Triple Draw Lowball (often called just Triple Draw) is a form of lowball poker for two to six players. It's a fairly simple game, especially if you're familiar with Five-Card Draw or other Draw Poker variants. However, having four chances to bet instead of one makes Triple Draw an exciting, competitive game with large pots and lots of betting action. Triple Draw has become popular in Las Vegas casinos, being included in many high-limit mixed game rotations.
The object of Triple Draw Lowball is to form the lowest-ranking poker hand after drawing new cards up to three times.
Triple Draw uses the same standard 52-card deck as most other poker games. We suggest that you give Denexa 100% Plastic Playing Cards a try if you haven't yet. You'll also need something to bet with, probably poker chips. The game is typically played with fixed limits (see "Betting in poker"), so all players should agree to what the limits will be.
The two players to the left of the dealer post their blinds (see "Blinds and antes"). Shuffle and deal five cards to each player. The dealer retains the deck stub for later use.
Upon receiving their cards, players evaluate the strength of their hand. Triple Draw is most frequently played with deuce-to-seven lowball rules. In this version of lowball, straights and flushes are taken into consideration when ranking hands, and aces count high. That means the lowest possible hand is 2-3-4-5-7 (because 2-3-4-5-6 forms a straight). The first betting round then begins, with the player to the left of the big blind (the player under the gun) starting the betting. Betting follows the typical rules of betting in poker.
After the first round of betting is resolved, the first draw occurs, starting with the player to the left of the dealer (the small blind). This player discards any number of cards, from zero to five, face down in front of them. The dealer then deals them the appropriate number of replacement cards from the stub. This continues, clockwise, until all active players have had a chance to swap cards. The dealer then collects the discards and sets them aside.
When the first draw finishes, the second betting round begins, starting this time with the small blind player. This is followed by a second draw (conducted the same way as the first), then the third betting round, then the third draw, then the fourth and final betting round. Betting limits are typically doubled on the third and fourth betting rounds. If there are at least two active players left at the end of the fourth betting round, they reveal their hands. Whoever has the lowest-ranked poker hand wins the pot.
East–West is a poker game for two players. Much like Pai Gow Poker or Chinese Poker, the challenge in the game is placing cards you receive into one of three hands. East–West has two major differences with those games, though. First, there is one community card that you share with your opponent. Second, there is no gambling in this game at all!
East–West was created by German author Reiner Knizia. It was first published in German, in his 1995 Wild West-themed compendium of family-oriented poker games, Kartenspiele im Wilden Westen. The book was translated to English and published in 2007 as Blazing Aces! A Fistful of Family Card Games.
The object of East–West is to strategically place cards drawn from the stock into one of three poker hands. The ultimate goal is to win two out of the three hands.
East–West was created to be played with a German deck of cards. To make an equivalent pack from an English-style 52-card deck like Denexa 100% Plastic Playing Cards, just remove the 6s through 2s. You'll be left with a deck containing aces through 7s in each of the four suits, for 32 cards in all.
Both players should sit on the same side of the table. One player will play the left or "West" side of the board, while the other will play the right or "East" side.
Shuffle and deal three cards, face up, in a vertical line. These three cards are the board cards. Place the deck stub above the uppermost board card, forming the stock.
The nondealer goes first. They draw a card from the stock and place it next to any one of the three board cards, on their designated side. The dealer goes next, doing the same thing, placing their card on the opposite side. Players continue alternating in this way, drawing cards and placing them.
Each player thus builds three poker hands. Each hand consists of one of the board cards and the other cards on that row on their side. A player may only place cards on their side, not on their opponent's. Once a player has placed four cards on a row, the hand is complete (making a five-card hand, including the board card) and no more cards may be added to it.
After both players have completed all three hands, players compare each hand with their opponent's on the same row. Whichever player wins two out of the three hands wins the game.
Razz is a form of seven-card stud poker, typically played as a lowball poker game. It can support from two to eight players. While nowhere near as popular as the more well-known poker games like Texas Hold'em and Omaha, Razz has nevertheless been an enduring staple of high-level poker play. It was one of the games played at the second World Series of Poker in 1971. A Razz event has been held as part of the WSOP every year since 1973. Razz is the "R" in the frequently-used "HORSE" progression of poker games.
The object of Razz is to win money by convincing the other players that you possess the best ace-to-five lowball hand. That is, you want the lowest-ranking hand according to the usual rank of poker hands, with straights and flushes disregarded.
Like most poker games, all you need to play Razz is a 52-card deck of playing cards and something to bet with. For the cards, you owe it to yourself to use Denexa 100% Plastic Playing Cards. Most people use poker chips as their betting instrument. We've seen other things used, but can get really strange in a hurry. You'll need to establish betting limits, as well. Razz is typically played as a limit poker game, so make sure you establish what the limits are before playing.
All players ante. Shuffle and deal two cards face down to each player, then one card face up. This face-up card is referred to as the door card.
The player with the highest (and therefore worst) door card goes first. In cases where multiple players hold a card of the highest rank present, ties are broken by suit. Suits rank in the order (high) spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs (low). This player is required to make a mandatory bet called a bring-in bet. This is a blind bet equal to half of a normal bet. However, if the player wishes, they may "complete the bet" by making a full bet rather than a bring-in bet. After this first player, betting proceeds according to the normal rules for betting in poker.
After the first betting round concludes, all remaining players are dealt another face-up card. Whichever player is showing the lowest (and therefore best) hand leads off another round of betting. A fifth card is then dealt to each active player, again face up. At this point, the betting limit doubles (and remains doubled for the rest of the hand) for the ensuing betting round, which is again kicked off by the player showing the best hand. This process repeats for the sixth card.
The seventh and final card is dealt face down to each player. Occasionally, because a large percentage of the players stayed in the hand, there won't be enough cards to go around. In this case, simply deal one card, face up, in the center of the table. This card serves as a "community card"—the seventh card of every player's hand.
After the final betting round, any players still remaining in the game reveal their cards. Whoever has the best ace-to-five lowball hand takes the pot.
Ultimate Texas Hold'em, often abbreviated as UTH, is an adaptation of Texas Hold'em to the player-versus-the-house format of casino table games. Two to eight people (including the dealer) can play. Introduced during the height of the 2000s poker craze, Ultimate Texas Hold'em is a more approachable game for players that may be intimidated by the more confrontational style of betting found in traditional poker games.
Like Three Card Poker, Ultimate Texas Hold'em is a proprietary game owned and licensed by Scientific Games. UTH was originally developed by Roger Snow of ShuffleMaster, a manufacturer of card shuffling equipment. As with Three Card Poker, ShuffleMaster created specialized shuffling and dealing machines customized for UTH. ShuffleMaster was later acquired by Bally Technologies, which was later purchased by Scientific Games.
As with Three Card Poker, you won't usually find the UTH tables in the poker room. Instead, look for them in the pit, alongside the Three Card Poker and Blackjack tables.
The object of Ultimate Texas Hold'em is to recognize when you hold a hand that is likely to form a better poker hand than the dealer's. This allows you to take advantage of opportunities to bet higher (and thus hopefully be paid higher). Alternately, the object is determine when the hand isn't worth playing and exit the game to avoid a greater loss.
Ultimate Texas Hold'em is played with a standard 52-card deck of playing cards. If you're playing at home, why not take advantage of the opportunity to get out your Denexa 100% Plastic Playing Cards? You'll also need chips for each player to bet with. The dealer should be provided with a generous amount of chips for paying out winning wagers.
Casino UTH tables are covered in a felt surface with betting circles pre-printed on them, to organize the four bets that are available to the players. (An example of such a betting layout is shown at below right.) Unlike public-domain games like Blackjack, you're unlikely to find UTH layouts available from anyone but Scientific Games. If you're planning on dealing a home game instead of just playing in a casino, you'll need to put one together yourself.
Players make their initial bets, as described below in "Making the initial bets". After each player has bet, shuffle and deal five cards, face down; these will be the board cards. Deal two cards, also face down, to each player, including the dealer. These are the players' hole cards.
Cards rank in their usual order in UTH, with aces high (although they can be used in an A–5 straight). Hands rank in the typical order; see rank of poker hands if you need a refresher.
The basic bets in UTH are the Ante and Blind bets, which most players will usually make. A player must make both bets, or neither of them; the amount placed in each betting circle must be equal.
A player may also choose to make an optional Trips bet. The Trips bet pays based on the best hand a player can make between their two cards and the five community cards. Whether or not the player's hand is better than the dealer's is immaterial to the outcome of the Trips bet. A player may choose to bet only the Trips bet, and not the Ante and Blind bets.
The Play betting circle remains empty until later on in the hand.
After receiving their hand and being allowed to do so by the dealer, the player looks at their two cards. The dealer proceeds around the table, from left to right, giving each player their turn. On their turn, they may, if they wish, make their Play bet, which must be either three or four times the amount of the Ante bet. Otherwise, they check by tapping the table.
After all players have had a chance to bet or check, the dealer reveals the flop (the first three board cards). Each player who has not already made a Play bet gets a turn now. If they wish, they may now place a Play bet equal to twice the Ante bet. They may also check again, if they still do not wish to bet.
The dealer then reveals the last two board cards. Players have one last chance to make a Play bet, which is now limited to be exactly equal to the Ante bet. If a player still doesn't want to bet, then they fold, surrendering all of the bets they've made to the dealer.
When all players have made a Play bet or folded, the dealer turns their hole cards face up. They declare the best five-card poker hand they can make using their two hole cards and the five board cards. If the dealer has at least a pair or higher, they are said to qualify. If the dealer does not qualify, the Ante bet will push, but the other two bets will still be paid out normally.
The dealer now proceeds around the table to each active player in turn, starting with the player to their right and working around to the left. The dealer reveals the player's hole cards and announces the best poker hand the player can make. This hand is then compared to the dealer's. If the dealer has a better hand, the dealer collects the Blind and Play bets, the Ante bet if the dealer qualified, and the player's cards. Should the player have a better hand, they are paid out at even money on the Play bet and the Blind bet, as well as the Ante bet if the dealer qualified. If the player wins and has a straight or higher, they are paid at a higher rate on the Blind bet, as shown in the table below.
If the player made the Trips bet, it is settled regardless of if the player won or not. The Trips bet pays only if the player has three of a kind or better. If they do not, the bet loses and is collected by the dealer. If they do, it is paid according to the table below.
After every player's bets have been resolved, the cards are shuffled. Players then make their bets for the next hand.
The Ultimate Texas Hold'em logo is a registered trademark of Scientific Games. It is used here under U.S. fair use laws.
Soko, also known under the name of Canadian Stud Poker, is a variation on Five-Card Stud Poker that adds two new hands to the hand ranking. It is most popular in Finland, which is where it derives its name; sökö is a form of the Finnish word for check.
The object of Soko is to form the best five-card poker hand, or to bet in such a way as to convince your opponents that you have the best hand.
Like all poker games, Soko uses the standard 52-card deck, without any jokers. We commend anyone who makes the correct decision to choose Denexa 100% Plastic Playing Cards for their game. You'll also need something to bet with, such as poker chips.
As with all betting games, it is important to establish betting limits that all players mutually agree to and are comfortable with. Like most classic stud poker games, Soko is played with an ante, the amount of which should be decided ahead of time, as well as the maximum and minimum betting limits.
All players ante. Shuffle and deal one card face down to each player (the hole card), then one card face up.
The first action of the hand goes to the player who shows the lowest face-up card. (If there are multiple players tied for low, the one closest to the left of deal goes first.) This first player is obliged to make an initial bet called the bring-in. The minimum amount of the bring-in is only half that of the usual minimum bet (rounded down if the minimum bet does not divide into an even number of chips). If the player wishes to bet more than the bring-in amount, they may do so. The betting round is thereafter conducted according to the usual rules of betting in poker.
After the betting round, each player is dealt another face-up card, bringing them to a total of three cards. A second betting round is then conducted, with first action again going to the player showing the lowest hand, although there is no bring-in required on this or subsequent betting rounds. If any player shows a pair as their two face-up cards, the betting limits (minimum and maximum) are doubled.
Another card is dealt face up to each active player, then another betting round occurs, with doubled betting limits for the remainder of the hand regardless of what any of the players hold. This pattern continues, with more cards being dealt until each active player has a five-card hand (four face up and one face down), with a betting round following each card dealt. After the fifth and final betting round, all players still in contention for the pot reveal their hands. The pot is awarded to the player holding the highest hand.


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TV4 pair Dare to launch prodco
By Ed Waller February 14, 2020
Two senior and long-standing executives from Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 are leaving to launch their own production company, Dare Television.
Head of development Maria Mowbray and deputy head of channels Cem Yeter are leaving Bonnier-owned broadcaster to start Dare Television.
The Stockholm-based prodco will create and produce entertainment, documentary and drama for local broadcast and streaming platforms with the ambition of being fully established in Sweden and other Nordic countries within five years. The duo leave TV4 on March 13. Financial backing for the move has come through private equity firm Holtback Group.
Mowbray has been responsible for commissioning TV4's entertainment, reality and factual output, and was previously the broadcaster's head of programmes and executive producer. Yeter, meanwhile, has a background as exec producer, head of development and MD for Mastiff Sweden and Zodiak in LA. During this time, he created formats including Trash or Treasure, Dropped and Copycat Singers, all of which have been produced internationally.
"With the media establishment in the middle of a digital transformation, things have never been as exciting in our industry as today," said Yeter, who will be creative director at Dare TV.
"Understanding how to meet the new behaviour of consumers and adapting to the increasing competition from the international streaming giants is an increasing challenge in the Nordic territory," he added.
Netflix and HBO are already commissioning both local drama and documentary series and Disney+ and Apple TV are about to establish themselves in the market. The demand for locally produced content is going to be more intense than ever".
"Together we have more than 30 years experience of making and bringing to life some of the world's most successful formats, from Pop Idol, MasterChef and Strictly Come Dancing to Survivor, Best Singer and Paradise Hotel. This unique experience is the most valuable asset to our new company," said Mowbray, who will be MD of Dare.
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Comedy Central, ITV, Allthingscomedy Network's The Carl Donnelly and Chris Martin Comedy Podcast, Netflix
A British standup, actor, writer who crossed the pond from London and is setting roots in Los Angeles. Charming but cheeky. He's toured in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. TV credits include Live at the Comedy Store (Comedy Central), Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled, and ITV's Horrible Science. The Carl Donnelly and Chris Martin Comedy Podcast, part of Bill Burr's Allthingscomedy Network, was named one of the top 10 podcasts in the UK by The Guardian. The British Podcast Awards awarded his other podcast Babysitting Trevor the silver for Funniest Podcast. Since arriving in Los Angeles, Chris has sold two television shows- a scripted series to FX and a gameshow to E!
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Afferent nerve fibers are the axons (nerve fibers) carried by a sensory nerve that relay sensory information from sensory receptors to regions of the brain. Afferent projections arrive at a particular brain region. Efferent nerve fibers are carried by efferent nerves and exit a region to act on muscles and glands.

In the peripheral nervous system afferent and efferent nerve fibers are part of the somatic nervous system and arise from outside of the spinal cord. Sensory nerves carry the afferent fibers to enter into the spinal cord, and motor nerves carry the efferent fibers out of the spinal cord to act on skeletal muscles.

In the central nervous system non-motor efferents are carried in efferent nerves to act on glands.

Structure

Afferent neurons are pseudounipolar neurons that have a single process leaving the cell body dividing into two branches: the long one towards the sensory organ, and the short one toward the central nervous system (e.g. spinal cord).
These cells do have sensory afferent dendrites, similar to those typically inherent in neurons.
They have a smooth and rounded cell body located in the ganglia of the peripheral nervous system.
Just outside the spinal cord, thousands of afferent neuronal cell bodies are aggregated in a swelling in the dorsal root known as the dorsal root ganglion.

All of the axons in the dorsal root, which contains afferent nerve fibers, are used in the transduction of somatosensory information. Somatosensory receptors include senses such as pain, touch, temperature, itch, and stretch.  For example, a specific muscle fiber called an intrafusal muscle fiber is a type of afferent neuron that lies parallel to the extrafusal muscle fibers thus functions as a stretch receptor by detecting muscle length.

All of these sensations travel along the same general pathways towards the brain. One pathwaydorsal column-medial lemniscus pathwaybegins with sensation from the periphery being sent via afferent nerve fiber of the dorsal root ganglion (first order neuron) through the spinal cord to the dorsal column nuclei (second order neuron) in the brainstem.  The second order neuron's projection decussates at the medulla through medial lemniscus to the third order neurons in the thalamus.  The third order neuron's axon terminates at the primary somatosensory cortex of the parietal lobe.

Types
Types of afferent fibers include the general somatic (GSA), the general visceral (GVA), the special somatic (SSA) and the special visceral afferent fibers (SVA).

Alternatively, in the sensory system, afferent fibers can be classified by sizes with category specifications depending on if they innervate the skins or muscles.

Function

In the nervous system there is a "closed loop" system of sensation, decision, and reactions. This process is carried out through the activity of sensory neurons, interneurons, and motor neurons. A touch or painful stimulus, for example, creates a sensation in the brain only after information about the stimulus travels there via afferent nerve pathways.

Etymology and mnemonics
Afferent is derived from Latin participle afferentem (af- = ad- : to + ferre : bear, carry), meaning carrying into.
Ad and ex give an easy mnemonic device for remembering the relationship between afferent and efferent : afferent connection arrives and an efferent connection exits.

Another mnemonic device used for remembering afferent and efferent (in terms of the spinal cord, with its dorsal/ventral organization) is SAME DAVE. Sensory Afferent Motor Efferent, Dorsal Afferent Ventral Efferent.

Afferent and efferent are connected to affect and effect through their common Latin roots: Afferent nerves affect the subject, whereas efferent nerves allow the subject to effect change.

See also
 Autonomic nervous system

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New 'Planet 9' May Be Next to Join Our Solar System
Posted on 20 January 2016 by Jay Tate
Michael Brown doesn't care how much you love Pluto. He loves it too, but that didn't stop him from leading the charge in 2006 to strip it of its "planet" designation and bust it down to a mere dwarf planet. But now, the Caltech astronomer is making amends in a big way: along with Caltech planetary scientist Konstantin Batygin, he has just released a paper announcing the highly likely discovery of a new planet to replace Pluto—and no one's ever going to be able to demote this one.
"The existence of another planet has been spoken about 100 times before," Brown says. "But this is the first time in 150 years that we can say we have convincing evidence that the census of the solar system is incomplete."
The discovery of the world that Brown and Batygin refer to in The Astronomical Journal simply as "Planet 9" began in 2003, with the discovery of a far more modest object named Sedna. A dwarf planet even smaller than Pluto, Sedna is a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), like Pluto one of a vast band of icy, rocky objects that surround the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune. Brown was part of the team that found Sedna too, and if anything made the new world remarkable, it was its extreme distance from the sun—one that has it completing a single orbit in 11,400 years, compared to Pluto's 248.
But something else was strange about Sedna as well—or at least about the company it keeps. In the years that followed, astronomers discovered five other KBOs whose closest approach to the sun (or perihelion) matches Sedna's almost perfectly, both in distance and in the angle of the orbit relative to the horizon of the solar system.
This couldn't be a coincidence. The matching perihelia have only a 0.7% likelihood of occurring by chance; the matching angles have only a 1% chance. The double match among all six objects factors out to a vanishingly small .007% likelihood of being random. "It was very exciting to notice this collection of objects in this super obscure arrangement," says Brown. "The orbits are physically lined up in space."
If it wasn't chance that was behind such a tidy clustering, it had to be gravity—the influence of a passing object that herds the KBOs together, in the same way Saturn's moons influence the positioning of particles in the rings. Using mathematical modeling and computer simulations, Brown and Batygin concluded that Sedna and the other members of its flock must be herded by an as-yet-unobserved planet with about ten times the mass of Earth, circling the sun at an average distance 20 times greater than that of Neptune—making one orbit every 20,000 years. A body with different mass or a different distance simply couldn't explain the behavior of the six KBOs.
How Planet 9 found itself in so remote a place is unclear. It's unlikely that it formed in situ, essentially coalescing out of the primordial cloud of dust and gas that formed the rest of the solar system, since there probably wouldn't have been enough raw material to form so big a world out that far. Rather, the new planet might have accreted closer in like the other planets, and then been ejected by their gravitational forces.
"Planet 9 is part of the sun's family," says Brown. "The birth cluster turned it around so it was placed in a distant orbit. It has been there all along and has witnessed the development of the solar system from afar."
Now, Brown and Batygin need earthbound witnesses to confirm that Planet 9 exists. Just as Neptune was originally inferred by wobbles spotted in Uranus's orbit, the existence of Planet 9 can be inferred by the aligned KBOs. But without a verifiable observation, it's still a theoretical discovery. The pair are hoping to crowdsource that job, getting as many telescopes looking as possible across the globe. They've made the challenge easier by mapping Planet 9's orbit; now skywatchers have to pinpoint where it is on that very long path.
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NASA tests solar sail deployment for asteroid-surveying CubeSat NEA Scout ›


Just as you might recall, we held a second graduation ceremony a few weeks ago at the vintage movie theater. We just wanted to share the joyful moments with everyone from the ceremony and the gathering after it. Once again, congratulations to the new group of pilots and good luck in the future!


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Following the release of their album 'The Passion Of...' In 2020, New Orleans-based punk band Special Interest have announced a new 12" release 'Street Pulse Beat', which features remixes from Boy Harsher, Ruth Mascelli and DJ Haram. The record is set for release on Jan 29th via Nude Club Records.
All proceeds for the release will go to House of Tulip (https://houseoftulip.org), which was co-founded and is currently co-led by 2 Black transgender women. House of Tulip provides trans and gendernonconforming communities in New Orleans, Louisiana with economic stability and safety through zero barrier permanent housing and pathways to education, healthcare, employment, and homeownership.
"This remix of 'Street Pulse Beat' came from the depths of springtime lockdown. In a bleak and uncertain world, Special Interest was keeping our creative spirit alive. This remix was made entirely with the OB-6, SH-101, and the JV-1080. Trading in distorted guitars for plucky bent synths, Boy Harsher's remix offers their signature melancholy sound. Ali Logout' confidently controls the energy, reminding us that synthwave can still have a backbone and can hang with the punks." - Boy Harsher
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2 Street Pulse Beat (Boy Harsher Remix)
3 Street Pulse Beat (Ruth Mascelli Remix)
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The standard theory of pulsations deals with the frequencies and growth rates of infinitesimal perturbations in a stellar model. Modes which are calculated to be linearly driven should increase their amplitudes exponentially with time; the fact that nearly constant amplitudes are usually observed is evidence that nonlinear mechanisms inhibit the growth of finite amplitude pulsations. Models predict that the mass of DAV convection zones is very sensitive to temperature (i.e., MCZ is proportional to T -90 eff ), leading to the possibility that even "small amplitude" pulsators may experience significant nonlinear effects. In particular, the outer turning point of finite amplitude g-mode pulsations can vary with the local surface temperature, producing a reflected wave that is slightly out of phase with that required for a standing wave. This can lead to a lack of coherence of the mode and a reduction in its global amplitude. We compute the size of this effect for specific examples and discuss the results in the context of Kepler and K2 observations.


On November 20, 2017, a breaking and entering and larceny was reported by the owner of Top Nails, located at 240 Shadowline Drive in Boone. The store's surveillance video recording shows the suspect enter the business at around 12:48 am, and is wearing a hood, mask and gloves to conceal their identity. Various items were reported stolen from the business during the incident.


SOLD OUT // An avant-garde five course degustation, paired with Pinot Noir, for the discerning gourmand. But first, a tarot reading by our local fortune teller (if you dare) with a warming Vermouth cocktail and canapes. Then, an intimate dinner by candle light in the luxurious Wine Chapel, accompanied by Marchand & Burch, Australian and French imported wines and Howard Park sparkling. Dress code: Black, formal attire.
Your ticket includes a 5-course meal paired with Howard Park and Marchand & Burch wines, vermouth cocktail on arrival and fortune teller entertainment for the first hour of the evening with tarot card readings for guests.
This event is located in Wilyabrup, approximately 20 minutes from Margaret River town site and 25 minutes from Dunsborough. Please contact the Margaret River Busselton Tourism Organisation on [email protected] if you wish to arrange group transport to this event.


Seeking a General Practitioner who will based at this Practice in Dalby.
The Practice has a 19AB replacement exemption available.
Situated on the rich soils of the Darling Downs, Dalby is just 211 km north west of Brisbane and is at the crossroads to Toowoomba, Kingaroy, Roma, Mundubbera and Goondiwindi. Being so close to Toowoomba, Brisbane and the Gold and Sunshine Coasts makes a visit to rural Australia an easy drive.
The Dalby region is a vibrant "go ahead" rural community with a town population of approximately 12,000 with a further 5,000 residing in the rural district. As well as large coal and gas fired power stations, it has the largest grain receivable depot in Queensland, the largest one day livestock market in Australia and has one of the largest regional industrial and agricultural manufacturing sectors.
Dalby and the surrounding Western Downs Shire is at the centre of rich coal and natural gas reserves which underpin the power generation industry for SE Qld. The region is renowned as a rich agricultural area, growing crops such as cotton, sorghum, wheat, barley, sunflowers, chickpeas, mung beans and corn, as well as the production of lamb, beef and pork. Diversification into the fish, hemp and native flower markets has occurred in recent times.
The town has excellent education facilities available. These include childcare, preschools as well as Catholic, Christian and state primary and high schools.
Many lifestyle and sporting activities are available in Dalby. Team sports include football of various codes, cricket, bowls, swimming, netball and touch football being the most popular sport in town. Among the individual sports are tennis, squash and an excellent golf club. There is also a PCYC in Dalby that provides affordable and accessible sporting and recreational activities suitable for all ages.
A full-time GP is required to join the Dalby clinic to deliver services focusing primarily on assessment, examination, treatment, and case management within a Primary Health Team. Great professional development opportunities. We are a family friendly practice, with a visiting Podiatrist once per month.


+Comment HPE and DataDirect Networks are partnering to integrate DDN storage and burst buffer products with HPE's Apollo servers and its DMF workflow manager.
The result should be an integrated HPC server-storage product set that should benefit both suppliers.
The DDN products involved are its IME flash cache/NVMe drive burst buffer, EXAscaler array with Intel Lustre software, and GRIDscaler array with IBM's parallel file system Spectrum Scale (aka GPFS).
HPE's Apollo servers are chassis containing lots of ProLiant gen 9 server blades and some can be liquid-cooled. The company has existing partnerships with scale-out filer software suppliers like Qumulo and WekaIO.
DMF is the Data Management Framework and provides workflow, data management, protection and disaster recovery capabilities. We could envisage a DMF umbrella covering Apollo servers integrated with enhanced EXAscaler and GRIDscaler arrays which are fronted by the IME buffer engine.
HPE and DDN said: "The focus of the partnership is to accelerate and simplify customers' workflows in technical computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning environments."
A customer quote talks about maximizing data throughput and data protection. We can see the data throughput bit but not the data protection bit. DDN might suggest using its WOS object storage system as a backup target but that's not involved in this partnership. Neither is any backup software product. Nor is there any mention of backing up to a public cloud tier.
We have asked both DDN and HPE about this and DDN's marketing director, Kurt Kuckein, provided the goods. Here it is: "In this case, we are talking in broader terms, not just specifically backup and recovery.
"Generally, this covers workflow and hardware failure – including the testing of the solutions end-to-end (jointly between DDN and HPE), as well as DDN SFA capabilities to remain online and deliver full performance in degraded mode while executing timely rebuilds."


A former school teacher who spent a year abroad with one of his pupils has been charged with two counts of child abduction.
Paul Tramontini, 33, disappeared with the girl, who is now 16, on 26 April last year.
The pair, who have been living together in Italy for the past 12 months, walked into a Portsmouth police station on Friday.
Divorcee Tramontini, who began his relationship with the girl when she was 14, is due to appear at Portsmouth magistrates court on Tuesday.
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Q: OnClickListener not working with button on top of google maps fragment I'm trying to get a button to work on top of a SupportMapFragment but the OnclickListener is not firing.
Here's my code:
MapFragment:
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle     savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState);
    setRetainInstance(true);
    SP = getActivity().getSharedPreferences(SHARED_PREFS_NAME, 0);
    this.SP.registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(this);
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.map, container, false);

    FrameLayout frameLayout = new FrameLayout(getActivity());
    frameLayout.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.transparent));
    ((ViewGroup) view).addView(frameLayout, new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
            LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));

    setHasOptionsMenu(true);
    tracker = GoogleAnalyticsTracker.getInstance();
    setMapTransparent((ViewGroup) view);
    String mapType = SP.getString("PREF_MAP", "MAP_TYPE_NORMAL");

    FragmentManager myFragmentManager = getFragmentManager();
    SupportMapFragment mySupportMapFragment = (SupportMapFragment) myFragmentManager.findFragmentById(R.id.map);
    myMap = mySupportMapFragment.getMap();
    if (mapType.equals("MAP_TYPE_NORMAL")) {
        myMap.setMapType(GoogleMap.MAP_TYPE_NORMAL);
    } else if (mapType.equals("MAP_TYPE_SATELLITE")) {
        myMap.setMapType(GoogleMap.MAP_TYPE_SATELLITE);
    } else if (mapType.equals("MAP_TYPE_HYBRID")) {
        myMap.setMapType(GoogleMap.MAP_TYPE_HYBRID);
    }
    myMap.setMyLocationEnabled(true);
    myMap.setOnMapClickListener(this);
    myMap.setOnMapLongClickListener(this);
    myMap.getUiSettings().setZoomControlsEnabled(true);
    myMap.getUiSettings().setMyLocationButtonEnabled(true);
    myMap.getUiSettings().setScrollGesturesEnabled(true);
    myMap.getUiSettings().setZoomGesturesEnabled(true);
    ((Activity) getActivity()).setSupportProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(false);

    button = (Button) view.findViewById(R.id.sbutton);
    this.button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "CLICK!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

        }

    });

    return view;
}

map.xml
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:holo="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
tools:context=".Main"
 >

<fragment
    android:id="@+id/map"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    class="com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment"
    />

<Button
    android:id="@+id/sbutton"
    android:layout_width="48dp"
    android:layout_height="48dp"
    android:gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical"
    android:background="@drawable/ic_social_share_light"
         />

Don't know why's not working.
Can someone please take a look at the code and tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks

A: I've solved the problem.
I've added onClick to the button on my map.xml and instead of using the code in MapFragment I used the code in my MapActivity like shown below.
This way my button is working ok.
Map.xml
android:onClick="sButton"

MapActivity
public void sButton(View v) {
    Toast.makeText(this, "CLICK!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

A: You are addind a framelayout on top. Remove this:
FrameLayout frameLayout = new FrameLayout(getActivity());
    frameLayout.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.transparent));
    ((ViewGroup) view).addView(frameLayout, new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
        LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));

setMapTransparent((ViewGroup) view);

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Q: DIV positioning affected by a child of a sibling DIV I am struggling to understand how CSS lays out elements on a page. This is a sketch of the layout I am trying to achieve:

And inside canvas-column-1 I want to add a canvas element i.e it will be a child of canvas-column-1. However when I do this I find that this moves the position of canvas-column-2 which is sibling of canvas-column-1 so I anticipated it would not be affected by any child elements of its siblings:

CSS:
:root {
  --header-height: 100px;
  --footer-height: 20px;
  --header-background: cornflowerblue;
  --column-1-width: 200px;
}

.header {
  height: var(--header-height);
  min-height: var(--header-height);
  max-height: var(--header-height);
  background-color: var(--header-background);
}

.main-content {
  min-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  max-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  min-width: 100vw;
  max-width: 100vh;
  width: 100vw;
  position: absolute;
  top: var(--header-height);
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
}

.footer {
  min-height: var(--footer-height);
  max-height: var(--footer-height);
  background-color: var(--header-background);
  position: absolute;
  top: calc(100vh - var(--footer-height));
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
}

.column-1 {
  min-width: var(--column-1-width);
  max-width: var(--column-1-width);
  width: var(--column-1-width);
  min-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  max-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  background-color: indianred;
  /* display: none; hidden and does NOT take up space. */
  /* -OR USE- */
  /* visibility: hidden; Hidden but still takes up space. */
  display: inline-block;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
}

.column-2 {
  min-width: calc(100vw - var(--column-1-width));
  max-width: calc(100vw - var(--column-1-width));
  width: calc(100vw - var(--column-1-width));
  min-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  max-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  background-color: blueviolet;
  display: inline-block;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: var(--column-1-width);
}

.canvas-column-1 {
  display: inline-block;
  min-width: 50%;
  max-width: 50%;
  width: 50%;

  min-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  max-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));

  background-color: antiquewhite;
}

.canvas-column-2 {
  display: inline-block;
  min-width: 50%;
  max-width: 50%;
  width: 50%;

  min-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  max-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));

  background-color: darkgray;
}

.left-canvas {
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  border: 4px dashed darkblue;
}

HTML

This is the header

Canvas Column 1
        <canvas #leftCanvas class="left-canvas" height="200px" width="200px"></canvas>

Canvas Column 2

I have used a lot of absolute positioning in mainly because I found that when it came to absolute positioning of canvas-column-1 and canvas-column-2 they would be relative to they also needed a non-static parent element otherwise they would not be positioned or sized correctly. Please note this example is for my understanding of how CSS positions and lays out elements.
This is a jsfiddle of the example but that renders something completely different again

A: I don't quit remember where i've read this in docs (i will look it up later), And I may not be remembering it correctly.
replaced elements  dictates where the text line is in inline level layout, that is controlled with vertical-align property, which by default it is set to baseline, if you would change vertical-align on the appropriate element, it should fix it.
EDIT
The appropriate doc
The explanation
From the doc

A line box is always tall enough for all of the boxes it contains. However, it may be taller than the tallest box it contains (if, for example, boxes are aligned so that baselines line up). When the height of a box B is less than the height of the line box containing it, the vertical alignment of B within the line box is determined by the 'vertical-align' property.

Replaced elements don't actually dictates where the line is, But because they can be inline and sit next to text, and since they are generally taller than text that is why it pushed everything downward.
If you want you could decrease the height of the canvas and see the line moves upward.

There also a different issue with inline-block layout, which is that spaces and line breaks in the markup are not ignored, therefore manual calculations of available space won't work as expected.
You can read more about that How do I remove the space between inline/inline-block elements?

Here's a demo
Look at how .canvas-column-1 and .canvas-column-2 are not spaced out which fixes the issue with the column .canvas-column-2 not fitting on the same line.

:root {
  --header-height: 100px;
  --footer-height: 20px;
  --header-background: cornflowerblue;
  --column-1-width: 200px;
}

.header {
  height: var(--header-height);
  min-height: var(--header-height);
  max-height: var(--header-height);
  background-color: var(--header-background);
}

.main-content {
  min-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  max-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  min-width: 100vw;
  max-width: 100vh;
  width: 100vw;
  position: absolute;
  top: var(--header-height);
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
}

.footer {
  min-height: var(--footer-height);
  max-height: var(--footer-height);
  background-color: var(--header-background);
  position: absolute;
  top: calc(100vh - var(--footer-height));
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
}

.column-1 {
  min-width: var(--column-1-width);
  max-width: var(--column-1-width);
  width: var(--column-1-width);
  min-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  max-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  background-color: indianred;
  /* display: none; hidden and does NOT take up space. */
  /* -OR USE- */
  /* visibility: hidden; Hidden but still takes up space. */
  display: inline-block;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
}

.column-2 {
  min-width: calc(100vw - var(--column-1-width));
  max-width: calc(100vw - var(--column-1-width));
  width: calc(100vw - var(--column-1-width));
  min-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  max-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  background-color: blueviolet;
  display: inline-block;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: var(--column-1-width);
}

.canvas-column-1 {
  display: inline-block;
  min-width: 50%;
  max-width: 50%;
  width: 50%;
  min-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  max-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  background-color: antiquewhite;
}

.canvas-column-2 {
  display: inline-block;
  min-width: 50%;
  max-width: 50%;
  width: 50%;
  min-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  max-height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  height: calc(100vh - var(--header-height) - var(--footer-height));
  background-color: darkgray;
}

.left-canvas {
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  border: 4px dashed darkblue;
}

 /* Solution */
.canvas-column-2{
  vertical-align:top;
}

This is the header

Canvas Column 1
        <canvas #leftCanvas class="left-canvas" height="200px" width="200px"></canvas>

Canvas Column 2

A:

:root {
    --header-height: 100px;
    --footer-height: 20px;
    --header-background: cornflowerblue;
    --column-1-width: 200px;
}

* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

html, body, #container {
    height: 100%;
}

#container {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    align-items: stretch;
}

.header {
    background-color: cornflowerblue;
}

.main-content {
    height: 100%;
    display: flex;
}

.footer {
    background-color: cornflowerblue;
    height: var(--footer-height);
}

.column-1 {
    background-color: indianred;
    flex: 1;
}

.column-2 {
    background-color: blueviolet;
    flex: 6;
    display: flex;
}

.canvas-column-1 {
    background-color: antiquewhite;
    flex: 1;
}

.canvas-column-2 {
    background-color: darkgray;
    flex: 1;
}

.left-canvas {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    border: 4px dashed darkblue;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Document</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">

This is the header

Canvas Column 1
                    <canvas #leftCanvas class="left-canvas" height="200px" width="200px"></canvas>

Canvas Column 2


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Q: Extended \Mapsto with text above \documentclass{standalone}

\usepackage{centernot}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{ stmaryrd }

\begin{document}
    $\xmapsto{sdfkjhsdf}$ % This is similar to what I want

    $\Mapsto$ % however I need this kind of arrow

    %$\xMapsto{sdfkjhsdf}$ % does not exist - results in error
\end{document}

Output of the first two:

I want an extensible mapsto with writing on top like the first, but with an arrow like the second. Is there a way to do this from the existing packages?

A: The fp package is used to calculate the appropriate width of the arrow.  The kerns will be important if you change fonts.  It's set up to provide an arrow length of a certain minimum width, regardless of the over/underset.  THen, as the over/underset grows, the arrow width will grow with it.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stackengine}
\usepackage{scalerel}
\usepackage{fp}
\def\clipeq{\kern -.65pt\mathrm{=}\kern -1pt}
\def\Lla{\rule[-.1ex]{.3pt}{1.3ex}}
\def\Lra{\kern -3.5pt\Longrightarrow}
\newcount\argwidth
\newcount\clipeqwidth
\savestack\tempstack{\stackon{$\clipeq$}{}}%
\clipeqwidth=\wd\tempstackcontent\relax
\newcommand\xMapsto[2]{%
  \savestack\tempstack{\stackon{$\scriptstyle#1$}{$\scriptstyle#2$}}%
  \argwidth=\wd\tempstackcontent\relax%
  \FPdiv\scalefactor{\the\argwidth}{\the\clipeqwidth}%
  \FPsub\scalefactor{\scalefactor}{1.5}% <---CAN PLAY WITH THIS VALUE
  \FPmax\scalefactor{\scalefactor}{.05}%
  \mathrel{%
  \stackunder[2pt]{\stackon[3pt]{$\Lla\hstretch{\scalefactor}{\clipeq}\Lra$}%
     {$\scriptstyle#1~$}}{$\scriptstyle#2~$}%
  }%
}
\parskip 1ex
\begin{document}
$X \xMapsto{ABC}{defghi} Y$

$\xMapsto{}{}$

$\xMapsto{a}{}$

$\xMapsto{ab}{}$

$\xMapsto{abc}{}$

$\xMapsto{abcd}{}$

$\xMapsto{abcde}{}$
\end{document}

A: The mathtools package provides nearly everything you need to construct this, and stmaryrd has the extra pieces of symbols.  Putting these together gives

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{centernot}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{stmaryrd}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\xMapsto}[2][]{\ext@arrow 0599{\Mapstofill@}{#1}{#2}}
\def\Mapstofill@{\arrowfill@{\Mapstochar\Relbar}\Relbar\Rightarrow}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\begin{gather*}
   \mapsto \qquad \xmapsto[A]{sdfkjhsdf} \\
 \Mapsto \qquad \xMapsto[A]{sdfkjhsdf}
\end{gather*}
\end{document}

The parameters 0599 are for the placement of the labels and how much the arrow extends over them.  I have use the same numbers as mathtools does for \xmapsto.  \Mapstochar is the short bar at the beginning, from the stmaryrd package, \Relbar is the double line which fits with final \Rightarrow.  The internal macros names include the @ character, so have to be included in a \makeatletter / \makeatother pair.
It might have been nice to use the extpfeil package for this, but unfortunately it loads stmaryrd with clashing options.


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The Vienna Residence Orchestra, a Viennese chamber orchestra with long tradition was founded to perform the music of the "Wiener Klassik" in its purest form. The numerous concert series this orchestra has performed in the last decades have taken place at some of the most beautiful palaces in Vienna. The ensemble performs anything from 10 to 40 musicians. In 1991 the orchestra was appointed the official representative of the City of Vienna in the festivities commemorative the bicentenary of Mozarts death and has also performed a number of concerts at the "Vienna International Festival".


VNA reported that Vietnamese steel exporters have been urged to improve their understanding of trade regulations in import countries to avoid the possibility of anti dumping cases in 2012.
According to the Viet Nam Steel Association, in 2011, steel exports reached more than 2 million tonnes, earning the country USD 2 billion in turnover.
The VSA said that the result was attributable to the growing efforts by steel companies to seek new export opportunities at a time when supply was exceeding domestic demand.
Despite encouraging export performance, the steel industry still faced three anti dumping lawsuits in 2011, including an investigation by the Indonesian Anti Dumping Committee on Vietnamese cold rolled steel, a US Department of Commerce anti dumping and countervailing duty investigation on imports of circulate welded carbon steel pipes and another DoC dumping claim over Vietnamese steel made clothes hangers.
Mr Dinh Huy Tam general secretary at VSA said that "I think these lawsuits are just the beginning. In the future, when we try to boost steel exports to deal with slumping domestic consumption, we will likely cope with more anti-dumping suits from importing countries."
Mr Tam said that the steel supply was currently far exceeding demand but there remained a massive influx of investment into the industry. Because the local market scale was small, enterprises had no choice but to promote exports.
He said that steel exporters should gain an understanding of the rules and regulations of import countries, which they had neglected in the past, in order to minimize the possibility of being subjected to anti dumping duties in the near future.
The VSA said that February's steel consumption volume reached roughly 360,000 tonnes, marking a 50% increase over the previous month. However, last month's export quantity was still lower than the previous average rate of 400,000 to 420,000 each month.
The association also predicted that the local demand for steel would remain modest in the coming months as State invested real estate and infrastructure construction projects were under strict supervision.
The industry currently holds 350,000 tonnes of steel in stock, not including 560,000 tonnes of steel ingots which will be slated for production this month.


Last September, President Barack Obama — with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas standing nearby — said that there would be direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in Washington by November 2009.
The media didn't ridicule the Obama administration or point to this failure. Too bad. That kind of behavior by the media plays a positive role — in this case, teaching the president to be more circumspect and skeptical about rapid progress. Moreover, the president of the United States should never say that something is going to happen unless he knows that it will happen.
Now, in July 2010, the president is pressing for direct negotiations by the end of September: "And my hope is, is that once direct talks have begun, well before the moratorium [Israeli construction freeze that ends in September] has expired, that that will create a climate in which everybody feels a greater investment in success."
That is less of a problem for Obama than one might think. The Guantanamo base was supposed to be closed a long time ago according to Obama's announcement on the subject. It didn't happen either, and nobody is making a big deal out of that. For that matter, Jews always vow "Next year in Jerusalem," but we aren't holding our breath until they all get here either.
By reaffirming U.S. support for Israel and pressing for direct talks, Mr. Obama has created an opportunity to put both Palestinian leaders and Mr. Netanyahu to the test and to discover who is serious and who is not about a two-state settlement.
But he notes that there is no chance of success. What will happen when the talks fail due to Palestinian intransigence? We can see the outlines of how it will go down even now. at the Community of Yes Web site started by J Street. The thesis of the site is that Palestinians are ready and eager for peace, and only Bibi Netanyahu and the evil Israelis do not want peace.
After his prediction of upcoming talks proved wrong last year, Obama ... makes the exact same prediction for 2010.
But is there any reason that this deadline will be met? No.
Israel is eager for direct talks; the PA keeps finding excuses for opposing them. Now it wants Israel to state its positions on borders and security measures before any talks can start. Yet what would happen if Israel did so? The PA would state that they are excessive, and thus refuse to enter direct talks.
True, the U.S. government is putting on some pressure to convince the PA to change its stance. Yet this limited pressure may well not be sufficient. The PA knows that the White House won't go too far in this effort and will never publicly denounce the PA for its obduracy (whereas it would not hesitate — as we have seen — to criticize Israel).
Thus, the PA has ample reason to believe that if it does nothing, nothing will happen to it.
The PA strategy is to ensure that negotiations go nowhere and instead claim that it is building a state and then declare independence some time in the future. The great advantage of this approach is that the PA can try to get a state without compromise or concession to Israel. Moreover, by such methods, the PA can hope — as has happened numerous times — that Israel is blamed for the lack of progress and the U.S. government will pressure Israel.
These expectations may well be wrong — no unilateral independence declaration might ever happen — but they suit the needs of the PA leaders. They hope to avoid internal anger at concessions, closing their options for total victory in the future, and Western criticism or punishment.
The likelihood, then, is that Obama's prediction might fail. Will the media remember that he went out once again on a limb and sawed it off?
Yet we've been through this numerous times before. What happens when Netanyahu proves he is for a two-state solution and Abbas shows he is against it in practice? Will the West put heavy pressure on the PA? Will it swing to a strong pro-Israel policy?
Of course not. And that will help guarantee that no progress is made toward peace.
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition, Viking-Penguin), the paperback edition of The Truth about Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan), and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley).


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Iran Says It Will Be Ready for New Satellite Launch in a Few Months
LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Iran will be ready for a new satellite launch in a few months' time after a failed attempt this week, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, ignoring U.S. and European warnings to avoid such activity.
Western officials say the missile technology used in such launches could be applied to delivering a nuclear weapon.
Iran's bid to send a satellite, named Payam, into orbit failed on Tuesday as its launching rocket did not reach adequate speed in its third stage.
Rouhani was quoted by state media as saying, however, that Iran had "achieved great success in building satellites and launching them. That means we are on the right track.
"The remaining problems are minor, will be resolved in a few months, and we will soon be ready for a new launch," he said.
The United States warned Iran this month against undertaking three planned rocket launches that it said would violate a U.N. Security Council resolution because they use ballistic missile technology.
FILE PHOTO: The Payam satellite is seen in the sky after it was launched in Iran, January 15, 2019, in this still image taken from video. REUTERS./
France's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned the abortive launch and urged Iran to cease ballistic missile tests, which Paris sees as of potential use for nuclear arms.
"The Iranian ballistic programme is a source of concern for the international community and France," ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll said in a statement.
"We call on Iran not to proceed with new ballistic missile tests designed to be able to carry nuclear weapons, including space launchers, and urge Iran to respect its obligations under all U.N. Security Council resolutions," von der Muhll said.
Reacting to the French comments, the Iranian foreign ministry's spokesman said Iran's satellite capabilities did not breach UN resolutions or any other international conventions since they "did not have a military nature."
"The Islamic Republic will choose a path that serves the nation's long term and strategic interests, and will not sacrifice the scientific development of the country for baseless and fabricated concerns of foreign countries," Bahram Qasemi was quoted as saying by IRNA.
Iranian-made missiles are pictured at Holy Defence Museum in Tehran. REUTERS
Under the U.N. resolution enshrining Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States, Tehran is "called upon" to refrain from work on ballistic missiles suitable for carrying nuclear weapons.
Some states say this phrasing does not make it an obligatory commitment. Iran has repeatedly said the ballistic missiles it is developing are purely defensive in purpose and not designed to carry nuclear warheads.
The nuclear deal is now at risk after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from it, in part because it did not cover Iran's ballistic missile programme, and reimposed tough sanctions on Tehran.
(Reporting by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin in London and Johgn Irish in Paris Editing by Mark Heinrich and Toby Chopra)
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What Is a Good Friend and How Do They Affect Mental Health | Well+Good
Does Not Having a Best Friend Have Implications on Your Mental Health?
Emily Laurence
Photo: Getty Images/ Prostock-Studio
While BFF accessories—like broken-heart best-friend necklaces and the colorful hand-braided stringed bracelet fruits of summer-camp labor—may be nostalgic relics of childhood, an emphasis on the importance of best friendship throughout life certainly persists in mainstream pop culture. Watch any TV show or movie focused on a character's interpersonal life (so, basically most movies and TV shows), and there's often an underlying message that you should have one or several friends who are the absolute best. It's a trope played out in everything from Friends and Entourage to Younger and Insecure—heck, even the recent crime drama Mare of Easttown features a storyline about what best friendship means amid the complications of adulthood. The list of examples is really quite endless.
The acceptance and, frankly, glorification of best friendship is so engrained that we even have a National Best Friends Day, which, back in 1935, Congress sanctioned to fall on every June 8th. So knowing all of this, I began wondering during a recent social media scroll through other people's highlight reels—many of which included imagery of their supposed best friendships—whether not having a best friend makes me… weird. I've been fortunate enough to always have friends, but not one, two, or three that resemble what I see in all the TV shows I watch. I have "going out" friends, deep-conversation friends, work friends, tennis-playing friends, but not a single partner or tight-knit clique with whom I do it all.
Am I damaging my mental health by not having a best friend? Am I otherwise missing out on something? To help me figure it out, I reached out to two renowned psychologists focused on friendship for their insight.
Friendship was a hot topic on one recent episode of The Well+Good Podcast. Listen to find out why two friends went to therapy together in an effort to save their friendship—and whether it worked:
To be clear, having *a* friend is important
Making friends as an adult—best friends or otherwise—isn't easy. It's certainly something I worried about when I moved to an entirely new city. For some people, there can certainly be an inclination to not try at all, focusing instead on solo activities that make you feel warm and fuzzy from within the confines of your comfort zone. That said, Marisa Franco, PhD, psychologist, friendship expert, and author of the forthcoming book Platonic says having at least one friend (whether it's a "best" friend or not) can help protect you against isolation and loneliness—two experiences science links to sub-optimal mental and physical health.
"Having one quality friendship can be important for mental health, but diversifying your network to have different types of friends can be beneficial, too." —Marisa Franco, PhD
But how many close friends is the magic number? It's a question Dr. Franco says she gets asked a lot. "It's not about the number of friends that's important, but the quality of the friendships," she says. "Having one quality friendship can be important for mental health, but diversifying your network to have different types of friends can be beneficial, too."
A perk of several close friends instead of just one, she says, is that it lessens the expectations we do place on one friend, as one person can so rarely meet all our needs. On a 2013 episode of The Mindy Project, Mindy Kaling's character said "a best friend isn't a person…it's a tier," and it's a proclamation that resonates with Dr. Franco. "We don't have these formal ceremonies where we commit to a best friend like we do a partner, so there aren't the same type of expectations placed on one person," she says. But whether it's one friend or a tier, Dr. Franco emphasizes that it's the quality of the friendship that counts most.
What constitutes a best friend?
It isn't always easy to know what separates a casual friendship from the quality friendships Dr. Franco references. "When I surveyed women for my book, Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Breakup With Your Best Friend , people had a hard time defining a 'best friend' but so many of them explained that it was a person with whom they just 'clicked,'" says psychologist Irene Levine, PhD. "Communication was easy and uncomplicated; these friends were able to understand one another and be their true selves with one another."
Dr. Franco says a quality friendship comes down to the answer of this question: Who will be there when you need them? "It's the idea that when you're in a time of need, this friend really shows up for you," she says, adding that going-out friends, work friends, mentors—all these types of relationships have value. But having someone to rely on when you need them is a very specific type of need.
Can a partner be a best friend?
Many people in a romantic relationship deem their life or romantic partner as the person who meets this need, and it isn't unusual for people to say their partner is their "best friend." And, according to Dr. Franco, that makes perfect sense and is a healthy assertion for those whom it applies. "Research shows that if you consider your partner your best friend, you are twice as happy in your relationship than if you don't consider your partner your best friend. But your partner shouldn't be your only friend."
Dr. Levine agrees. "Although [your partner being your only friend] might suggest a healthy marital relationship—unless it is overly possessive—[people] who have no other friends are missing out on an opportunity. [People] can share thoughts and problems with each other that might be impossible to discuss with [their partner]."
In addition to being there for you in a time of need, Dr. Franco says there's something else that good-quality friendships have: mutuality. Yes, there are times in friendships when one person needs the other a bit more, but she says that overall, a friendship should feel equal.
Where pop-culture comes up short in portraying friendship
While Dr. Levine and Dr. Franco agree having a friend you can count on when things get tough—no matter whether you call them a best friend or not—is beneficial for mental health, they agree there's no magic number beyond one. Furthermore, the terminology doesn't matter so much as the quality of the friendship in question and how it fulfills you.
With this in mind, there are positives to take away from media portrayals of friendship. Most notably, they tend to emphasize the value that both experts say is so important. But, both caveat that depictions are often romanticized, which can perpetuates unrealistic expectations for what a best friendship should look like. (And that component is part of what led me to question my own relationships.) "In real life, not all friendships are perfect and not all friendships—even very good ones—last forever," Dr. Levine says.
Dr. Franco agrees. "In pop culture, you often only see the friendships portrayed when they're going smoothly—unless a conflict is part of the plot," she says. To her point, rarely do you see lulls in friendships in pop culture: periods of time when friends don't talk as much because they're busy or the nights spent home alone separately, just catching up on some quality "me" time.
Maybe hearing the experts' thoughts on best friendship has you feeling pretty good because you can think of one or a few people who you would call during a hard time (or someone who has already proved this to you). If you don't have any friends you close enough to ask for help, perhaps it's a sign to consider how you can invest more in the casual friendships you already have in order to establish deeper bonds—or ways to branch out and meet new potential friends. Of course, quality friendships take time to build, but like anything, it all starts with a single action.
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News / Highlands
Residents evacuated after blaze breaks out at Highland flat
by Derek Healey
November 4, 2016, 11:25 am Updated: November 4, 2016, 2:10 pm
Residents were evacuated from a Nairn street this morning after a fire broke out at a block of flats.
Three fire crews were sent to extinguish the flames at the three-storey building in Belivat Terrace.
One hose-reel, a thermal imaging unit and a 105 ladder from the fire station in Nairn attended after the call came in at 10.28am.
Police set up a cordon around the area.
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said officers worked to protect the public from falling debris.
A fire spokeswoman said later that the incident was over by 11.29am.
She added: "It wasn't a big fire. It was the window sill and some of the plasterboard. There were no injuries."


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Горелово — бывший военный аэродром на юге Санкт-Петербурга, в одноименном округе Горелово.

Расположен рядом с пос. Аннино, Ленинградской области, 11 км на юго-запад от аэропорта Пулково.

В настоящее время является перспективным местом развития авиации общего назначения для базирования небольших самолетов с вместимостью до 20 человек. Восточная часть полосы является взлетной площадкой для вертолетов 419-го Авиаремонтного завода.

История
В январе 1938 года в Горелово под Ленинградом был сформирован 19-й истребительный авиационный полк на базе 58-й и 70-й истребительных аэ и 33-й разведывательной аэ, входивших в состав 54-й лёгкой авиационной бригады.

С 30 ноября 1939 по 13 марта 1940 года полк защищал северо-западные рубежи страны и Ленинград. За этот период боевых действий выполнено 3412 боевых вылетов.

11 апреля 1940 года за отличное выполнение заданий командования в ходе боевых действий на Карельском перешейке полк награждён орденом Красного знамени.

С марта 1951 года на аэродроме базируется 29-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный Волховский полк, прибывший из Кореи. Входил в систему ПВО Ленинграда.

С 1952 года на аэродроме базируется также 11-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный Выборгский ордена Кутузова полк ПВО. 21 июня 1965 года полк расформирован.

В мае 1969 года 29-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный Волховский полк расформирован, а аэродром передан 419-му авиаремонтному заводу. Часть помещений полка заняло созданное в 1967 году ЛВВПУ ПВО имени Ю. В. Андропова.

До начала 1990-х отсюда летали самолёты транспортной авиации (Ан-8, Ан-12) на аэродромы Прибалтийского военного округа.

На данный момент на аэродроме базируется один из 3-х летающих Ил-14, восстановленный энтузиастами.

В разное время на аэродроме базировались подразделения и части вооружённые следующими самолётами:
 И-16
 И-153
 (Харрикейны)
 (Ла-5) — базировались не в Горелово, а на полевом аэродроме угол Светлановского и Тихорецкого, где с 1941 по 1944 годы базировался 44/11 гв ап.
 (Спитфайер−5) — до 1950 года — военная история
 МиГ-17 (29-й гв. иап, 11-й гв. иап)
 Су-9 (29-й гв. иап)

Примечания

Ссылки

 Планы по развитию авиационной инфраструктуры в Санкт-Петербурге

 Посадка в а/д Горелово, Самолет Piper Cheyenne

Военные аэродромы СССР
Аэродромы Ленинградской области
Аэродромы Санкт-Петербурга
Аэродромы ВВС России


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A Central Geotérmica do Pico Vermelho, localiza-se junto ao Pico Vermelho, concelho da Ribeira Grande, ilha de São Miguel, arquipélago dos Açores.

Esta central geotérmica tem uma potência líquida de 10 MW e uma produção anual de 80 GWh com um factor de recarga de 92%, demorou cerca de 60 meses a ser construída e atingiu um montante global de investimento de cerca de 34,4 milhões de euros, co-financiados pelo Programa Operacional de Desenvolvimento Económico e Social dos Açores (PRODESA) em cerca de 28%.

Apresenta-se com uma Sistema single flash dotado de turbina de contra-pressão e com uma capacidade de produção de 1 x 3 MW capaz de apresentar um caudal de vapor que se eleva a cerca de 56 toneladas hora e uma pressão de admissão de 6 bar.

Esta central que ainda não se encontra em plenas capacidades de exploração é alimentada apenas por PV1 com a potência instalada de actual de 0,8 MW e um Caudal de vapor de 20 toneladas hora, apresentando uma pressão de admissão: 5 bar.

Com a entrada em funcionamento desta central, a contribuição de origem geotérmica para o sistema electroprodutor da ilha de São Miguel em 2007 foi da ordem dos 37%.

O projecto da central foi executado pela empresa multinacional israelita Ormat.

Ligações externas
Presidente do Governo inaugura a nova Central Geotérmica do Pico Vermelho.
DRCT presente na inauguração da Central Geotérmica do Pico Vermelho.

Referências

Energia renovável em Portugal
Economia dos Açores
Ribeira Grande (São Miguel)


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"You Wanted the Best" is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss, released on their eighteenth studio album Psycho Circus in 1998. The song was written by the band's bassist Gene Simmons, and was released as the fourth single off the album on November 23, 1998. The song only charted on Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks, reaching number 22. The band never performed the song live. It was the final recording to feature the original lineup and the only one to feature shared lead vocals among them.

Background
Gene Simmons, the sole writer of the song, said about the lyrics: "The lyrics talk about a time when everyone in the band was bitching at each other in the press. With family, there's always a mixture of affection and bickering. Listen, we're really servants of the people. Ultimately we have to brush aside our internal differences for the greater of the whole, the greater good, which is the fans. The least we owe them is to shut up, get up on stage and put out." The song is the only one where all band members share lead vocals. At first, the song was titled "Just Give Me Love" and was written in 1977, but Simmons changed the lyrics to make it as a story of the band members.

It is one of only three songs from the album where Ace Frehley played lead guitar, with the others being "Into the Void" and "In Your Face". Drums were not played by Peter Criss, but by Kevin Valentine, a session drummer who played on every track on the album, except "Into the Void".

"You Wanted the Best" was released as fourth single off Psycho Circus. It managed to chart only on Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks, reaching number 22. Kiss never performed the song live.

Personnel
Credited personnel
Gene Simmons – bass, co-lead vocals
Paul Stanley – rhythm guitar, co-lead vocals
Ace Frehley – lead guitar, co-lead vocals
Peter Criss – co-lead vocals

Uncredited personnel
Kevin Valentine – drums

Charts

References

Kiss (band) songs
1998 singles
Mercury Records singles
Songs written by Gene Simmons
Song recordings produced by Bruce Fairbairn
1998 songs


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GROS-ISLET, Saint Lucia, June 20, (AFP): Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal will miss his side's third Test against the West Indies after being found guilty of ball tampering by the International Cricket Council on Tuesday.
Chandimal was found guilty of changing the condition of the ball during the second day's play of the second Test, which concluded at Gros Islet on Monday.
"It is clear that Dinesh Chandimal applied an artificial substance to the ball, namely saliva containing the residue of something he had in his mouth, an action which is prohibited under the ICC Code of Conduct," said match referee Javagal Srinath after the judgement.
The Sri Lanka captain got two suspension points and was fined 100 per cent of his match fee. The points equate to a ban from one Test or two ODIs or two T20Is, whatever comes first for the player, Chandimal will now miss the day/night Barbados Test, starting from Saturday.
Explaining the decision Srinath said he had reviewed the images carefully.