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Q: Thread.Interrupt() Not working as intended in Android? Here is my Code:
Calling interrupt does stop thread, but just for a split second, immediately, the thread continues, but why? My current solution to this problem is to use ArrayList to manage threads, and loop over the ArrayList to stop the threads. Though this works, but certainly is not good. Can anyone help me with that?

private Thread thread;
private static final String TAG = "StoragePresenter";

public void refreshVolumes(boolean isRunning) {
    if (isRunning) {
        Handler handler = new Handler();
        Runnable runnable = () -> {
            while (!thread.isInterrupted()) {
                Log.d(TAG, "refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while " + thread.isInterrupted());
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(refreshDelay);
                    Log.d(TAG, "refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> " + Thread.currentThread().getName()); //Thread -> 9
                } catch (InterruptedException ignored) {
                }
                Log.d(TAG, "refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> " + Thread.currentThread().getName());
                handler.post(this::getVolumes);
            }
        };
        thread = new Thread(runnable);
        Log.d(TAG, "refreshVolumes: start thread's name -> " + thread.getName());
        thread.start(); // Thread -> 9 started
    } else {
        Log.d(TAG, "refreshVolumes: interrupt thread's name -> " + thread.getName());
        thread.interrupt(); // Thread -> 9 interrupted
        Log.d(TAG, "refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? " + thread.isInterrupted());
        Log.d(TAG, "refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? 2x " + thread.isInterrupted());
    }
}

Logcat output:
        ////////////////////////////////////
        called refreshVolumes(true)
        ////////////////////////////////////
        08-09 17:41:29.687 924-1811/? I/ActivityManager: START u0 {cmp=com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev/com.xxxxxxxxx.app.ui.main.settings.storage.StorageActivity} from uid 10293
        08-09 17:41:29.767 26451-26451/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: start thread's name -> Thread-9
        08-09 17:41:29.768 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:41:29.927 924-995/? I/ActivityManager: Displayed com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev/com.xxxxxxxxx.app.ui.main.settings.storage.StorageActivity: +210ms
        08-09 17:41:33.269 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9
            refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:41:33.271 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:41:36.772 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9
            refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:41:36.773 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:41:40.274 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9
            refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:41:40.275 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:41:43.776 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9
            refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:41:43.777 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:41:47.278 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:41:47.279 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:41:47.280 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:41:50.780 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9
            refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
            refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        ////////////////////////////////////
        called refreshVolumes(false)
        ////////////////////////////////////
        08-09 17:41:50.861 26451-26451/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev
D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: interrupt thread's name -> Thread-9
        08-09 17:41:50.862 26451-26451/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? true
            refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? 2x false
        08-09 17:41:50.862 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
            refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:41:54.362 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:41:54.363 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:41:54.376 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:41:57.878 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9
            refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:41:57.879 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:42:01.380 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9
            refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:42:01.381 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:42:04.882 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9
            refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:42:04.883 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:42:08.384 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9
        08-09 17:42:08.385 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in runnable WHILE ---> Thread-9
            refreshVolumes: thread.isInterrupted? above while false
        08-09 17:42:11.886 26451-26676/com.xxxxxxxxx.android.dev D/StoragePresenter: refreshVolumes: in TRY ---> Thread-9

A: When Thread.sleep throws InterruptedException (due to being interrupted while sleeping), it clears the interrupt flag. You should actually handle the InterruptedException and use the catch block to break out of the loop if you want it to work this way.


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Ausiku bemoans slow decentralisation
John Muyamba National Kavango West
NKURENKURU - Kavango West Regional Governor Sirkka Ausiku, wants offices, ministries and agencies to speed up the decentralisation of their functions to regional councils to make service delivery effective.
Ausiku made the remarks last week when she addressed the regional council and the community of Kavango West Region at large on the state of that region.
"The region would like such institutions to speed up the decentralisation of their functions to regional councils," she said.
The governor highlighted that various such government arms are responding positively to the region's call to set up offices in Kavango West and as of now, more than 20 of them are operating from Nkurenkuru.
This, she said, has brought key services to the town of Nkurenkuru and the region at large.
"Similarly, I am happy to report that Nepara Army Base is now operational. Institutions like Natis, MTC and Telecom also brought their services to our region in addition to three financial institutions already in Nkurenkuru," she said.
"The region also has business complexes, where most institutions are operating from. The region also has two institutions of higher learning, namely IUM and Welwitschia University, as well as a new filling station. All these developments brought services closer to the people and helped to stimulate our economy and thereby impacting positively on the livelihoods of our people," she added. However, Ausiku said that the region is appealing to the Ministry of Health and Social Services, the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Land Reform, as well as other educational institutions such as Unam and Nust plus financial institutions like Agribank, and DBN to set up offices in the regional capital, Nkurenkuru. Governor Ausiku, in her statement noted that the region will continue to strengthen good working relationships with all institutions and all stakeholders including investors in the region and appealed to such agencies that have not yet set up offices in the region to start doing so during the current financial year, in order to bring services closer to the people.
"Currently, communities are being denied the most important and basic services," she said.
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I refer also to the portions of an interesting federal lawsuit that calls attention to the "manufactured uncertainty" that was promoted by the carbon fuels industries.
So far, the facts of these allegations have not been challenged in court (possibly because the disinformation is not central to the nuisance claims).
+ Manufactured uncertainty by raising doubts about even the most indisputable scientific evidence.
+ Adopted a strategy of information laundering by using seemingly independent front organizations to publicly further its desired message and thereby confuse the public.
+ Promoted scientific spokespeople who misrepresent peer reviewed scientific findings or cherry-pick facts in their attempts to persuade the media and the public that there is still serious debate among scientists that burning fossil fuels has contributed to global warming and that human-caused warming will have serious consequences.
There are numerous other climate lawsuits. I have not read them, but this is clear language.
Prof Brown – you are correct, this is clearly a new crime.


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Caster Semenya: 'People want to stare at me, to touch me. I don't think I like being famous so much'
A visit to Caster Semenya's training camp in Pretoria shows how her life has changed since winning the women's 800m in Berlin
In pictures: Inside Caster Semenya's training camp
Caster Semenya found 'innocent of any wrong' to retain 800m gold medal
Caster Semenya: 'I am myself here. Everyone accepts me. I feel good with them.' Photograph: John Giles/PA
Donald McRae in Pretoria
@donaldgmcrae
On a stormy afternoon in Pretoria a hooded figure runs steadily in the distance, head held high against the big black clouds rolling over the city. It is hard to tell if we are following a man or a woman for, even when the sky is lit by lightning, we're shrouded in gloom. Half a mile ahead of us, with fat drops of rain smearing the dusty windscreen, the solitary runner looks vulnerable.
Michael Seme, in the passenger seat of our car, squints into the gathering darkness, trying to work out the identity of the slender shape running so defiantly. "Is this one of my boys?" the 50-year-old athletics coach murmurs. His fatigue is tempered by the generous spirit that helps him rise at 3.30 every morning to encourage his young runners so that, by 4am, they are on the road, dreaming of World Championship and Olympic glory.
"It's Caster!" he suddenly shouts, pointing at the runner who is now less than a hundred metres away. "Look," he says. "Give her a hoot."
Caster Semenya, the world's most haunted and controversial athlete, an 18-year-old black South African woman who had been catapulted into infamy just before one of the sporting achievements of the year, turns sharply at the toot-toot of a hooter. Her eyes open wide as she sees her grinning coach, Seme, the man she and all her friends call Sponge, and whom they trust with their lives. Sponge has worked with Semenya since January, turning an erratic and unknown teenager amateur into a world champion in the space of eight extraordinary months.
He leans over to open the back door and, whooping in relief, Semenya slides across the back seat. "Ai, Sponge," she yelps, "this is the first time you give me VIP service to training!"
Semenya, smiling broadly, holds out her hand to me. "You made it just in time," she says, offering a crunching handshake and a wink.
It feels mildly perplexing to have a person as usually elusive and apparently troubled as Semenya rocking with laughter in the back of my 81-year-old mother's battered Toyota Corolla. The day before, when arriving in Pretoria to meet Seme for the first time, I had been eyed suspiciously for an hour by one of Semenya's newly appointed bodyguards. He had eventually become a little friendlier, before boredom kicked in and he drifted away. Semenya's spontaneous delight, in contrast, is as uplifting as it is contagious.
Grinning gormlessly at her in the rearview mirror, asking Semenya how she feels on her first afternoon back at training since she won gold three months ago in the women's 800m at the world championships in Berlin, I do not even see a speed-bump in the road ahead. We hit the bump hard and Semenya cracks her head against the roof of the Toyota. She winces, but laughs again at my bumbling apology. This fleeting pain is nothing compared to the protracted agony she has endured since Berlin.
Such invasive scrutiny
On 19 August Semenya's victory in the 800m final was as decisive as the surrounding circumstances were shocking. The previous day the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced that Semenya had been the subject of "gender verification tests" in both South Africa and Germany. An endocrinologist, a gynaecologist and a psychologist had all tried to establish whether Semenya, who had lived her whole life as a girl, was actually a man.
Widespread sex-testing of female athletes had initially been introduced by the IAAF in the 1960s only to be largely suspended in the late 1990s when scientists regularly questioned the veracity of their findings. The IAAF appeared uncertain how best to proceed in the tangled case of Semenya. In their desire to quash excitable whispers about Semenya's imposing physique in Berlin it proceeded to reveal that sex tests had been held. Yet the results, and further tests, would take many more weeks or even months to emerge. It looked as if they were protecting themselves – rather than an exposed young woman – from a furiously curious world.
Semenya could still run in the final. A less resilient individual would have slunk away in the hope that they might be spared further invasive scrutiny. But the teenager, displaying marked mental strength, resolved to seize the opportunity she and Seme had worked so hard for all year.
On that unforgettable night she lined up in lane four, stoically ignoring the flashing photographers and the unblinking television cameras, as she stared down the track. The British runner, Jenny Meadows, looked diminutive and slight alongside the muscled frame of the South African. Meadows ran bravely and finished third behind an imperious Semenya – whose winning time of 1min 55.45sec was a personal best, the fastest by a woman in 2009 and over eight seconds quicker than she had run a year before.
Meadows praised her as "a great athlete" but the Italian Elisa Cusma, who came sixth in the final, sneered bluntly of the new champion: "She is a man." The Sun had its own take on Semenya's hurtful victory as they opted for an "800m and two veg" headline. Semenya's surprising triumph had become a degrading, international affair. "It's legally very complex," said Nick Davies, the IAAF's director of communications when questioned that night about the ruling body's startling pronouncements with regard to Semenya. "It's a medical issue. It's not an issue of cheating. We're more concerned not to make this something which is humiliating for her and something which is going to affect her in a negative way. This is why you will appreciate we have to be discreet. She is a human being who was born as a woman, and who has grown up all her life as a woman, but who is now in a position where this is being questioned."
Athletics South Africa, in the form of its now disgraced and suspended president, Leonard Chuene, accused the IAAF of racism. Chuene denied having tricked Semenya into a similar "gender verification test" a month earlier – a lie he has since been forced to admit. South Africa's sports minister, Makhenkesi Stofile, meanwhile, warned that the country would unleash "a third world war" should sensationalist rumours that Semenya was intersex be confirmed in an official report.
Jacob Zuma, the country's president, was more rational. Considering a claim that Semenya had been born as a female without a womb, and with internal testes that produce unusually high levels of testosterone for a woman, Zuma said: "I don't know why we should not respect the privilege between the doctor and the patient. Why, when the tests have been done, was it published?"
Confused and hurt, and hemmed in by her rollicking celebrity in South Africa and her notoriety in world sport, Semenya has had to stop running and wait anxiously. That tortuous process will finally end next week. In six days' time, on 20 November, the IAAF is due to announce its ruling on all the medical tests and legal wrangling that has since turned Semenya's world inside out. Her life as an athlete, and a young woman, will be decided as the IAAF reveals whether it plans to ban her from competing again, order her to undergo surgery or allow her to remain herself.
The fight for acceptance
It is difficult to square this distressing saga with the sight of a jubilant Semenya climbing out of an old car in Pretoria. Amid loud greetings and high-fives she embraces her closest friends in the tightly knit group of elite athletes who train with "Sponge" Seme in a secluded area at the University of Pretoria. Wearing a beanie, pulled low over her head, she and her friend, Ledile Violete Raseboya, an international cross-country and middle-distance runner whom everyone calls Violete, eye the electrified black sky with wry amusement.
"Sponge," Semenya says with mock solemnity, "we are not afraid."
Today is meant to mark a return to normality. In an effort to help Semenya regain the composure that has been shredded since Berlin, and prepare her for the year-end university exams she sat this week, she is about to resume training. Seme has already admitted that Semenya had been traumatised by Berlin and its aftermath. "Her head is very tired," the coach said last month when suggesting that Semenya might need to defer her studies. But her mood appears rejuvenated – especially since, three weeks ago, she and Seme were both honoured at the University of Pretoria with their respective awards as sportswoman of the year and coach of the year.
Yet, more than anything, with her exams looming, Semenya wants to feel the comforting spring of a tartan track beneath her blurring feet. Between the curved and straight white lines, running bends and hurtling down the flat, Semenya feels at home. Her fervour is plain as, jiggling with energy and shooting out her legs in jokey karate moves, she urges that they take to the track. Seme, however, is emphatic. "Caster," he warns, "there's lightning. We must let it pass."
Eight of us, including four male athletes and two women in Caster and Violete, huddle in an empty stand. But even a violent storm cannot curb Semenya's relish at being surrounded by athletes who accept her unequivocally. "I am myself here," she says as, together with Violete, we break away from the group to talk. "Everyone just accepts me. They know who I am. I am just Caster to these guys. I feel good with them."
Semenya shrugs when asked if she can ever feel relaxed outside this soothing enclave. "It's not so easy. The university is OK but there is not many other places I can go. People want to stare at me now. They want to touch me. I'm supposed to be famous but I don't think I like it so much. I feel much better here – with Sponge and the athletes."
The outside world, for Semenya, has become a restricted and haunting place. "I can't go shopping no more," she laughs, a traditional girly lament sounding heart-wrenching when uttered in her relatively gruff voice. "Can you believe it?"
Can she believe the depths to which human nature can also sink – as the curious and the prurient, the scandalised and the judgmental, rush to make assumptions about her? Has she not felt despair at the reaction of others towards her? "No," she says with a flash of defiance. "I know who I am. I can't change what they say."
Has Semenya herself changed during this ordeal? She shakes her head again, her face softening this time. "What is the point of me changing? If I became another person it would be bad. If I acted in a different way with my friends they would not be happy. It's important I stay the same. I can still laugh with my friends."
In an understated way Semenya makes it plain that she is not able to answer any more pressing questions as to either her sex or her future. I might be a privileged visitor to their camp for the next week but there are still certain boundaries that, until the IAAF ruling is confirmed, she cannot breach.
She looks across at Violete and I ask how the two of them met. "I live in Soweto," Violete reveals, "but, like Caster, I come from northern Limpopo. We both speak pure Pedi [a black South African language], so we understand each other very well. But the first time I met Caster – ai!"
Violete laughs at the memory. "It was in 2007 and I'd heard a lot about this girl in northern Limpopo. People said she is very strong. She has no fear. I met her in the toilet. We say hello and Caster tells me she is not scared of me. Now I've run for South Africa in the World Cross-Country Championships and I just look at her. Who is this tough girl? It was Caster!"
That determination has been apparent throughout a tumultuous 2009. When she joined their camp in the first weeks of this year, Semenya was subjected to some comprehensive defeats on the track. "It was hard for her in the beginning," Violete confirms. "She was running very slow times. At one meeting in Port Elizabeth it took her five minutes to run 1500m. Sponge was on the side of the track, telling her to quit. It was too embarrassing but Caster would not quit even if they were going to lap her over 1500m."
Why did she not quit? "I am a fighter," Semenya says evenly. "I never give up. And I knew I was going to get better."
Violete nods appreciatively. "Caster is very strong. She is brave. I saw that when she was in Berlin. I was injured and so I couldn't run but I spent a lot of money calling Caster from South Africa. I spoke to her many times every day because I want to boost her. There was a lot of crazy things going on."
Semenya shakes her head mysteriously, sidestepping the sex doubts and tests. "In Berlin," she says quietly, "I just wanted to run."
"On the day of the final I phone her," Violete remembers, the memory of the controversy clouding her intelligent face. "I say, 'Caster, what are you going to do?'"
Semenya leans forward. "I told Violete: 'I will run'. After the first two races in Berlin I thought I could beat everyone. And I did."
Semenya wrapped herself in the South African flag which Violete had given her just she before left Johannesburg – and tried to retreat from the ferocious glare of world attention. "Caster was very surprised when I called her next," Violete says, "and I told her that her parents, and other members of her family, were going to meet her at the airport in Johannesburg. I had taken her to the airport to catch her flight but, this time, I said I would not be there to meet her. I said I would see her on the weekend but, at the airport, there would be no space for me. I told her there would be thousands of people waiting for her. She could not believe it. And, since that time, life has not been normal for Caster."
Teasing of a tomboy
Life has rarely been conventional for Mokgadi Caster Semenya. Born in Ga-Masehlong and raised in Fairlie, two small black South African villages deep in the province of northern Limpopo, the tough little girl who preferred playing football and wrestling to wearing dresses or brushing the hair of a doll, always lived on the margins of an otherwise strict "gender" divide. She was strong enough to follow her own interests and passion and, in an effort to improve her stamina as a footballer, she took to running the dirt roads around Fairlie.
Caster was teased and mocked as a tomboy. And the steeliness so evident in her today was forged in those fiercely independent yet occasionally lonely days in Fairlie. Her 80-year-old grandmother, Maphuthi Sekgala, said: "If the teasing hurt her, she kept the hurt to herself and didn't show what she was feeling."
Dorcus Semenya, her mother, remembered: "I would often ask her why she kept playing soccer with the boys. She was the only girl in that soccer team. And all she said was, 'It's because I like it'. With her everything was about soccer, soccer, soccer."
At the age of 16, according to her headmaster, Eric Modiba, at Nthema secondary school, where Semenya was a student from 2004 until 2008, "she started to associate with other girls and try different hairstyles. But I've never seen her in a skirt or a dress, always trousers".
Her parents accepted her and so the outcry in Berlin, especially the revelations of the IAAF and ASA's "gender testing", cut the family to the core. "I know she is a woman – I raised her myself," her grandmother stressed. "She called me after [the heats] and told me that they think she is a man. What can I do when they call her a man, when she's really not a man? It is God who made her look that way."
Dorcus, her mother, was indignant. "Ask any of my neighbours and they will tell you Mokgadi is a girl. They know because they helped raise her. People can say what they like but the truth will remain – which is that my child is a girl." Semenya's father, Jacob, said: "She is my little girl. I have never doubted her sex. She is a woman and I can repeat that a million times."
The unassuming Michael Seme, with more detachment than her family, could observe the pain in his young athlete. He noted that Semenya had been "crudely humiliated" this year – "Caster has to explain again that she can't help the fact that her voice is so gruff and that she is really a girl. The remarkable thing is that Caster remains completely calm and never loses her dignity when she is questioned about her gender."
The equally remarkable story of Semenya's sporting transformation, from a wild amateur into a dominant world champion, is told best today by Seme. A student activist in the seminal June 1976 Soweto school riots which did so much to rock apartheid, Seme is one of just a very few South Africans to have reached the IAAF's highest level five in coaching. But even that expertise, and 30 years of coaching, could not prepare him for this experience.
Considering how wounded Semenya has been since Berlin, and the intense level of both justified concern and a more scrambled paranoia that drives those striving to protect her, it is little wonder that Seme is far more comfortable discussing her sporting development this year. "At first she was just another athlete," Seme says one sunny morning in his office in Pretoria. "I saw her in 2007 and she was running like a novice."
Seme lifts his head skywards and pumps his arms in imitation of a zealous junior. While she had raw talent – which was sufficient for her to win gold at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in a time of 2min 4.23sec – Seme argues: "Caster had no real rhythm. But I noticed she was taller than other girls in her age group and she was going to be much stronger – especially if she gets the right advice. She told me she is coaching herself. I said, 'Look, I can help you'. She was most interested when she heard I am working a long time with Stephen Mokoka [the 23-year-old South African half-marathon champion who won the Great North Run in Sunderland this year, and who finished a close second to Mo Farah in the Great South Run in Portsmouth last month].
"Mokoka can win the marathon at the London Olympics in 2012. So when Caster hears Stephen is with me she says, 'Coach, I would be happy to join you'. I called the director of athletics here at the University of Pretoria and he met Caster. They talked and we agreed she would get a bursary to study here."
Seme looks thoughtful when asked if, 11 months ago, he believed that he was about to launch the career of a new world champion? "I do short-term planning and programmes," he says, "but with Caster my hope was that, with the right training, she could make the final in Berlin. I thought she could try for a medal."
In his office, one wall features a chart which tracks Seme's meticulous planning for Semenya this year – with the more striking lines on the detailed graphs being those which show how clearly she exceeded even her coach's most optimistic targets and expectations. These charts and graphs, and the pace sheets which determine how fast she should cover 400m and 600m repetitions in training, unveil a sporting story that has been monitored with unerring dedication. The only sensationalism here is the astonishing improvement which Seme brought to bear on his previously untutored athlete.
The allegation that Semenya is the unwitting beneficiary of three times as much testosterone as other women runners is still to be proved but that hormonal imbalance was already evident at the start of the year. It did not, however, make her a world-beater. Instead, as Seme confirms, "after a few months, Caster said, 'Coach, these girls are beating me badly'. I said, 'Don't worry'. In the 800m, for the first lap, she was nearly leading. It was only in the second lap that she falls to the back. So we did no speed work. It was just endurance. We trained early in the morning, at five, and at four every afternoon. I had her running up and down this small hill behind the rugby field at the back of my office. Caster would do this for 30 minutes – up and down, up and down.
"She used to play soccer with the boys, and do karate, and so her body is strong. She takes pain easily. The guys are telling her she runs just like a boy – but Mokoka is helping her. One day they run 800m on the grass. I am timing them and she runs 1:59. But I want to keep motivating her. As she and Mokoka go past I say, '2:02! That's not so bad'.
"Mokoka is the only one who notices something strange. He falls down and says, 'Ai, coach, no, come on! I feel like I ran 1:46!' And I say 'no, it's 2:02'."
At the African Junior Championships in Mauritius in July, a lack of funding meant that Seme could not accompany Semenya. "I had to rely on the cellphone," he says wistfully. "I knew no junior could touch her but I was still surprised when she called me after the final and said she ran 1:56. I said, '1:58?' And she said, 'No, coach, 1:56. And I didn't even have to work hard to win'."
That breakthrough disconcerted the South African authorities – and the ASA president, Chuene, tricked Semenya into having a sex test. Yet he refused to heed the advice of the team doctor, Harold Adams, that Semenya should be withdrawn from the world championships.
Seme lowers his head at the mention of Chuene's name. He is not a man who speaks ill of anyone; but even Seme's innate generosity has its limits. "All the athletes, I think," he says, "are glad he got suspended [last Thursday]. Now we must just wait for the IAAF."
As Seme is so understandably reluctant to discuss the IAAF's testing procedures, and to speculate on the likeliest outcome of next Friday's ruling, I ask him a purely sporting question. If the sex issue could be pushed to one side, in some far-off fantasy world, how long might it take Semenya to smash the world record for the women's 800m which Jarmila Kratochvilova of the Czech Republic set as far back as 1983 when she ran the distance in 1min 53.28sec?
Seme laughs softly. "She is 18 now, and we must always remember she is a woman. What if she gets a boyfriend? All these things can disturb her. I can't stop her doing this even if it will affect her mind as an athlete. In South Africa everyone is free now. When she's got a boyfriend I can't stop her. So there is no guarantee. But if she can keep her focus, and she is allowed to run, she can do something special."
Way out of the quagmire
Our second training session, a few days later, is engulfed by yet another violent storm. But walking to the track with Seme, Semenya has eyes only for a group of footballers playing a frenetic game beneath the lightning and thunder. She flushes at the reminder that she was once a committed footballer who was forced to give up the sport because some boys in her village were uncomfortable playing with such an aggressive girl. "I gave up soccer," she sighs. "But I don't think I can ever stop running."
And so now, in Pretoria, despite the drenching rain, Semenya and five young men take to the track. Her running is as exuberant as it is determined and even when Seme tries to call a halt she and her fellow athletes insist on continuing. Seme and I retreat to the old Toyota and, despite the whirring wipers, his star is lost in the sheeting rain. Eventually, looking as if he has absorbed more rainwater than his proverbial nickname, Sponge Seme gets out and blows his whistle piercingly until, at last, Semenya and the boys veer off the track.
"OK, coach," Semenya laughs, the rain sliding down her beaming face, "we'll stop now!"
Two days later, on her final afternoon of training before she begins her crucial university exams, the sky is blue and the light is soft. Semenya, despite the growing tension surrounding next week's IAAF ruling, remains relaxed. Alongside Violete and Sponge she even camps it up for the photographer, baring her long fingernails and placing a hand on her jutting hip-bone as if she could get used to life as a high-profile, ultra-feminine model. It is a light-hearted parody of the glossy cover shoot she was corralled into doing a few months ago – when, for South Africa's You magazine, she was dolled up in full-scale girly-glamour gear.
But today she is at her most compelling when, in a bright pink top, she runs around the track, as the laps disappear beneath her flying feet. Semenya, now, looks deeply concentrated, ignoring the black-and-white cows grazing at the top end of the field as, with her breath falling fast and hard from her, she pushes herself under the watchful gaze of Sponge Seme and her inspiration, Stephen Mokoka, who has just returned from competing in Britain and India.
It is easy, at least for an hour as she runs and runs, training alongside her friends, to believe that everything might still work out seamlessly for Semenya. A few days earlier, she had allowed herself to look forward to 2010 with real hope. "Next year is going to be busy," she insisted. "I want to win the African Juniors again …"
She stopped in full flow, catching my look of surprise. "I'll still be a junior next year," she said. "So why not? And then there's the World Cup and the Commonwealth Games [in Delhi next October]. I even want to run cross-country – but I know Sponge will say no. But I want to give myself new challenges. I want to get better."
That very human desire, to overcome difficult challenges and to constantly improve, is the very least the world owes Caster Semenya. Next week's ruling, and the way in which it is handled by the IAAF and administrators both inside and outside South Africa, will go a long way to determining how a young woman might recover from a series of terrible humiliations.
She and Violete Raseboya look impossibly young when I tell them the story of Jesse Owens – who ran and jumped in serious competition for the last time during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In the very same stadium where Semenya shocked the world, Owens startled the watching Hitler and a phalanx of Nazi commanders by winning four gold medals. Owens was a 23-year-old black American and a few weeks after recording one of sport's iconic achievements, he was banned by his own athletics federation as a "professional". That same year, in December 1936, Owens was reduced to running against a horse in Havana, Cuba, with his life in shreds.
The young South African women say they have heard of the Nazis – but the name of Jesse Owens is utterly new to them. Their coach is different. Seme feels the resonance of Owens's story with more familiar feeling and is struck by the Berlin link Semenya now shares. Amid the innocence of his two young female athletes, I sense a fervent hope that Semenya will not be subject to a similar fate to Owens in the wake of her own Berlin experience. The complexities of her case should not prevent Semenya from being treated with respect and understanding.
Semenya, alongside her coach, the gentle Sponge, has reacted better than anyone in this long and convoluted saga. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of Nelson Mandela, believes, in her role as the head of the Task Team appointed to protect the athlete, that Semenya is "extremely relaxed … she seems to have found her own way of dealing with this quagmire".
The truth, as ever, is probably more complicated; and a member of her training group admits that Semenya has spoken privately of her anger at how she has been treated – by the athletics authorities, politicians, the media and the world beyond. Yet, in the setting sun, as we say goodbye, Semenya does not look like a woman in need of pity. Her handshake is as firm as ever, her laugh as forceful as before, but the hurt to which she has been subjected seems palpable. She smiles as I tell her that Sponge is about to take me to the hill where she ran up and down for so many hours in those cold mornings before anyone in the world outside even knew her name.
"You should run up the hill," she cracks. "It does you good."
And with those words ringing in my head, I follow Sponge. A steep mound of earth, rather than a proper hill, rises up before us. At his instruction the photographer and I trundle up and down Caster's Hill. We eventually stand wheezing at its small summit, watching the light fade from an African sky which shifts slowly from yellow to orange to a darkening red. I ask Sponge one last time what he imagines might happen next week, when yet another storm could be unleashed across the life of Caster Semenya, and he smiles a curiously sad smile. "We hope for Caster," he says. "That's all we can do."


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Quick report on the Inter regional event that some of the girls attended at Nottingham on 23rd April.
The event is a regatta composed of the 12 rowing regions of England, with points awarded depending on the placement of the crews. (12pts for a win, 11 for 2nd and so on to 1 for 12th).
The standard is high and it is a great experience to row against these crews and at a 6 lane international standard rowing course. The squad were chosen to represent the Western region in 3 events, a Junior 15 double scull (Emilia & Clarice), a Junior 16 double scull (Josie & Livvy) and a Junior 16 eight (Izzy, Megan, Karrie (from Paignton), Lucy, Emilia, Maia, Livvy, Josie and Ella).
I was very pleased with how the girls rowed in tough races and although we didn't reach any "A" finals , were competitive. The J16 double finished 6th, the J15 double 4th in the B finals. The 8 was 9th fastest in the heats, and although were disqualified at the start of the "B" final (due to a clash, not helped by my selection of where to seat the girls in the boat, one side probably stronger than the other), I think we would've finished 4th or possibly 3rd. These points helped the West region finish 9th overall, the highest for a long while.


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AllGood Cafe's Mike Snider checks in this week with a pretty imperssive upcoming get at Sons of Hermann Hall--at least for alt-country devotees.
On Friday, April 19 17, at Sons, Gary Louris and Mark Olson, both of the seminal alt-country act The Jayhawks, will perform together again for what should be a fairly decent draw. Why just fairly decent? Well, the duos's been playing around together pretty regularly since their original band's demise. In fact, they just released a new collaborative record called Ready For The Flood in January.
Should be an interesting night, though. Advance tickets are $18, and available through Front Gate.


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There's no denying that the economic landscape at the moment is looking rather parched. And, as a result, small businesses throughout the country are looking to refresh their business by devising inventive ways to attract new business and keep existing customers happy.
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Once you're prepared to make the best impression possible, apply immediately for any credit you anticipate needing. If you wait until you actually need it, your credit record may already be less attractive to lenders. Furthermore, securing credit with terms you're comfortable with takes time — a luxury you may not have later.
A far greater challenge than figuring out when to seek credit is knowing how much credit to apply for. Applying for too little can leave you strapped for cash, but applying for too much credit — or too often — can adversely affect your credit score. It's important, for example, to have enough short-term credit to cover short-term expenses, such as chemicals and other supplies. But if you have too much, you may be turned down for vital long-term credit when you need to finance a new backhoe or pickup.
You can determine the right balance for your business with a C.P.A. or other trusted financial advisor. But, in preparation, make sure you have a good understanding of what your current expenses are and what your future expenses may be. While reviewing what you currently spend, take time to question whether your expenses are really as low as they could be. Monthly expenses are a particularly great place to cut back. Speak to long-term vendors and find out whether you can renegotiate a deal. If you've been a solid, long-term customer, a slow economy may offer room to negotiate.
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When using credit and charge cards, consider making purchases with business cards that offer rewards — such as air miles, cash back and rewards points — that can be redeemed for a variety of retail and travel benefits. Also, use charge cards when you can pay off purchases in full by the end of the month. Every penny counts in challenging times, so be sure to pay off bills when funds allow. These payments will reflect positively on your credit profile.
In dealing with the current economic situation, keep in mind that the one truly good thing about tough times is that they don't last. So in anticipation of greener times, take this opportunity to build a more resilient business that will soar when the economy eventually rebounds.
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Empress Hermine of Germany
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Today marks the Anniversary of the birth of Empress Hermine of Germany, who was born on this day in 1887.The fifth child and fourth daughter of Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz and Princess Ida Mathilde Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe, in the Principality of Reuss-Greiz, a state of the German Empire. Princess Hermine was raised at the court of the Grand Duke of Baden and his wife, Princess Louise of Prussia. In 1907, she married Prince Johann of Schönaich-Carolath, and the couple had five children before he passed away in 1920. In 1922, she visited the recently widowed Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in exile in Huis Doorn in The Netherlands, marrying him later that year despite grumblings from his monarchist supporters and the objections of his children. Empress Hermine managed Huis Doorn and established her own relief organization, also publishing her memoir 'An Empress in Exile: My Days in Doorn', remaining in The Netherlands until the Kaiser's death in 1941, when she returned to her first husband's estate, Schloss Saabor, in Silesia. In 1945, she fled from the Red Army to her sister in Roßla before being arrested by the Soviets, and passed away under supervision in Frankfurt an der Oder, being buried in the park of Sanssouci in Potsdam, near Empress Augusta.
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Trump hammers away at Obama's citizenship question
Trump goes after Obama on US citizenship, says citizenship questions remain unanswered
Real estate tycoon Donald Trump said Thursday he isn't convinced that President Barack Obama was born in the United States ,but says he hopes the president can prove that he was.
Officials in Hawaii have certified Obama's citizenship, but "birthers" have demanded additional proof. And Trump, who is weighing whether to seek the Republican presidential nomination, says not all the questions have been answered.
In an interview broadcast Thursday, Trump told NBC News he plans to decide by June whether to run, and said that if he is the GOP nominee, "I'd like to beat him straight up," not on the basis of the question of where Obama was born.
Trump insisted he didn't introduce the citizenship issue, but he isn't letting go of it either. Since he was asked about it during an interview several weeks ago, the real estate executive said, he's looked into it and now believes "there is a big possibility" Obama may have violated the Constitution.
"I'd like to have him show his birth certificate," Trump said. "And to be honest with you, I hope he can."
Asked in the interview how genuine his presidential ambition is, Trump said, "I always take things seriously, but I've never taken it seriously like this. I wish I didn't have to do it."
"I wish this was the greatest place in the world," Trump said. But he said the United States is losing respect in the world at a time when jobs at home are vanishing. He accused Obama of giving the country "a terrible presidency."
Trump said that if the current fight over budget issues forces a shutdown, "I think the president will be blamed."
He accused Obama of conducting a confusing policy on the civil war in Libya, saying "nobody knows what's happening, and now it looks like (Libyan strongman Moammar) Gadhafi is going to beat the United States."
"I'm only interested in Libya if we get the oil," Trump said. He said Obama "doesn't have a doctrine (on foreign affairs.) Foreign affairs is, we take care of ourselves first"
Of Obama, he said, "I want him to do well. ... I love this country, but this country is going to hell. ... The world laughs at us. They won't be laughing if I'm elected president."
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Mobilizing AI for Health to fight against COVID-19
Apr 9, 2020 | John Kahan - VP, Chief Data Analytics Officer
On January 29, 2020, we announced the launch of AI for Health, an initiative to advance the health of people and communities around the world. This five-year commitment was created to empower nonprofits, researchers and organizations with AI and data science tools.
Since then, the world has changed. As of the time of writing, the COVID-19 virus has infected more than 1.4 million people around the world. The crisis has made it painfully clear that health transcends every border, impacting every person on the planet.
Given the urgency, we are mobilizing our AI for Health initiative to focus on helping those on the front lines of research of COVID-19. We're focusing our efforts in five specific areas where we think data, analysis and the skills of our data scientists can have the biggest impact. And we're immediately dedicating $20 million to this specific effort.
This is part of Microsoft's larger commitment toward fighting COVID-19, as we are working to support remote education and empower students around the world, enabling businesses to work from home, securing needed medical supplies and supporting local communities. We hope this added commitment empowers researchers and organizations to solve this crisis.
The work to fight COVID-19 is already underway. A handful of key partnerships include:
• The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, a private-public effort spearheaded by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, for which Microsoft is providing researchers access to the world's most powerful computing resources, which can significantly speed the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus. Around the world, Microsoft's research scientists, spanning computer science, biology, medicine and public health, are collaborating on projects in the consortium
• The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), a global health research organization at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is releasing a set of COVID-19 data visualizations and forecasts that the White House, FEMA, governors and hospital administrators have started using to mobilize resources
• The Washington State Department of Health is working on a new dashboard that aims to increase timeliness, accuracy and speed of data reporting to the public. The dashboard relies on data reported by local health jurisdictions, healthcare facilities and labs
• [email protected], a global organization that uses distributed computing is researching COVID-19 proteins that could help with designing therapeutics
• The Sepsis Center of Research Excellence (SCORE-UW), part of the University of Washington's Department of Medicine, is a global collaboration between a network of hospitals, industry, blood banks, universities and funding partners. Using clinical data, radiologic imaging and other patient biomarker responses, SCORE-UW is developing novel algorithms to predict, and improve, healthcare and socioeconomic outcomes of COVID-19 positive patients
• Take, the Brazilian leader in chatbots and the smart contacts market, developed a bot to bring official and credible information to the public and connect potential patients to medical teams to avoid overloading Brazilian hospitals
AI for Health COVID-19 focus areas
Given the global scale of the pandemic, technology will play a critical role in nearly every facet of addressing COVID-19, from using AI to crunch massive datasets to analyzing disease vectors and identifying treatment impacts. We will collaborate with nonprofits, governments and academic researchers on solutions, and bring our experience to the table, providing access to Microsoft AI, technical experts, data scientists and other resources.
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My colleague Eric Horvitz, Microsoft's Chief Scientific Officer, sums it up nicely, "Data and computation will help light the path to mitigating the pandemic. We're passionate about aiming our computing resources and expertise at empowering those with the most promising directions, including efforts in biomedicine, logistics, epidemiology and public health."
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We want the world to better understand COVID-19. As such, we have developed a set of interactive visualizations, available below, so everyone has full transparency into the scope of the problem and the progress we are making together to heal the world. We will continue to update and refine this visualization with new data and insights.
COVID-19 is a global problem and finding a solution will take all our efforts. We are humbled and honored to work with researchers across the globe and support them with this additional dedicated support from AI for Health.
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Behçet disease (or syndrome) is a rare disease characterised by painful mouth ulcers, genital ulcers, eye problems and skin lesions. The disease is named after the Turkish dermatologist Hulusi Behçet who first described the disease in 1924. It is also known as Adamantiades–Behçet disease.
The cause of Behçet disease is unknown but it is presumed to be an autoimmune disorder. This is where an individual's immune system starts reacting against his or her own tissues. The reason for this remains a mystery but it is possible bacterial or viral infection may have a role in its development.
Who is at risk of Behçet disease?
Behçet disease is most common and more serious in people with Silk Road bloodlines. Silk Road countries include those in the Mediterranean basin, Middle East and Far East; the incidence is around 1 in 10,000 people. However, Behçet disease is seen worldwide even in those with other ethnic heritage; in the US, the incidence is reported to be 1 in 20,000.
In people with Silk Road ancestry, Behçet disease is more common in men than in women. However, the trend is reversed with more women than men being affected in people of other ethnic origins. The disease can develop at any age but is most common as people reach 20–30 years.
What are the signs and symptoms of Behçet disease?
Painful mouth ulcers are usually the first outward sign of Behçet disease and occur in about 70% of patients. Ulcers can occur anywhere in the mouth including on the tongue and inside the lips and cheeks. They usually last for 1–2 weeks but can remain for as long as 3 weeks.
Genital ulcers: these aphthous ulcers occur less often than mouth ulcers. They are painful and often heal with scarring. They are not genital herpes, which is caused by the herpes virus.
Eye involvement: uveitis, which is a reddening and swelling of the eye tissue, may occur. The retina may sometimes become involved and if not treated can lead to blindness.
Skin lesions: painful nodules from erythema nodosum are common. Patients may also have acne-like sores that occur on the arms, legs and trunk.
Less common symptoms include, gastrointestinal problems (eg, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, vomiting), joint pain and swelling, nervous system problems and blood vessel and circulation problems.
How is Behçet disease diagnosed?
Behçet disease can be difficult to diagnose as signs and symptoms come and go and may not be apparent all at one time. If you have a history of recurrent mouth and genital ulcers, uveitis and skin sores this is suggestive of the condition.
There are no specific tests to confirm the diagnosis, but screening investigations such as blood count, kidney and liver function tests and C-reactive protein may be performed to determine which organs are affected by the condition.
What is the treatment for Behçet disease?
Currently there is no cure for Behçet disease. The main goal is to treat and manage the symptoms so that complications do not develop. Because Behçet disease affects so many different parts of the body, a team of doctors from various specialties will treat most people.
Experimental and research drugs (eg, colchicine, cyclophosphamide, thalidomide, infliximab and potassium iodide).
Behçet disease is a chronic disease where the acute phases come and go with varying degrees of intensity. In the early stages of the disease attacks may be frequent and last for several weeks. As time progresses the intervals between attacks may become longer and in some cases attacks cease altogether. The disease is then considered to be in remission but may strike up again at any time.
Death occurs in about 4% of Behçet cases. Causes of mortality are attributed to gastrointestinal perforation, central nervous system involvement and vascular aneurysms (ballooning of blood vessels).
Most Behçet patients live out a full life although they will most likely deal with some level of symptoms throughout this time.


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Q: Define method in polymer This is a bit crazy...
I have a html code the calls a function with on-click and it works!
Whan I want to add another function or rename the same function (obviosly also in the on-click call), it gives me this error :
[dom-bind::_createEventHandler]: listener method `name of function` not defined

All whated to do is to rename the function.
Whare do you 'define' a function'?
I'm using polymer 1.0
Here's the code that gives me the error.
index.html:

  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="description" content="">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <meta name="generator" content="Polymer Starter Kit" />
  <title>ZekTecBell</title>

  <meta name="theme-color" content="#2E3AA1">

  <link rel="manifest" href="manifest.json">

  <meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#3372DF">

  <meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
  <meta name="application-name" content="PSK">
  <link rel="icon" sizes="192x192" href="images/touch/chrome-touch-icon-192x192.png">

  <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
  <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
  <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="Polymer Starter Kit">
  <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="images/touch/apple-touch-icon.png">

  <meta name="msapplication-TileImage" content="images/touch/ms-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png">

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/main.css">

  <link rel="import" href="elements/elements.html">

  <template is="dom-bind" id="app">

    <paper-drawer-panel id="paperDrawerPanel">

      <paper-scroll-header-panel drawer fixed>

        <paper-toolbar id="drawerToolbar">
          Menu
        </paper-toolbar>
      </paper-scroll-header-panel>

      <paper-scroll-header-panel main id="headerPanelMain" condenses keep-condensed-header>

        <paper-toolbar id="mainToolbar" class="tall">
          <paper-icon-button id="paperToggle" icon="menu" paper-drawer-toggle></paper-icon-button>

                    <paper-button on-click="testButton">Signup</paper-button>

Test

        </paper-toolbar>

      </paper-scroll-header-panel>
    </paper-drawer-panel>

    <platinum-sw-register auto-register
                          clients-claim
                          skip-waiting
                          on-service-worker-installed="displayInstalledToast">
      <platinum-sw-cache default-cache-strategy="fastest"
                         cache-config-file="cache-config.json">
      </platinum-sw-cache>
    </platinum-sw-register>
    -->

  </template>

main.js:
  app.displayInstalledToast = function() {
    // Check to make sure caching is actually enabled—it won't be in the dev environment.
    if (!Polymer.dom(document).querySelector('platinum-sw-cache').disabled) {
      Polymer.dom(document).querySelector('#caching-complete').show();
    }
  };

  // Listen for template bound event to know when bindings
  // have resolved and content has been stamped to the page
  app.addEventListener('dom-change', function() {
    console.log('Our app is ready to rock!');
  });

  // See https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/issues/1381
  window.addEventListener('WebComponentsReady', function() {
    // imports are loaded and elements have been registered
  });

  // Main area's paper-scroll-header-panel custom condensing transformation of
  // the appName in the middle-container and the bottom title in the bottom-container.
  // The appName is moved to top and shrunk on condensing. The bottom sub title
  // is shrunk to nothing on condensing.
  window.addEventListener('paper-header-transform', function(e) {
    var appName = Polymer.dom(document).querySelector('#mainToolbar .app-name');
    var middleContainer = Polymer.dom(document).querySelector('#mainToolbar .middle-container');
    var bottomContainer = Polymer.dom(document).querySelector('#mainToolbar .bottom-container');
    var detail = e.detail;
    var heightDiff = detail.height - detail.condensedHeight;
    var yRatio = Math.min(1, detail.y / heightDiff);
    // appName max size when condensed. The smaller the number the smaller the condensed size.
    var maxMiddleScale = 0.50;
    var auxHeight = heightDiff - detail.y;
    var auxScale = heightDiff / (1 - maxMiddleScale);
    var scaleMiddle = Math.max(maxMiddleScale, auxHeight / auxScale + maxMiddleScale);
    var scaleBottom = 1 - yRatio;

    // Move/translate middleContainer
    Polymer.Base.transform('translate3d(0,' + yRatio * 100 + '%,0)', middleContainer);

    // Scale bottomContainer and bottom sub title to nothing and back
    Polymer.Base.transform('scale(' + scaleBottom + ') translateZ(0)', bottomContainer);

    // Scale middleContainer appName
    Polymer.Base.transform('scale(' + scaleMiddle + ') translateZ(0)', appName);
  });

  // Scroll page to top and expand header
  app.scrollPageToTop = function() {
    app.$.headerPanelMain.scrollToTop(true);
  };

  app.closeDrawer = function() {
    app.$.paperDrawerPanel.closeDrawer();
  };

  app.testButton = function() {
    console.log('login?');
  }

})(document);

Thanks.

A: Try this:
<paper-button onclick="testButton">Signup</paper-button>

and better use ontab instead of onclick.
Edit
I was wrong. Actually on-click is the right listener to use.
I actually think it is either a problem of your html Markup or your Polymer version. I tried this code and it worked for me:

  <template is="dom-bind" id="app">

    <paper-button on-click="testButton">Signup</paper-button>

  </template>

Also you are missing a simicolon here:
  app.testButton = function() {
    console.log('login?');
  }; // here

Maybe you need to start a fresh project if it didn't work for you.

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