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The Horses in Houston Are Dying
Photo courtesy Houston Humane Society
The horses in the Acres Homes area of Houston, Texas, are a sorry lot. Thin, with neglected hooves and healthcare, they are readily discarded and left to fend for themselves in the city. Many of them starve to death, their bodies simply left on the side of the road.
Where Are They Living?
The Houston Humane Society (HHS) is the main advocate for the horses of Houston, but to say they are inundated with abandoned and neglected horses is an understatement. With the ability to care for only 20 to 25 horses at any one time, their assistance doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the number of horses that need their help. Monica Schmidt, public relations officer at HHS, says that the horse problem in Houston is completely out of control.
At the heart of the issue is Acres Homes, an old section of Houston around which the city grew. Acres Homes garnered its name from the way the land was sold around World War I–instead of being sold by lot, the land was sold acre by acre, allowing enough room for a garden and the ability to keep chickens or other livestock.
This agricultural history has followed the town through the generations, where families kept horses and gardens even as the city grew up around them. While some things about Acres Homes has changed, the knowledge of how to care for horses seems stuck in the early 1900s.
A low socioeconomic area, the majority of residents can't afford to have horses and care for them in the way that is necessary, explains Schmidt. "Many of these people [those neglecting the horses] are not bad people—they simply don't have the money to provide proper care and nutrition." With such a lengthy history of equine ownership, families now own horses more out of habit than necessity.
But just how many horses live in the Acres Homes area? There is truly no way to know for sure, says Schmidt. Horses are kept behind houses or in outbuildings. One of the ways neglected horses are discovered at all is if their owners tie the horse in an empty lot because they have no hay or way to feed them.
A Disposable Animal
One of the reasons Schmidt feels that it is so easy for horse owners in this area to neglect their animals is the availability of heavy trash pickup. This is a city-wide service in which trash collectors dispose of large items left on the side of the road—including carcasses.
"It's easier for them to leave a dead horse on the side of the road than to euthanize and humanely dispose of it," she noted. One of the ways the HHS is trying to increase penalties against animal cruelty and neglect is to try to beat the heavy-trash pickup trucks to the carcasses; the HHS can then have an necropsy performed on the dead horse and, based on the findings, bring about a cruelty or neglect charge on the owners, if they can be found.
The people who call the HHS and the Houston Police about neglected or dead horses are those driving through the streets on their way to work—it's rarely people who live within this section of the city. It's as if the resident have become immune to the dead and dying horses found on the streets, in the yards and in empty lots.
Ordinance Issues
While most people would (correctly) assume that horse ownership within city limits is illegal, many residents feel that Acres Homes is "exempt" from following the law—but this is wholly inaccurate.
"The myth that Acres Homes is exempt from most of Houston's ordinances has grown into a legend where a lot of residents there feel that the rules don't apply to them," Schmidt explains. This mentality clarifies why so many residents keep horses in their backyards, though this is deemed too close per city ordinances, which defines a safe distance to keep horses as only 100 feet from any structure in which a person dwells.
While this neighborhood is part of the city of Houston, police officers have a difficult time enforcing laws when there are so many other more pressing issues requiring a police presence such as homicides and drug trafficking. Like most major metropolitan cities, Houston has too few police officers for the size of the city and the scope of its issues.
A Partnership with Houston Police
Since February of 2015, HHS and the Houston Police Department have created a partnership, recognizing that neither entity has enough resources to truly make a dent in the neglected and abandoned horse population. The Houston Police Department is dedicating officers in that area to address these issues along with 2 Harris County Precinct 5 Deputies that the HHS contracts with to run their cruelty investigations. The long-term goal is to strengthen ordinances to better protect horses, specifically within Houston city limits.
While two is better than none, "HHS pays the salary of two officers from Harris County Constables Office Precinct 5 to handle all of the animal cruelty and neglect tips our organization receives. They have an enormous amount of territory to cover: The entire city of Houston, Harris County and surrounding counties," notes Schmidt. To put this in perspective, there are 4.3 million residents in Harris County, and a total of 6.3 million people in the Houston metro area, according to a 2014 census estimate.
Sadly, similar to many states, one of the main issues facing those wishing to help the horses is the legal system. A horse in Houston has to be in truly dire straits to prove that it is a "cruelty" case. The burden of proof lies on the prosecutor to prove that some format of willful neglect is occurring. Part of the reason why the HHS needs stronger ordinances in place is for the ability to remove horses from neglectful homes much more rapidly than they can be currently.
Operating on a Skeleton Crew
While both the HHS and the Houston Police Department are in need of more staff and other necessary resources, the HHS has a huge asset in Dr. Timothy Harkness, chief veterinarian. Not only a large-animal vet, Dr. Harkness is also a forensic veterinarian, meaning he has the ability to perform a necropsy, create a report and testify in court that the horse has died from willful neglect and not of natural causes.
The HHS, like many city and state rescue and adoption agencies throughout the nation, has no network to help home their seized horses. They currently rely on Dr. Harkness to help place the horses that have completed the rehabilitation in HHS care, which can be anywhere from six or more months depending on how poor the horse's condition.
While the HHS does not currently adopt out to the general public, they are looking for local and national rescues that can take the horses once the courts have awarded them to HHS and continue their rehabilitation and ultimately help find them homes, explains Schmidt.
If you would like to donate directly to the HHS to help home some of the Houston horses, click here.
If you or your agency can help rehab or place some of the Houston horses, please contact the Houston Humane Society at 713-433-6421 or pr@houstonhumane.org.
Sarah Coleman has a soft spot for chestnuts with chrome, including her off-the-track Thoroughbred Chisholm that she is training to be a hunter. Based in Lexington, Ky., she is the Director of Education and Development for New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program.
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One day in the late '80s, while prepping in the kitchen at Tourelle (now Postino), the new chef split a seeded Semifreddi's baguette lengthwise, slathered it with goat cheese, and threw it in a 500-plus degree oven. When he pulled it out after a few minutes, the bread was hot and crusty, and the goat cheese was fluffy and lightly browned. He cut the baguette on the diagonal into several pieces, and after a minute or two (hot goat cheese is like napalm), we devoured it. The result was so good that I'll never forget it. Well, I did, actually, until a recent lunch at Chow in Danville. They serve a big ramekin of goat cheese baked with tomatoes and walnut bread toasts.
It made me wonder why dishes like this are rarely seen on menus today: Warm goat cheese salads were the rage in California cuisine's early days for good reason.
Chow's baked goat cheese was good, and I finished every bite. With the nutty toast points, it's like a build-it-yourself bruschetta—a fun appetizer to share. Now that tomatoes are in their peak, it might even be better to serve chopped tomatoes on the side, and spoon it on top as you go.
If you can't make it to Chow (it's also on the menu in Lafayette), you can always try it at home, baked in a ramekin or slathered on a baguette.
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Once again, I've hit Pay-Dirt!!! My excitement & enthusiasm about the "recon" trip to this mysterious island is pretty overwhelming…so much so I could prattle on and on and on, but you all want to see results. I still believe in the old saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words" (until they invented t.v. sets!), so I have decided to turn this newsletter, and maybe the next one, into a photo essay. Suffice it to say, I most definitely will be offering a tour to Madagascar in September 2008. Much more to come on that topic at a later date, but do feel free to let me know if you are interested etc.
There are 80 different species of lemurs that live on this Texas-sized island in the middle of the Indian Ocean east of the African continent. I was thrilled to even see, much less photograph, ten of the 80 known species on that island!! One of them, the Dancing Sifaka, literally cannot walk and has to dance his way around while on the ground. If I could have cranked up the music I would swear I was watching the primate version of Rudolf Nureyev and his Russian ballet troupe!! It's graceful and hysterically funny all at the same time!!
The Grey Mouse lemur is one of the smallest lemurs on earth and quite a challenge to photograph. With the help of the Malagasy natives who are excellent guides, I had little trouble full-filling most of my requests, and even added critters along the way—most of which I'd never even heard of.
I sensed, or felt, a 'common thread' running throughout Madagascar, which I can only describe as welcoming, warm and friendly---even among the wildlife. The conduct of the Ring-tail lemur is a fairly good example of this as they showed no fear of their human neighbors. They seemed to embrace our presence (and we had no food to offer!), often coming by the cabins for a visit. Note the image of one gregarious, fuzzy, grey-haired critter chatting through the window with another fuzzy, grey-haired critter!!!
They wallowed in having their picture taken striking all sorts of outlandish poses, & offered plenty of photo advice. Like their human counterparts, lemurs love to sunbathe. The moment a ray of sunshine would break through the clouds, the lemur world would come to a dead stop. They would all turn and face the glowing orange/red ball, arms askew simulating a sunny Saturday at Coney Island!!
All these images were photographed out in the wild in each animals' natural habitat, making it even more thrilling to have them interact so freely with us. Of course having a 5 to 6lb. Common Brown lemur land full force on my shoulder totally without warning while we were wandering around the rain forest sent my heart racing, but in no time we were friends.
A quick reminder that my library of 35mm original slides houses approximately 75,000 images, and my digital library presently holds over 80,000 (and growing-hourly)!


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Q: Power Apps - Office 365 Outlook permissons I have a Power App that, with a button, starts a Flow. The Flow is only using a Gmail-send email-component to send an email. From the Power App to the Flow i pass some values that will be included in the email.
Why do I get the promt of Office 365 Outlook permissions? Are those permissions really needed?
I'm not using the Office 365 Outlook-connection. Also I tried to remove all Office 365 Outlook-connectors without success, both in the Power App and in the Flow.

A: This is default behaviour of Powerapp. When you share the app, you will be asked to share your connection. In some resources are shared automatically, while other resources require shared users for the app to work
Kindly do check the below link for more info:
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/share-app-resources/

A: Solved it by using a second flow that is started by the first flow that Power Apps starts. The second flow is started via HTTP-component.

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Mar 18th 2019 – High Grade Watercut Ltd is a contract cutting business that shares premises with its sister company High Grade Metals who sell aluminium and tool steel to the manufacturing sector in New Zealand and to a small but growing market base in Australia. It is this business development and perspective of an even larger customer base that led David Thumath, Director of HG Watercut, to the decision of purchasing a waterjet cutting system.
Despite the majority of his commissions being metal cutting, David was sure he could have benefited from this type of technology more than the traditional laser process. In fact, not only the waterjet is able to deal with a virtually endless variety of materials, but it guarantees a machined product of higher quality. The ultra-high pressurized stream of water doesn't interfere with the inherent structure of the material, preventing unintended behavior of the processed part, which is particularly important with highly engineered components. At HG Watercut they wanted to reduce scraps as much as possible to reduce costs and maximize customer satisfaction at the same time.
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Ben Vickers: Tell me about losing your virginity?
Ed Fornieles: This is a good opening question, which I think is more about someone's willingness to answer than the answer itself. Once you have that you can pretty much go anywhere. So here you go.
I was an awkward kid and a late starter, I was 17 before I went out with my first girlfriend, Debby, who was a mute; I mean she could talk but she was shy and chose not to, I have all our first conversations written down.
For my 18th birthday I had arranged for my parents to be out, I got my mother to cook fish pie, I had candles, there was Cava. After dinner we went to my room to hangout, there was a lava lamp and a sheepskin rug, I remember feeling very hot. We fumbled around, she was wearing a rainbow coloured g-string, she had double d breasts, she had lost her virginity the year before, she guided me through it. I can't remember much more than Lay Lady Lay by Bob Dylan during and Jimi Hendrix after. As you see my ideas of romance were teenage blunt.
(BV) And, your home address, your personal email address, your home phone number?
(EF) Edward Fornieles
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(BV) Blood type?
(EF) Not sure.
(BV) Perhaps this may be read as an entirely invasive and inappropriate opening set of questions to an interview – but I believe it's relevant to the way in which your practice has evolved over time, you have a habit of absorbing the personal history of participants or total strangers into the narrative of your work, extracting vast amounts of data.
Often that narrative and data has a significantly blurred quality between reality and fiction – I wonder if between kidnapping your friends, orchestrating parties of inappropriate excess and stalking your characters, whether there are any situations that you feel have gone too far?
(EF) "Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you're part of the team, everything is awesome when you're in our dream"… sorry just watching the Lego movie, which I think could be really important, def going to start using Lego in the work soon.
"Too far" relative to what exactly, my peers? Think back, Chris Burden had someone shoot him whilst still at art school, Hermann Nitsch performs village wide orgies of excess, much of my work is timid by comparison. But I do question the convenient passivity of art produced in the present moment, the kidnappings and parties are a provocation of sorts – a sort of brutal red eye flight wake up call, to remind people they're actually alive, living and breathing a very strange moment in time.
I guess in this way I'm interested in disrupting someone's expectations, through a heightening and distortion of them and their environment. The tools are at times very basic, constructed scenarios, often initially built by a cast of actors, responsible for setting the scene, then the social interaction is built on top, this is when we invite a larger audience in, it's then that the potential for what will unfold becomes super powerful. This heightening and acceleration moment also goes hand in hand with a need for content, so the work generally has this escalation contained within it. A natural raw rhythm you can identify in a lot of things, from sitcoms to the economy.
People in the performances are always hunting for a way to exist in a space without the normal constraints of its reality equivalent. A story logic kicks in, there is a movement from realism to film logic, a transition from not just enacting a college party, but the college party where they jump off the roof and end up kissing while the BMW sinks to the bottom of the pool.
(BV) From what you're suggesting I get the impression that things can be unpredictable, I wonder do you feel as though you are you always in control?
(EF) No, I really don't like being in control, my favorite moment is when I lose complete control of something and the environment becomes self-perpetuating, self-replicating, far outside the original intentions. Much of the participatory work I've sought to initiate can only feel successful to me in the moment in which I personally lose an overview of what's happening, when my directions cease to matter to the unfolding narrative, when each participant (aware or not), becomes responsible for the overall outcome. This is also true of the studio, there is a moment where there is just so much stuff, so much of a certain kind of material it's less a matter of design than doing what makes sense in that environment.
Perhaps a good analogy or contemporary framework for understanding this way of working is a platform like Facebook, which supplies the context and is then populated by people interacting with each other. It enables a type of communication but does not necessarily prescribe the specifics, it points but doesn't push. In this respect, like Facebook, I don't really care about the quality of data that's shared by participants but rather just that it is shared. What does interest me is the intensity of the metadata, the relationships between individual content, individuals and how that flows within group dynamics – whether I'm putting together a sculpture or a social environment, it's the manipulation of relationships between things that defines the experience.
Since these platforms already exist, it makes sense for me to reuse them to perform works, aggregate and steal personal realities or just mirror their system of logic in other settings. I'm interested in these narratives and systems that are so ubiquitous that they become the background knowledge for most people, which once tapped into can organically guide the actions and conversations of participants without too much thought. It's this incredibly powerful force, which dictates social convention all the time, which is most often unseen and unthought about.
(BV) Some of this feels slightly dystopic, a sort of implied neutrality, which I'd disagree with, but before we get to that, what strikes me is your causal lack for a distinction between what happens on a platform such as Facebook and what happens at a 'physical event' – do you acknowledge any difference?
(EF) No. I recognise a shift in the quality of experience but fetishizing "digital" as some sort of discreet class of lived experience seems dumb and opportunistic right now. I guess there was a brief moment when you could identify the sense that this alien cultural space was bleeding into the world and changing it but that's over now. Facebook and Google etcetera, are like stages, containers or a territory similar to any other that we experience daily.
(BV) But to a degree you recognise the way in which these containers differ and cannot be said to be neutral in the way they influence the interactions that they have, say Facebook vs 4Chan for example, the interaction and social norms are radically different. In this way, I wonder what kind of constructed effect a work like Dorm Daze has on the social norms of its participants?
(EF) I'd say the sitcom hovered somewhere between 4Chan and Facebook, anonymity played an important part in disrupting the social norms, no one was sure who anyone else was and a lot of the people were recruited from all over, so there was a lot of freedom in that sense. That helped participants free themselves from the anxiety of constructing their own self image. Also because the characters were archetypal, each was built with a pre-existing trajectory and sort of generic history that could be tapped into, everyone knew their type and all the preferences and desires that hover around them. Then it was a matter of feeding the mechanism, which just became hungrier and hungrier for narrative. It's that escalation thing I was talking about before.
In Dorm Daze people began responding to the environment the way they normally would, daily feed updates, messages and likes, but soon people began creating small events at first, things like pizza parties or dorm room sleepovers, but as that became dull a desire to entertain themselves and everyone else around them took over, more and more extreme narratives were superimposed on the environment. Resulting in murder, waterboarding, organ theft and a terrorist attack. I suppose the terrorist attack was the obvious end for an environment predicated on escalation.
Again it's this escalation thing, unlike Facebook or 4Chan the work demands acceleration and eventually end points. It's like The Hangover Part II by Todd Philips, which is constantly supplying new scenes which are more and more extreme, so the viewer while just recovering from the last event is thrown something even more radical and dark, the gaps between these become shorter and shorter until the viewer is trapped in this kind of stunned sensationalism that left reality at the door a long time ago, that, that's what I'm interested in.
(BV) To expand the point I wondered if it's possible for you to trace the effects on specific participants to this event/work/action and the way these individuals now use the service? Also has it changed the way in which you engage in these technologies personally?
(EF) The effects on people are multifarious and with each event there are a huge range of intense experiences, for some people it's very light, it might just be a disjointed conversation or sense of unease, with other people it can become more intense, where there is a detachment from their normal way of behaving over sustained periods of time, this can be a very full on and tiring experience.
My personal relationship with social networks and moreover everyday life has become significantly disjointed since working in this way, I consider myself primarily an observer, who is constantly on the look out for new sources to tap into. For this reason I try to be as open and accessible online as possible, please friend, please download, please say hi, please.
(BV) It sounds disorientating, are you capable of drawing a definitive line between the realities and containers that you are constructing and the ones that just flow, without direction?
(EF) Moving to LA has helped me realise an almost total collapse in my perception of real world reality, as I used to feel and understand it. Now fiction and augmented territories exist as one. It's a place in which you can create a fiction and it quickly becomes a reality.
Since achieving this, my mission has become to inform, inspire & ignite people to impact their world as #ArchitectsOfChange, my job as I see it is to construct the container and allow people to populate it as they see fit after some initial direction. Living in a state of constant reality collapse, it becomes very hard for me to draw that line you're talking about, there is a constant shift, a blurring between someone's day to day reality and the reality experienced in the container. I know that the real world is constantly threatening to override the container and everything inside of it, but there are fragments that stick even after the projects are long over.
The moment after a performance or show is perhaps one of the most interesting for me, when participants are forced to make sense of what's just occurred, and deal with any tensions left between life and this other thing. That questioning moment has been a hard part of the work for me and others to deal with, but I think it's important. You know relationships have started and ended in performances, rivalries and tensions been given air to vent – at times it's become a very complicated, messy and tangled place.
Which I think is fine, actually come to think of it, it's a totally preferable collapse and if through my work I can help to enable others to dissolve the same psychological borders that I've crossed myself, that feels like something worth committing to.
(BV) Above and beyond the frivolity and borderline insanity that's echoed in your answers, let's get back to basics for a moment. What's needed in order to construct and execute on the kinds of works you produce and scale at which you work, is an elaborate process, akin to the production of a film, with its reversible director roles – but it's not just point and shoot action, there's an infrastructural quality – at times works like Dorm Daze, Maybe New Friends and Character Date verge on being a startup in and of themselves. I wanted to ask you to talk through that process and what this stack-like architecture means for the work.
(EF) I suppose the aim is to construct an architectural framework, that's capable of straddling the landscape, like a monumental work of land art that makes sense in the age of social networks and the fresh territory available to us. Building a large framework on this territory which has everything necessary for a certain type of state of mind to exist for a fractional moment, like a mirage. The process is aimed at creating the environment, not directing or totally designing it, actions may be scripted or prescribed but they only exist to encourage and nurture this state of mind thing, a shift in consciousness. I mean we are doing it all the time anyway, from supplying alcoholic drinks at a party to putting fresh linen on the bed, a lot of our actions are designed to encourage state of being in others.
The layering effect you suggest wasn't initially an intended way of working, although much of my work in the past had this sense of an absurdly layered narrative but more static, it wasn't until I started merging in the data with the installations, that this stack like quality emerged. When I started building works purely from the feeds of other peoples data, from their personal history and then spitting out sculptures to mirror or refer to that data history, that's when the complexity really started to deepen, which really began when I first produced works like Adventureland. This all got much weirder in the Character Date work though, when it was less about merging in the streams with the gallery space but rather having actors take on these stolen histories, when they started registering real companies, pitching business deals to real clients and hosting events. It got complicated, suddenly there were legal entities, possessions, ephemera, recorded experience, online history, new friendships, sex. It all created a constant exponential growth in the material that was being generated and at some point I have to try and slow it down and make sense of the whole matter.
But I see all this matter in its various forms as individual nodes in one unified network, each pointing to and feeding off one another, I think the sculpture works end up being the closest thing to an end product, they are very spongy, they are constantly absorbing all the rest of the muck, they have little bits of characters in them, exchanges, have living room materiality, they are dysfunctional and trying to reconcile things that don't quite add up.
(BV) We've focused a lot on the process, the consequences of previous work, what you've
learnt but, to finish, what are you working on at the moment?
(EF) The simple answer? A series of sculptures and online works for the Chisenhale, which tap into the modern family. I'm obsessed with the family unit right now, as the best means society has of replicating itself and the colossal force it has on everyone in defining who you are and what you should be doing at different points in your life. I'm interested in absorbing the content of your family life.
You know there are all these narratives, characters and materials that surround the idea of the modern family, its all very soupy symbolic stuff which makes it very easy to tap into, I feel you can just reach into any interior decoration magazine, a couple of shows with family in the title and a few parental anxiety questions online and you've got the making of a dynamite show. I'm very much looking forward to it.
(BV) How does this sit with the way in which you've been producing previously in the works that we've discussed, what do you mean by my content?
(EF) We are developing a Facebook login to the new site for the show, a sort of hub point, which will allow us to trade access for all the users content, so you will see yourself reflected back at you. The depth of information Facebook offers is pretty fantastic, and if it's there I feel a responsibility to use it. Bigger is better, and by that I don't necessarily mean physical dimensions, I mean the kind of scale we've been discussing. Big data, big family. Facebook is particularly interesting in this instance, the way your timeline is constructed, it's like it's designed to create social anxiety for anyone that exists outside of the family unit, relationship status, a million likes for your baby photos.
This work should constantly be striving to expand, to acquire whatever is accessible by whatever tools are available, this is land art from social networks perspective, and it's personal. Back in the '90s sensationalism was important and had something to do with removing a couple of unnecessary stuffy layers and saying here is death, or here is this bit of dirt, look at it, there is lots more just like it outside this room. Now I think sensationalism is equally important, and again about removing a few unnecessary layers, but this time it's linked to your self-identity, your data and connected on a scale previously unimaginable. I'm interested in that.
LAWRENCE LEK
in conversation with Alex Quicho
THINGS AND STUFFING: OLIVER LARIC'S UNTITLED (2020)
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SECOND SKIN. KATE COOPER
Text by Margot Norton
ALEXANDRA DAISY GINSBERG AND JAKOB KUDSK STEENSEN
in conversation with Ben Vickers
PRECIOUS OKOYOMON. SIT, PAW, DIE IN THE BAG OF THE WORLD
Text by Hannah Black
HELL FOR BREAKFAST. MARIANNA SIMNETT
in conversation with Ed Fornieles
THE WORLD-BODY-UNIVERSE. KATJA NOVITSKOVA
Text by Penny Rafferty
DOREEN GARNER
Text by Pavel Pyś
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NEW ZEALAND | Politics
Budget: Our big fat zero Budget
Finance Minister Bill English. Photo / Mark Mitchell
By: Audrey Young
Audrey Young is political editor for the New Zealand Herald
audrey.young@nzherald.co.nz @audreyNZH
It's surplus by a thousand steps.
Finance Minister Bill English's Budget has kept good on his promise of a forecast surplus in three years, but in many small steps rather than a few bold ones.
Mr English described it as "probably the tightest Budget in the last 20 years".
Prime Minister John Key rejected the notion that the Government was obsessed with a return to surplus for its own sake.
Read all of nzherald.co.nz's Budget coverage here.
"Our commitment to surplus is not a single-minded goal," he said. "It's part of our wider programme to build a more productive and competitive economy."
Opposition parties panned the Budget as drab. Labour said it offered "zero hope" that it would boost the economy, the Greens said it was full of cuts that would hit middle New Zealand, and New Zealand First said it would do nothing to keep one more job.
Most of the contentious measures, such as increases in prescription charges, higher student loan repayments and large class sizes, were announced before yesterday.
The hardest hit from yesterday's announcements will be smokers, who will be paying $20.50 for a pack of 20 cigarettes within four years because of a progressive rise in tobacco excise - part of $1.4 billion forecast in new revenue.
Parents of pre-schoolers could be facing higher fees for childcare because of a freezing of Government subsidies, which are usually adjusted for inflation.
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Unless a childcare centre absorbs all the cost rises, they will be passed on to parents.
One of the smaller Budget moves removes a tax credit on schoolchildren's incomes, supposedly to reduce compliance costs for the employers of youngsters with part-time jobs.
It is forecast to save the Government $14 million a year, but Labour has described it as "picking the pockets of paper boys".
One of the biggest challenges for the coming financial year will be the $1 billion to be saved from the public service, announced in last year's Budget.
Pensioners get an extra $3.7 million for off-peak public transport under the SuperGold card scheme.
The deficit in the current financial year is $8.4 billion, well below the $12 billion forecast in February. But, as expected, that was more to do with the timing of earthquake spending.
The deficit in the next year is forecast to be $7.8 billion, then $2 billion before a razor-thin surplus of $197 million in 2014-5, when a gross debt level of $88 billion is forecast to start falling.
But there is some flexibility, including adjustments to operating allowances of $800 million in the next Budget and $1.2 billion in the one after that.
Mr English said paying into the New Zealand Superannuation Fund would resume in 2017-18 once surpluses were established.
The return to surplus in 2014-15 was forecast in last year's Budget, although then it was forecast to be $1.2 billion.
But with lower growth and revenue than forecast, that has been much harder to achieve, especially with the books deteriorating by $1.2 billion since February.
According to Treasury forecasts, GDP growth will increase by 2.6 per cent and 3.4 per cent in the years ending next March and March 2014, then grow at about 3 per cent a year after that.
In a downside scenario, the Treasury also calculated that if events in Europe forced a serious slowdown in Asia, tax revenue would be down by $8 billion, and the surplus forecast would be missed.
Mr English urged people not to act as though a downturn was inevitable when what was happening in Europe was unpredictable.
"The approach we have taken over the last few Budgets is to focus on those things we can control."
It was all but a zero Budget. Total spending on new initiatives is $4.42 billion, of which $4.39 billion came from savings or new revenue moves, leaving only a $26.5 million gap.
One the main ways the Government was able to keep to its surplus deadline was by delaying the automatic enrolment of employees into KiwiSaver, which would have meant automatic Government payments.
Labour finance spokesman David Parker said this was a "short-sighted move" when lack of savings was one of the bigger problems facing New Zealand.


In case the ancient Mayan prediction turns out to be true and the world does end tomorrow, Central Saint Martins fashion graduate Minki Cheng has created a collection of apocalypse apparel for surviving extreme conditions in style (+ slideshow).
"The collection was developed by looking into the abilities living things in nature possess to protect themselves," Cheng told Dezeen. "In comparison, humans are relatively vulnerable."
Cheng researched waterproof, heat-proof and radiation-proof fabrics used in wetsuits, body armour and sportswear to select the materials for the collection.
Bold-coloured plastic fur and translucent scales cover some of the garments and are used as details on others.
"The plastic fur symbolises the function of keeping warmth, as well as functioning as protection like an armadillo," said Cheng.
The quilted jacket, coat and skirt filled with down are also designed for warmth in harsh climates.
The down clothing is enveloped in a silk and cotton-mix fabric that has been digitally printed with a design inspired by living creatures.
Pastel pink and bright yellow contrast with dark greens and greys to form a balance between natural and surreal colours.
"The colours mostly come from chameleons and sea creatures, mixing with shapes of body armour and wetsuits," Cheng explained.
Pink skull caps and tights highlight the vulnerability of the body under the clothes.
The collection was first shown at the Central Saint Martins graduate show earlier this year.
We've also featured Icelandic designer Sruli Recht's Spring Summer 2013 collection which includes translucent lambskin and stripy skunk fur - see it here.


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Home / News / Business, Law & Policy / FSU College of Law alumni endow $1 million chair to honor dean
FSU College of Law alumni endow $1 million chair to honor dean
Published: July 1, 2005 | 12:00 pm | SHARE:
Florida State University Provost Larry Abele has appointed Dean Don Weidner to the newly created Alumni Centennial Chair at the College of Law. The Chair—endowed in excess of $1 million—was established by several alumni to honor Weidner for his many years of leadership at the law school.
Weidner will hold the Chair for as long as he is a member of the faculty. When he retires, the Chair will be renamed the Donald J. Weidner Chair and will be used to support the sitting dean of the law school. Weidner served as dean of the law school from 1991-1997, interim dean from 1998-2000, and as dean from 2000 to the present.
The effort to endow the Chair was spearheaded by Ed Walborsky, a 1979 graduate and outgoing president of the College of Law's alumni association. He announced the creation of the endowment last week at The Florida Bar convention in Orlando.
"We believe that the great strides our law school has made are directly linked to the passion, wisdom and tireless efforts of Dean Weidner," Walborsky said. "For some time, we have thought of doing something meaningful for Don to show how much we appreciate all he has done for the law school. He is one of the few deans at a national law school who sits without an endowed chair. We found that disconcerting, and decided that our mission was to endow a chair in excess of $1 million."
Weidner joined the College of Law in 1976 as a professor. Since he became dean in 1991, the law school has shown significant increases in faculty scholarly productivity, student credentials, private funding and national rankings. Program strength has been added in environmental law, international law and business.
"I am deeply moved and profoundly grateful for this Chair, which is by far the greatest honor of my professional life," Weidner said.
A recognized authority on partnerships, fiduciary duties, and real estate finance, Weidner is co-author of The Revised Uniform Partnership Act (West Group, 2004). He also has written on academic freedom and on the use of special purpose entities for off-balance sheet financing. He teaches Property, Agency and Partnership, and Real Estate Finance. He is a member of the American Law Institute and served as Reporter for the Revised Uniform Partnership Act, which has been adopted in more than 30 states.
Weidner also has been a visiting professor at the law schools of University of Texas, University of New Mexico, Stanford University, and University of North Carolina. He began his legal career at the New York firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Weidner is an honors graduate of University of Texas Law School, where he was project editor for Texas Law Review.
In addition to Walborsky, donors include Chris Cadenhead, Wayne and Pat Hogan, David and Deborah Fonvielle, Phil and Rita Blank, Sheila McDevitt, Buck and Donna Vocelle, Tom Scarritt, Mark Williamson, Judge Terry Terrell, Larry Beltz and Rick and Karen Torpy.
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Q: Cypher / neo4j: sum by value and generate grand total here's my sample DB: http://console.neo4j.org/r/plb1ez
It contains 2 categories with the name "Digital Cameras" with this query, I group them by name and return significance*view_count for each of the category names:
MATCH a
    WHERE a.metatype = "Category"
    RETURN DISTINCT a.categoryName, SUM(a.significance * a.view_count) AS popularity
However, what I actually need is not the absolute popularity (=significance*view_count), but the relative one - so I need my query to additionally return the sum of all popularities (should be 1500 according to my math), so I can calculate the fraction (which I call "relativePopularity") for each category (popularity/grandTotal).
Desired result:

|    d.categoryName    | popularity | grandTotal | relativePopularity |
| Digital Compacts     |        300 |       1500 | 0.2                |
| Hand-held Camcorders |        300 |       1500 | 0.2                |
| Digital SLR          |        150 |       1500 | 0.1                |
| Digital Cameras      |        750 |       1500 | 0.5                |
+----------------------+------------+------------+--------------------+
Currently I'm doing this calculation with two ansynchronous jobs, but I need it done in one go.
Thanks for your help!


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A security expert has had a computer chip designed for tracking cows implanted into his hand by an 'unlicensed amateur' to hack phones from underneath the skin, reports Gizmodo.
The hand implant chip allows him to hack Android phones by opening up a malicious link sent via an embedded NFC chip. Once the link is open and the file is installed, the phone connects to a remote computer allowing the hacker to carry out further exploits.
Seth Wahle, a security engineer at APA Wireless, had to get the implant done via an 'unlicensed amateur' to get around Florida's body modification laws. The chip in question is typically used on cattle for agricultural uses, rather than humans, and is manufactured by Chinese company Freevision.
Despite this, such implants are a particularly intrusive way of hacking and, as Forbes puts it, not "for the squeamish" – indeed, the size of the syringe made Wahle want to vomit when he saw it. Additionally, the specific hack demonstrated isn't perfect either – the malicious file Wahle created loses connection to the phone when it's locked, or if the handset is rebooted. It also requires some social engineering, given the code has to be manually installed.
Wahle will be showing off the hand implant chip at the Hack Miami conference this May, where he will be detailing the whole process from acquiring the hardware to programming the chip.


Over time, I've talked a lot about how coaching can benefit an individual, what to look for in a coach, and how to get the most out of the experience. During my career, I've taught over 1000 people how to coach others. What I've learned is that teaching these skills is much different than enacting them with an individual.
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Coaching can help employees become better at their jobs, creating opportunities to learn new skills and take on new tasks. An employee who performs their tasks better becomes more efficient and can handle more responsibility. You will require fewer fill-in employees and less taxation on your bottom line.
Coaching is viewed as the most effective way to help salespeople within an organization develop their skill set. While high-performing salespeople often have mastered their craft, those in the middle of the pack have what it takes but could use some development. It's interesting that many organizations prioritize coaching opportunities for salespeople and other front-line employees while completely overlooking the rest of the organization-- just some food for thought.
How does an organization know who it's high-potential employees are without taking a deep dive into their goals, skills, and aspirations? Not all high-potential employees stand out in a crowd; you have to be vigilant to catch the diamonds in the rough.
Coaching provides an opportunity to do just that. With strong coaching practices, you can shift high-potential employees to high-performance employees by helping them use that potential! Coaching also gives an organization the ability to identify any complementary skills that would help in other areas of the business, rather than adhering to the confines of a job description.
Employees who feel appreciated are going to be happier going to work and working hard, and coaching is the best way to empower employees. By showing that your organization cares about their professional and personal development-- the whole person, not just the employee-- employees will feel respected and valued.
In many ways, your employees are like your customers, except instead of selling a good or service you're selling your business. When you are recruiting new employees, you follow this marketing mentality to attract top talent. Unfortunately, many businesses fail to continue the process once the employee is on board.
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For those who aren't familiar with the term "silos" in the workplace, it's the idea that everyone is there to do their job, and it isn't their responsibility to interact with other people. Workplaces that promote this mentality are the ones where everyone is sitting in a cubicle, typing silently.
Coaching can help remove the silo mentality from the workplace to provide opportunities for collaboration, communication, and culture. Coaching can benefit an organization by encouraging employees to abolish the "us vs. them" mentality and instead focus on the greater "we." As this mentality often trickles down from the top, executive and leadership coaching is the key to cultivating change.
The bottom line of coaching in business is literally the bottom line. By improving your team cohesion to build a strong company culture, and developing leadership skills at all levels, you ultimately become a more profitable company. You have employees who are happy to come to work and interact with their team while putting their best foot forward to help themselves by helping you.
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As Escadas do Codeçal é um arruamento na freguesia da Sé da cidade do Porto, em Portugal.

Trata-se de um dos recantos mais pitorescos do que se convencionou chamar o "Porto Antigo". De destacar a Capela de Nossa Senhora do Patrocínio edificada no século XVIII.

História
Codeçal é a ortografia do topónimo na atualidade, alegadamente porque deriva de cadouço (i.e., covão, esconderijo). No entanto, outra interpretação, é que o mais apropriado escrever codessal, outra seja, lugar onde crescem codessos (arbustos de flor amarela, da família das leguminosas, espontâneos em Portugal).

A origem das escadas perde-se no tempo. Esta escadaria ingreme foi, na época medieval, o caminho de ronda da Muralha Fernandina do Porto, estabelecendo a ligação ente o convento de Santa Clara e o postigo da Areia da muralha, já junto ao rio Douro.

Dos monumentos mais conhecidos das escadas do Codeçal encontra-se o Recolhimento do Ferro que, inicialmente, existia numa reentrância da rua Escura, em frente ao aljube. No entanto, como das janelas daquele presídio era possível devassar tudo o que se passava no interior do recolhimento, foi decidido transferi-lo para local mais adequado. O Codeçal foi o local escolhido, graças à cedência gratuita de terrenos por parte de uma benfeitora em 1729, que, no entanto, impos como condição que o recolhimento tomasse por padroeira Santa Maria Madalena e se dedicasse a receber "todas aquelas mulheres que, arrependidas da má vida e costumes dissolutos do mundo, se quisessem naquele Recolhimento". A instituição passou, por isso, a ser conhecida pela designação de Recolhimento de Nossa Senhora do Patrocínio e Santa Maria Madalena. Mas, por regra, continuou a ser conhecida simplesmente por Recolhimento do Ferro, tal como quando estava na rua Escura.

A construção da igreja e do recolhimento naquele lugar airoso, debruçado sobre o rio, iniciou-se em 1752 e não foi isenta de contratempos, prolongando-se por várias décadas. Nos meados dos século XIX, Henrique Duarte e Sousa Reis escrevia que o recolhimento se destinava "à clausura de senhoras e meninas que seus superiores, por conveniências públicas ou particulares, entendessem dever retirar do século e que nele [recolhimento] também se fazem depósitos judiciais de desposadas, quando é preciso..." Sabemos, por exemplo, que duas filhas do pintor João Glama viveram no recolhimento. Nos finais do século XX, com a necessidade de adaptação aos novos tempos, o antigo Recolhimento do Ferro passou a funcionar como Centro Social da Sé, uma instituição de solidariedade social que presta apoio à comunidade local.

Na década de 1880, a construção do tabuleiro superior da ponte Luís I obrigou a algumas demolições para construção de pilares de sustentação da ponte. Já no século XX, o alargamento da via de escoamento de trânsito do tabuleiro inferior da mesma ponte e a subsequente construção do túnel da Ribeira obrigou à demolição do trecho final das escadas do Codeçal. As escadas do Codeçal foram objeto de um programa de recuperação no âmbito da Porto 2001 – Capital Europeia da Cultura.

Ligações externas

Logradouros do Grande Porto
Sé (Porto)
São Nicolau (Porto)
Codecal

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Q: I need help linking my stack Class into my TestBed class import java.util.Random;

public class TestBed {

public static void main(String a[]) {
    // creating the array
    int[] array = new int[100];
    Random random = new Random();
    // changing the variable of my clone array for reference
    int[] arr = cloneArray(array);

    for (int i1 = 0; i1 < 100; i1++)
        array[i1] = random.nextInt(100) + 1;
    // print out of bubble sort before and after the sort
    System.out
            .println("***********************Bubble Sort           ****************************");
    arr = cloneArray(array);
    System.out.println("Values Before the sort:\n");
    printArray(arr);
    System.out.println();
    bubble_srt(arr);
    System.out.print("Values after the sort:\n");
    printArray(arr);
    // print out of selection sort before and after the sort
    System.out.println();
    System.out
            .println("********************Selection Sort*****************************");
    System.out.println(" Selection Sort\n\n");
    arr = cloneArray(array);
    System.out.println("Values Before the sort:\n");
    printArray(arr);
    System.out.println();
    selection_srt(arr);
    System.out.print("Values after the sort:\n");
    printArray(arr);

    System.out.println();

    Stack stack = new Stack();

}

public static int[] buildArray(int bound) {
    return null;
}

// clone array as a data type
public static int[] cloneArray(int[] data) {
    return (int[]) data.clone();
}

// print array as a data type
public static void printArray(int[] data) {

    // while there are still numbers left in the array print out the next
    // value

    for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++)
        System.out.print(data[i] + " ");

}

// bubble syntax
public static void bubble_srt(int a[]) {
    int t = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
        for (int j = 1; j < (a.length - i); j++) {
            if (a[j - 1] > a[j]) {
                t = a[j - 1];
                a[j - 1] = a[j];
                a[j] = t;
            }
        }
    }
}

// selection syntax
public static void selection_srt(int array[]) {
    for (int x = 0; x < array.length; x++) {
        int index_of_min = x;
        for (int y = x; y < array.length; y++) {
            if (array[index_of_min] > array[y]) {
                index_of_min = y;
            }
        }
        int temp = array[x];
        array[x] = array[index_of_min];
        array[index_of_min] = temp;
    }
}

}

From here i have to link my stack class but i don't know how to get the 2 classes together correctly im new to programming and my school threw me into a java class that was to high for me and now im stuck 5 weeks in.
public class Stack {
Node top;
int size;

public Stack() {
    top = null;
    size = 0;
}

public int pop() {
    if (top != null) {
        int item = top.data;
        top = top.next;
        size--;
        return item;
    }
    return -1;
}

public void push(int data) {
    Node t = new Node(data);
    t.next = this.top;
    this.top = t;
    size++;
}

public boolean isEmpty() {
    return size <= 0;
}

public int getSize() {
    return size;
}

public int peek() {
    return top.data;
}

public void printStack() {
    Node n = this.top;
    int pos = this.getSize();
    while (pos > 0) {
        System.out.println("Position: " + pos + " Element: " + n.data);
        if (pos > 0) {
            n = n.next;
        }
        pos--;

    }
}
}

class Node {
public int data;
public Node next;

Node(int d) {
    data = d;
    next = null;
}

public int getData() {
    return data;`enter code here`
}`enter code here`

{
    Stack s = new Stack();
    s.push(9);
    s.push(2);
    s.push(7);
    s.push(3);
    s.push(6);
    s.push(4);
    s.push(5);
    System.out.println("Size is: " + s.getSize());
    // s.printStack();
    int size = s.getSize();
    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        System.out.print(s.pop() + " ");
    }

}
}

A: At the beginning of Stack class file, create a package name, eg:
package com.example.testcode;

Then in your TestBed class file, import your Stack class from the package, eg:
import com.example.testcode.Stack;


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As time went by I got more and more sick now I had to tell my mother and my mother told my father and my siblings. They were shocked but hid it from me. One day I got more sick and my brother took me to Mapongwana day hospital and my friend Faith was there supporting me. They transferred me to Kaarl Bremmar Hospital cause I was dehydrated. When I got there I was in a coma for a week.
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Now I'm on ARV's and my CD4 count is 469.9. I am free about my status cause I know that there are people who are with me.
I would like to tell other people to get tested so that they could live a long life and know their status before they get sick.


This manuscript contains a precise guide that explains how the Buddha Siddhārtha Gautama and the Bodhisattvas that accompany him must be represented.
Siddhārtha Gautama left a body of knowledge that eventually gave life to Buddhism. When this philosophy began to spread, its practitioners paid particular attention to the pictorial representations of the historical Buddha, thus creating iconometric guides and manuals describing exactly how he had to be represented.
A recently recovered book from the 18th century describes precisely how Buddha, the protectors and the Bodhisattvas, must be portrayed: The Tibetan Book of Proportions is a sort of golden testimony around one of the most inspiring representations in human history.
Written in Newari script with Tibetan numerals, the book was apparently produced in Nepal for use in Tibet. The concept of the "ideal image" of the Buddha emerged between the 4th and the 6th century, and as well as the proportions, other aspects of the depiction (such as number of teeth, the direction of the hair and the exact placement of the fingers) are taken into consideration. His representations must obey 32 greater Laksanas and 80 minor ones, and must also include certain traits such as wavy hair, long fingers, a lion's torso and "sapphire blue eyes".
The tankas, which are the tapestries or Buddhist paintings that follow these specifications of proportions, are not just valuable in terms of their iconography, but also seen as multi-dimensional and multi-sensorial devices designed to assist the evolution of consciousness. Creating a good tanka requires a great deal of knowledge and skill: each one is a window towards the complete system of the philosophy imbued in Tibetan Buddhism.
In addition to virtually guaranteeing a correct representation of the fundamental figures of Buddhism, the book also proves the importance of certain variables within this tradition, for example numerical precision, graphic organization of symbols, chromatic relationships and, in sum, it channels aesthetics for the benefit of spiritual development.


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Q: Make terminal cursor blink I can't find the option in man page to adjust cursor settings like: shape, blink, blink rate, color, etc.
I know how to edit the .cshrc file to customize the prompt like adding/removing username, machine, current working directory, etc. But I can't find options for cursor.
Any suggestions on how to do so for C-shell specifically?

A: I don't know the code for blinking cursor , but you can try placing this code in your .bashrc file or .zshrc file:
# For changing cursor
#echo '\e[5 q'    #  This a thin line

echo '\e[4 q'     # this is underscore

Note this doesn't blink the cursor , it only change the cursor to underscore or thin line cursor

A: To see the settings :
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-blink-time
user@lenovo:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-blink-time
1200

to set a different value (in this case 200ms):
user@lenovo:~$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-blink-time 200


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During this years G20 meeting held in Argentina July 21-22, Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors gave thoughts and tried to tackle the issue on cryptocurrency policies. There did seem to be a general consensus that cryptocurrencies and their underling technologies have the potential to improve the efficiency of financial systems according to reports.
Discussions seemed to unsurprisingly shift back to the illicit activity aspect of crypto-assets where money laundering, illicit transactions, tax base erosion or terrorism financing are listed as the major concerns. It is worth noting that numerous officials and state-issued reports have shown illicit activity completed with cryptocurrencies is still a minuscule amount when compared to traditional fiat currency.
The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) reported the risk of digital currency use for money laundering to be relatively low in comparison to fiat.
Hong Kong's Financial Services and Treasury(FSTB) have said that cryptocurrency is not a threat and is left out of organized crime.
Quebec's Government have also said that Bitcoin's usage for illicit activity has been declining over the years.
More clear and concise regulations for crypto-assets seems to be the solution G20 officials are seeking. G20 are considering opening a specific crypto-assets chapter where cryptocurrencies and their potential impact on financial stability should be monitored regularly with a short-term and long-term perspective.
payments systems, the environment, etcetera).
G20 officials have noted that crypto-asset regulation is still in an infant stage where many countries have no regulation, some have very liberal and friendly regulation (like Switzerland), and some have a more hostile stance, banning many crypto-related activities (like China). There has been a proposal that there needs to be an international consensus on how to handle crypto-assets so as to avoid regulatory arbitrage.
regulatory playing field with other competing financial instruments and activities.
on an equal footing as they provide the impetus to rethink the way finance is done.
It appears as if the G20 is looking to act on the recommendations which are to be provided by the FATF as early as October this year. While it may be difficult as opinions surrounding crypto-assets and regulations vary greatly between different nations, it does seem G20 as a whole are looking to quickly find a unified solution on how to deal with crypto-assets and their future in our current financial market.


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You can delete entire saved YouTube videos at one go or clear them off individually to ensure those unwanted videos do not clutter your iOS device.
Whenever I stumble upon any cool YouTube videos, I often save them to catch up with them in offline mode. Due to the inconsistent internet connection, watching high-definition videos is a painful task. Therefore, it's better to download them for smooth-sailing offline watching. To ensure my personal library doesn't go overboard, I keep a check on it. Thankfully, removing all YouTube offline videos at once on the iOS device is quite straightforward as it doesn't require any lengthy workaround.
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Step #1. Open YouTube app on your iOS device → Make sure Home tab is selected at the bottom. Tap on your profile at the top right corner.
Step #2. Tap on Settings.
Step #3. Now, scroll down and tap on Remove offline content which is located under Offline section.
Step #4. A popup will appear on the screen saying it will remove all videos and playlists from your device. Tap on Remove to confirm.
Step #1. Launch YouTube app on your iOS device → Tap on Library tab at the bottom right corner.
Step #2. Now, you have to tap on Offline videos under Available offline section.
Step #3. Up next, tap on the three vertical dots next to the video you want to clear off.
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Q: Likelihood for BetaBinomialDistribution with variable number of trials BetaBinomialDistribution is parametrized by three parameters [α, β, n],
so it appears that all manipulations are limited to having a single value of n. Is it possible to re-define the distribution so it would take multiple different trial size as part of the data along with observation counts, and allow to use FindDistributionParameters on it ? Also - how can I compute the likelihood for a sample with variable number of trials, so the data is, for example:
1 success out of 2 trials
17 successes out of 30 trials
d = {1, 17};
n = {2, 30};

A: If you want maximum likelihood estimates based on multiple samples from beta binomial distributions with the same parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$ but the fixed and known sample sizes vary, then here is an approach to do so:
(* Sample sizes *)
n = {2, 30, 20, 21, 56, 27};

(* Random samples with α=3 and β=2 *)
SeedRandom[13];
d = Flatten[
   Table[RandomVariate[BetaBinomialDistribution[3, 2, n[[i]]], 1], {i, Length[n]}]];

(* Log of likelihood *)
logL = Sum[LogLikelihood[BetaBinomialDistribution[α, β, n[[i]]], {d[[i]]}], {i, Length[n]}];

(* Find maximum likelihood estimates *)
sol = FindMaximum[{logL, α > 0 && β > 0}, {{α, 3}, {β, 2}}]
(* {-16.74694495424507,{α -> 3.5777414111204497,β -> 2.871340409996666}} *)

Update
It turns out that if one creates a multivariate random variable using TransformedDistribution, one can then use FindDistributionParameters directly (at least for this combination of distributions):
(*Sample sizes*)
n = {2, 30, 20, 21, 56, 27};

dist = TransformedDistribution[
  Table[ToExpression["x" <> ToString[i]], {i, Length[n]}],
  Table[ToExpression["x" <> ToString[i]] \[Distributed]
    BetaBinomialDistribution[a, b, n[[i]]], {i, Length[n]}]]

(*Random samples with α=3 and β=2*)
SeedRandom[13];
x = Flatten[Table[RandomVariate[BetaBinomialDistribution[3, 2, n[[i]]], 1], {i, Length[n]}]];

FindDistributionParameters[{x}, dist]
(* {a -> 3.5777390778400413`,b -> 2.8713390386213904`} *)


Yes, it exists. No, it does not make your petard stand on end. It's rather anticlimactic, truth be told, but what is it with these pointed references?
Apparently the site has undergone some drama of its own. I'll have to investigate. I certainly don't mean to pass judgment. But shakespeare.com — really?
Naturally I'm on the prowl for all matters relating to Shakespeare on the internets. I plan to share with you any items of note, to spare you that darned google trap which can be like looking a word up in the dictionary or eating just one cookie fresh out of the oven.
Then again, if you know of a favorite site you've been keeping secret (or, you know, friends, boyfriends and significant others yawned at not so discreetly), feel free to share them here.
We're a Shakespeare community, after all. This isn't like class where you have to pretend. You're not going to get a bad grade. I perfectly understand that reading or attending Shakespeare for a lot of people is like flossing between meals or eating your green beans. But some people actually like green beans. Sort of.
Maybe comparing Shakespeare to vegetables wasn't such a great idea.
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Ali Solis Net Worth
Alí Solís is a pro baseball player who plays Catcher for the Chicago Cubs. Solís was born on September 29, 1987, in Mexicali, México. This page will take a closer look at Alí Solís's net worth.
Alí Solís Career, Earnings
Solís bats Right and throws Right. Solís debuted in the MLB on September 16, 2012 for the San Diego Padres. In all, Solís played for the San Diego Padres, and Tampa Bay Rays.
Some of Solís's most prominent statistics in the MLB included a Batting average stat of .000, a Home runs stat of 0, and a Run batted in stat of 1.
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Coaching Ambition and Folly
As WKU recently endured a humiliating home beatdown by Louisville, my thoughts turned to one of the assistant coaches on the Louisville bench — Ralph Willard — and his coaching journey. He served as WKU head coach from 1990-94, rehabilitating the program and leading them to the 1993 Sweet 16. He left the Toppers in 1994 for Pitt, where he went 63-82 in five seasons with no NCAA appearances. After his dismissal from Pitt, he started over at his alma mater, Holy Cross, where he won 4 Patriot League titles before resigning to rejoin his (younger) benefactor, Rick Pitino. Willard had earlier served as an assistant with Pitino at the Knicks and the University of Kentucky.
Willard's two successful successors (with one unsuccessful one in between) at WKU followed his path. After 3 consecutive NCAA appearances in Bowling Green, Dennis Felton accepted the Georgia job, where he was fired in his 6th season with a 84-91 record and only one NCAA appearance (and that only after an unlikely SEC tourney run). Darrin Horn went 111-48 at WKU with a Sweet 16 appearance in 2008 before leaving for South Carolina. Even though he finished first in the East Division in 2009, his tenure may not last a long time. The East that year was way down and the Gamecocks did not even receive an NCAA bid. Now in the middle of his third season, he is 45-30 overall with no NCAA appearances and 9-4 this season with a very damaging loss to in-state, small private school Furman.
When is it a good time to accept a new position? Maybe there are so many uncertainties that you take the money and run. Horn and Felton gained something like $400,000-$500,000 per year more. That would be very difficult for anyone to turn down. Yet, continued high levels of success at WKU would not have only extended their WKU stints but would have likely garnered additional, possibly better offers.
Instead, Felton and Horn left for positions where success would be no easy matter. With Kentucky, Florida, and Tennessee as division rivals, mediocrity in the division would seem very likely. Willard left for a Pitt program that enjoyed success under Paul Evans in the 1980s, but nonetheless, was not operating at that level anymore and faced fierce conference competition.
Coaches and other top level managers frequently overestimate their abilities. I don't mean that they have no ability, but that they underestimate the other influences on success such as the historical competitive position of the program relative to rivals or just the confluence of good fortune. In my estimation, Felton and Horn were good recruiters but not very impressive in games with opponents of equal talent and good coaching. Most games in the SEC East would be against teams of equal or better talent. Willard truly had above average coaching abilities along with good recruiting skills and sense, but the highly competitive Big East didn't permit much room for mistakes.
Of course, this isn't a story solely about WKU or about accepting jobs at places where it is difficult to win. The Tubby Smith, and even more so, Billy Gillispie experiences at UK speak to the fact that managerial success is often like a marriage, where the match matters.
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