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A Few Words With... Danny Dichio
By SimonWalsh Dec 21, 2010, 9:50am GMT
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When I asked Danny Dichio for an interview, I never actually expected anything back. You know footballers, always too busy for the fans. Well let me tell you Danny breaks the mould. Danny's hung up his boots after becoming a legend in Toronto playing for Toronto FC in the MLS, but still has a lot of time for Sunderland. Here's how things went...
It was an action packed few years for you at SAFC, the lows of the Play-Off Final defeat followed by promotion and two well placed Premiership finishes. How do you look back on your time with us?
Danny: I have great memories of my time at Sunderland and that's why i still have a real interest in all the developments and going on's at the club. My 2 son's were born up in Durham, so are both Mackems and we made some real good friends up in the North East. The people up there are very genuine people and love their football. Playing in the Stadium of Light in front of 40,000+ was always a buzz!
The bounce back from the Play-Off defeat of course was a record-breaking promotion season, with one of our best teams in recent history. What was it about that team that made them so great?
Danny: The play-off defeat was very hard! Especially for myself and Micky Gray. Micky had missed the penalty in the Shoot-out, but I had missed an even better chance in extra-time to put the crazy game to bed. I still think about that chance now and 9 times out of 10 I would have headed that cross, but on the day I tried to volley it. It was a huge error and one I wish I would have taken, as Micky would not have had to go through all that personal pain, which hit him harder because it was his boyhood team. Peter Reid & Bobby Saxton were devastated after the game , but they were the catalyst for what we was going to do the next year. On the way home after the play-off game, Reidy stopped the team-bus somewhere in the Midlands and ordered everyone off into this tiny little pub. He then gave us a pep talk into what we was going to achieve with this team next year and that if he saw anyone with their head's dropped, they were gonna be kicked out the door! We had a fantastic balance on that team with depth at every position. Micky & Magic on the left were one of the best combo's I ever played with. Then Big Quinny & Super Kev up front, who were tremendous. We had a great team spirit too which Reidy had installed in the team. We always went out as a team, for lunch,, dinners,, drinks etc and the families were all very close too. You only get this at certain clubs and when it does happen you will see the benefits on the pitch.
You've got a bit of history when playing AGAINST Sunderland too, scoring your first Preston North End goal against us, and being part of the Millwall team who beat us in the 2003/4 FA Cup Semi-Final. Do you have extra confidence when coming up against a former team, thinking "I've trained with these guys and I know how to beat them"...
Danny: The FA Cup Semi Final was bittersweet for me as I had a lot of friends in both ends of the stadium. Millwall & Sunderland knew this was a one in a million chance to reach the final and the stakes were high! I've always had a knack of scoring against my old teams, I don't know why! I did not put in any extra effort in those games, maybe your right! I probably felt more confidence in knowing my opponents better!
Your old team-mate Niall Quinn is now at the helm of SAFC, and you your self are in an ambassadorial role for Toronto FC (According to Wikipedia!). Do you think more former players should take Chairman/Executive roles in football?
Danny: Quinny is a fantastic person. He has a great relationship with the fans and people of Sunderland. Now he is in charge of the club, I think the club is heading in the right way. He was a very clever person who knew his stuff off the pitch too, so to have him at the helm where the fans know he's got the club's best interests at heart is a great thing
Do you get to watch many Sunderland games across the pond and what do you make of our season so far?
Danny: Yes, we have the Fox Soccer Channel and also have ESPN Soccer which shows about 3 or 4 live games every week. I like the way the team are playing at the moment as they are a real threat going forward, and seem to be a little stronger at the back. I hope the team have learned from their mistakes last year when they had such a great start and then nearly finished in the relegation zone.
SAFC just missed out on a European place when you were with us, do you think we can get over the line this year?
Danny: I think a lot of teams in the top half have started to lose ground on the Big 3 (Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal). You have the likes of Spurs & Manchester City, who are steadily improving, but Liverpool, Everton & Aston Villa, who are sinking. This means teams like Bolton, Sunderland & even Blackpool are taking points in the top half now and if they can be consistent after Xmas then I see no reason why Sunderland cannot sneak in there. Their away form will be Key to this!
...and finally, have you hung up your decks, and what's been the tune of the year?
Danny: Yes, I hung up my decks a long time ago. I still get my DJ buzz on my laptop where I have a virtual DJ program mixed with my iTunes library.
Best tune??? That's hard... My favourite band of the year though has got to be Mumford & Sons.


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Brigitte Bentele is an educator who spent her career teaching mathematics, supporting new teachers, and assuming administrative duties, primarily at Trinity School in Manhattan. She spent summer vacations volunteering at schools in Uganda, South Africa, and India and continues to do so at other times of the year since her retirement. Brigitte received a BA in mathematics from Earlham College, a Master in the Arts of Teaching from Johns Hopkins University, and took postgraduate courses at Teachers College/Columbia University as a Klingenstein Fellow. Brigitte joined the TBCSC Board in 2015 and is Secretary of the Board and Board Academic Committee Chair.
Sydney Blair is a long-time educator with broad and complex administrative experience leading alternative programs and schools in the New York City Department of Education. She led Passages Academy, an educational program serving court-involved youth, and Project Quest, a $5M federal grant program for English Language Learners and teacher certification. Sydney joined the Board in 2018 and she serves on the Board Academic and Facilities Committees.
Joanne Carris is an experienced educator with broad knowledge in special education and bilingual education. Joanne spent 12 years as a Learning Specialist in the New York City DOE designing and implementing literacy programs, training teachers, and providing one-on-one instructional support to students with special needs. In 2008, Joanne founded, and is currently the CEO of Premier Tutors, a professional service that provides expert tutors to work with students in individualized learning and guidance to enhance academic achievement. Joanne authored a book about students with learning differences entitled Ghosts of No Child Left Behind and co-authored a chapter in Teacher Evaluation: The Charge and the Challenges. Joanne earned a BA at the University of Michigan, MAs in Special and Bilingual Education, Philosophy of Education at Bank Street College and a PhD in Education at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Joanne joined the Board in 2017 and she is a member of the Board Academic and Development Committees.
Hoi Hayden Chan is a 25-year Treasury Finance professional and former trader with financial experience in the areas of higher education, insurance, global commercial banking, risk management on a major stock exchange, and financial institution client relations. His expertise in liquidity and cash management, equities, options, and foreign exchange has guided his career in the finance sector, most recently to New York University as Global Banking & Cash Management Treasury Manager. Hayden graduated from Baruch College in New York City with a BBA in Accounting, recently joined the Board in 2020, and serves on the Finance and Governance Committees.
Bruce Greenwald has been a Senior Managing Director of AEP Capital LLC and its predecessors (AEP) since 1989. AEP is a specialized investment/merchant banking firm located in New York. Prior to joining AEP, Bruce was a partner with Arthur Young & Company (a predecessor of Ernst & Young) where in addition to managing the tax services provided to several of its largest clients, he served as the firm's Northeast Region Director of Taxes and was a member of the firm's National Tax Operating Committee. Bruce was a founder of the Greenwald Professional Development Grant Program under the auspices of the Montclair Foundation for Education Excellence in Montclair, NJ. Bruce currently serves as a director of Crème de la Crème Inc. and has served as a director of a number of portfolio companies held by AEP as well as various philanthropic organizations. Bruce received a BS in Business Economics and an MBA in Finance from the University of Rochester. Bruce joined the Board in 2009 and is the Treasurer and Board Finance Committee Chair, and serves on the Facilities Committee.
Paul Libretta is an experienced legal and management professional with a successful career in international banking and financial markets. His expertise is grounded in legal and business matters, including acquisitions, capital markets, asset management, strategic partnerships, corporate governance, regulatory affairs, compliance, and litigation management, as well as data privacy and security. Paul previously worked in private practice for two corporate law firms in New York City, was General Counsel for Credigy, a specialty finance company, and is currently a corporate lawyer for the National Bank of Canada, as Head of Legal and Compliance for U.S. operations. Prior to his legal career, Paul served his country in the U.S. Army achieving the rank of Captain. He graduated with a BS from U.S. Military Academy, at West Point, and obtained a JD, with honors, from Brooklyn Law School. Paul joined the Board in 2019, and serves on the Facilities Committee and is the Chair of the Governance Committee.
Jane Ehrenberg Rosen has spent her entire career in education as a teacher, a curriculum director and a principal in outstanding public and independent schools in the Midwest and on the East Coast. Most recently at Trinity School in Manhattan, she restructured the Middle School. As Director of Instruction, K-12, in the Fairfield Public Schools (Fairfield, CT), she led faculty, administrators, and parents in creating a structure for curriculum development. Prior to that in Briarcliff Manor Public Schools (Briarcliff Manor, NY), she restructured the Middle School. As a consultant, Jane coordinated and led the program for Learning Leaders, a nonprofit organization that places volunteers in New York City public schools and wrote the organization's history. She also consulted for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and created and implemented a K-12 educational program for a newly created refugee camp school at Wahliniby in Ethiopia. Jane earned a BA in History at Northwestern University, MAs from Stanford and Pace Universities, together with an EdD from Teachers College/Columbia University. Jane authored the original charter for The Bronx Charter School for Children and has been on the Board since the school was chartered. She is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and sits on the Academic, Governance and Development Committees.
Mark A. Samuel is an attorney who represents clients across a broad range of industries, including real estate, hospitality, and media. He is currently Of Counsel at Burgher Gray LLP. Mark's principle areas of focus are Complex Litigation and IP and Technology, with an emphasis on the use of blockchain technology, regulation of cryptocurrencies, and cybersecurity. Prior to Burgher Gray, Mark worked in private practice, and the corporate law departments of Chicago Insurance Company and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Mark earned a JD from Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law and a BA in Economics from the University of Texas at Arlington. Mark joined the Board in 2020.
Nicole Schmidt is a Managing Partner, co-founder of Oberon Securities, LLC, and member of Oberon's management committee, bringing more than 22 years of entrepreneurial experience and leadership to the firm. She spearheads Oberon's consumer and retail group and is actively involved in the firm's TMT practices. Prior to co-founding Oberon in 2001, Nicole was a partner in Kentech Ventures, a software incubator. Nicole is a lawyer; she earned her JD at New York Law School and a BA in political science at New York University. Nicole joined the Board in 2018 and serves on the Development and Facilities Committees.
Laurence Slous is the founder of Slous Law Group LLC. Larry practices in the areas of corporate law and commercial real estate in New Jersey and in other parts of the United States. He is on the Advisory Board of Investors Bank. Larry attended Cornell University, where he graduated with a BS degree, majoring in industrial and labor relations. He also graduated from New York University School of Law. Larry was born and raised in the Bronx. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and taught in the New York City Public School System while attending law school. He is President of the Board of Trustees of Family Service League, Inc., a New Jersey nonprofit specializing in family and sexual abuse counseling in Essex County, New Jersey. Larry joined the Board in 2010, is currently the Vice President of the Board, Head of the Facilities Committee, and a member of the Finance Committee.
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Carnosol delays chemotherapy-induced DNA fragmentation and morphological changes associated with apoptosis in leukemic cells
Susan J. Zunino, David H. Storms
Carnosol, from the herb rosemary, has been shown to induce apoptotic cell death in high-risk pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). In the present study, carnosol was tested for its ability to sensitize leukemia cells to chemotherapeutic agents. Carnosol reduced the percentage of cell death in the pre-B ALL lines SEM, RS4;11, and REH when combined with cytarabine, methotrexate, or vincristine compared to the chemotherapeutic agents alone. Analysis of DNA strand breaks by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end-labeling showed that carnosol delayed DNA cleavage in the cells when combined with chemotherapeutic drugs. Co-treatment of the cells with carnosol and chemotherapeutic drugs did not reduce mitochondrial membrane depolarization compared to the drug treatment alone. Time course analysis of caspase-3 activation by flow cytometry showed co-treatment with carnosol and drugs increased the activation of caspase-3 above that observed for the chemotherapeutic drugs alone. A lower percentage of caspase-3 positive cells progressed to an apoptotic phenotype when co-treated with carnosol and the chemotherapeutic drugs compared to drugs alone. These data show that carnosol blocks the terminal apoptotic events induced by chemotherapeutic drugs and suggest that increased dietary intake of carnosol may potentially decrease the effectiveness of some standard chemotherapy treatments used for leukemia.
Nutrition and Cancer
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Carnosol delays chemotherapy-induced DNA fragmentation and morphological changes associated with apoptosis in leukemic cells'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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Zunino, S. J., & Storms, D. H. (2009). Carnosol delays chemotherapy-induced DNA fragmentation and morphological changes associated with apoptosis in leukemic cells. Nutrition and Cancer, 61(1), 94-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/01635580802357360
Carnosol delays chemotherapy-induced DNA fragmentation and morphological changes associated with apoptosis in leukemic cells. / Zunino, Susan J.; Storms, David H.
In: Nutrition and Cancer, Vol. 61, No. 1, 01.2009, p. 94-102.
Zunino, SJ & Storms, DH 2009, 'Carnosol delays chemotherapy-induced DNA fragmentation and morphological changes associated with apoptosis in leukemic cells', Nutrition and Cancer, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 94-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/01635580802357360
Zunino SJ, Storms DH. Carnosol delays chemotherapy-induced DNA fragmentation and morphological changes associated with apoptosis in leukemic cells. Nutrition and Cancer. 2009 Jan;61(1):94-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/01635580802357360
Zunino, Susan J. ; Storms, David H. / Carnosol delays chemotherapy-induced DNA fragmentation and morphological changes associated with apoptosis in leukemic cells. In: Nutrition and Cancer. 2009 ; Vol. 61, No. 1. pp. 94-102.
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Our School's researchers are developing advanced biomaterials for a variety of applications including regenerative medicine, acellular approaches, biosensors and anti-viral technology.
Our particular strengths and areas of focus include stimulatory and degradable systems based on natural and synthetic polymers, magnesium alloys, bioactive glasses and sol-gel inorganic-organic hybrids, nanocomposites and hydrogels.
The group also specialises in additive manufacturing, 3D (bio)printing, nanofibre electrospinning and solution blow spinning, self-assembling peptide hydrogels, 3D cell culture biomimetic platforms, stem cell engineering and bioreactor design.
Scientists at The University of Manchester have co-founded a new company, Manchester BIOGEL (formerly PeptiGelDesign), based at the BioHub, Alderley Park, which is dedicated to the commercialisation of an innovative hydrogel technology developed at the University.
Work on the peptide-based hydrogels started back in 2004 when Professor Aline Miller (School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science) and Professor Alberto Saiani (School of Materials) were awarded a small seed fund of £4,000 from the University. This prompted them to establish, within the University, the Polymers and Peptide Research Group, which is located at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology. They went on to build on this initial project by attracting over £6 million in funding to the University from public and private bodies over the past ten years. This has led to the development of a technological platform for the design of peptide-based hydrogels, which are now being applied in biomedical and biotechnological fields in areas such as tissue engineering, drug delivery and DNA sensing.
The technology is based on understanding and controlling the self-assembly of small peptides across the length scales to permit the design of bespoke hydrogel materials. Professor Julie Gough (School of Materials) became involved in the early stage development of these materials for cell culture and tissue engineering applications and she said: "This highly innovative technology actually works. It allows the design of materials that can be tailored to mimic the three-dimensional micro-environment in which we culture cells. Cells have very different requirements depending on their origin, nature and function and this technology allows the design of hydrogels with properties and functionality tailored to each cell type. This opens up new possibilities in cell culture and tissue engineering fields."
Professor Aline Miller, who led the original seed project, said: "This is a true success story. We started over ten years ago with a fundamental science project for which we were awarded a small pot of internal faculty money to do proof-of-concept work and here we are ten years later co-founding a company to sell the novel materials we developed."
In addition to the hydrogel technology, Manchester BIOGEL is also working on bringing to market an innovative cardiac patch medical device that was developed through a collaboration between the University and a number of other European institutions.
Peripheral nerve injury is common and functional recovery is often poor, which has a profound and permanent impact on patient recovery and quality of life.
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As part of this project, a 16 patient Phase 1 clinical trial commenced in August 2017 after gaining approval from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. This project represents the first implantable biomaterial device to go to clinical trial for The University of Manchester. The project is an excellent example of interdisciplinary and collaborative research with investigators from the School of Materials, the School of Biological Sciences and the University Hospital of South Manchester.
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Grafted Tomato Plant – Quad Plum 4 out of 5 based on 18 ratings.
Grafted Tomato Quad Plum Plant – Minerva Specially raised by the professionals in our nursery to produce four fruiting stems on one plant (and four times the crop of a single stem grafted tomato). They can be trained as a 'fan' or a four-stem 'tower'.
You can see grafted tomatoes, giant sunflowers – MUSCATINE — If you're a gardener, you've probably heard of grafted roses and grafted trees. This is a process in which a plant with desired qualities is grafted onto hardy root stock to try to make a.
The flavor is reminiscent of its cousin the plum.
A: Grafted tomatoes have been offered in gardening catalogs for the past couple of seasons, and they look really tempting, even though they are abo.
Improving Plants the Natural Way Following are just a few of the advantages of grafted vegetables: HIGHER YIELDS IMPROVED RESISTANCE TO PESTS, DISEASES AND PLANT STRESSES STRONGER GROWTH LARGER FRUITS A LONGER HARVEST SEASON Give our grafted vegetable plants a try and be ready to be amazed! We offer the following grafted plants: Tomatoes Amish Paste Big Beef Hybrid Big Zac Hybrid Brandywine.
Grafted Tomato Quad Plum Plant – Minerva Specially raised by the professionals in our nursery to produce four fruiting stems on one plant (and four times the crop of a single stem grafted tomato). They can be trained as a 'fan' or a four-stem 'tower'.
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package gameagent;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Random;

public class PudgeAgent extends Agent {
	private double EPSILON = 0.25;
	private double EXPLORE_FACTOR = 17;
	private int DELAY = 9500;
	private int DEPTH = 13;
	private int EXPAND_THRESHOLD = 32;
	private int move_c;
	private double W = 0.1;
	boolean DEBUG = true;
	Random rnd = new Random();

	List<Move> possible_moves = new ArrayList<Move>();
	List<Node> game_tree = new ArrayList<Node>();
	Map<Move, Double> score_history = new HashMap<Move, Double>();
	Map<Move, Integer> play_history = new HashMap<Move, Integer>();

	public PudgeAgent() {
		super("Pudge_the_Butcher");
		move_c = 1;
	}

	// High level function for computing the best move
	protected Move nextMove() {
		game_tree.clear();
		game_tree.add(new Node(0, 0, null, current_player));
		expand(0, state);
		Move m = null;
		boolean over = false;
		System.err.println("Finding Move " + move_c + "...");
		score_history.clear();
		play_history.clear();
		MoveTimer t = new MoveTimer(DELAY);
		t.start();
		while (!t.isDone() && !over) {
			MoveReturn mr = getBestMove();
			m = mr.m;
			over = mr.gg;
		}
		if (DEBUG) {
			System.err.println("Total samples " + game_tree.get(0).visits);
			System.err.println("Best move: " + m);
			int start = game_tree.get(0).child_start;
			int end = start + game_tree.get(0).num_children;
			for (int j = start; j < end; j++) {
				Node n = game_tree.get(j);
				System.err.println("     " + "(" + n.last_move.from + ", "
						+ n.last_move.to + ") " + n.visits
						+ " samples; value: " + getUCBProgressiveVal(0, j));
			}
		}
		move_c++;
		return m;
	}

	// Adds 1 to move's win history, creates key if it doesn't exist
	private void addScore(Move m, double score) {
		if (score_history.containsKey(m)) {
			score_history.put(m, score_history.get(m) + score);
		} else {
			score_history.put(m, score);
		}
	}

	// Adds 1 to move's play history, creates key if it doesn't exist
	private void addPlay(Move m) {
		if (play_history.containsKey(m)) {
			play_history.put(m, play_history.get(m) + 1);
		} else {
			play_history.put(m, 1);
		}
	}

	// Gets move's win value, returns 0 if no value found
	private double getScore(Move m) {
		Double j = score_history.get(m);
		if (j == null) {
			return 0.0;
		} else {
			return j;
		}
	}

	// Gets number of times a move was played, returns 1 if no value found
	private int getPlay(Move m) {
		Integer j = play_history.get(m);
		if (j == null) {
			return 1;
		} else {
			return j;
		}
	}

	List<Integer> visited = new ArrayList<Integer>();
	List<Move> child_moves = new ArrayList<Move>();

	private class MoveReturn {
		public boolean gg;
		public Move m;

		public MoveReturn(Move m, boolean gg) {
			this.gg = gg;
			this.m = m;
		}
	}

	// High level function for computing the best move
	private MoveReturn getBestMove() {
		GameState t_state = new GameState(state);
		// Make sure we always return game winning move
		possible_moves.clear();
		t_state.getForwardMoves(possible_moves);
		for (Move m : possible_moves) {
			t_state.applyMove(m);
			if (t_state.winner() == state.getCurrentPlayer()) {
				return new MoveReturn(m, true);
			}
			t_state.undoMove(m);
		}
		// Selection
		visited.clear();
		int i = 0;
		visited.add(i);
		while (!isLeaf(i)) {
			i = selectBestChild(i);
			visited.add(i);
			t_state.applyMove(game_tree.get(i).last_move);
		}
		// Expansion
		possible_moves.clear();
		t_state.getMoves(possible_moves);

		double value = Double.NaN;

		if (!possible_moves.isEmpty()) {
			// get list of moves we've already expanded
			child_moves.clear();
			for (int j = game_tree.get(i).child_start; j < game_tree.get(i).num_children; j++) {
				child_moves.add(game_tree.get(j).last_move);
			}
			// if we have unseen moves
			if (possible_moves.size() > child_moves.size()) {
				possible_moves.removeAll(child_moves);
				addPlay(possible_moves.get(0));
				t_state.applyMove(possible_moves.get(0));
				value = doPlayout(t_state);
				// expand if we've seen this move enough
				if (getPlay(possible_moves.get(0)) > EXPAND_THRESHOLD) {
					singleExpand(i, possible_moves.get(0), t_state, value);
				}
			} else {
				int best = selectBestChild(i);
				t_state.applyMove(game_tree.get(best).last_move);
				visited.add(best);
				value = doPlayout(t_state);
			}
		} else {
			value = doPlayout(t_state);
		}
		// Back propagation
		for (int j : visited) {
			updateValue(j, value);
		}
		return new MoveReturn(game_tree.get(selectBestChild(0)).last_move, false);
	}

	// Expand the designated node with a node for m
	private void singleExpand(int node, Move m, GameState s, double value) {
		game_tree.add(new Node(1, value, m, s.getCurrentPlayerEnum()));
	}

	// Expand the designated node and add its children to the tree
	private void expand(int node, GameState s) {
		if (!isLeaf(node)) {
			System.out.println("PROBLEM: INTERNAL NODE EXPANDED");
		}
		possible_moves.clear();
		s.getMoves(possible_moves);
		n = game_tree.get(node);
		n.child_start = game_tree.size();
		n.num_children = possible_moves.size();
		for (Move m : possible_moves) {
			game_tree.add(new Node(0, 0, m, s.getCurrentPlayerEnum()));
		}
	}

	// Update the value of a node with the score, negative for the other
	private void updateValue(int node, double score) {
		Node n = game_tree.get(node);
		if (my_player == n.player) {
			n.value += score;
		} else {
			n.value -= score;
		}
		n.visits++;
	}

	// Use the our modified UCB rule to find the best child
	private int selectBestChild(int node) {
		int start = game_tree.get(node).child_start;
		int end = start + game_tree.get(node).num_children;
		int selected = -1;
		double ucb_value;
		double best_value = -Double.MAX_VALUE;
		for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
			ucb_value = getUCBProgressiveVal(i, node);
			if (ucb_value > best_value) {
				best_value = ucb_value;
				selected = i;
			}
		}
		return selected;
	}

	Node n, p;
	// Get the modified UCB value of a given node
	double sa;
	private double getUCBProgressiveVal(int node, int parent) {
		n = game_tree.get(node);
		p = game_tree.get(parent);

		double v = (n.value / n.visits)
				+ (EXPLORE_FACTOR * (Math.sqrt(Math.log(p.visits) / n.visits)))
				+ ((getScore(n.last_move) / getPlay(n.last_move))
					* (W / (n.visits * 109 - n.value + 1)));

		if (Double.isNaN(v)) {
			// Unvisited nodes come first
			return Double.MAX_VALUE;
		} else {
			//System.err.println(v);
			return v;
		}
	}

	// Is the designated node a leaf
	private boolean isLeaf(int node) {
		return game_tree.get(node).num_children == 0;
	}

	// play out the game, returning the 1 for win 0 for loss
	private double doPlayout(GameState s) {
		Move m = null;
		int d = 0;
		GameState r = new GameState(s);
		while(d < DEPTH && !r.gameOver()) {
			d++;
			m = nextEpsilonGreedyMove(r, EPSILON, false);
			if (m != null) {
				r.applyMove(m);
			} else {
				m = nextEpsilonGreedyMove(r, EPSILON, true);
			}
		}
		// get score for side we're on
		double multi = r.getCurrentPlayer() == getPlayer() ? -1.0 : 1.0;
		double score = distanceEvaluate(r);
		// update heuristic knowledge
		if (score > 0) {
			addScore(m, score);
		}
		addPlay(m);
		return score * multi;
	}

	private Move nextEpsilonGreedyMove(GameState s, double epsilon, boolean all_moves) {
		possible_moves.clear();
		if (all_moves) {
			s.getMoves(possible_moves);
		} else {
			s.getForwardMoves(possible_moves);
		}
		if (possible_moves.isEmpty()) {
			return null;
		}
		double e = rnd.nextDouble();
		if (e < epsilon) {
			return possible_moves.get(rnd.nextInt(possible_moves.size()));
		} else {
			return possible_moves.get(0);
		}
	}

	public double distanceEvaluate(GameState s) {
		int score = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < s.board.length; i++) {
			if (s.board[i] == 1) {
				score += Eval.pl.get(i);
			} else if (s.board[i] == 2) {
				score = score - (17 - Eval.pl.get(i));
			}
		}
		return Players.player1 == my_player ?  score : score * -1.0;
	}

}


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Danijel Alibabić (Podgorica, 8. maj 1988. godine)  je crnogorski pjevač i tekstopisac.

Detinjstvo
Danijel je drugo dete muzičara Rasima Alibabića i Rasimove žene, Olivere, turističkog vodiča. Danijel ima starijeg brata, Darka i mlađu sestru Sabinu. Kao dijete, pohađao je Osnovnu školu "Božidar Vuković Podgoričanin"", u Podgorici, u naselju Vrela Ribnička. Kasnije je upisao Osnovnu muzičku školu "Vasa Pavić", gdje je svirao gitaru. Posle je upisao i Srednju muzičku školu "Vasa Pavić", gdje je svirao klavir.

Muzika
Danijel je prvi put izašao na scenu 1996. godine kada je učestvovao na festivalu "Zlatna Pahulja" koji se održavao u Rožaju. 2000. godine je dobio nagradu za najbolju interpretaciju na festivalu "Naša radost" koja se održala u Podgorici. Učestvovao je u popularnom šouu "Intro Karaoke" 2003. godine, koji je organizovao "In TV", gdje je osvojio 3. mjesto. Kasnije su on i njegova grupa "No Name" osvojili 7. mjesto u Eurosongu 2005. godine, gdje su predstavljali Srbiju i Crnu Goru. 2006. godine su ponovo predstavljali SCG, gdje nisu uspjeli da se plasiraju u finale. Bend se raspao 2008. godine, kada je i Danijel počeo njegovu solo karijeru. Učestvovao je u "Velikom bratu" 2007. godine i raznim festivalima širom regiona.

Hitovi
 "Ne plači mala" (Radijski festival FERAS 2009)
 "Dovodiš do ludila" (Pjesma Mediterana 2009)
 Supica (2009) - Duet sa Ksenijom Pajčin
 Bolji ja (2009)
 Balavica (2010)

Reference

Рођени 1988.
Подгоричани
Црногорски певачи
Учесници Монтевизије
Учесници Европесме
Представници Црне Горе на Песми Евровизије
Представници Србије и Црне Горе на Евровизији

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Arlington Transit bus service has been hurt in recent months by several issues that are causing missed trips. ART's contractor, National Express, has lost a number of bus operators to other companies in the region, and the resulting operator shortages are contributing to many missed ART trips each day. ART and our contractor also continue to deal with maintenance issues with our aging bus fleet, which is causing a number of buses to be out of service daily.
The County continues to work with our contractor to improve service and ensure each ART route is operating with the number of buses needed each day. The County is also looking at ways to improve how information is shared with our bus riders, so timely service alerts are provided to passengers once it is determined there will be trips missed and when service has returned to normal.
We apologize for these issues and will continue to do all things possible to hold our contractor accountable for providing reliable ART bus service.


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PCSO: Missing girl climbed onto high school roof during her disappearance
By: Vivian Padilla
After locating a missing 17-year-old in San Tan Valley, the Pinal County Sheriff's Office has released more details about the young woman's disappearance.
Quin Johnson was reported missing on July 9 after she went out for a run around noon. The teen was found near Poston Butte High School almost 12 hours later.
After her discovery, detectives interviewed her.
Johnson told officials she was being followed by a vehicle while she was running near a farm field near the high school. The teen climbed onto the roof of the school to seek shelter, that's where she fell asleep and woke up later that evening. The teen then climbed off the roof and flagged down one of the searchers who were out looking for her.
Officials looked at surveillance video from the school and from nearby businesses and concluded that the teen was on the roof, and only on the roof, throughout her disappearance. She was not at nearby stores like some witnesses said.
Officials also said there was no evidence to support the teen's claim of being chased by a vehicle. The teen told detectives the car chased her into the parking lot of the school, but surveillance video does not support her claim.
PCSO said no crimes were committed.


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Live Review: Die Fantastischen Vier - Oberhausen 2019
Written by Marcel Lüke
König-Pilsener-Arena Oberhausen
Captain Fantastic On Tour
König-Pilsener-Arena, Oberhausen, Germany
Die Fantastischen Vier - "Captain Fantastic On Tour 2018/2019"
There's none like them. DIE FANTASTISCHEN VIER, the indestructible pioneers of German Rap, are also touring 2018 / 2019, the twenty-ninth year of their career, with a new album 'Captain Fantastic'. They have remained true to themselves and their fans as a band for more than a quarter of a century. Nine studio albums and big hits like 'Sie ist weg', 'MFG', 'Troy', 'Ernten was wir säen' or '25' from the last album turn their live concerts into acclaimed "Best of Shows" for three generations. Gold and platinum records, echoes, 1Live Krone, Viva Comet, the Paul Lincke Ring, the Golden Camera, GQ Men of the Year - these are just a few of the awards Michi Beck, Smudo, And.Ypsilon and Thomas D have received. http://www.diefantastischenvier.de / https://www.facebook.com/DieFantastischenVier
From 'Captain Fantastic' to 'Tag am Meer' to 'Troy' - in front of a nearly sold-out hall, DIE FANTASTISCHEN VIER finished their "Captain Fantastic Tour 2018/2019" on Thursday in Oberhausen. For more than two hours, the Stuttgart band delivered a mix of songs from the new album and catchy tunes from the past. At the end of April last year, DIE FANTASTISCHEN VIER released the tenth album 'Captain Fantastic'. The album presents itself as a wrap around on the current zeitgeist. Happy and still eloquent celebration of their own band history alternates with critical rhymes about the deep gorge between rich and poor. It is the last concert of the tour and we cannot wait for the FANTAS to come back to us.
After first DJ THOMILLA had heated the audience of the arena with fat beats, it is punctual at 20:00 and we hear the first notes from 'Captain Fantastic'. All four in appear on stage in a uniform look: all in black with a black jacket and white sneakers. Michi Beck, Thomas D and Smudo raise their voices to the opener and title track of the current album. The fact that many of the fans have grown older together with hip-hopers has certainly made itself felt in the hall. The almost 5,000 visitors initially acknowledged the efforts of the rappers with a rhythmic nod instead of a permanently wild hopping. At the very latest with the band's classics 'Sie ist weg', 'Die da!?!', 'MfG', 'Ernten was wir säen', 'Zusammen' and 'Troy' the group had picked up all fans.
Meanwhile, we have a look at the whole live band: drums, percussions, bass, electric guitar and keys. 'Aller Anfang ist yeah' sounds. The slightly grey And.Ypsilon raps briefly. Thomas D gets a pair of thick glasses after Smudo has reprimanded him for not being well dressed today. Who remembers the first TV appearance of the band knows: this is the "Die Da?!" - look. The political statement against the AFD could have been given, but it had to be said, it follows 'Gebt uns ruhig die Schuld, den Rest könnt ihr behalten', followed by a very guitar - clipped version of 'Ernten, was wir säen'. "Almost 30 years of rap music – that's not good for the brain and the spine," the four musicians silently ironed out shortly before the end of the show. The two-hour show demanded everything from Smudo, Michi Beck, Thomas D. and And.Ypsilon completely.
The Fantas, celebrating their 30th anniversary in 2019, had previously promised more than 30 songs and a sort of "Best of Show" for all ages. After all, three generations are now among the fans of the band. One highlight after chases another during the evening and the fans sing along to 'Einfach sein', 'MFG', 'Ich is Ich is Ich is Ich', CLUESO appears for 'Zusammen' on the screen, the crowd is raging, it is snowing confetti. The evening ends with Thomas D in the "Fuck Racism" shirt and a wonderfully emotional thank you from Michi Beck to the fans for almost 30 years of love and loyalty. No wonder then that 'Troy' follows at the end.
01. Captain Fantastic
02. Fantanamera
03. Was geht
04. Bring It Back
05. Hot
06. Aller Anfang ist Yeah
07. Yeah Yeah Yeah
08. Die Stadt die es nicht gibt
09. Sie ist weg
10. Jetzt geht's ab
11. Heute
12. Dann mach doch mal
13. Du mich auch
14. Buenos Dias Messias Buenos Dias Messias
15. Endzeitstimmung
16. Das Spiel ist aus
17. Die da?!
18. Das ist mein Ding
19. Gebt uns ruhig die Schuld (den Rest könnt ihr behalten)
20. Ernten was wir säen
21. Tag am Meer
22. Pipis und Popos
23. Weitermachen
24. Spiesser
25. Typisch ich
26. Einfach sein
27. Smudo in Zukunft (with The Prodigy – "Out Of Space" ending)
28. Danke
29. Tunnel
30. MfG
31. Ichisichisichisich
33. Zusammen
34. Moduland.Y
35. Hitisn
36. Troy
Light: 10
All pictures by Daniela Vorndran (http://www.vorndranphotography.com / http://www.facebook.com/blackcatnet)
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Due to popular demand, the entry deadline for the revamped Sustainability Leaders Awards has been extended by one week to Friday, 21 September 2018. So, if you want your green business project, strategy or team to get the recognition it deserves, you now have an extra week left to enter.
The Verco team is a unique and exceptional blend of consultants, engineers and software developers dedicated to mitigating the impacts of climate change and shaping the future of the low-carbon economy. Its aim is to help clients become sustainability leaders in their sectors which is achieved by regularly checking their progress against Verco's proprietary maturity matrix.
With entries soon closing for edie's revamped 2019 Sustainability Leaders Awards, this new feature series will showcase the achievements of the 2018 winners, revealing their secrets to success. Up next: our 2018 Sustainability Product Innovation winners, Encore Cistern.
With less than a month to go until entries for edie's revamped 2019 Sustainability Leaders Awards close, this feature series showcases the achievements of last year's winners. Up next: our Sustainability/CSR Manager award-winner, Ben Orchard from Adnams.


The Estonian National Opera Chorus is a professional high-level mixed chorus. Throughout its history, the chorus has been a part of dozens of opera, operetta and musical performances, the most popular of which have also been performed abroad. The following outstanding musicians have worked with the chorus: August Topman, Verner Nerep, Tiiu Targama, Kaja Tammemägi, Ira Trilljärv, Uno Järvela, Venno Laul, Peeter Lilje, Anne Dorbek, Jüri Rent, Elmo Tiisvald and Risto Joost. In September 2011 Hirvo Surva began his work as a Chief Chorus Master and he was joined in his work by Marge Mehilane in 2012. Since autumn 2013 the Chorus Master is Elmo Tiisvald. Apart from taking part in theatre's performances, a significant portion of the chorus's work also consists of giving concerts and recording music. The more important vocal symphonic works that the chorus has performed, include "Christus am Ölberge" and "An die Freude" by Beethoven, Dvořák's and Verdi's Requiems, Liszt's "Christus, Song of Destiny" and "German Requiem" by Brahms, "War Requiem" by Britten, Requiem by Kreek, "Daphnis et Cloé" by Ravel, "Gurre-Lieder" by Schönberg, "Carmina Burana" by Orff, "Five Mystical Songs" by Williams, "Jonah's Mission", "Jenseits des Jordan" and "Know Ye Not" by Tobias, oratorio "Job" by A. Kapp, "Amore et igne" by L. Sumera and many more. The chorus took part in the Estonian Song Festival of 2009, where, among other works, Pärt's "Credo" was performed side-by-side with other Estonian professional musical collectives. The chorus has also given a number of significant a cappella performances, such as the mystery "Ultimos Ritos" by Tavener, "Vespers" Op. 37 by Rachmaninoff, "Deutsche Motette" by R. Strauss, etc. Estonian National Opera Chorus won the annual Estonia Theatre Award 2010 for professional interpretation of the musically and dramaturgically demanding part in Prokofiev's opera "The Love for Three Oranges". In 2013 the chorus recorded with the orchestra of the Estonian National Opera a CD "Verdi and Wagner – the Most Famous Opera Choruses" to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the two great composers.


KDInfotech has roots in San Jose and the Silicon Valley where the two partners of KDInfotech, Doug and Ken, have a combined 40+ years of Information Technology experience. Doug, having worked at Google, Inc., brings a wealth of experience having led an International team to deploy technology across Google's worldwide offices. Ken's system architecture and infrastructure design gives KDInfotech a well-rounded service offering for clients in San Jose, California.
Below you'll find reviews of what our customers have to say. Don't hesitate to call us at 800-923-9185 or fill out our online form.
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Our city's top chefs make your whole-hog fantasies come true.
You may not have heard of Cochon555, unless you attended last year's event. It's a pork-centric fundraiser that landed one of its competitions in our fair city last year as a first.
They're joining three other chefs to embark on a whole-hog mission to create winning bites that draw attention to heritage breeds, with proceeds benefitting Piggy Bank, a foundation involved in providing supporting family farms.
The five competing chefs: Christof Syré of LAW at Four Seasons Resort and Club Dallas at Las Colinas; David Uygur of Macellaio; Bruno Davaillon of Bullion; Matthew Scott of Great Scott; and Josh Bonee of Fine China.
The event's tickets ($130 for general admission) include bites from the competing chefs as well as wares from over 100 chefs, farmers, sommeliers, distillers, brewers, and barkeepers.
Last year, I caught up with Uygur just after he'd won the competition and been crowned Prince of Pork with bites that included his signature salumi (including a crema di lardo, capicola, and liverwurst), a sumptuous ham tonnato, a pork soba dish, and a leaf-lard brioche doughnut with pork blood sausage, candied orange, and cacao nibs.
You go all in or go home at this event.
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Kerry Fokkens who was awarded the RLSS Service Cross.
A Larne lifeguard has been awarded a Service Cross by the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) for her dedication to the role.
Kerry Fokkens, who is Duty officer in Larne Leisure Centre and has been a council employee for over 30 years, said she was delighted to be presented with such a prestigious medal.
"I am very honoured to receive this award from the Royal Life Saving Society," said Kerry, who was recognised for 20 years of continuous service.
Kerry's passion for swimming started at the age of nine when she began competing with Larne Swim Club.
"I got into lifesaving through the Larne Grammar lifesaving club back in the early 1980s and the interest really started there.
"I also assist with the on-going lifeguard training programme for the leisure centre staff.
RLSS UK presentation of Honours is designed to say thank you to all who contribute to a reduction in drowning across the UK and Ireland and allows individuals and groups to celebrate their achievements.


Atatürk International Airport (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTBA) is the largest airport in Istanbul. It is located on the European side of the city and is 24km (15 miles) west of the city centre. Atatürk is the main base for National Air Carrier Turkish Airlines The airport is named after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and the first president of the Republic of Turkey. The airport is among the top 10 busiest airports in Europe and in the top 40 of world airports for total passenger traffic. There are three terminals, one international (Terminal A), one domestic (Terminal B) and one cargo terminal (Terminal C). Within a 5 miles radius of the airport there are a number of hotels including: Radisson SAS Conference & Airport Hotel; Holiday Inn Airport-North Hotel; Renaissance Polat Istanbul Hotel; Sheraton Istanbul Atakoy Hotel; and the Wow Airport Hotel. There are several ways to travel between Atatürk International Airport and the city centre: Light Rail Service; Airport Shuttle Service (Can be used to link up with a fast ferry service); Municipality Bus (slower but cheaper alternative than airport shuttle); Car/Taxi: (Via the coastal road, D-100 international road and TEM Trans-European Motorway). The Airport is due to be closed when the Istanbul New Airport is operational - predicted in 2017.
Designed for both business and leisure travel, Ramada Encore Istanbul Airport is ideally situated in Bakirkoy; one of the city's most popular locales. From here, guests can enjoy easy access to all that the lively city has to offer. With its convenient location, the hotel offers easy access to the city's must-see destinations.
This modern hotel is only one kilometer from the airport in the commercial district, offering comfortable accommodation, modern facilities, and conference rooms. The WOW Airport Hotel in Istanbul is right next to the Airport AVM shopping center and has a free airport shuttle. The hotel is also close to the underground station, connecting it to the historic city center.
Istanbul Atatürk Airport (IATA: IST, ICAO: LTBA) (Turkish: İstanbul Atatürk Havalimanı) is the main international airport serving Istanbul, Turkey (followed by Sabiha Gökçen International Airport) and the biggest airport in Turkey by total number of passengers, destinations served and aircraft movements. Opened in 1924 and located in Yeşilköy, on the European side of the city, it is 24 km (15 mi) west of the city centre and functions as the main hub for Turkish Airlines.
Istanbul New Airport (Turkish: İstanbul Yeni Havalimanı) or Third Airport (Turkish: Üçüncü Havalimanı), is an international airport under construction in Arnavutköy district on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey. The airport is poised to be the largest airport in the world, with a 150 million passenger annual capacity, due to lack of capacity in the existing airports of Istanbul. It will be the third international airport to be built in Istanbul, yet, Istanbul Atatürk Airport will be closed down once the new airport is operational. The airport is due to be operational sometime in 2017.
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The Holy Family is our inspiration as we strive to live out Catholic gospel values and promote a diverse and challenging curriculum which prepares and empowers students for an ever changing world.
Holy Family School is situated in Bell Park, one of the most multiculturally rich suburbs of Geelong. Holy Family is fortunate to have a strong history of a large culturally diverse community, where all people are valued.
The parish of Holy Family opened initially in 1953 and Holy Family Primary school opened in 1955 with 180 P-4 students. The school was the parish centre – a school during the week and a centre for Mass and community events at the weekend. Holy Family School has a long history of association with the Sisters of Mercy. In 2000 the Mercy Order handed over the administration to a lay principal.
Holy Family strives to provide an environment that is safe, flexible and inclusive and which fosters collaboration and creativity. The student wellbeing program which utilises aspects of "Making Jesus Real", Restorative Practices and Circle Time is aimed at engendering a climate of mutual respect, trust and responsibility where students develop a sense of belonging and attachment to school. Students are provided with opportunities for engagement in many active and passive leisure activities.
In recent years the main school building has been refurbished. A learning centre comprising a library, four learning areas and a theatre room was built with funding from the BER capital grant. The front entry to the school was rebuilt and the three north eastern classrooms were extended and transformed into a flexible learning space. There has also been a beautification program involving landscaping, fencing and tree planting to the school grounds with major funding from the Parents and Friends' Association.
The 2017 student enrolment of Holy Family School covers more than 28 nationalities. The students are grouped across four learning areas including Prep Learning Area (Foundation), Junior Learning Area (Years 1/2) , Middle Learning Area (Years 3/4) and Senior Learning Area (Years 5/6).


The Big Shot is a single-head piezo pickup, especially designed for bigger instruments with low mechanical resonance. The extra strong output signal makes it a versatile choice for a variety of instruments. These include instruments made of relatively thick material, such as the sound board of a piano. It is considerably harder to induce vibration on these thicker materials compared to the thin top of a violin, for example. As the piezo crystals react to corpus vibrations, a low surface vibration results in a low signal and a strong vibration creates a strong signal.
The pickup head is attached with a special double-side adhesive film, which is UV resistant to ensure safe adhesion even after years of use. It is ultra-thin and enables the harmonic frequencies to completely pass through to the pickup disk.
The frequency range is nearly linear with a slight peak in the upper midrange. This allows for great upfront sound transmission.


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Mardscha (Paschtu/Dari: ) ist eine Ortschaft im gleichnamigen Distrikt Mardscha in der südafghanischen Provinz Helmand.

Sie liegt 40 km südwestlich von der Provinzhauptstadt Laschkar Gah und befindet sich auf einer Höhe von 775 Metern über dem Meeresspiegel.
Im Distrikt Mardscha leben ungefähr 31.500 Einwohner.

Geschichte
Mardscha wurde 1957 gegründet. Zusammen mit Nad Ali war der Ort Teil des Helmand River Valley Projektes, dass von der afghanischen Regierung und einem US-amerikanischen Ingenieurbüro durchgeführt wurde und eine Regeneration der Helmand Region zum Ziel hatte. Bis 1973 siedelten im Gebiet von Mardscha 2500 Familien in 66 Dörfern.

Krieg in Afghanistan
Der Ort gilt als Taliban-Hochburg. Bereits im Mai 2009 hatten afghanische und NATO-Truppen Mardscha angegriffen und eingenommen. Dabei waren 15.000 kg verschiedener Drogen und über 40.000 kg Materialien zum Bombenbau gefunden worden, darunter Ammoniumnitrat und Ammoniumchlorid.

Im Februar 2010 wurde Mardscha zum Ziel in der Operation Muschtarak der International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

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Ort in der Provinz Helmand


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Q: How to set a function's name with string variable? I'm building a desktop application using litegraph.js https://github.com/jagenjo/litegraph.js?files=1.
What I need to do is to create new nodes to my graph dynamically. Following litegraph instructions, they can be defined by using a function like:
function my_new_node() {
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And then registering it to litegraph by:
LiteGraph.registerNodeType("basic/" + node_id + "", my_new_node);

My problem starts when I have to set different nodes dynamically added by the user, so I would like to do something like:
var node_id = node1; /* node1 is a string that user introduces with an input field, let's suppose this value to be node1. */

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I have already tried stuff like this[node_id] = () =>, but then it doesn't let me to register the node.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.

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Are video games or films better at depicting war?
Guardian writes: "Patrick Hennessy, former soldier, and Miguel Sicart, video games expert, consider which medium best evokes the experience of battle."
This is exactly how I see it too.
I recommend 'A Rumor of War'. It's a great read on the Vietnam War.
I would say films because they depict a more realistic vision of war, whereas games are designed for you to enjoy and have fun with therefore removing how realistic it could be.
Films. The opening scene of Saving Private Ryan is a good example. Video games won't show someone carrying their own arm after it got blown off.
a book cant describe everything, and this is what came up to mind instantly. I dont think theres another war movie that accurately depicts war. Its a mess, its chaotic and its very bloody.
i would put a couple games at the top two bad company and socom.
Bad Company because its pretty chaotic when ur trying to take the last crate.
Socom because it more or less depicts a representation of US and other armies tactics.
THe one flaw with these games , is of course that you can respawn, and u heal incredibly fast.
Game writing has a long ways to go to catch to film writing, or books. For example Gears of War may be an excellent game, but it's writing in comparison is crap.
Yup, you gotta remember films and by extension operas/plays have been around for hundreds of years... Video games in comparison, has had a way shorter time frame as time goes on, it's writing should/will catch up, as consumers will demand more.


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What does NIDCD stand for?
NIDCD stands for National Institute on Deafness & other Communication Disorders
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NASA (National Association of Students of Architecture) Information and Documentation Cell (India)
National Identification Card
National Information Data Center (zip code information)
National Investment and Development Corporation (Philippines)
National Iranian Drilling Company
Nepal Industrial Development Corporation
Northwest Iowa Dialysis Center (Hospers, IA)
Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (®)
National Internal Defense Coordination Center
New International Dictionary of the Christian Church (book)
Northern Indiana District Church of the Brethren
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (US National Institutes of Health; formerly National Institute of Dental Research)
National Institute on Developmental Delays (Shawnee, OK)
National Intellectual Disability Database (Ireland)
Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes
National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Program (India)
National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Elimination Programme (WHO)
Navy/Industry Digital Data Exchange Standards Committee
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
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Q: How can I find out which slow script is giving IE problems? IE8 is giving me the slow-running script message on load of a page:

Stop running this script? A script on this page is causing your web
  browser to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer might
  become unresponsive.

However, the webapp I'm debugging is fairly old and has a whole lot of scripts. Is there an easy way for me to find out which of those scripts is causing the problem?

A: I'm not sure because I don't use IE... But can you do some breakpoint in the console and then reload the page to see if you breakpoint is before or after the slow script?

A: Try the javascript profiler from the debugger.


Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) has spent the past 125 years becoming a world-class teaching hospital and research center. Part of this success was won by realizing the importance of attracting and retaining the best and the brightest. Another part came from exploring just how to do that best.
OHSU posed a question to their professors, scientists, staff, and students: What benefits matter most? They discovered quality, near-site child care ranked high on the list. As a teaching hospital, they knew they wanted to offer an education-based program, and they knew that would require expert help. They began looking for a partner organization who could not only bring experience in early childhood education, but who could create a center that looked and felt like a part of OHSU.
There were other factors in KCE's favor, too. As OHSU is well-known for its culture of learning, KCE's commitment to cutting-edge, curriculum-based, early childhood education was a welcome complement. As a leader in sustainable business practices, OHSU loved that KCE centers have a history of endorsement from Eco-Healthy Child Care® and that they could opt to pursue a similar path. The final point that made it clear the two organizations were highly compatible?
OHSU's food and nutrition department is dedicated to offering fresh, organic food made from locally sourced ingredients. KCE feels the same way, and collaborated with OHSU's food department to create lunch options for the center that would make any foodie proud.
In the end, the two organizations worked together to transform an old warehouse into a magical place for kids, where they learn lots, and have loads of fun while doing it. In turn, OHSU sees KCE's Healthy Starts Learning Center as a real and ongoing advantage in recruiting faculty, staff, and students.
"Having the child care center is an advantage in our recruiting efforts. Its presence is one less thing prospective candidates need to worry about when coming from out of town," notes Lisa Carter, project lead for OHSU's child care initiative.
As OHSU is well-known for its culture of learning, KCE's commitment to cutting-edge, curriculum-based, early childhood education was a welcome complement.


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Best Paying In Contrast To The Worst Jobs in Singapore
It is stunningly better to be a specialist than a block. Nourishment readiness and upkeep remain the least paid work of the country, while the medicinal field keeps on offering the nine most generously compensated occupations in the US. As indicated by as of late distributed gauges by the US government on work and wages, as per information for 2008, the normal specialist is normal of $ 206,770 every year. This makes specialists on anesthesiologists have the most beneficial work in the nation.
The internists now procure somewhat more than the Protestants (individuals who make and lay false teeth). Something else, the first ten undertakings will be the same as a year back. The greatest change is the diminishment in wages of supervisors of regular Sciences by practically $10,000 every year, which implies individuals who work in labs and research establishments.
Inside the 25 best and 25 most noticeably bad paid occupations, very little has changed. The most beneficial 25 – all the same as a year ago, with little stages. In the most pessimistic scenario, one employment dropped out of the rundown – or rather, it turned out. Horticultural graders and sorters are currently doing what's necessary to wind up plainly the 26th most noticeably awful paid employment in Singapore. Most likely, chick-sexing is not as terrible as some time recently. Supplanting them in the rundown: work in cooking and serving employments, for example, a cappuccino creator and a "sandwich craftsman."
When all is said in done, the average yearly compensation in the US expanded by 3.9% contrasted with the earlier year and achieved 42,270 US dollars. This compares to an expansion of 3.8% a year prior. Maybe the expansion in normal wages can proceed, if simply because individuals at the top keep their employments and the individuals who are bringing down lose them. All things considered, Ken Lewis holds the post of CEO of the Bank of Singapore, in spite of the fact that the bank declared in December that throughout the following three years he would cut his workforce by $ 35,000.
Would you like to raise your pay as high as could reasonably be expected? Plant a vocation as a specialist in Gary, Indiana. The global specialist there is practical $ 15,000 over the national normal. Who does at most beneath normal? Servers and servers in Yukon, Puerto Rico, who acquire $ 13,610 a year. In 50 expresses, a major washout will be a counter-associate in the lounge area or snack bar in Owensboro, Kentucky, and will pick just $ 13,810 a year.
Among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, D.C. Had the most noteworthy normal yearly compensation of $ 67,810. Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut, for about $ 50,000. The most reduced average yearly compensation in Puerto Rico is $ 24,650, not withstanding the way that the average cost for basic items is equivalent to the District of Columbia. Among the 50 states, notwithstanding, South Dakota and Mississippi were the most reduced – around 33,000 dollars.
Pioneers and models of the postal administration will be glad to realize that their average yearly compensation has expanded more than any other person. Postal laborers are 23.2% over a year prior, conveying them up to a yearly compensation of 54,550 dollars. To begin the model was not almost the same, but rather they developed by 20.4% to $ 30,160 a year.
The railway industry suffered badly. Railway engineers, palace engine operators and hosters are now 14.0% smaller than before, the second largest decline, to $ 34,840 from $ 40,510. Locomotive engineers suffered even more; Now they are 15.4% smaller than before, although, unlike engineers of railway yards, they still make up a little more than the national average.
High Paying Management Jobs In Singapore For The Marketing And Sales Professional.
Singapore has the most number of high net worth individuals in the region, owing to many opportunities and jobs that provide high salaries. Among them are management jobs in Singapore. The Ministry Of Workforce Report On Wages In 2008 showed an increment in the gross monthly remuneration for many companies, excluding big performance bonuses, stock options, and profit-sharing. Executive director level managers bid salary grade from $50,000 to $300,000 based on the business sector.
Although a small nation, Singapore has a major economy. Numerous international corporations set up their headquarters in Singapore. These open the floodgates of employment possibilities to both the locals and expats who live in Singapore on work assignments.
Among numerous businesses, the oil manufacturing and trading sector, as well as IT and electronics manufacturing, retail, and financial services offer the top paying management jobs in Singapore. Managers for human resource development, sales and business development, corporate planning, risk management, change management, legal and compliance are needed by superior corporations which are the sector leaders.
The MOM Report highlighted high yielding middle management jobs in Singapore specially for the finance sector. The financial services sector is Singapore's top exportation. Numerous companies prefer Singapore's brokerage, treasury, and financial advisory services. Numerous banks build their regional headquarters here.
Planting the seeds to your rise to high yielding management jobs in Singapore sets out early. Secure a good academic background from reputable business schools in Singapore for both your undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Set your eyes on the company you see yourself employed within the next 20 years and apply as an intern there. When you do get accepted, impress your managers, so you increment the prospect of being offered up a permanent work post in the company. You take your baby steps from here on, committing to deliver only the best of your knowledge, talents, and skills so you can get to your preferred post in no time.
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Transphobia is the latest weapon in a raging culture war
The vicious media campaign against trans people is part bigotry, part strategy, writes Roz Kaveney
December 5, 2017 · 13 min read
Over the last two months, the press has run rather more stories on the trans community than happens in a normal year – most of these negative and many of them actively malicious. There has also been a staggering amount of unpleasantness on social media directed at both at the community and at individual trans people both from the right and, more depressingly, from people who regard themselves as left-wing and as feminists.
We trans people stand accused of being the narcissistic consequence of gender theory and post-modernism, of being violent sexual abusers merely by existing, of being ugly or of having had too much plastic surgery, 'mad, stupid or evil'. We have too much power and influence; we are a fanatical lobby of activists; we are funded by big pharmaceutical companies, the sex trade and rich consumers of pornography whom we are using our IT skills to blackmail. We are a danger to women and young girls simply by using toilets and gender-neutral changing rooms – we don't have to do anything wrong there, but are a threat simply by existing. We are a cult, trying to draw in young recruits through peer pressure. subversive children's picture books and the presence of androgynous characters in computer games and Japanese anime. We are trying to destroy reality itself by undermining the concept of truth.
We are obviously all really busy, all of the time.
This is, of course, nonsense. Most trans people are too busy surviving for any of this – dealing with discrimination in employment, housing and education, trying to access trans-specific medical care in a time of NHS cuts and general austerity, surviving a disproportionately high rate of being victims of rape and more general assault. Trans people use toilets and changing rooms for the standard reasons, not to make a political point – it's perhaps significant that the non-binary person featured in much of the coverage of the changing rooms – on the 4th December in the Sun for example – is black as well as trans. If we had any institutional power, we would be using it in all of these areas to protect ourselves, and make our lives easier.
The pretext for this wave of hate is, ironically, a suggested piece of legislation, unlikely to be passed any time soon, which we welcome but which was not high on our shopping list. The Conservative government is discussing an updating of the process of formal 'Gender Recognition' – established in the 2004 act as a intrusive. cumbersome and expensive procedure – in line with the best practice of other countries like Eire where making it a simple civil declaration has, contrary to all the scare stories and hypothetical scenarios, had no serious negative consequences whatever. It's a vaguely liberal gesture which the May government favours partly because it doesn't cost anything.
Yet a group of anti-trans radical feminists called A Woman's Place UK (not to be confused with other groups with a similar name) is holding public meetings all over the country to alert women in general to what they claim is an attempt to erase the very existential nature of womanhood. (As so often, they ignore the existence of trans men except for the occasional pious hope that they will repent.) The only unusual thing about this – much of it is the usual suspects of feminist transphobia – is its growing virulence and the extent to which its signal is being boosted by the Times and the Daily Mail.
When former prison officer Anne Ruzylo, then Women's Officer of Bexhill and Battle Labour Party, was the subject of a complaint about her transphobia by a 19 year old trans woman Lily Madigan, Times journalist Lucy Bannerman encouraged Madigan to talk to her. Bannerman then wrote pieces which included hit quotes against Madigan for applying for the Jo Cox Women's Leadership scheme. A letter to the Times supporting Madigan's application from the current members of the scheme was never published. There has been a lot of abuse of Lily Madigan on line from transphobic feminists – some of it obscene, some of it implicitly threatening; for example, when Madigan mentioned that she was attending a Reclaim the Night march, retired academic Julia Long posted on Facebook that she had gone around the march looking for her to confront her. Does it need to be said that it is disgusting for social and cultural capital to be expended on victimising a politically involved teenager, or indeed a young actor and poet like Travis Alabanza?
Times feature writer Janice Turner – not generally noted for being on the Left and a strong Brexiter – has written long and intrusive articles about young trans boys. She attended the September rally against GRA reform set up by A Woman's Place UK and wrote on September 23rd an account of the confrontation in Hyde Park that preceded it. There is good photographic evidence of regrettable violence and aggression on both sides, yet Turner represents the issue wholly and exclusively as trans activists beating up an elderly woman – whose own account indicates that she was committing some serious mayhem of her own prior to the assault on her. Similar accounts appeared in, for example, the Daily Mail along with features by Sarah Vine, wife of a Conservative cabinet minister, and the former trot Peter Hitchens, all arguing that trans people are a threat of various kinds.
Why have right-wing newspaper columnists suddenly formed this alliance with a particular section of radical feminism? One theory would be that the anti-trans rhetoric has proved a powerful weapon in current culture wars. In particular, scare stories about trans women in women's toilets served the Republicans well in the 2016 US election – and that might be transferrable to UK politics, especially given Jeremy Corbyn's thus far positive statements on trans issues. Another would be the fact that hard-line pro-Brexit Tories are interested in weakening Theresa May by any possible means. Thus, it's obviously to their advantage to present a policy she has proposed as a capitulation to a malign liberal conspiracy. It scuppers her one cheap liberal policy, which had the potential to serve as her equivalent of David Cameron's move on gay marriage.
They are getting some support in this, ironically, from the group of liberal feminists who cluster around the New Statesman. What's noticeable here is that figures like Sarah Ditum go along with the reactionary way that Janice Turner phrases her concerns about the proper rearing of trans children without ever mentioning what we can take to be quite significant disagreements about family life. Or indeed the fact that trans children are at much greater risk of self-harm, violence and suicide. Similarly, Ditum talks as if the concept of no-platforming people with contentious views from university spaces were largely invented by, and case by case instigated by, trans people. In reality, it's more a generational debate about constitutes free speech. That generational divide often maps on to divisions within the feminist movement, most trans-exclusionary radical feminists hailing from previous generations of feminism. But the one cannot be collapsed into the other without muddying the waters. Then again, that confusion is once again, rather useful; it casts trans rights as emblematic of a general creep towards snowflake anti-liberalism among younger generations – particularly among students.
What is quite remarkable is how totally the NS group and their allies on eg the Guardian have over the last two years misread the political current. Helen Lewis, the NS political editor, committed herself so staunchly to anti-Corbyn politics that she probably has little capital to persuade the Labour Party to her way of thinking on issues such as trans rights.
Which brings us round to the question of why A Woman's Place UK figures like the former Momentum member Venice Allan and the veteran black feminist Linda Bellos are so prepared to make use of the right-wing Tory press? In her book Gender Hurts, retired academic Sheila Jeffreys – closely associated with Bellos in the so-called sex wars around the London Lesbian and Gay centre in the 1980s – bemoans the fact that only people as right-wing as Norman Tebbit seemed to agree with her about the perniciousness of the 2004 Gender Recognition act. Allan has stated on social media that A Woman's Place UK do not just have GRA reform in their sights but wish to overturn the 2004 act as well as various provisions in equality legislation that give trans people rights. She has devoted a number of videos to fervent appeals to Jeremy Corbyn to drop his support for trans rights.
However, so far the only Labour MPs with whom these views have openly gained much traction are quite rightwing ones like the currently pro-Brexit Caroline Flint; Allan has posted selfies with Jess Phillips but it remains to be seen whether Phillips will be persuaded by her. A political heavyweight like Bellos, with a long positive history on left causes like the reparation movement, may get more of a hearing, at least for old time's sake. It is to be hoped that the easy publicity given to anti-trans views by alliance with the Murdoch and Rothermere press will make such views toxic to much of the left, demonstrating as they do a significant failure of principle.
Anti-trans politics in feminism have a sorry history on the left. In the early days of Gay and Lesbian liberation, there was the silencing of trans women of colour like Sylvia Riveira. There is the paranoiac and exterminationist rhetoric of Janice Raymond's 1979 book 'The Transsexual Empire' which calls for transsexuality to be 'morally mandated' out of existence, followed by Raymond's cooperation with a Republican congress and right-wing christians like Paul McHugh to remove federal funding from trans medical care, something only restored by Obama's Affordable Care Act. Sheila Jeffreys has called for trans medical care to be made a crime against humanity by international treaty.
In her 1993 book 'The Lesbian Heresy', Sheila Jeffreys bemoaned the failure of her brand of radical feminism to sustain its brief dominance over the women's movement, a dominance characterised by stigmatisation of various choices ranging from bisexuality and BDSM to pierced ears, long hair and cosmetics. It's clear from that book that it has never seriously occurred to Jeffreys that in the fight against late stage capitalism and racism many might hold these concerns to be trivial and counter-productive bullying. She seems to hope that by exploiting a right-wing populist current against trans people, and taking the old band on the road, she might kick start her old joyless brand of politics into relevance again. How this would fit in with the broader direction of the British left is hard to see.
There is, in all of this, an undercurrent of generational resentment. How dare millennials consume cultural products that have values we don't understand? How dare they ban from their platforms women who have done long service to the cause – and whose commitment to free speech back in the day included at least discussion of public book burning? Millennials are, as far as we can tell, just far more relaxed around gender variation than previous generations – so much so that intolerance around this issue is one of the things young Nazis and other far right figures like Milo Yiannopoulos use to characterise their rage against ordinary decent liberal values. Transphobia is seen by people in their twenties and thirties as being like racism – a preserve of the right; it is not a good look for feminism.
If A Woman's Place UK manages to win the odd battle – deferring reform of the GRA and forcing trans people to spend several hundred pounds to change their paperwork – it will not affect this. If, by allying with the most reactionary sections of the British press, transphobic feminism were able to reverse the tide and make trans people unacceptable to a majority of the population it would be a self-defeating victory. In the US, the panic about trans people in toilets led to attacks on a variety of gender non-conforming cis women. The Times and the Daily Mail will not defend other areas of any conceivable feminism – the societal model they want has no place for equality of any kind. They are not feminist allies even in the short term.
Speaking as a trans woman who has resisted attempts to suppress my community for forty years, I don't call on transphobic feminists to like the fact that I exist. But what is the end game of all this? A ban on transition during childhood or adolescence that would risk an epidemic of suicide? A Clause 28 style law preventing sharing of transition-related information on the internet? A North Carolina style toilet law that would effectively bar trans people from any role in civil society? Incarceration, forced detransition and compulsory 'therapies'? The right might favour all of this – though only UKIP has specifically anti-trans policies – but surely not feminists.
I just ask them to recognise that the path they are going down is a threat to their own survival as well – I don't appeal to the womanhood they don't accept we share; I certainly don't appeal to the kindness they don't feel they owe me. I appeal to their self-interest. If they change society so that it has no place for me, the deals they will make will rapidly leave pretty little room for them either.
This article originally contained a paragraph relating to an Independent article claiming to have 'debunked' a study by Fair Play for Women on trans prisoners. We have since been made aware that this article is the subject on ongoing legal action between the authors and the Independent. We have removed this paragraph and withdraw any link between this article and the Independent article. "A comprehensive study report describing the data source and methodology is published on the Fair Play For Women website. The organisation's figures for the total number of transgender prisoners has since been shown to closely match official figures recently released by the Ministry of Justice."
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Binary Options Analyst » Make Money,Strategy » Straddle or Die: Hedge Your Risk or Increase It?
Straddling is particularly a risky business in the already extremely high risk trading environment. Make a mental note that the Cysec-licensed binary options brokers do not operate the same way traditional brokers do, or for that matter like the big exchanges such as NADEX or CBOE.
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Step 3. Enter two positions on the same stock (call and put) just like I mentioned above.
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