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Xiaolin Showdown
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A young Xiaolin monk named Omi with a giant yellow head leads a trio of other students to collect powerful items known as Shen Gong Wu while battling the evil Jack Spicer who is also after t... Read allA young Xiaolin monk named Omi with a giant yellow head leads a trio of other students to collect powerful items known as Shen Gong Wu while battling the evil Jack Spicer who is also after the artifactsA young Xiaolin monk named Omi with a giant yellow head leads a trio of other students to collect powerful items known as Shen Gong Wu while battling the evil Jack Spicer who is also after the artifacts
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Clay Bailey…
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Kimiko Tohomiko
Raimundo Pedrosa…
Dojo Kanojo Cho
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Wuya
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The Dragon of Wind is Raimundo. 'Rai' means 'Thunder' in Japanese. Throughout season two of the show, Raimundo's main attack is called 'Typhoon Boom' and sounds like thunder.
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Such a creative array of characters...
Using cartoons as a link to my passing childhood, I am tending to watch a lot of them. I was surprised, in fact, to find Xiaolin Showdown as such a delightful show, not just for younger children but for teens, and even my dad finds the show's humor amusing. Even though it is animated, it has fantastic battle-like scenes between the good Xiaolin side and the evil Heylin side, jokes and wisecracks that are actually funny, and characters that viewers grow to like despite their human-like flaws. The storyline centers around four Xiaolin warriors that live in the Xiaolin Temple: Omi, a short yellow orphan who appears to be the main protagonist, is the Dragon of Water; Raimundo, a hot-headed Brazillian character, is the Dragon of Wind; Kimiko, the rich, clever, and electronically adept Japanese girl, is the Dragon of Fire; and Clay, a cowboy from Texas, is the Dragon of Earth. Their duty is to retrieve the mystical ancient artifacts known as the Shen Gong Wu before they fall into the hands of the evil Heylin side. The warriors are aided by a wisecracking Chinese dragon by the name of Dojo. As seasons go on, the warriors are confronted with different and increasingly dangerous Heylin villains, but the villains that are most focused on would have to be Jack Spicer, a whiny, red-haired goth wannabe villain who has dubbed himself "Evil Boy Genius"; and Wuya, the 1500 year old evil spirit of a Heylin witch.
It is very interesting to watch as the characters grow and develop as they learn to work together to meet their goals. However, I find the characters of Omi and Clay to be most irritating. Omi is sometimes used for comic relief when he uses arrogant comments and claims to be the best of the dragons. Though this is used for entertainment, it feels to me as though it is strained. The show revolves around Omi, and he comes off sometimes as a self-important, arrogant little jerk which takes my admiration away from him.
Clay, on the other hand, is arguably the least focused on of the 4 dragons, yet he still succeeds in annoying me. Having being a "cowboy", he possesses all the stereotypical qualities of what one would think a cowboy would have. I think his stereotypical way of speaking, acting, and even fighting takes away from seeing him as an actual character, which also allows him to be considered less interesting. When I look at him, all I see is "cowboy".
Now, this show, however, possesses the most interesting, creative, and entertaining line of villains I have ever seen, Jack Spicer being my personal favorite. Though he is a whiny, girly, mama's boy, he succeeds in being the most entertaining villain. He has the best wisecracks, and his constant bickering with Wuya is very funny. He spends the majority of his time creating a vast array of creative and sometimes humorous robots that he calls "Jackbots". As a viewer, I have mixed emotions about Jack. Though he is a villain, he is so likable and you eventually begin to sympathize with him.
The character design and animation in this show is, in my personal opinion, stunning. It combines the clean-cut American style of animation with Asian animation techniques including many spirals and curly-q's. I also enjoy Kimiko's ever-changing outfits and hairstyles that define how creative the animators are. The voice acting is also fabulous, and the plot line is very intricate for a cartoon. Also, I rather like the theme song. It's really something you can jam to.
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Подзмеёвка — деревня в Кадуйском районе Вологодской области.

Входит в состав сельского поселения Семизерье (до 2015 года входила в Рукавицкое сельское поселение), с точки зрения административно-территориального деления — в Чупринский сельсовет.

Деревня Подзмеёвка зарегистрирована 24 августа 2001 года постановлением губернатора области.

По данным переписи в 2002 году постоянного населения не было.

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Easyland hosted a Strategic Cooperation signing ceremony at the Wuxi Idea International Convention Centre in Wuxi on Friday the 8th of March 2019. The event was very well attended by local government officials, officials from automotive industry associations and senior executives from a number of Chinese OEMs.
Founded in 2006, Aeristech is a technology research and development company specialising in patented high-speed, high-power & power dense electric motors, with state-of-the-art solutions for automotive and industrial applications.
The year 2020 sees the global introduction of stringent emission levels for automotive vehicle manufacturers, so Aeristech has been applying its unique motor design to the creation of electric supercharger for combustion engines and electric compressors for hydrogen fuel cells.
For internal combustion engines, pressurising the intake air to an engine improves performance and the ability to do this at low engine speeds with an electric boost device is now a proven benefit to reducing emissions. Results have proved Aeristech Superchargers capable of assisting in over a 25% reduction in CO2 emissions.
For hydrogen fuel cell air compression, due to its patented motor control architecture, Aeristech offers a truly unique advantage over the competition. Not only are Aeristech eCompressors up to 35% more efficient than the next best machines in the market today, but their ability to operate with no performance derating over a very large range of input voltage is unprecedented. This feature allows hydrogen fuel cell manufacturers the ability to place the eCompressor, the largest parasitic loss in HFCs, upstream of the DC- DC converter saving significant cost for the overall system.
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South Keeling Islands
We arrived in view of the Southern Keeling or Cocos Isd. Our passage would have been a very good one, if during the last five days when close to our journey's end, the weather had not become thick & tempestuous. Much rain fell, & the heat & damp together were very oppressive: in the Poop cabin the thermometer however only stood at 81° or 82°. Keeling Isd is one of the low circular Coral reefs, on the greater part of which matter has accumulated & formed strips of dry land. Within the chain of Isds there is an extensive shallow lake or lagoon. The reef is broken on the Northern side & there lies the entrance to the anchorage. The general appearance of the land at a distance is precisely similar to what I have mentioned at the Low Isds of the Pacifick.
On entering the Lagoon the scene is very curious & rather pretty, its beauty is however solely derived from the brilliancy of the surrounding colors. The shoal, clear & still water of the lagoon, resting in its greater part on white sand, is when illuminated by a vertical sun of a most vivid green. This brilliant expanse, which is several miles wide, is on all sides divided either from the dark heaving water of the ocean by a line of breakers, or from the blue vault of Heaven by the strip of land, crowned at an equal height by the tops of the Cocoa nut trees. As in the sky here & there a white cloud affords a pleasing contrast, so in the lagoon dark bands of living Coral are seen through the emerald green water. — Looking at any one & especially a smaller Islet, it is impossible not to admire the great elegant manner in which the young & full grown Cocoa-nut trees, without destroying each others symmetry, mingle together into one wood: the beach of glittering white Calcareous sand, forms the border to these fairy spots.
When the ship was in the channel at the entrance, Mr Liesk, an English resident, came off in his boat. The history of the inhabitants of this place, is, in as few words as possible, as follows. About nine years ago a Mr Hare, a very worthless character, brought from the E. Indian Archipelago a number of Malay slaves which now including children amount to more than a hundred. Shortly afterwards Capt. Ross, who had before visited these Isds in his merchant ship, arrived from England bringing with him his family & goods for Settlement. — Along with him came Mr Liesk, who had been a Mate in the same ship. The Malay slaves soon ran away from the Isd on which Mr Hare was settled & joined Capt. Ross's party: Mr Hare upon this was ultimately obliged to leave these Islands. The Malays are now nominally in a state of freedom, & certainly so as far as respects their personal treatment; but in most other points they are considered as slaves. From the discontented state of the people, the repeated removals & perhaps from a little mismanagement, things are not very prosperous. The Island has no quadruped excepting pigs, & no vegetables in any quantity excepting Cocoa nuts. On this tree depends the prosperity of the Isld. — The only export is Cocoa nut oil. At this present time Capt. Ross has taken, in a small schooner which was built here, a cargo of this oil & that of the nuts to Singapore. He will bring back rice & goods for the Malays. — On the Cocoa nuts, the Pigs, which are loaded with fat, almost entirely subsist, as likewise do the poultry & ducks. Even a huge land-crab is furnished by nature with a curious instinct & form of legs to open & feed on the same fruit. There is no want of animal food at these Islands, for turtle & fish abound in the lagoon. — The situation of this Isld & its facilities for shipping must one day make it of some consequence, & then its natural advantages will be more fully developed. The ship came to an anchor in the evening, but on the following morning was warped nearer to Direction or Rat Isd.
Captain Fitzroy's Journal
Early next morning (after making but little way during a fine night) saw the Keelings right ahead, about sixteen miles distant.
A long but broken line of cocoa-palm trees, and a heavy surf breaking upon a low white beach, nowhere rising many feet above the foaming water, was all we could discern till within five miles of the larger Keeling, (there are two distinct groups) and then we made out a number of low islets, nowhere more than thirty feet above the sea, covered with palm-trees, and encircling a large shallow lagoon.
We picked our way into Port Refuge (the only harbour), passing cautiously between patches of coral rock, clearly visible to an eye at the mast-head, and anchored in a safe, though not the best berth. An Englishman (Mr. Leisk) came on board, and, guided by him, we moved into a small but secure cove close to Direction Island.
Many reasons had induced me to select this group of coral islets for such an examination as our time and means would admit of; and, as the tides were to be an object of especial attention in a spot so favourably situated for observing them, a tide-guage was immediately placed. Its construction was then new, and, being found to answer, I will describe it briefly. Two poles were fixed upright, one on shore (above high water mark, and sheltered from wind), the other in the sea beyond the surf at low water. A block was fastened to the top of each pole, and a piece of well-stretched log-line 'rove' through them. One end of the line was attached to a board that floated on the water; the other suspended a leaden weight, which traversed up and down the pole, on shore, as the float fell or rose with the tide. Simple as this contrivance was, and useful as we should have found it in many places where the surf or swell made it difficult to measure tides at night, without using a boat, I never thought of it till after we left King George Sound.
Syms Covington Journal
Anchored in the Basin, Keeling or Cocos Islands, after having a heavy breeze the last two or three days of our passage.
The Islands ARE all very low; the beaches appear to be the highest. AND the highest I should suppose not more than twelve to fifteen feet high; all coral, about forty in number, the largest not more than ten miles long. The islands are complete forests of cocoa nut trees; if not for THE trees, the land would be seen FROM but a very short distance. ONE can wade from one island to another when the tide is low, to nearly all except THE entrance to THE Basin, which Basin is formed by the islands being as placed to form a circle. The Basin IS about twelve miles across. ONE cannot go far in with A ship; we anchored in seven or eight fathom OF water; coral bottom with white sand, the water always being clear. Beautiful branches of coral can be seen from the ship's side, the fish constantly passing and repassing amongst the coral, has a most beautiful effect, etc.
An Englishman and HIS family, with about sixty or seventy Mulattos from the Cape of Good Hope, live on one of the islands.
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Departing from Torun, Cycle Poland enjoyed a later start today. For some of the party this meant an opportunity to enjoy the highlights of the UNESCO city, for others a chance to recover as best they could from the previous night's excesses. Highlights of the night included the light and fountain show where Emily unsuccessfully attempted to dodge the water and a visit Polish karaoke bar. We said goodbye to Chris... by welcoming his replacement, Andy Wood, and instantly forgetting that Chris was ever with us and leaving his bike at the hotel. (Before he has an apoplectic fit - the bike is now with us.) The weather held throughout the day and provided perfect conditions for a 130km ride into Gniew.
Taking advantage of a day without a visit to a hospice, CP had an extended lunch break at a Polish bistro. With everyone keen to maintain high energy levels, all riders ordered big. It is dangerous to allow such inexperienced visitors to Poland to go off piste from hostel cuisine and it so it was proved. Jez, Kuba and Anita ordered the 'pizza' which bore more than a little resemblance to bread with an array of toppings. It was a small feat that Kuba and Anita ate more than half but Jez didn't enjoy the experience at all and stood down after eating just one slice. Kuba took home the award for biggest eater and we left for the final 40km fully fuelled for the high octane finish.
With Killer leading the charge closely followed by the favourites for the spinter's green jersey the peleton pressed towards the finish. The countryside was breathtaking but not as much as the pace of 40km/hour that the leaders were pushing at the front. Some understandably couldn't handle the pressure and were dropped and for those that could keep up they resorted to desperately clinging to the wheel in front of them. In the end Killer led Marcin and Stu home and we arrived at the Castle in Gniew, our stay for the night. The hotel and surrounding impressed us all especially as Miss Poland 2011 was being hosted at the venue. The riders were disappointed when they were not invited to join the event but they did show off their fetching lycra to the contestants.
Another great report, superb use of grammar. Both funny and informative!


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Appearance Tickets In New York: Detention Of A Person In New York For Purposes Of Issuing That Person An Appearance Ticket Is An Arrest Situation Which Would Allow The Officer To Search That Person As If That Person Was Formally Arrested
January 31, 2012 | Tilem & Associates
In New York, if a person is formally arrested, they can be searched incident to that arrest. However, can the officer also search a person if the person could have been arrested but the officer decides to issue that person an appearance ticket on scene instead? The answer is "sometimes." Generally, the police can search a person they issue an appearance ticket to. However, the New York courts have frowned on a blanket right to search where traffic infractions are involved.
The detention of a person for the purpose of issuing that person an appearance ticket amounts to an arrest situation. People v. Hazelwood, 104 Misc.2d 1121, 1123 (N.Y. City Crim. Ct. 1980) see also People v. King, 102 A.D.2d 710 (1st Dept. 1984)(Where an "officer intends to issue an appearance ticket in lieu of a lawful arrest, he had the concomitant right to 'pat down' the defendant.").
In Hazelwood, 104 Misc.2d 1121, the court held that the police could search a person they detained for the purpose of issuing that person an appearance ticket. Noting that the officer could have arrested the person and then searched the person incident to that arrest, the court observed: "to hold that a search is not permissible because an arrest did not occur in a case where the defendant was subject to arrest, but the officer gave the defendant a break, is an injustice to the officer." Id. at 1124.
The court considered the detention of a person for the purpose of issuing that person an appearance ticket to be an arrest situation. To allow officers to search a person they lawfully arrest but not search that same person if they choose to issue an appearance ticket instead of arresting that person (in accord with public policy) would eliminate the incentive to issue appearance tickets. Id. at 1124. Accordingly, the court held "that the evidence seized by the officer should not be suppressed as derived from a search incident to the issuance of an appearance ticket in lieu of the lawful arrest which was initially warranted under the circumstances of this case." Id. at 1124-1125.
In a more recent case, the Fourth Department concluded that where a police officer is authorized to arrest a person for violating a petty offense in the officer's presence, the officer is authorized to search that person incident to that lawful arrest without regard to whether the officer feared that such person was armed. People ex rel. Johnson v. N.Y. State Div. of Parole, 299 A.D.2d 832, 834 (4th Dept. 2002). While not citing to Hazelwood, the Johnson decision followed the same reasoning as Hazelwood concluding that the police officer was still authorized to search such person where, the officer was planning on issuing an appearance ticket in lieu of arrest but simply hadn't told the person yet. Id. at 834.
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Movie review: 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2'
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(Rated PG [Canada] and PG-13 [MPAA] for intense sequences of violence and action, and for some thematic material; directed by Francis Lawrence; stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Woody Harrelson and Julianne Moore; run time: 137 min.)
"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2," the fourth film in the "Mockingjay" series, resolves the love triangle between Katniss Everdeen (played by Jennifer Lawrence, above), Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson).
And the greatest of these is …
"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2" is a war film. An adaptation of the last half of Suzanne Collins' young-adult fiction novel, "Mockingjay" takes place in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world where a select few live in luxury while those in neighboring districts live in poverty. Last year's "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1" set the stage and Part 2 details the final push into the Capital District as a determined Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) strives to topple President Snow's (Donald Sutherland) iron grip on Panem and its 13 districts. This fourth film in the series resolves the love triangle between Katniss, Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) while counting the cost of war on Katniss, her family and friends.
Notable in this film is the continued theme of "the ends justify the means." There is very little moral handwringing over the conscious and deliberate use of propaganda, or assassination, or military intervention to facilitate regime change. Katniss' personal line-in-the-sand is her desire to spare any and all civilians. However, this is not the majority view within the resistance, which sees civilians cooperating with Snow as collaborators and enemies. As the film unfolds, there are questions in the air: Will Katniss end the film where she begins it? Will she consistently go along with the philosophy of "the ends justify the means"?
Repeatedly in "The Hunger Games" series Katniss allows herself to be used for propaganda purposes to serve her own ends, and "Mockingjay — Part 2" is no exception. Her goal in this final film is to personally assassinate President Snow. To do this she manipulates District 13's President Alma Coin's (Julianne Moore) continued desire to use Katniss — the Mockingjay — as the face of the uprising. Whether Katniss is being manipulated by a Hunger Games game-maker like Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman), President Snow or Coin, she seems intuitively aware of their sense of her usefulness. Pawns are disposable, and Katniss persistently outlives her usefulness to those in power. In each film she lives her life knowing her time may be short.
Is Katniss a noble character? In the end she is, but along the way she is not. Katniss doesn't always have the greater good in mind. While she cares for the plight of the downtrodden, her desires are often presented as selfish. Her success is due to the fact that her selfish goals are in line with the goals of the masses. If her goals were not in line with the put-upon people of the impoverished districts of Panem, would she then be a villain? President Snow sees something of himself in her, and Katniss sees something of President Snow in District 13's President Alma Coin.
A turning point for Katniss is when she acknowledges the blood that's on her hands — the many people who died because of her personal decisions. In a moment of clarity, Peeta comforts her and encourages her in her quest for revenge by saying, "Our lives were never ours, they belong to Snow and our deaths do, too. But if you kill him, Katniss, all those deaths, they mean something." Essentially, all is forgiven when Snow is dead, or "the ends justify the means" — this coming from a man who was tortured and conditioned into an instrument of assassination by Snow. The previous film concluded with Peeta strangling Katniss on Snow's orders.
Viewers unfamiliar with the outcome of the book may ask: Will Katniss get to Snow in his presidential mansion? Will she get past his "peacekeepers," and the traps, and the game-makers of the Capitol District? And what will Katniss say to Snow if she does? What will she do when she is given the opportunity to exact her revenge?
"Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances, 'Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands?' " (1 Samuel 29:5).
In Scripture, David was well-known by his enemies, his friends and the people of the land, and there are some things about Katniss' character that might draw Christian viewers to thoughts of David in the Bible. Could Snow be like Goliath, and Katniss like David? Dig a bit deeper and the better analogy is that Snow is like King Saul who repeatedly attempted to murder David out of jealousy and fear as David grew in popularity and ability. The first book of Samuel details a cat-and-mouse game of survival between King Saul and the anointed David, where David has his rebels who gathered to him — "everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul" — just as Katniss has passionate supporters who are destitute and at odds with Snow. However, this analogy eventually breaks down because David didn't wish King Saul dead the way Katniss wished Snow dead. David found every opportunity to spare the king's life, even as Saul actively plotted and schemed David's death.
Spoiler ahead!
"The Hunger Games" series ends on a note of optimism and love. With the past behind her and the war ended, Katniss says to one of her children, "Did you have a nightmare? I have nightmares, too. Someday I'll explain it to you. Why they came. Why they won't ever go away. But I'll tell you how I survive it. I make a list in my head. Of all the good things I've seen someone do. Every little thing I could remember. It's like a game, I do it over and over. Gets a little tedious after all these years, but … There are much worse games to play."
This concluding comment echoes St. Paul's words about love. He says love is not irritable or resentful, it keeps no record of wrongs. Perhaps, then, a picture of love would be a list of all the good things someone has done for others. Remembering such a list might be tedious, but love is patient and kind. Alongside all the fighting, explosions and monsters in "Mockingjay — Part 2" (with love and vengeances intertwined), love is not choked, trampled or snatched away by vengeances.
Katniss is flawed, but she is not without love: Through the series she bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. For fans of "The Hunger Games" series, "Mockingjay — Part 2" will provide a satisfying conclusion, even if the last book in the series didn't really require two films to tell its story.
The Rev. Ted Giese (pastorted@sasktel.net) is associate pastor of Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; a contributor to "Reformation Rush Hour" on KFUO AM Radio, the Canadian Lutheran and Reporter/Reporter Online; and movie reviewer for the "Issues, Etc." radio program. Follow Pastor Giese on Twitter @RevTedGiese.
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Nike sued by Odell Beckham Jr. for breach of contract
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Free agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. filed a lawsuit against sportswear giant Nike on Monday, alleging breach of contract and seeking more than $20 million in damages.
In the lawsuit, which was filed in Multnomah County (Ore.) Circuit Court, Beckham claims Nike "intentionally depressed sales" of products bearing his name in an attempt to avoid hitting sales benchmarks that would have triggered an automatic extension of his endorsement deal with the company.
Beckham also alleges Nike withheld more than $2 million owed to him last year.
"Rather than continuing to pay the compensation and guaranteed royalties it is contractually obligated to pay Mr. Beckham, Nike is willfully withholding millions of dollars and inventing excuses not to pay him," the lawsuit states.
According to the lawsuit, the company told the 30-year-old wide receiver that he was being penalized $2 million for covering up Nike logos on his shoes and gloves during multiple NFL games, in violation of his contract. Beckham claims the violations were part of "a ploy" to help Nike "(get) out of a contract that it no longer wanted to honor."
Spokespeople for Nike did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment Monday night.
Beckham said in a statement that he was "extremely disappointed" to file the lawsuit but did so "to ensure Nike fulfills their obligations and promises."
"I'm taking a stand not just for me, but to set a precedent for all athletes who have dedicated their life to the sport they love – especially those who don't have the means to stand up for themselves," he said.
According to the lawsuit, Beckham first signed an endorsement deal with Nike in 2014, about six weeks before the New York Giants selected him in the first round of the NFL draft. The contract called for Beckham to receive a flat fee for his endorsement, as well as a percentage of the net sales of products that bear his name or likeness.
The deal also notably gave Nike the right to match the terms of any endorsement deal offered to Beckham by a competitor – a right it exercised when adidas attempted to sign him in 2017, according to the lawsuit.
Beckham claims Nike agreed to match all of the terms of the proposed adidas deal but, as the contract was being finalized, language about royalty figures that would trigger an automatic extension of the deal was altered without his knowledge. He also claims that, after 2020, Nike stopped "actively manufacturing and/or selling" products that would have generated royalties in an effort to prevent him from reaching the required mark.
According to the lawsuit, Nike then penalized Beckham for covering up the logos on shoes and gloves he wore during the last two games of the 2021 regular season, when he was with the Los Angeles Rams. He claims he did not cover up the logos.
"Nike offered to negotiation these manufactured penalties with Mr. Beckham, but only if Mr. Beckham would give up his rights to have the contract renewed at the agreed upon salary and minimum royalties and re-sign with Nike at drastically lower rates," the lawsuit states, adding that Nike considers its deal with Beckham to have expired in June.
Beckham suffered a serious knee injury in the Rams' Super Bowl win over the Cincinnati Bengals and has since become a free agent. He has yet to sign with a new team, or return to the field.
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Q: How to ensure single entry in database with rails? I have created a table for featured_posts, which has_many posts to keep featured posts in the front page of the website. Now I want to ensure that I am creating only one entry at featured_posts. Looking for something like singleton model entry that can be stored in database. What is rails way to ensure that?
Since this is going to be an one entry table, I think my database overhead will be huge, is there any better way to store this type of single entry?

A: The way I'd do this is to just have an is_featured boolean column in your posts table and in my validator, ensure there's only one with this as true -- for example:
class model < ActiveRecord::Model
  validate :validate, on: :create
  def validate(record)
    errors.add('Maximum of one featured post') unless  model.find(:is_featured => true).length == 1
  end

A: You can achieve this by doing the following:
featured_posts_controller.rb
def new
    if featured_post.empty?
        # create featured_posts
    else
        redirect_to featured_posts_path
        # or you can throw an error
    end
end

Another way is to ensure that no one can access the new and create method:
def FeaturedPostsController < ApplicationController
    before_action :check_post_presence, only: [:new, :create]

    private
    def check_post_presence
        redirect_to featured_posts_path if featured_post.exists?
    end
end

Finally you can create a default featured post on seed and remove the new and create method altogether by adding the data in db/seeds.rb:
featured_post = FeaturedPost.create title: "Default Posts"

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Q: Java project running on eclipse but giving error while using batch I made a project for my uni. where I need to pass command line arguments. It is running perfectly fine on eclipse but when I run it using a batch file.

my batch file looks like
set path = "c:\Program Files\Java\jdk-14.0.2\bin";
javac FileHand.java
java FileHand DirectBuffer 1024 Sample.txt
pause

A: Do not set %path% at all. If you want to 'hardcode' the full path to java, then do so; write C:\program files\....\javac, or SET JAVA_LOC=... and then %JAVALOC%\javac. But, this is clearly is not needed; you messed up your SET PATH statement and yet javac is being invoked, so, you should probably just remove the entire 'set path' line.
The problem is classpath. There is a file named DirectBuffer.class. It is somewhere - you said that 'it works in eclipse', which means eclipse can find this file, because you told it where it is. You need to tell javac where it is. You do this as follows:
javac -cp LOC1;LOC2;LOC3 FileHandjava
java -cp .;LOC1;LOC2;LOC3 FileHand DirectBuffer 1024 Sample.txt
where LOC1 is a path. It can be a directory, or a jar file. Your question does not make this clear, but let's say DirectBuffer' is in the com.foo.pkgpackage (so, you haveimport com.foo.pkg.DirectBuffer;` in your source file), then:
either:
cd (whatever you put for LOC1)
cd com\foo\pkg
dir

should print, amongst other things, 'DirectBuffer.class', or, if LOC1 is a jar file:
jar tvf (the jar file listed in LOC1)

should print com/foo/pkg/DirectBuffer.class, amongst other things. You've already told eclipse this, so now find those places where you did that and tell javac about it.


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Detection of Adulteration and Analysis of Milk
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The Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences and Vice President, CSIR Dr. Harsh Vardhan dedicated Systems for Detection of Adulteration and analysis of Milk to the nation on February 20, 2016. He complimented CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CEERI), for developing the technology to tackle a national level health hazard due to adulteration in milk.
The Minister said that he would soon be reaching out to the Union Health Minister and the Health Ministers of all state governments to adopt and deploy the technology platform to address the problem of milk adulteration in the country. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) would also be asked to bring in the required regulatory intervention so as to ensure the delivery of quality milk, he added.
Dr. Harsh Vardhan pointed that our country ranked number one across the world for milk production, contributing to about 18% of the world's total milk. By volume, milk production was about 146 million tonnes in the country. But it was feared that over 60% of the milk was contaminated due to malpractices in milk supply chain which included dilution with unsafe water. The milk was otherwise said to be adulterated with contaminants such as urea, salt, detergent, liquid soap, boric acid, caustic soda, soda and hydrogen peroxide which have hazardous health effects.
The gravity of the situation had been such that NITI Aayog identified the problem of detecting adulteration in the milk within three minutes at Rs. 4 or less, as one of the Grand Challenge Areas being considered under the Atal Innovation Mission.
The Minister appreciated the initiative of CSIR-CEERI for developing and deploying the technology solution, 'Ksheer Scanner', which instantaneously detects the above identified adulterants in milk. It was a low-cost portable system with user friendly features. The contaminants were detected in just 40-45 seconds at per sample cost of less than 50 paise. The minimum detection levels of major contaminants are: Urea: 1 gm/l; salt: 2 gm/l; detergent: 2 gm/l; soap: 1%; and soda: 1 gm/l.
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void DemoPattern::init() {
	ClockPattern::init();
}

void DemoPattern::tick() {
	ClockPattern::tick();

	// Detect the changes we are interested in reacting to
	if ( clock->now.hours12 != clock->last.hours12 ) {
      patternState = DemoPattern::HOUR_CHANGE;
    } else if ( clock->now.minutes != clock->last.minutes ) {
      patternState = DemoPattern::MINUTE_CHANGE;
    }
loopyLoop();
return;
    // Pseudo state machine
    switch ( patternState ) {
	    case DemoPattern::LOOP:
	      loopyLoop( );
	      break;
	    case DemoPattern::MINUTE_CHANGE:
	      minuteChange( );
	      break;
	    case DemoPattern::HOUR_CHANGE:
	      hourChange( );
	      break;
  }
}

void DemoPattern::loopyLoop() {

  unsigned int tail = ((clock->now.percentSecond * clock->ledCount) + (clock->now.percentMinute * clock->ledCount));
  unsigned int tail1 = tail % clock->ledCount;
  unsigned int tail2 = (clock->ledCount + tail - 1) % clock->ledCount;
  unsigned int tail3 = (clock->ledCount + tail - 2) % clock->ledCount;

  unsigned int hourPosition = (clock->now.percentClock * clock->ledCount);
  unsigned int pre_hour1 = (clock->ledCount + hourPosition - 1) % clock->ledCount;
  unsigned int pre_hour2 = (clock->ledCount + hourPosition - 2) % clock->ledCount;
  unsigned int post_hour1 = (hourPosition + 1) % clock->ledCount;
  unsigned int post_hour2 = (hourPosition + 2) % clock->ledCount;

  unsigned int minutePosition = (clock->now.percentHour * clock->ledCount);
  unsigned int pre_minute1 = (clock->ledCount + minutePosition - 1) % clock->ledCount;
  unsigned int post_minute1 = (minutePosition + 1) % clock->ledCount;

  unsigned int glow = 255 * ( 1. - pow(clock->now.percentSecond, 0.25) );

  for ( unsigned int i = 0; i < clock->ledCount; i++ ) {
    // Bounds loop around edges, so check individually
    bool isHour = i == pre_hour2 || i == pre_hour1 || i == hourPosition || i == post_hour1 || i == post_hour2;
    bool isMinute = i == pre_minute1 || i == minutePosition || i == post_minute1;
    bool isSecond = i == clock->now.seconds;

	unsigned int r = 0;
	unsigned int g = 0;
	unsigned int b = 0;

	if ( i == hourPosition ) {
		r += 255;
		g += 16;
	} else if ( i == pre_hour1 || i == post_hour1 ) {
		r += 64;
		g += 16;
	} else if ( i == pre_hour2 || i == post_hour2 ) {
		r += 16;
		g += 8;
	}

	if ( i == minutePosition ) {
		g += 255;
		b += 16;
	} else if ( i == pre_minute1 || i == post_minute1 ) {
		g += 32;
		b += 16;
	}

	if ( i == tail1 ) {
		r += 16;
		b += 32;
	} else if ( i == tail2 ) {
		r += 16;
		b += 16;
	} else if ( i == tail3 ) {
		r += 16;
		b += 8;
	}

	if ( isSecond ) {
		r += glow;
		g += glow;
		b += 255;
	}

	//clock->leds[i] = Color::fromRGB( min(r, 255), min(g, 255), min(b, 255) );
	clock->leds[i][0] += r;
	clock->leds[i][1] += g;
	clock->leds[i][2] += b;

  }
}

void DemoPattern::minuteChange() {
  patternState = DemoPattern::LOOP;
}

void DemoPattern::hourChange() {
  patternState = DemoPattern::LOOP;
}

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Transgender woman gets new vagina made from fish skin
A trans woman had a vagina constructed using the skin of a tilapia fish after her genitals began to shrink and close up following botched surgery.
According to surgeons, Maju, 35, has been the chance of a "proper sex life" and a boost of confidence thanks to the sea creature's skin.
The highly complex procedure, called neovaginoplasty, used a tubular-shaped acrylic mold wrapped with the skin of the freshwater fish in the form of a biological prosthesis to rebuild and extend the vaginal canal in a three-hour operation on April 23.
The process involved inserting two separate molds to create the new vagina. The first device, mounted with the marine membrane, was incorporated inside the vagina over a period of six days.
In contact with the patient's body, the sterilized and odor free fish skin displays stimulatory cell growth properties. It is rich in type 1 collagen a substance that promotes healing and has a firmness and elasticity which is as strong and resilient as human skin.
The tilapia membrane attached to and recoated the walls of the vaginal canal acting like stem cells. These were absorbed into the body, transforming into cellular tissue similar to that of an actual vagina.
The second device made from silicone and described as a very 'big tampon' is designed to remain inside the vagina for up to six months to prevent the walls from closing.
Professor Leonardo Bezerra said to FocusOn News: "We were able create a vagina of physiological length, both in thickness and by enlarging it and the patient has recovered extremely well. She is walking around with ease, has no pain and is urinating normally. In a couple months we believe she will be able to have sexual intercourse."
The device can be removed after this period as and when desired.
The process is being hailed as yet another breakthrough in gynecological surgery which is tackling sensitive predicaments using the aquatic animal skin, normally thrown away as waste, as a substitute for human regenerative tissue.
Speaking to FocusOn News the transsexual patient revealed she decided to transition 20 years ago, with the support of her family, after realizing in her early teens that she was a woman living in a man's body.
Maju said: "I was the fourth person in Brazil in 1999 to have, what was then, experimental surgery. But ten years ago I developed vaginal stenosis. The opening of my vagina started to get narrower and shorter and the canal collapsed."
Three-hour operation
She suffered constant discomfort which prevented sex with her partner of 12 years, from whom she is now divorced.
Since developing the technique three years ago, Bezzera has successfully treated 10 women and corrected the condition that causes the vagina and uterus to be underdeveloped or absent.
According to Bezerra, vaginal tract closure is common in trans women who have undergone a sex change.
He explained: "This is because, in the traditional procedure, most of the inside parts of the penis are removed and the penile skin is folded into the space between the urethra and the rectum. The outside skin of the penis then becomes the inside of the vagina."
"But because the patient has had hormonal treatment to develop female characteristics, there is penile and testicle atrophy resulting in shrinkage in the size of the penis caused from the loss of tissue. This means the vagina can also be small."
To complicate matters, before surgery could begin, the medical team discovered that apparent levels of incompetence during the original surgery had left more than one narrow vaginal canal. There were remnants of cavernous bodies, erectile tissue structures, still in the vaginal space.
"The presence of these leftovers of the penis aggravated the closure of the vaginal tract, worsening the symptoms," said Bezerra.
To reverse this problem, the most common method is to do a skin graft taken from other parts of the body, usually from the intestines, to increase the width and length of the canal. This type of surgery is invasive, long and leaves scars.
Bezerra said: "The great benefit of our technique is that it's minimally invasive and there's no need to do abdominal incisions."
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