and special events were strategically created and designed to ensure employees were aligned with the new companys corporate strategy of growth.
Results:
A reinvigorated and more productive workforce enabled company to go public.
ROB TV- Report on Business Television
Marketing Communications
Audience ratings increased by 2%
Description:
Define and create ROBTV marketing and communications plan to boost ratings and advertiser interest.
Project:
ROB TV, a specialty TV channel devoted to reporting Canadian business news and events, was celebrating its 5th anniversary. MJW Communications was asked to review its marketing strategy and develop a marketing communications plan to boost ratings and increase market share.
A comprehensive marketing and communications plan, based on practical tactics to strengthen existing market relationships combined with an outdoor billboard campaign and radio spots helped boost audience and advertiser interest. A 5th anniversary bash held at the TSX Exchange for Bay Streeters and sponsors, underscored the success and growth of ROB TV from a fledgling specialty channel into a permanent and successful fixture in the television and business community.
Results:
Audience ratings increased by 2%.
Description:
Strategic events and news letters were created to help build national spirit of enterprise in this newly merged company of 16,000.
Project:
When a new company in Canada was created that brought together some of the most high profile brands in the quick service industry- it also brought together 16,000 employees from two companies with very different corporate cultures. MJW Communications was asked to help convey the new spirit and culture of the company to a unified workforce. Employee newsletters, town hall meetings, sales award ceremonies, fundraising, and special events were strategically created and designed to ensure employees were aligned with the new companys corporate strategy of growth.
Results:
A reinvigorated and more productive workforce enabled company to go public.
STAPLES Business Depot, Canada
Celebrity helps build new brand
Description:
STAPLES opened new concept print and copy centres in Montreal. Quebec singer and broadcaster Mitsou adds celebrity power.
Project:
MJW Communications was asked to develop a Grand Opening event for DOSSIER stores, in downtown Montréal, and create media awareness. Quebec celebrity Mitsou became the face of Dossier in an outdoor marketing campaign and host of a grand opening media and VIP event.
Results:
Dossier received coverage in local and trade media.
Testimonial:
'Marjories professionalism and knowledge is a tremendous help to the PR department . She developed solid story angles and obtained TV and newspaper coverage setting us apart from our competitors resulting in over 12 million impressions over a two month period, a record high. She makes us all look good.'PR Manager, a major North American Retailer
'We have had great success in boosting our presence among our audience and advertising clients, both measurable outcomes to which Ms. Wallens contributed greatly. Her industry experience, creative ideas and practical approach to problem-solving are valued assets and just as important she understands her role as a consultant and how to manage her client relationships to everyones satisfaction.'
General Manager, a national specialty television channel
Marjories contribution has gone well beyond expectations, and we are now frequently sought out for comment and expert opinion by the general and trade media. She has been a true strategic partner to our Association providing invaluable input to our strategic planning process, and all communications and marketing strategies.
Elaine Sigurdson, President, ACP International, Toronto Chapter


Fixing Domino's LDAP
Domino's LDAP needs some fixing before it can be used as fully standard compliant LDAP, e.g. for Linux authentication. Alan Bell decribed the procedure long ago, but no action was taken by IBM/Lotus. So Nathan stepped forward and published a project on OpenNTF.
Unfortunately the template contained modifications of IBM copyrighted code (other than the mail and application templates the Domino Directory template never was published under an Apache 2.0 license), so the project had to be taken down. I had a look at it and used DXLMagic to run a comparison that revealed only modest changes:
Quite some of that changes are subtle alteration of the pardef settings - which are 100% irrelevant to our task (see the detailed report). The main challenge here are the changes inside the original IBM design elements. Altering a design is one of the DXLMagic capabilities. So without publishing IBM © code it can inject the neccessary changes.The trick here is to find the right injection points expressed as XPath expressions and the right DXL snippet to do the job. The DXLMagic module needed here is the DesignInjector. These are the injection points:
Download is coming soon.
Use it at your own risk (read: try it on a copy of pubnames.ntf and have a backup at hand).
As usual YMMV!
Unfortunately the template contained modifications of IBM copyrighted code (other than the mail and application templates the Domino Directory template never was published under an Apache 2.0 license), so the project had to be taken down. I had a look at it and used DXLMagic to run a comparison that revealed only modest changes:
XMLComparison: pubnames.ntf.dxl to DemoDirectory.nsf.dxl
| Element | Name | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| Modified ( 86 changes) | ||
| form | " (PublicDirectoryProfile) " | 37 changes ( A57A396D2617685D852565D300812356 ) |
| outline | " (AllViews) " | 30 changes ( 8BD254C7A4FBCA6B85256A450072C65D ) |
| subform | " $GroupExtensibleSchema " | 4 changes ( D3095315B1612EC2852565D7005C620E ) |
| subform | " $PersonExtensibleSchema " | 5 changes ( D64258C1970DE85A852565D70058B520 ) |
| view | " ($LDAPHier) " | 5 changes ( E72D0DA8994BDCB08525668E007FC98E ) |
| view | " ($LDAPRDNHier) " | 5 changes ( 0E315EB2B26A4532852567DD007187B4 ) |
| Element | Name | Unid |
| Added ( 4 additions) | ||
| subform | " DominoDirectoryProfileAddin " | ( 1FB319E88A4DFA0C48257A320049FCA3 ) |
| subform | " LDAPGroupExtensions " | ( E57DA00E4BFFE3D648257A320049FCA4 ) |
| subform | " LDAPPersonExtensions " | ( C479022EFB0069E748257A320049FCA5 ) |
| view | " ($IDNumbers) " | ( 9864DF762EC0FA9648257A3200499A64 ) |
| XPath | Insertion Type | File Name |
|---|---|---|
/d:database |
LASTCHILD | view_$IDNumbers.dxl subform_DominoDirectoryProfileAddin.dxl subform_LDAPPersonExtensions.dxl subform_LDAPGroupExtensions.dxl |
/d:database/d:form[@alias="DirectoryProfile"]/d:body/d:richtext/d:section[position()=last()] |
LASTCHILD | form_DirectoryProfile.dxl |
/d:database/d:subform[@name="$PersonExtensibleSchema"]/d:body/d:richtext |
LASTCHILD | subform_$PersonExtensibleSchema.dxl |
/d:database/d:subform[@name="$GroupExtensibleSchema"]/d:body/d:richtext |
LASTCHILD | subform_$GroupExtensibleSchema.dxl |
/d:database/d:view[@name="($LDAPRDNHier)"]/d:column[position()=1] |
Attributes change | itemname="$RDNRootColumn" profiledocname="DirectoryProfile" usecolumnformula="true" userdefinable="true" |
/d:database/d:view[@name="($LDAPHier)"]/d:column[position()=1] |
Attributes change | itemname="$RDNRootColumn" profiledocname="DirectoryProfile" usecolumnformula="true" userdefinable="true" |
Use it at your own risk (read: try it on a copy of pubnames.ntf and have a backup at hand).
As usual YMMV!
Posted by Stephan H Wissel on 05 July 2012 | Comments (3) | categories: Show-N-Tell Thursday


### BCDV 1014 - DAPP II #### DeFi DApp Development
Dhruvin Parikh, April 2021
### Topics * Escrow * Aave Ether escrow * Aave DAI escrow * Applications using Aave
### Escrow * An escrow is an agreement often used when transferring funds in exchange for a good or service. * Funds can be held in escrow and a third party can be chosen to "arbitrate" or approve the transfer when the service or good is provided.
### Escrow Actors * `depositor` - The payer of the Escrow to make the initial deposit.Funds will eventually go to the beneficiary * `beneficiary` - The receiver of the funds. They will provide some service or good to the depositor before the funds are transferred by the arbiter. * `arbiter` - The approver of the transaction. They alone can move the funds when the goods/services have been provided.
### Escrow workflow (1/3) ![escrow](escrow.png)
### Escrow workflow (2/3) * Each time that a `depositor`, `arbiter` and `beneficiary` come to an agreement upon Escrow terms, they can deploy a contract. * The depositor will be the signer deploying the contract. * They will ask the arbiter and beneficiary for addresses that those two parties have access to. * Then the depositor will provide those addresses as the arguments to the Escrow contract for storage.
### Escrow workflow (3/3) * The depositor will send some ether to the contract, which will be used to pay the beneficiary after the transfer is approved by the arbiter. * After the contract has been deployed with the appropriate amount of funds, the beneficiary will provide the good or service. * Once the good or service is provided, the arbiter needs a way to approve the transfer of the deposit over to the beneficiary's account.
### AAVE DAI Escrow * Use DAI as the underlying asset. * A DAI Escrow will earn interest using AAVE. * *The depositor has to approved the contract to spend its funds.*
### AAVE DAI Escrow workflow (1/2) * Transfer DAI from the depositor to Escrow smart contract. * The constructor of Escrow will transfer the DAI from the depositor to itself. * Deposit the DAI inside the contract into the AAVE lending pool. * The Lending Pool will take the DAI and, in exchange, mint new aDAI for the contract to hold on to.
### AAVE DAI Escrow workflow (2/2) * The DAI deposited in this Escrow will earn interest, so that by the time it is withdrawn, there will be more DAI available than initially deposited. * Send the principal amount to `beneficiary` * Send the interest earned to `depositor`
### Applications using AAVE * AAVE Interest Lottery * AAVE Collateral Pool * Flash vote using AAVE Flash loans
### AAVE Interest Lottery * All participants pool their funds together and the prize each week is the interest earned on the funds.
### AAVE Collateral Pool * If a group decide to pool their funds together in a smart contract to create a collateral pool in case any of them want to borrow ERC20 assets. * They want to earn interest on their collateral while also allowing borrowing against it. * The smart contract will pool collateral and earn interest on collateral plus borrow tokens against it.
### Flash vote * Using AAVE's flash loans, we can borrow 100k DAI and use it to buy governance tokens, vote with the tokens and then sell the tokens back. All of this will happen in the span of one transaction. * When a governance token uses token-weighted voting they can potentially open themselves up to this vulnerability. * There is no need to hold any governance tokens in order to have a strong vote which defeats the purpose of the governance token.
References
AAVE Developer docs
Vulnerability in AAVE V2 by trail of bits
## End


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— Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), Essays
Living creatures should be given the attribute animate
so that the
library knows such an object can be talked to, given things, woken from
sleep and so on. When the player treats an animate
object
as living in this way, the library calls upon that object's life
property.
This looks like before
or after
, but only
applies to the following actions:
Attack
Kiss
WakeOther
ThrowAt
noun
at the creature.Give
noun
to the creature…Show
Ask
consult_from
and consult_words
are set up to indicate which words the object might like to think
about. (In addition, second
holds the dictionary value
for the first word which isn't 'the', but this is much
cruder.)Tell
Ask
(that
is, consult_from
and consult_words
are
set, and second
also holds the first interesting
word).Answer
orders
property hasn't handled already. Once again,
variables are set as if it were a “consult” topic.
(In addition, noun
is set to the first word, and an
attempt to read the text as a number is stored in the variable
special_number
: for instance, “computer, 143”
will cause special_number
to be set to 143.)Order
orders
property (see the next
section); action
, noun
and second
are set up as usual.If the life
rule isn't given, or
returns false
, events take their usual course.
life
rules vary dramatically in size. The coiled snake
from ‘Balances’ shows that even the tiniest life
routine can be adequate for an animal:
Object -> snake "hissing snake" with name 'hissing' 'snake', initial "Tightly coiled at the edge of the chasm is a hissing snake.", life "The snake hisses angrily!", has animate;
It's far from unknown for people in interactive fiction to be almost as simplistic as that, but in most games even relatively passive characters have some ability to speak or react. Here is the funerary priest standing in the ‘Ruins’ Shrine:
Object priest "mummified priest" with name 'mummified' 'priest', description "He is desiccated and hangs together only by will-power. Though his first language is presumably local Mayan, you have the curious instinct that he will understand your speech.", initial "Behind the slab, a mummified priest stands waiting, barely alive at best, impossibly venerable.", life [; Answer: "The priest coughs, and almost falls apart."; Ask: switch (second) { 'dictionary', 'book': if (dictionary.correct == false) "~The ~bird~ glyph... very funny.~"; "~A dictionary? Really?~"; 'glyph', 'glyphs', 'mayan', 'dialect': "~In our culture, the Priests are ever literate.~"; 'lord', 'tomb', 'shrine', 'temple': "~This is a private matter.~"; 'ruins': "~The ruins will ever defeat thieves. In the underworld, looters are tortured throughout eternity.~ A pause. ~As are archaeologists.~"; 'web', 'wormcast': "~No man can pass the Wormcast.~"; 'xibalba': if (Shrine.sw_to == Junction) "The priest shakes his bony finger."; Shrine.sw_to = Junction; "The priest extends one bony finger southwest toward the icicles, which vanish like frost as he speaks. ~Xibalb@'a, the Underworld.~"; } "~You must find your own answer.~"; Tell: "The priest has no interest in your sordid life."; Attack, Kiss: remove self; "The priest desiccates away into dust until nothing remains, not a breeze nor a bone."; ThrowAt: move noun to location; <<Attack self>>; Show, Give: if (noun == dictionary && dictionary.correct == false) { dictionary.correct = true; "The priest reads a little of the book, laughing in a hollow, whispering way. Unable to restrain his mirth, he scratches in a correction somewhere before returning the book."; } "The priest is not interested in earthly things."; ], has animate;
The Priest only stands and waits, but some characters need to move around, or to appear and reappear throughout a game, changing in their responses and what they know. This makes for a verbose object definition full of cross-references to items and places scattered across the source code. An alternative is to use different objects to represent the character at different times or places: in ‘Jigsaw’, for instance, the person called “Black” is seven different objects.
· · · · ·
Animate objects representing people with proper
names, like “Mark Antony”, need to be given the proper
attribute, and those with feminine names, such as “Cleopatra”,
need to be both female
and proper
,
though of course history would have been very different if…
Inanimate objects sometimes have proper names, too: Waldeck's
Mayan dictionary in §16 was given
proper
. See §26 for
more on naming.
· · · · ·
Some objects are not alive as such, but can still
be spoken to: microphones, tape recorders and so on. It would be
a nuisance to implement these as animate
, since
they have none of the other characteristics of life. Instead,
they can be given just the attribute talkable
, making
them responsive only to conversation. They have a life
property
to handle Answer
and so on, but it will never be asked
to deal with, for instance, Kiss
. Talkable objects can
also receive orders: see the next section.
· · · · ·
Designers often imagine animate objects as
being altogether different from things, so it's worth noting that
all the usual Inform rules apply equally well to the living. An
animate
object still has before
and
after
routines like any other, so the short list of
possible life
rules is not as restrictive as it appears.
Animate objects can also react_before
and
react_after
, and it's here that these properties really
come into their own:
react_before [; Drop: if (noun == satellite_gadget) print "~I wouldn't do that, Mr Bond,~ says Blofeld.^^"; Shoot: remove beretta; "As you draw, Blofeld snaps his fingers and a giant magnet snatches the gun from your hand. It hits the ceiling with a clang. Blofeld silkily strokes his cat."; ];
If Blofeld moves from place to place, these rules usefully move with him.
Animate objects often have possessions as part of the game design. Two examples, both from ‘The Lurking Horror’:
Recall from §12
that the child-objects of an object which isn't a container
or supporter
are outwardly visible only if the object
has the transparent
attribute. Here, the hacker should
have transparent
and the urchin not. The parser then
prevents the player from referring to whatever the urchin is hiding,
even if the player has played the game before and knows what is
in there.
•
EXERCISE 26
Arrange for a bearded psychiatrist to place the player under observation,
occasionally mumbling insights such as “Subject puts green
cone on table. Interesting.”


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As at now throughout the Gambia, we are the only firm that does and specializes in CANADIAN visa processing. Individuals from all works of life – from private to government personnel, all come to us for counselling and application of their CANADIAN visa. Though CANADA and USA is our focal point as at now, we still render services for all other countries. We process: Student visas, visitor visas, permanent resident visas, etc.
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Let me run by you a brief list of items that are "the law" in America today. As you read, consider what all these have in common.
by Claire Wolfe *
- A national database of employed people.1
- 100 pages of new "health care crimes," for which the penalty is (among other things) seizure of assets from both doctors and patients.2
- Confiscation of assets from any American who establishes foreign citizenship.3
- The largest gun confiscation in U. S. history--which is also an unconstitutional ex post facto law and the first law ever to remove people's constitutional rights for committing a misdemeanor.4
- A law banning guns in ill-defined school zones; random roadblocks may be used for enforcement; gun-bearing residents could become federal criminals just by stepping outside their doors or getting into vehicles.5
- Increased funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, an agency infamous for its brutality, dishonesty and ineptitude.6
- A law enabling the executive branch to declare various groups "terrorist"--without stating any reason and without the possibility of appeal. Once a group has been so declared, its mailing and membership lists must be turned over to the government.7
- A law authorizing secret trials with secret evidence for certain classes of people.8
- A law requiring that all states begin issuing drivers' licenses carrying Social Security numbers and "security features" (such as magnetically coded fingerprints and personal records) by October 1, 2000. By October 1, 2006, "Neither the Social Security Administration or the Passport Office or any other federal agency or any state or local government agency may accept for any evidentiary purpose a state driver's license or identification document in a form other than [one issued with a verified Social Security number and security features']."9
- And my personal favorite--a national database, now being constructed, that will contain every exchange and observation that takes place in your doctor's office.  It also includes--by law--any statements you make ("Doc, I'm worried my kid may be on drugs," "Doc, I've been so stressed out lately I feel about ready to go postal.") and any observations your doctor makes about your mental or physical condition, whether accurate or not, whether made with your knowledge or not. For the time being, there will be zero (count em, zero) privacy safeguards on this data. But don't worry, your government will protect you with some undefined "privacy standards" in a few years.10
All of the above items are the law of the land. Federal law. What else do they have in common?Well, when I ask this question to audiences, I usually get the answer, "They're all unconstitutional."
True.
My favorite answer came from an eloquent college student who blurted, "They all SUUUCK!"
Also true.
But the saddest and most telling answer is: They were all the product of the 104th Congress. Every one of the horrors above was imposed upon you by the Congress of the Republican Revolution--the Congress that pledged to "get government off your back."
All of the above became law by being buried in larger bills. In many cases, they are hidden sneak attacks upon individual liberties that were neither debated on the floor of Congress nor reported in the media. For instance, three of the most horrific items (the health care database, asset confiscation for foreign residency and the 100 pages of health care crimes) were hidden in the Kennedy-Kassebaum Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (H.R. 3103). You didn't hear about them at the time because the media was too busy celebrating this "moderate, compromise" bill that "simply" ensured that no American would ever lose insurance coverage due to a job change or a preexisting condition.
Your legislator may not have heard about them, either.
Because he or she didn't care enough to do so.The fact is, most legislators don't even read the laws they inflict upon the public. They read the title of the bill (which may be something like "The Save the Sweet Widdle Babies from Gun Violence by Drooling Drug Fiends Act of 1984"). They read summaries, which are often prepared by the very agencies or groups pushing the bill. And they vote according to various deals or pressures.
It also sometimes happens that the most horrible provisions are sneaked into bills during conference committee negotiations, after both House and Senate have voted on their separate versions of the bills. The conference committee process is supposed simply to reconcile differences between two versions of a bill. But power brokers use it for purposes of their own, adding what they wish. Then members of the House and Senate vote on the final, unified version of the bill, often in a great rush, and often without even having the amended text available for review.
I have even heard (though I cannot verify) that stealth provisions are written into some bills after all the voting has taken place. Someone with a hidden agenda simply edits them in to suit his or her own purposes. So these time bombs become "law" without ever having been voted on by anybody. And who's to know? If congresspeople don't even read legislation before they vote on it, why would they bother reading it afterward? Are power brokers capable of such chicanery? Do we even need to ask? Is the computer system in which bills are stored vulnerable to tampering by people within or outside of Congress? We certainly should ask.
Whether your legislators were ignorant of the infamy they were perpetrating, or whether they knew, one thing is absolutely certain: the Constitution, your legislator's oath to it, and your inalienable rights (which precede the Constitution) never entered into anyone's consideration.
Ironically, you may recall that one of the early pledges of Newt Gingrich and Company was to stop these stealth attacks. Very early in the 104th Congress, the Republican leadership declared that, henceforth, all bills would deal only with the subject matter named in the title of the bill.
When, at the beginning of the first session of the 104th, pro-gun Republicans attempted to attach a repeal of the "assault weapons" ban to another bill, House leaders dismissed their amendment as not being "germane."
After that self-righteous and successful attempt to prevent pro-freedom stealth legislation, Congresspeople turned right around and got back to the dirty old business of practicing all the anti-freedom stealth they were capable of.
Three other items on my list (ATF funding, gun confiscation and school zone roadblocks) were also buried in a big bill--H.R. 3610, the budget appropriation passed near the end of the second session of the 104th Congress.
No legislator can claim to have been unaware of these three because they were brought to public attention by gun-rights groups and hotly debated in both Congress and the media. Yet some 90 percent of all congresspeople voted for them--including many who claim to be ardent protectors of the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
Why?
Well, in the case of my wrapped-in-the-flag, allegedly pro-gun, Republican congressperson: "Bill Clinton made me do it!"
Okay, I paraphrase. What she actually said was more like, "It was part of a budget appropriations package. The public got mad at us for shutting the government down in 1994. If we hadn't voted for this budget bill, they might have elected a Democratic legislature in 1996--and you wouldn't want THAT, would you?"
Oh heavens, no! I'd much rather be enslaved by people who spell their name with an R than people who spell their name with a D. Makes all the difference in the world!
The Republicans are fond of claiming that Bill Clinton "forced" them to pass certain legislation by threatening to veto anything they sent to the White House that didn't meet his specs.
In other cases (as with the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill), they proudly proclaim their misdeeds in the name of bipartisanship--while carefully forgetting to mention the true nature of what they're doing.
In still others, they trumpet their triumph over the evil Democrats and claim the mantle of limited government while sticking it to us and to the Constitution. The national database of "workers" was in the welfare reform bill they "forced" Clinton to accept. The requirement for SS numbers and ominous "security" devices on drivers licenses originated in their very own Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996, H.R. 2202.
Another common trick, called to my attention by Redmon Barbry, publisher of the electronic magazine Fratricide, is to hide duplicate or near-duplicate provisions in several bills. Then, when the Supreme Court declares Section A of Law Z to be unconstitutional, its kissing cousin, Section B of Law Y, remains to rule us.Sometimes this particular form of trickery is done even more brazenly; when the Supreme Court, in its Lopez decision, declared federal-level school zone gun bans unconstitutional because Congress demonstrated no jurisdiction, Congress brassily changed a few words. They claimed that school zones fell under the heading of "interstate commerce." Then they sneaked the provision into H.R. 3610, where it became "law" once again.
When angry voters upbraid congresspeople about some Big Brotherish horror they've inflicted upon the country by stealth, they claim lack of knowledge, lack of time, party pressure, public pressure, or they justify themselves by claiming that the rest of the bill was "good."
The simple fact is that, regardless of what reasons legislators may claim, the U. S. Congress has passed more Big Brother legislation in the last two years--more laws to enable tracking, spying and controlling--than any Democratic congress ever passed. And they have done it, in large part, in secret.
Redmon Barbry put it best: "We the people have the right to expect our elected representatives to read, comprehend and master the bills they vote on. If this means Congress passes only 50 bills per session instead of 5,000, so be it. As far as I am concerned, whoever subverts this process is committing treason."By whatever means the deed is done, there is no acceptable excuse for voting against the Constitution, voting for tyranny. And I would add to Redmon's comments: Those who do read the bills, then knowingly vote to ravage our liberties, are doubly guilty. But when do the treason trials begin?
The truth is that these tiny, buried provisions are often the real intent of the law, and that the hundred, perhaps thousands, of pages that surround them are sometimes nothing more than elaborate window dressing. These tiny time bombs are placed there at the behest of federal police agencies or other power groups whose agenda is not clearly visible to us. And their impact is felt long after the outward intent of the bill has been forgotten.
Civil forfeiture--now one of the plagues of the nation--was first introduced in the 1970s as one of those buried, almost unnoticed provisions of a larger law.One wonders why on earth a "health care bill" carried a provision to confiscate the assets of people who become frightened or discouraged enough to leave the country. (In fact, the entire bill was an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code. Go figure.)
I think we all realize by now that that database of employed people will still be around enabling government to track our locations (and heaven knows what else about us, as the database is enhanced and expanded) long after the touted benefits of "welfare reform" have failed to materialize.
And most grimly of all, our drivers' licenses will be our de facto national ID card long after immigrants have ceased to want to come to this Land of Once Free.
It matters not one whit whether the people controlling you call themselves R's or D's, liberals or conservatives, socialists or even (I hate to admit) libertarians. It doesn't matter whether they vote for these horrors because they're not paying attention or because they actually like such things.
What matters is that the pace of totalitarianism is increasing. And it is coming closer to our daily lives all the time. Once your state passes the enabling legislation (under threat of losing "federal welfare dollars"), it is YOUR name and Social Security number that will be entered in that employee database the moment you go to work for a new employer. It is YOU who will be unable to cash a check, board an airplane, get a passport or be allowed any dealings with any government agency if you refuse to give your SS number to the drivers license bureau. It is YOU who will be endangered by driving "illegally" if you refuse to submit to Big Brother's licensing procedures.
It is YOU whose psoriasis, manic depression or prostate troubles will soon be the reading matter of any bureaucrat with a computer. It is YOU who could be declared a member of a "foreign terrorist" organization just because you bought a book or concert tickets from some group the government doesn't like. It is YOU who could lose your home, bank account and reputation because you made a mistake on a health insurance form.
As Ayn Rand said in Atlas Shrugged, "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."It's time to drop any pretense. We are no longer law-abiding citizens. We have lost our law-abiding status. There are simply too many laws to abide.
And because of increasingly draconian penalties and electronic tracking mechanisms, our "lawbreaking" places us and our families in greater jeopardy every day.
The question is: What are we going to do about it?
Write a nice, polite letter to your congressperson? Hey, if you think that'll help, I've got a bridge you might be interested in buying. (And it isn't your "bridge to the future," either.)
Vote "better people" into office? Oh yeah, that's what we thought we were doing in 1994.
Work to fight one bad bill or another? Okay. What will you do about the 10 or 20 or 100 equally horrible bills that will be passed behind your back while you were fighting that little battle? And let's say you defeat a nightmare bill this year. What are you going to do when they sneak it back in, at the very last minute, in some "omnibus legislation" next year? And what about the horrors you don't even learn about until two or three years after they become law?
Should you try fighting these laws in the courts? Where do you find the resources? Where do you find a judge who doesn't have a vested interest in bigger, more powerful government? And again, for every one case decided in favor of freedom, what do you do about the 10, 20 or 100 in which the courts decide against the Bill of Rights?
Perhaps you'd consider trying to stop the onrush of these horrors with a constitutional amendment--maybe one that bans "omnibus" bills, requires that every law meet a constitutional test or requires all congresspeople to sign statements that they've read and understood every aspect of every bill on which they vote. Good luck! Good luck, first, on getting such an amendment passed. Then good luck getting our Constitution-scorning "leaders" to obey it.
It is true that liberty requires eternal vigilance, and part of that vigilance has been, traditionally, keeping a watchful eye on laws and on lawbreaking lawmakers. But given the current pace of law spewing and unconstitutional regulation-writing, you could watch, plead and struggle "within the system" 24 hours a day for your entire life and end up infinitely less free than when you began. Why throw your life away on a futile effort?
Face it. If "working within the system" could halt tyranny, the tyrants would outlaw it. Why do you think they encourage you to vote, to write letters, to talk to them in public forums? It's to divert your energies.  You run around thinking you're getting somewhere.   In the effort of fighting them on their terms and with their authorized and approved tools, you have given your life's energy to them as surely as if you were toiling in their cotton fields, under the lash of their overseer.
 If we, personally, as individuals, refuse to cooperate with evil. How we do that is up to each of us. I can't decide for you, nor you for me. (Unlike congresspeople, who think they can decide for everybody.)
But this totalitarian runaway truck is never going to stop unless we stop it, in any way we can. Stopping it might include any number of things: tax resistance; public civil disobedience; wide-scale, silent non-cooperation; highly noisy non-cooperation; boycotts; secession efforts; monkey wrenching; computer hacking; dirty tricks against government agents; public shunning of employees of abusive government agencies; alternative, self-sufficient communities that provide their own medical care and utilities.
There are thousands of avenues to take, and this is something most of still need to give more thought to before we can build an effective resistance. We will each choose the courses that are right for our own circumstances, personalities and beliefs.
Whatever we do, though, we must remember that we are all, already, outlaws. Not one of us can be certain of getting through a single day without violating some law or regulation we've never even heard of. We are all guilty in the eyes of today's "law." If someone in power chooses to target us, we can all, already, be prosecuted for something.
And I'm sure you know that your claims of "good intentions" won't protect you, as the similar claims of politicians protect them. Politicians are above the law. YOU are under it. Crushed under it.
When you look at it that way, we have little left to lose by breakings laws creatively and purposefully. Yes, some of us will suffer horrible consequences for our lawbreaking. It is very risky to actively resist unbridled power. It is especially risky to go public with resistance (unless hundreds of thousands publicly join us), and it becomes riskier the closer we get to tyranny. For that reason, among many others, I would never recommend any particular course of action to anyone--and I hope you'll think twice before taking "advice" from anybody about things that could jeopardize your life or well-being. But if we don't resist in the best ways we know how--and if a good number of us don't resist loudly and publicly--all of us will suffer the much worse consequences of living under total oppression.
And whatever courses of action we choose, we must remember that this legislative "revolution" against We the People will not be stopped by politeness. It will not be stopped by requests.  It will not be stopped by pleading for justice from those who will resort to any degree of trickery or violence to rule us.
It will not be stopped unless we are willing to risk our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honors to stop it.I think of the words of Winston Churchill: "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
Notes on the laws listed above:
- 1 A national database of employed people.
- Welfare Reform Bill, H.R. 3734; became public law 104-193 on 8/22/96; see section 453A.
- 2 100 pages of new "health care crimes," for which the penalty is (among other things) seizure of assets from both doctors and patients.
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, H.R. 3103; became public law 104-191 on 8/21/96.
- 3Confiscation of assets from any American who establishes foreign citizenship.
- Same law as #2; see sections 511-513.
- 4The largest gun confiscation in U. S. history--which is also an unconstitutional ex post facto law and the first law ever to remove people's constitutional rights for committing a misdemeanor.
- Omnibus Appropriations Act, H.R. 3610; became public law 104-208 on 9/30/96. (see section 658)
- 5A law banning guns in ill-defined school zones; random roadblocks may be used for enforcement; gun-bearing residents could become federal criminals just by stepping outside their doors or getting into vehicles.
- Same law as #3
- 6Increased funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, an agency infamous for its brutality, dishonesty and ineptitude.
- Same law as #3 (see TITLE VII--COUNTER-TERRORISM AND DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT)
- 7A law enabling the executive branch to declare various groups "terrorist"--without stating any reason and without the possibility of appeal. Once a group has been so declared, its mailing and membership lists must be turned over to the government.
- Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, S. 735; became public law 104-132 on 4/24/96; see all of Title III, specifically sections 302 and 219; also see all of Title IV, specifically sections 401, 501, 502 and 503.
- 8A law authorizing secret trials with secret evidence for certain classes of people.
- Same law as #7
- 9A law requiring that all states begin issuing drivers' licenses carrying Social Security numbers and "security features" (such as magnetically coded fingerprints and personal records) by October 1, 2000. By October 1, 2006, "Neither the Social Security Administration or the Passport Office or any other federal agency or any state or local government agency may accept for any evidentiary purpose a state driver's license or identification document in a form other than [one issued with a verified Social Security number and security features']."
- Began life in the Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996, sections 111, 118, 119, 127 and 133; was eventually folded into the Omnibus Appropriations Act, H.R. 3610 (which was itself formerly called the Defense Appropriations Act--but we wouldn't want to confuse anyone, here, would we?); became public law 104-208 on 9/30/96; see sections 656 and 657 among others.
- 10And my personal favorite--a national database, now being constructed, that will contain every exchange and observation that takes place in your doctor's office.  It also includes--by law--any statements you make ("Doc, I'm worried my kid may be on drugs," "Doc, I've been so stressed out lately I feel about ready to go postal.") and any observations your doctor makes about your mental or physical condition, whether accurate or not, whether made with your knowledge or not. For the time being, there will be zero (count em, zero) privacy safeguards on this data. But don't worry, your government will protect you with some undefined "privacy standards" in a few years.
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, H.R. 3103; became public law 104-191 on 8/21/96; see sections 262, 263 and 264, among others. The various provisions that make up the full horror of this database are scattered throughout the bill and may take hours to track down.; this one is stealth legislation at its utmost sneakiest.
And one final, final note: Although I spent aggravating hours verifying the specifics of these bills (a task I swear I will never waste my life on again!), the original list of bills at the top of this article was NOT the result of extensive research. It was simply what came off the top of my head when I thought of Big Brotherish bills from the 104th Congress. For all I know, Congress has passed 10 times more of that sort of thing. In fact, the worst "law" in the list--#9, the de facto national ID card--just came to my attention as I was writing this essay, thanks to the enormous efforts of Jackie Juntti and Ed Lyon and others, who researched the law. Think of it: Thanks to congressional stealth tactics, we had the long-dreaded national ID card legislation for five months, without a whisper of discussion, before freedom activists began to find out about it. Makes you wonder what else might be lurking out there, doesn't it?
And on that cheery note...
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NHL-leading Caps top Flyers 2-1 in SO to extend point streak
by The Associated PressPHILADELPHIA (AP) - T.J. Oshie and Evgeny Kuznetsov scored in a shootout to lift the Washington Capitals over the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1 on Wednesday night.
Brendan Leipsic had a goal in the first period and Braden Holtby made 30 saves for the Capitals, who extended their point streak to 13 games (11-0-2) and increased their NHL-best total to 32 points.
Claude Giroux scored a power-play goal in the third period for the Flyers (10-5-3), who had won four straight. Philadelphia has earned at least one point in seven consecutive games (5-0-2).
Carter Hart had 35 saves, including several late highlight-reel stops, but the 21-year-old netminder couldn’t stop either Washington attempt in the shootout.
ISLANDERS 5, MAPLE LEAFS 4
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Anthony Beauvillier scored twice, Derick Brassard had a goal and two assists, and the streaking New York Islanders held off Toronto.
Semyon Varlamov made 23 saves and the Islanders earned a point for the 13th straight game (12-0-1). Mathew Barzal had a goal and an assist.
Kasperi Kapanen, William Nylander, Justin Holl and John Tavares scored for Toronto in its third straight loss. Frederik Andersen had 25 saves in the Maple Leafs’ second game since losing Mitchell Marner for at least four weeks due to a high ankle sprain.
SENATORS 4, DEVILS 2
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored a hat track, including the go-ahead goal with 2:01 to play, and Ottawa rallied in the third period to beat New Jersey.
Mark Borowiechi tied the game with 6:30 to go, and Pageau got the winner when he put the rebound of a shot off the post by Nick Paul into an open net. Pageau finished off his first regular-season hat trick with 26 seconds left on a shot into an empty net. He has eight goals in his last six games.
Craig Anderson made 21 saves for the Senators, including a breakaway stop on Taylor Hall midway through the third period with the Devils ahead 2-1.
Will Butcher and Wayne Simmonds scored for New Jersey, which returned from a five-game road trip. Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 21 shots.
BLACKHAWKS 5, GOLDEN KNIGHTS 3
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Erik Gustafsson scored his first goal of the season, Corey Crawford made 39 saves and Chicago beat Vegas for the first time.
Patrick Kane, Calvin de Haan, Kirby Dach and Dylan Strome also scored for the Blackhawks. Crawford, who improved to 2-0-2 in his last four games, entered 0-3-0 versus Vegas with a 5.38 goals-against average and .859 save percentage.
William Carrier, William Karlsson and Nate Schmidt scored for the Golden Knights against a team they’d dominated since entering the NHL in 2017. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 21 shots.
STARS 3, FLAMES 1
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Joe Pavelski scored twice, including an empty-net goal, and the resurgent Dallas Stars defeated Calgary.
Calgary native Justin Dowling’s first NHL goal was the winner for Dallas, which is 8-1-1 after stumbling to a 1-7-1 start this season. Ben Bishop made 24 saves.
Sean Monahan scored for the Flames (10-8-3), who lost in regulation for just the second time at home (6-2-2). Cam Talbot turned aside 29 shots.
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Merrimack squares up against UMass Lowell
by EndPlayLOWELL, Mass. - Merrimack (1-2) vs. UMass Lowell (2-3)
Costello Athletic Center, Lowell, Massachusetts; Saturday, 4 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Merrimack and UMass Lowell look to bounce back from losses. Merrimack fell 55-46 to Dartmouth in its last outing. UMass Lowell lost 80-78 loss at home against Jacksonville in its most recent game.
LEADING THE CHARGE: UMass Lowell's Christian Lutete has averaged 24 points and 8.6 rebounds while Obadiah Noel has put up 15.8 points and 5.4 rebounds. For the Warriors, Juvaris Hayes has averaged 13 points, eight rebounds and five assists while Jordan Minor has put up 9.3 points and 5.3 rebounds.
FUELING THE OFFENSE: Hayes has either made or assisted on 44 percent of all Merrimack field goals over the last three games. Hayes has accounted for 12 field goals and 15 assists in those games.
DID YOU KNOW: UMass Lowell has committed a turnover on just 17.3 percent of its possessions this season, which is the best percentage among all America East teams. The River Hawks have turned the ball over only 12.2 times per game this season.
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Big Sean's XXX-Rated Verse On Jhené Aiko's "None Of Your Concern" Makes Twitter Explode
by Kyle EusticeJhené Aiko enlisted her ex-boyfriend Big Sean for her new single “None Of Your Concern” — but that’s not even the most surprising part. Sean Don’s verse features graphic details about the former couple’s sex life, which evidently Aiko didn’t seem to mind.
“But every time I lay down I think about you naked,” he raps. “And if you find my replacement, how could you?/I made you cum nine times in one day/Your two lips should come in a vase, you rode my face.

Aiko and Sean dated for roughly two years but called it quits in 2018. Last November, Aiko appeared at an event wearing a sleeveless dress and the massive Big Sean tattoo she once paraded on the back of her arm was noticeably missing.
However, in the wake of Nipsey Hussle’s death, Aiko insisted she still loved Sean “beyond measure.” Apparently, she loves him enough to allow him to grace her track and discuss such intimate moments — and Twitter naturally took notice.
On Friday (November 15), Big Sean became a trending topic after fans couldn’t believe what they were hearing. Many also wondered if a new Twenty88 album could be in the works.
Check out some of the reactions below.


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All objects that can be placed on the map need to have this or a derivative of this component. Placement on the grid is then processed by PlacementController and registered by BuildingManager. More...
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| override void | Rotate (Vector3 axis, float rotationAmount) |
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The Java Flight Recorder (JFR) is a commercial feature. You can use it for free on developer desktops or laptops, and for evaluation purposes in test, development, and production environments. However, to enable JFR on a production server, you must have a commercial license. Using the Java Mission Control (JMC) for other purposes on the JDK does not require a commercial license.
For more details about the JFR commercial features and availability, see the product documentation.
For more details about the JFR commercial license, see the license agreement.
The following sections show figures and describe how to debug a memory leak using Java Flight Recorder.
Detecting a slow memory leak can be hard. A typical symptom is that the application becomes slower after running for a long time due to frequent garbage collections. Eventually, OutOfmemoryErrors
may be seen. However, memory leaks can be detected early, even before a problem occurs using Java Flight Recordings.
Watch if the live set of your application is increasing over time. The live set is the amount of Java heap that is used after an Old Collection (all objects that are not live have been garbage collected). The live set can be inspected in many ways - run with the -verbosegc
option, or connect to the JVM using the JMC JMX Console and look at com.sun.management.GarbageCollectorAggregator MBean
. However, another easy approach is to take a flight recording.
Enable Heap Statistics when starting your recording, which triggers an old collection at the start and at the end of the recording. This may cause a slight latency in the application. However, Heap Statistics generates an accurate live set information. If you suspect a rather quick memory leak, take a profiling recording that runs over, for example, an hour. Click Memory tab and select the Garbage Collections tab to inspect the first and the last old collections as shown in Figure 3-1.
Figure 3-1 Debug Memory Leaks - Garbage Collection Tab
Select the first old collection as shown in Figure 3-1 to look at the heap data and heap usage after GC. In this recording, it is 34.10 MB. Now look at the same data from the last old collection in the list and see if the live set has grown. Before taking the recording, you must allow the application to start and reach a stable state.
If the leak is slower, you can take a shorter 5-minute recording. Then take another recording, for example 24 hours later (depending on how fast you suspect the memory leak). Obviously, your live set may go up and down, but if you see a steady increase over time, then you could have a memory leak.
After you have your recording showing the leak, you can look at Object Statistics. Look at one long recording, then look at which classes grew the most in heap usage over the recording. If you took several recordings at intervals, then compare the heap contents section and see what object types have increased the most between the recordings, as shown in Figure 3-2.
Figure 3-2 Debug Memory Leaks - Find Leaking Class
Especially, watch the classes that are not part of the standard library. For example, you will often see Char
arrays as one of the top growers. This is due to many Strings
being allocated; therefore, watch out for objects that keep these Strings
alive. If you have a class that has 10 Strings
as members, then the object itself will not use too much heap. The heap will be used by the Strings
, which mostly contains pointers to the Char
arrays. Therefore, it is good to sort on the number of instances and not the size of the objects. If one of your application class has many instances, then it may very well be those objects that keep other objects alive.
Finding the actual leak can be difficult One thing to do when you have come this far is to dump an HPROF and inspect the Java heap using The jhat Utility to find out how the suspect objects are kept alive. You can also use the JMC plug-in, JOverflow for looking at the reference chains in the HPROF dump.
Some additional information can be found using Flight Recordings.
Look at the Allocations subtab as shown in Figure 3-3, for some samples of where objects were allocated.
Figure 3-3 Debug Memory Leaks - Allocations tab
If you except a specific class leak, look at the Allocation in new TLAB tab. Check the class samples being allocated. If the leak is slow, there may be a few allocations of this object and may be no samples. Also, it may be that only a specific allocation site is leading to a leak. To summarize, this is not guaranteed to lead you to the right allocation stack trace for the leak, but it may give vital clues.


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Human-Centered AI
We are developing methods to ensure that our machine-learning algorithms and data-driven products are fair, transparent, accountable, and useful.
Project overview
The Research team develops powerful machine-learning algorithms that can improve the coverage and quality of Wikimedia projects and improve the user experience for readers and contributors. Wikimedia Foundation product teams as well as external researchers and community developers use the Research team's machine-learning resources to build tools to connect reader with articles that interest them, help new editors find content and collaborators, and support the volunteers who work to improve the quality of Wikipedia.
The aim of this project is to develop best practices and pilot new techniques to effectively prevent, identify, and address bias in the technologies we build, at every stage of the design process.
Over the past decade, scientists, journalists, policymakers, and citizens from around the world have grown increasingly concerned about the risks that machine learning and artificial intelligent (AI) systems present. Research has shown how these systems can violate personal privacy, discriminate against disadvantaged groups, perpetuate harmful biases, and disrupt social processes. These harmful impacts can often be traced back to the design of these systems—the data used to train them, the algorithmic techniques that allow the system to learn, the way the system is tested and refined, and the way information is presented to end users.
As a mission-driven organization that is committed to openness, transparency and social good, the Wikimedia Foundation has a mandate to ensure that the AI systems we build are ethical and human centered—that they reflect our values, empower our users, and improve our projects.
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Ethical AI Blogpost
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We released a white paper that lays out some possible risk scenarios and process proposals for ethical and human-centered AI at Wikimedia. -
Battle of the feeds
We tested whether mobile app users preferred a "top article" feed ranked by page views or editing trends. Overall, raters were more interested in, and more familiar with, articles that appeared in the "top read" list.
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Jonathan Morgan, Isaac Johnson
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6 of the best boozy creams for Christmas pudding, spiked with brandy, espresso martini and pink gin
by Madeleine HowellNow that you can carefully select this year’s Christmas pudding and stockpile the mince pies, it’s time to put brandy sauce on the shopping list.
While we’re fans of butter for smearing and slathering, nothing compares to a generous dollop of intoxicatingly festive cream to ensure good cheer.
As for identifying what’s in the pot, brandy is a distilled spirit, made from any fermented fruit juice (such as grape or apple), from anywhere in the world.
Cognac is a brandy, known for its nutty, fruity taste, with hints of caramel, honey and vanilla – but it must be made in the Cognac region of France. So, while all cognac is brandy, very little brandy is cognac.
But in 2019, it’s not just traditional brandy or cognac sauce (also commonly made with rum) on offer: these days, as well as the classic boozy cream, there are also a number of more unusual alcoholic twists available – from salted caramel to espresso martini-flavoured options. Here are our favourites, tried and tasted…
M&S Extra Thick Salted Caramel Cream
£3.50 for 200g
With Luxardo caramel spirit (five per cent) and a splash of vodka, this is a creamy treat with caramel sauce, molasses and condensed milk that has a salted, buttery taste; but it may dominate when paired with some desserts.
9/10
Asda Extra Special Pink Gin Cream
£2 for 250ml
A good gimmick, with seven per cent fruity pink gin and a mulled wine compote with strawberries, raspberries and redcurrant. Lightly spiced with cardamom and star anise, it’s difficult to discern a juniper gin taste, but it’s surprisingly pleasant on a mince pie.
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Tesco Finest Brandy Extra Thick Cream
£2 for 250ml
Made with double cream, rich Jersey cream and a hefty amount of Courvoisier VS Cognac (seven per cent); this is a simple but well done, frothily textured take on the Christmas staple – perfect for blobbing on top of puddings and sweet treats.
8/10
Potts’ Brandy Sauce
£3 for 275ml, Ocado
Strong stuff, at nine per cent brandy. A thin, rather than a thick consistency, perfect for splashing generously, hot from the hob. It’s rich in vanilla flavours and is delicious with chocolate ice cream or poached peaches. A gluggable version of the classic.
10/10
Waitrose & Partners Clementine Extra Thick Cream
£2.75 for 250ml
With seven per cent Cointreau liqueur and real clementines, this is a silky-textured, tartly sweet citrus cream with a hint of bitterness, which pairs well with trifles, ginger cake and strawberries, as well as Christmas pudding.
8/10
Sainsbury’s TTD Extra Thick Espresso Martini Cream
£2.75 for 250ml
Extra thick double and Jersey cream with Luxardo Espresso liqueur (four per cent) and vodka (three per cent): very sweet, but well balanced with a bitter coffee taste. Delicious with vanilla ice cream.
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Guidance
How much universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) funding schools are getting for the academic year 2014 to 2015.
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The universal infant free school meals ( UIFSM ) grant is funding for schools to spend on providing free school meals to all pupils in reception, year 1 and year 2.
The conditions of grant document explains how we calculated the allocations and sets out the conditions schools should meet to receive the funding.
The calculator allows schools to estimate the amount of grant they may get for the academic year 2014 to 2015.
Read more guidance for schools and local authorities on UIFSM .
Published: 27 June 2014
Updated: 1 July 2015


Seneca College Page
introducing Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
A comprehensive college with degree, diploma and certificate programs. Full and part-time programs are offered on campuses in Toronto and York Region.
Welcome to Seneca College
Seneca offers more than an education. With campuses throughout the Greater Toronto Area,
Seneca's size and diversity give students the advantage of partnerships with industry leaders,
the latest in hands-on computer technology, a variety of class sizes, and full-time, part-time
part-time and continuing education options.Education should be flexible and accessible, so
Seneca also employs various methods of teaching-from in-class lectures and online learning
to co-op and field placements-in programs related to applied arts, business, financial services
and technology.
Message from Seneca's President
Welcome to the President's Page. And if this is your first time visiting Seneca, welcome to the
College as well.
It's a great time to be at Seneca. With terrific career-focused programs in high-demand proud
of the professions, the most pathways to leading universities and flexible learning options, we
are high-quality education and support services our great faculty and staff offer our students.
We also value community, building bridges and networks within Senecaand throughout the world.
Outstanding academic programs, a global perspective and a strong community-we are building a
different kind of school with a different kind of graduate.
I'm delighted to be part of this community. I'm delighted that you're here too.
David Agnew, President
Why Choose Seneca?
Because You Matter
⚫We are a leader in student-focused teaching and learning, redefining how people think about
post-secondary education
⚫Our passionate faculty are respected, well-connected in their fields, and care about helping
you succeed
⚫We know education is more than taking classes, so we provide enriching experiences to further
your learning both inside and outside of the classroom
Because Being Career-Ready Matters
⚫Over 500 career options and more than 150 full-time programs and 140 part-time programs
⚫Graduate with practical experience from our co-op placements, internships, field placements,
practicums, and study abroad programs
⚫We partner with industry to provide opportunities for students to solve real-world problems
⚫Graduate into an alumni network of over 175,000 professionals working globally


New EC officers urged to exhibit integrity, fairness and transparency
by Yaw Ansah, GNAAccra, Nov. 14, GNA - Mrs Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, has charged newly appointed officers of the Commission to exhibit a high level of integrity, fairness and transparency.
She counseled the personnel to create a level playing field for all parties and conduct their official activities without fear or favour.
Mrs Mensa was speaking at a two- day orientation programme organised for 158 newly appointed officers on Wednesday in Accra.
Congratulating them on their appointments, the Chairperson encouraged the officers to exhibit a high level of professionalism and discipline.
She said, “For those who have been deployed to the field, you will have the responsibility of being entrusted with the commission’s resources that is funds and property. We expect you to be honest and apply the funds for the purpose for which they were allocated.
“Any violation of this policy will not be tolerated. The Commission will not take lightly acts of dishonesty”.
Dr Bossman Eric Asare, the Deputy Chairman in charge of Corporate Services, advised the officers to remain non-partisan in the discharge of their duties and also strive for excellence wherever they were posted.
He urged them to match their actions and inactions with the confidence reposed in them by the Commission in appointing them as officers.
Mr Samuel Tettey, the Deputy Chairman of Operations, admonished them to work together in harmony with their colleagues to achieve the overall objective of the Commission.
Present at the orientation were Mrs. Rebecca Adjalo, Ms. Adwoa Asuama Abrefa, Commission Members as well as directors of the EC.
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