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The problems, in particular a lack of adequate natural gas caused by pipelines in other parts of the country freezing in the brutal cold, affected utilities all along the East Coast.

Likewise, the print industry is now being transformed by the
use of computers. Those in the industry are being assured that it
will increase their creativity as well. Apart from the jobs perman-
ently eliminated by these new technologies and the conflict which arises (as at the Times), I would argue that much of the creative work within the print industry and the newspaper industry as a whole is being diminished. The new role of the journalists will be to work through a visual display unit where they prepare not merely the text, but through the computer, the typeface as well. It is suggested that since they can move sections of text around and modify sentences and paragraphs at great speed, this will increase their creativity. However, experience of these new technologies in the United States has already begun to show that it is resulting not in flexibility but in rigidity. This is because standard statements can be stored in the computer and called up when required to compose a story. This is done initially by counting through the computer the rate at which certain phrases or sentences occur. The most frequent ones are then stored and treated as optimum sentences. Or "preferred subroutines" which the journalist is then required to use. (We are obsessed with optimization!).

During the Golden Age of Detective Fiction writers tried to set up “Rules” for the genre to ensure “fair play” for the readers. Agatha Christie, as well as other authors, broke the rules many times.

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There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. No lesser crime than murder will suffice. Three hundred pages is far too much pother for a crime other than murder. After all, the reader's trouble and expenditure of energy must be rewarded.

Cats typically eat their prey at "blood
temperature," meaning it's warm.

Bathrooms, mudrooms, and garages are not places that a cat
finds to be territorially valuable, even when a litter box is placed
there,
says feline behaviorist Daniel Quagliozzi. "I recommend
multiple choice open and uncovered litter boxes, situated in rooms of the highest social importance, like living rooms, home offices, and bedrooms with clear vantage points in all directions to eliminate insecurity or fear."