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No Name Ninja — 2017-01-06T12:26:07+09:00

WELL, I catched my breath and most fainted. Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that! But it warn't no time to be sentimentering. We'd GOT to find that boat now -- had to have it for ourselves. So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too -- seemed a week before we got to the stern. No sign of a boat. Jim said he didn't believe he could go any further -- so scared he hadn't hardly any strength left, he said. But I said, come on, if we get left on this wreck we are in a fix, sure. So on we prowled again. We struck for the stern of the texas, and found it, and then scrabbled along forwards on the skylight, hanging on from shutter to shutter, for the edge of the skylight was in the water. When we got pretty close to the cross-hall door there was the skiff, sure enough! I could just barely see her. I felt ever so thankful. In another second I would a been aboard of her, but just then the door opened. One of the men stuck his head out , and I thought I was gone; but he jerked it in again, and says:

"Heave that blame lantern out o' sight, Bill!"

He flung a bag of something into the boat, and then got in himself and set down. It was packard. Then Bill HE come out and got in. packard says, in a low voice:

"All ready -- shove off!"

I couldn't hardly hang on to the shutters, I was so weak. But Bill says:

"Hold on -- 'd you go through him?"

"No. Didn't you?"

"No. So he's got his share o' the cash yet."

"Well, then, come along; no use to take truck and leave money."

"Say, won't he suspicion what we're up to?"

"Maybe he won't. But we got to have it anyway. Come along."

So they got out and went in.

The door slammed to because it was on the careened side; and in a half second I was in the boat, and Jim come tumbling after me. I out with my knife and cut the rope, and away we went!

We didn't touch an oar, and we didn't speak nor whisper, nor hardly even breathe. We went gliding swift along, dead silent, past the tip of the paddlebox, and past the stern; then in a second or two more we was a hundred yards below the wreck, and the darkness soaked her up, every last sign of her, and we was safe, and knowed it.

When we was three or four hundred yards downstream we see the lantern show like a little spark at the texas door for a second, and we knowed by that that the rascals had missed their boat, and was beginning to understand that they was in just as much trouble now as Jim Turner was.

Then Jim manned the oars, and we took out after our raft. Now was the first time that I begun to worry about the men -- I reckon I hadn't had time to before. I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix. I says to myself, there ain't no telling but I might come to be a murderer myself yet, and then how would I like it? So says I to Jim:

Just as they were sitting down to table

No Name Ninja — 2016-12-14T12:27:12+09:00

M. de Monte Cristo arrived. He took his seat amongst them; they played, and I won. I am almost ashamed to say that my gains amounted to 5,000 francs. We separated at midnight. I could not defer my pleasure, so I took a cabriolet and drove to the horse dealer's. Feverish and excited, I rang at the door. The person who opened it must have taken me for a madman, for I rushed at once to the stable. Medeah was standing at the rack, eating his hay. I immediately put on the saddle and bridle, to which operation he lent himself with the best grace possible; then, putting the 4,500 francs into the hands of the astonished dealer, I proceeded to fulfil my intention of passing the night in riding in the Champs Elysees. As I rode by the count's house I perceived a light in one of the windows, and fancied I saw the shadow of his figure moving behind the curtain. Now, Valentine, I firmly believe that he knew of my wish to possess this horse, and that he lost expressly to give me the means of procuring him."

"My dear Maximilian, you are really too fanciful; you will not love even me long. A man who accustoms himself to live in such a world of poetry and imagination must find far too little excitement in a common, every-day sort of attachment such as ours. But they are calling me. Do you hear?"

"Ah, Valentine," said Maximilian, "give me but one finger through this opening in the grating, one finger, the littlest finger of all, that I may have the happiness of kissing it."

"Maximilian, we said we would be to each other as two voices, two shadows."

"As you will, Valentine."

"Shall you be happy if I do what you wish?"

"Oh, yes!" Valentine mounted on a bench, and passed not only her finger but her whole hand through the opening. Maximilian uttered a cry of delight, and, springing forwards, seized the hand extended towards him, and imprinted on it a fervent and impassioned kiss. The little hand was then immediately withdrawn, and the young man saw Valentine hurrying towards the house, as though she were almost terrified at her own sensations.

We could do her if ever'body helped

No Name Ninja — 2016-11-07T13:13:16+09:00

Both men kept their eyes on the little twig on the water's edge. They saw the water move slowly up around it and creep up the bank. Pa squatted down in the doorway. "Comin' up fast," he said. "I think we oughta go talk to the other fellas. See if they'll help ditch up. Got to git outa here if they won't." Pa looked down the long car to the Wainwright end. Al was with them, sitting beside Aggie. Pa walked into their precinct. "Water's risin'," he said. "How about if we throwed up a bank?
Wainwright said dermes, "We was jes' talkin'. Seems like we oughta be gettin' outa here."

Pa said, "You been aroun'. You know what chancet we got a gettin' a dry place to stay."

"I know. But jes' the same--"

Al said, "Pa, if they go, I'm a-goin' too."

Pa looked startled. "You can't, Al. The truck--We ain't fit to drive that truck."

"I don' care. Me an' Aggie got to stick together."

"Now you wait," Pa said. "Come on over here." Wainwright and Al got to their feet and approached the door. "See?" Pa said, pointing. "Jus' a bank from there an' down to there." He looked at his stick. The water swirled about it now, and crept up the bank toptank ceramic coil.

"Be a lot a work, an' then she might come over anyways," Wainwright protested.

"Well, we ain't doin' nothin', might's well be workin'. We ain't gonna find us no nice place to live like this. Come on, now. Le's go talk to the other fellas. We can do her if ever'body helps."

Al said, "If Aggie goes, I'm a-goin' too."

Pa said, "Look, Al, if them fellas won't dig, then we'll all hafta go. Come on, le's go talk to 'em." They hunched their shoulders and ran down the cat-walk to the next car and up the walk into its open door.

Ma was at the stove, feeding a few sticks to the feeble flame. Ruthie crowded close beside her. "I'm hungry," Ruthie whined.

"No, you ain't," Ma said. "You had good mush."

"Wisht I had a box a Cracker Jack. There ain't nothin' to do. Ain't no fun."

"They'll be fun," Ma said. "You jus' wait. Be fun purty soon. Git a house an' a place, purty soon."

"Wisht we had a dog," Ruthie said.

"We'll have a dog; have a cat, too."

"Yella cat?"

"Don't bother me," Ma begged. "Don't go plaguin' me now, Ruthie. Rosasharn's sick. Jus' you be a good girl a little while. They'll be fun." Ruthie wandered, complaining, away.

From the mattress where Rose of Sharon lay covered up there came a quick sharp cry, cut off in the middle. Ma whirled and went to her. Rose of Sharon was holding her breath and her eyes were filled with terror .

"What is it?" Ma cried. The girl expelled her breath and caught it again. Suddenly Ma put her hand under the covers. Then she stood up. "Mis' Wainwright," she called. "Oh, Mis' Wainwright!"

The fat little woman came down the car. "Want me?"

"Look!" Ma pointed at Rose of Sharon's face. Her teeth were clamped on her lower lip and her forehead was wet with perspiration, and the shining terror was in her eyes.

"I think it's come," Ma said. "It's early."

The girl heaved a great sigh and relaxed. She released her lip and closed her eyes.

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No Name Ninja — 2016-11-07T13:12:49+09:00

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her spinning-stick in her hand

No Name Ninja — 2016-07-18T13:26:01+09:00

And behind the woman comes a little nigger girl and two little nigger boys without anything on but tow-linen shirts, and they hung on to their mother's gown, and peeped out from behind her at me, bashful, the way they always do. And here comes the white woman running from the house, about forty-five or fifty year old, bareheaded; and behind her comes her little white children, acting the same way the little niggers was going. She was smiling all over so she could hardly stand -- and says dermes vs medilase:

"It's YOU, at last! -- AIN'T it?"

I out with a "Yes'm" before I thought.

She grabbed me and hugged me tight; and then gripped me by both hands and shook and shook; and the tears come in her eyes, and run down over; and she couldn't seem to hug and shake enough, and kept saying, "You don't look as much like your mother as I reckoned you would; but law sakes, I don't care for that, I'm so glad to see you! Dear, dear, it does seem like I could eat you up! Children, it's your cousin Tom! -- tell him howdy."

But they ducked their heads, and put their fingers in their mouths, and hid behind her. So she run on:

"Lize, hurry up and get him a hot breakfast right away -- or did you get your breakfast on the boat?"

I said I had got it on the boat. So then she started for the house, leading me by the hand, and the children tagging after. When we got there she set me down in a split-bottomed chair, and set herself down on a little low stool in front of me dermes vs medilase, holding both of my hands, and says:

"Now I can have a GOOD look at you; and, laws-ame, I've been hungry for it a many and a many a time, all these long years, and it's come at last! We been expecting you a couple of days and more. What kep' you? -- boat get aground?"

"Yes'm -- she --"

"Don't say yes'm -- say Aunt Sally. Where'd she get aground?"

I didn't rightly know what to say, because I didn't know whether the boat would be coming up the river or down. But I go a good deal on instinct; and my instinct said she would be coming up -- from down towards Orleans. That didn't help me much, though; for I didn't know the names of bars down that way. I see I'd got to invent a bar, or forget the name of the one we got aground on -- or -- Now I struck an idea, and fetched it out dermes vs medilase:

"It warn't the grounding -- that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head."

with an array of easy-to-use

No Name Ninja — 2016-03-14T10:51:04+09:00

One of the great ironies of the boom in cloud services is how it has brought digital brands and human customers closer together than ever before. Companies today can reach customers whenever or however they need to, with an array of easy-to-use, low-cost tactics. More than that, brands have the ability to use specific cloud-based tools — such as email notifications — to build invaluable customer loyalty at minimal cost.

Email notifications today are a more advanced breed than their predecessors from earlier eras. Unlike unwanted or repetitive marketing messages, which customers typically ignore, email notifications are explicitly tied to specific actions a user has taken with a site or app — and therefore perceived as highly relevant or valuable information they need to know. Security offers the clearest example of relevant communication: Customers can receive an automated email wherever they are (and on whatever device) about login attempts and password changes, or during broader crises like Dropbox’s password breach. “It’s a way to involve the customer and deputize them,” Mark Schwanhausser of Javelin Strategy & Research explained in a recent interview with Nasdaq.

Giving users more power and involvement is a win-win beyond just security. As all of our activities — work, social life, shopping neo skin lab derma21, entertainment — are managed digitally, we’re in need of constant information from our chosen brands to keep track and manage our lives.

A central challenge for brands is to ensure that the communication is truly useful or relevant. This is where so many companies have erred in the past: With only limited tools to assess a customer’s desire for a particular marketing message (such as the tracking pixels that detect email opens), it was difficult to if a message was successful. Notifications today are backed by superior tracking technology, but more importantly, they are almost always created or chosen by customers themselves. Facebook and Instagram, for instance, offer a wide range of opt-in choices for either email or push notifications, which are then triggered automatically by status changes or new messages.

To be sure, many of these notifications could be seen as potential spam — all it takes is a customer changing their mind about a message they previously opted into. But this is rarely the case for well-designed messaging. SMS notifications are opened 98 percent of the time within five minutes, according to Nielsen: hardly an indication that users are exhausted by messaging. Similarly, 70 percent of smartphone users consider all push notifications useful. This is true despite a sometimes huge volume of notifications: Slack, a chat app for business, sends a push every time a highlighted word (such as your name) appears in group chats. Despite the appearance of a deluge, users simply swipe away or delete any notifications that are unwanted.

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LG says its flagship G6 smartphone isn’t selling as well as expected

No Name Ninja — 2016-02-23T16:22:36+09:00

LG’s mobile business is in a sticky patch after the company admitted its flagship LG G6 smartphone hasn’t sold as well as expected .

LG Electronics itself posted a business-wide operating income of KRW 664.1 billion (USD 588.2 million) on overall revenue KRW 14.55 trillion (USD 12.89 billion). While LG’s operating income rose by 14 percent year-on-year to outpace a four percent annual growth in revenue, its overall numbers were curtailed by a mobile business that posted a KRW 132.4 billion ($117.27 million) loss for the quarter.

The “challenging” quarter was down to “weaker than expected premium smartphone sales and increase in component costs,” LG said. In the previous quarter, Q1 2017, LG’s smartphone shipments jumped over 10 percent to 14.8 million with the G6, which ditched the experimental modular approach of its predecessor, among its top performers. The company didn’t disclose sales for Q2 .

The company’s phone business actually performed better this quarter than the same period in 2016, when it recorded a wider loss of KRW 153.5 billion (USD 132.10 million), even though its revenue fell by 19 percent year-on-year. But against the backdrop of three of the Korean company’s primary business units reporting increased revenue levels, its phone business is again the laggard.

Some positive news can be found in North America, where LG said sales were up 13 percent year-on-year thanks to the popularity of its more affordable phones. LG believes its upcoming Q Series, another mid-range effort, can help revive its mobile business in the second half of this year .

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/27/lg-says-its-flagship-g6-smartphone-isnt-selling-as-well-as-expected/

Report: Xiaomi sales climb but Huawei remains China’s top smartphone brand

No Name Ninja — 2016-02-02T12:37:07+09:00

China’s Xiaomi, once the world’s highest valued tech startup, is getting over a disappointing two years with a notable spike in sales in its homeland during the second quarter of 2017.

That’s according a new report from analyst firm Canalys, which estimates that Xiaomi, which was valued at $45 billion at the end of 2014, shipped 15 million phones during the quarter to rank fourth in China. That’s a 60 percent rise from Q1 2017.

Despite that, Huawei maintained its lead from the previous quarter with 23 million shipments ahead of brother-sister companies Oppo (21 million) and Vivo (16 million), the two companies that rose to prominence last year in China and beyond. Apple completed the top five, according to Canalys, having been leapfrogged by Xiaomi DR REBORN.

As for the rest, sales were down for Apple, which just announced its first head of China, Samsung and Meizu. According to the report, the top five ranked companies pull in almost three-quarters of all shipments.

“Xiaomi still offers the best value in the Chinese market, and it remains the preferred choice for price-conscious consumers. The online channel continues to be a key route to market for Xiaomi and this quarter saw it take the lead in the 618 online sales events across online retail platforms, such as JD.com and Tmall,” Canalys analyst Lucio Chen said in a note Dedicated Cloud.

CEO Lei Jun hailed Xiaomi’s resurgence this year, calling this most recent quarter “a major inflection point in our growth.”

“After two years of internal recalibration, Xiaomi is once again embarking on a rapid growth trajectory,” he told press, adding that the company is aiming to reach 100 million phone sales in 2018.

Xiaomi has always had a penchant for revealing its annual sales figures, thanks to some spectacular growth in its early days, but this year it declined to give full numbers for 2016, marking its first non-reveal in its history. Issues began appearing when Xiaomi missed its sales target for 2015, selling “over 70 million” devices but not the 80 million that Lei had previously forecast.

The rise of competitors like Oppo and Vivo, and Huawei’s focus on mid-range devices with its Honor brand, were largely seen as responsible for Xiaomi’s struggles. Equally, competitors became wise to Xiaomi’s online distribution tactics and mimicked them with some success. While, overseas, Xiaomi’s expansion plans failed to ignite, with India arguable the lone exception. That wasn’t helped by the departure of its head of international, Hugo Barra, who left to join Facebook earlier this year.

But 2017 could indeed be a different year. Canalys’ Chen forecasts that Xiaomi’s budget ‘Redmi’ brand, plus its new focus on expanding its offline retail footprint, will put pressure on Vivo, Oppo and Huawei to retain their positions and sales reenex.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/26/report-xiaomi-sales-climb-but-huawei-remains-chinas-top-smartphone-brand/

Town God's Temple is not far

No Name Ninja — 2016-01-25T13:21:53+09:00

Fuzhou Road West, walk ten minutes to go, the deepest impression is the Yuyuan Garden of the dragon, lying in the wall, head towards the park outside the lotus pond, the winding bridge crescent is a teahouse, we sat in there that face a winDR REBORNdow, a pot of jasmine tea, fragrance, enjoy the pool of lotus.

I also like to listen to the people of Shanghai, especially the young girl, Nong Wu dialect, always whine, they told me, Suzhou is the most beautiful, Suzhou girl to marry, you hurriedly marry her.

More than a year before I caOoMs Orioleme back, my friends in Shanghai please I eat Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, eat to eat to go without the Pudong crab flavor, eat to eat to also not chew back when the taste.

This group of photos is good, maybe I walk there too. Sense of deja vu brick way, that familiar red walls, head of a platoon wires, the eaves gutters and attractive bean curd flower fragrance...

Only one thing is not good, the vreenexoice is coming from the depths of the alley should whisper.

Foundation of livelihood

No Name Ninja — 2016-01-19T13:13:16+09:00

Is the embodiment of value. On New Year's Eve, Enron quiet, my heart likeVeda Salon a movie like walking on a year of work, carefully combing reflection and review. Because of the impatience of his character and straightness of temper, work may have many deficiencies and defects, and a lot of work perhaps the leadership will not be pleased, colleagues will fail to recognize, but feel do have a clear conscience, calm and happy. Because in order to work, did not ask too fake, not steal too lazy, even if the wind is cold and pain persist. In the work do a high-profile work, low-key person, early in the morning to late, daytime, trials and hardships, do their work they do and encourage myself to do my best, do dry thoroughly. According to our conscience, to wage.

Colleagues are the best partners in life, the best friend in life. This year, with the growth of age, I feel the relentless time, more cherish the fate of colleagues. One billion and three hundred million people can stay together morning and night and this ah, several colleagues, is a post, this is how rare, how precious ah! Busy work when everyone scrambled to stem, occasionally talk leisure, shopping, playing table tennis, Zeng Yi fitness; whose weddings and funerals meet went to Hershey, comfort, help, friendship unlimited; unit is small staff, though small, but live in harmony, mutual understanding and respect and warmth.