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JJB Sports reveals £65m recovery plan - but there's a catch
Sports retailer JJB launches a last-ditch attack involving revamping stores and investing online. But don't get too excited: it's already 3-0 down and suffering an injury crisis...
by Dave Waller
The 250-store chain has now gone to shareholders looking for (another) £65m to fund the restructuring. That's a cheeky ask at the best of times, and especially so since it has already pumped shareholders for £100m in 2009 and another £31.5m this year. But the company clearly has some generous supporters – major shareholders like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, Harris Associates and Crystal Amber have agreed to cough up for this latest £65m handout. Bank of Scotland is also stumping up £25m in working capital; given that getting cash out of a bank these days is tougher than getting the ball off a Barcelona midfielder, this is the retail equivalent of an away goal. Still, in for a penny and all that, we suppose.
This will, however, come at a cost. Their support will hinge on a key vote next week, when JJB asks landlords and shareholders to back controversial proposals to close up to 89 unprofitable stores over the next two years.
They'll also be switching tactics, remodelling their remaining stores along the lines of six trial shops they've been running. According to JJB, these stores have been tweaked to appeal to keen amateurs and sporting families, and sales there have been running at about 16% above the company average. Presumably that's not just a load of old boules.
JJB certainly needs to pull something special out of the bag. The chain, which employs 6,100 people, is like a relegation struggler whose chances of staying up are looking slimmer by the day. This latest attempt at survival follows the collapse of merger talks last week with rival JD Sports, which abandoned the plan citing a lack of information from JJB that would have enabled it to make a formal offer. JJB responded by saying JD's takeover proposal was 'highly conditional and lacking sufficient certainty to be deliverable'. So they're blaming each other, basically.
It's a shame, as in terms of offering at least, it looks like a decent pairing. While JJB is heading towards kitting out amateurs and families, JD is more about sports-related yoof fashion. And by doubling up they would've created a group of 750 stores.
Trouble is, in terms of financial clout they're playing in different divisions. JJB is deep in the financial mire, with sales plummeting; it's had boardroom trouble, not to mention a £455k fine for misleading the stock market. JD has actually done well out of the recession, so teaming up with JJB would be a massive risk. A bit like sticking a father-son pair in plimsolls in that Barcelona midfield, perhaps.
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Minassian remains in serious condition at a Boston hospital where he is being treated for "several" wounds, said Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati Friday afternoon.
Salem police first responded to Minassian's home at 155 South Policy St. in Salem at 10:37 a.m. Thursday, following reports of a possibly suicidal man armed with a large knife outside the home, according to police. Neighbors said Minassian lived alone.
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Few details have been released surrounding the incident, but Agati said "several" officers were involved.
Salem Deputy Police Chief Shawn Patten said Friday that "several" officers had been placed on administrative leave following Thursday's shooting.
Patten said the officers will meet with a police crisis intervention team and will be allowed to return to work as soon as they feel ready.
The state Attorney General's Office and state police have taken over the investigation, as is always the case with an officer-involved shooting, Agati said.
Agati said he could not comment on whether or not Minassian would face charges out of Thursday's incident.
Agati said that it could be two or three weeks before a final report is released, but said preliminary findings will likely me made public before that point.
In that case, Sgt. Wesley Decker and Officer Brian Bodenrader shot Kip Pepin, 27, seven times in the lower back and buttocks after a struggle during a February arrest.


In 2003, Billy and Jenny Smyth, St John's Parish, Moira, took the courageous decision to take their young family from the relative security of Uganda to live in Yei, South Sudan, which was two years into a ceasefire.
Now Billy will once again leave his home to spend time in Yei as he tries to help the people there to rebuild their lives, just months after another fragile ceasefire.
Billy, now retired, and Jenny, Mission Director of CMS Ireland, were the first Anglican mission partners to move into Sudan following the 2003 ceasefire.
A former maintenance fitter in Belvoir Park Hospital, Billy's first calling with CMS Ireland was to the Church of Uganda in 1994. Here he met Jenny, a mission partner with CMS England, and the couple married in 1996.
Billy worked in Kiwoko Hospital, 50 miles north of Kampala, and Jenny was an occupational therapy tutor in Malarga Hospital in the capital. After their wedding Billy moved to Mengo Hospital in Kampala.
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Billy taught carpentry, building and vehicle maintenance to Sudanese refugees and occasionally they would have to travel into Sudan to visit the diocese.
The West Nile Training Centre was set up at the request of the Bishop of Yei. The ferocity of the war meant it had to be located over the Ugandan border.
When a ceasefire was signed in 2001, Bishop Hilary felt the time was right to relocate the Training Centre in Yei. Billy and Jenny answered his call after the birth of their son Caleb in 2003, moving into a basic house plastered with sand and cement and with a tin roof. The house had no mains electricity the family initially relying on solar panels on the roof to charge the batteries for their lights, power and the satellite phone, although they later acquired a generator.
"When we first went to Yei it was very eerie. Yei was like a ghost town, most of the people were still in the refugee camps. Thankfully, it was very peaceful," Billy said.
Their home, and the Vocational Training Centre (VTC) which they developed, was on the site of a former army compound, and in those early days was still littered with rundown buildings and rusting abandoned vehicles.
In 2007, when Billy and Jenny returned to live in Moira, the centre had 55 staff, including teachers and carpenters. The students were mostly young Sudanese men, refugees returning home or demobilised soldiers.
Women could also learn new skills at the centre. Under the micra-enterprise scheme local women received small loans to set up businesses ranging from tea shops to basket weaving.
When Billy and Jenny returned home, CMS Mission Partners John and Poppy Spens took their place in Yei and oversaw the continued development of the VTC under local leadership.
A Connor team visited Yei Vocational Training College in January 2010. At the time it had 90 full-time students. Students who graduate return to their villages and pass their skills on to others. In January 2013, a second Connor team which included the Bishop of Connor, the Rt Rev Alan Abernethy, travelled to Yei, and ran a week-long clergy training course in a large tukul at the VTC.
The 2005 peace agreement led to independence for South Sudan in 2011 and hopes for lasting peace were high. But over Christmas 2013, as Bishop Alan was preparing to lead another team to Yei the following month, violence again erupted and the visit was cancelled.
South Sudan fell into yet another bitter conflict resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of five million people. Many fled to refugee camps over the border, or to camps for internally displaced people within South Sudan.
With an easing of tensions, Billy and Jenny returned to Yei in July 2016 with their children for a short family visit. Abigail and Caleb were keen to meet up with the children they had played with at the VTC compound. But while they were there, the situation deteriorated.
Billy has since been in Uganda twice, once with Abigail and a youth group from the family church in Moira, and last October, with a CMSI team which attended a Peace and Reconciliation Conference in Arua.
Billy has now been invited by Bishop Hilary to go to Yei and look into the possibility of reopening the VTC. Bishop Hilary's vision is to offer hope to young people through vocational training opportunities and he sees this as a vital ingredient in establishing the current fragile peace process.
Billy will also take part in the Peace Conference planned for February 8th-10th – a follow up to the Arua conference in October. He said this follow-up conference will be as important as the work he will be doing at the VTC.
The conference will take place in Immanuel Cathedral, Yei. Billy said that the town had remained remarkably intact through the recent conflict, and attributed this largely to the brave decision by Bishop Hilary to remain in Yei throughout the conflict.
Bishop Hilary travelled regularly to meet with the people of Yei in the refugee camps, including the huge Rhino Camp in Arua which Billy visited in October.
"Things were beginning to look more settled. People were hopeful that they were turning a corner, but over Christmas there were a few hiccups. The main road from Yei to the Ugandan border has been closed again," Billy said.
While he can prepare for addressing the conference in Yei, Billy cannot prepare so well for his return to the VTC, as he doesn't know what to expect.
The VTC is located on church land close to Immanuel Cathedral. "Reopening the training centre will be a very high profile project in the diocese. Having it up and running again will be a psychological and morale boost for a couple of million young people who have lost out on an education. It will offer them the opportunity to learn practical skills in just a few months," said Billy.
"My priority will be to work out budgets, what the costs will be per student. Hundreds of young people are waiting.
As to his hopes for the future. Billy said it depends on your degree of optimism. "Bishop Hilary says the peace agreement is working, yet others are setting up a five-year plan for clinics in the camps," he said.
Billy outlined some shocking UNHCR statistics (October 2018).
• Connor Diocese has been in partnership with the Diocese of Yei, South Sudan, since 2007.
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Armed crooks steal electronics and valuables in pair of robberies in Jamaica: NYPD
Photos courtesy of the NYPD
Cops are looking for a duo who are believed to be behind a pair of armed robberies in Jamaica.
According to police, at 9:40 p.m. on Nov. 10, a 26-year-old woman and 24-year-old man were walking in front of Walkway's Grocery store, located at 88-28 150th St., when they were approached by two unknown men. The first suspect pulled out a black firearm while the second suspect the victim's wallet and two iPhone 10Rs. The pair then fled the scene southbound on Hillside Avenue.
The suspects struck again on Dec. 1. At 2:55 a.m. that day, a 24-year-old man was walking in the vicinity of 139th Street and Archer Avenue when he was approached by the suspects, who were simulating like they had firearms in their jackets. The first suspect stated, "Give us the stuff and you won't get hurt!", as the second suspect took the victim's watch, necklace and bracelet. Both men were last seen fleeing on foot to parts unknown.
No injuries were reported as a result of each incident.
On Dec. 13, the NYPD released photos and video of the suspects. The video depicts the suspects walking nearby the first incident before it took place.
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The first suspect, described as a man with a medium complexion, was last seen wearing a black hooded winter jacket, black pants and black shoes. The second suspect, described as a man with a goatee and a dark complexion, was last seen wearing eye glasses, a green Nike hooded sweatshirt, green sweatpants, black jacket with brown sleeves with a picture on the black, a brown baseball cap and black sneakers. The NYPD also released a photo fo the second suspect riding the Q43 bus heading southbound on Hillside Avenue.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.
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Worth of JSECoin in future?
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This topic contains 41 replies, has 2 voices, and was last updated by Rizky 9 months, 3 weeks ago.
I understand your concerns with the referral program. Unfortunately when we had it open globally it caused a lot of problems. There was an incredible amount of referral spam coming from places like Indonesia. It seemed like certain countries had unlimited access to new IP addresses and email accounts. We were also getting a lot of support queries and questions in foreign languages and google translate isn't the best when it comes to technical discussions. For this reason we are currently focusing on English speaking countries as our primary target market. This isn't ideal for anyone living outside the target regions but I hope you can at least appreciate why we had to put the restrictions in place.
I would reconsider it at least opening the referral to European countries where the IP address restrictions are stricter. But your choice of course.
JSEcoin is very new, well at least to me. I follow the ongoings in the crypto world, do I have some? No, allthough I was going to tend to get some. Now coming to JSEcoin, I very much like the concept and it is true what glemiere says. For this I think we can find an easier solution. I think following things should be put on a list of highest priority to get fixed, then I see JSEcoin to be a fast growing and future cryptocurrency many will make use off.
1) There is currently a WordPress plugin, however it gets detected by the security software from many users and that can be a death-strike for JSEcoin if this is not corrected very soon. A webmaster won't risk losing it's customers if visitors get a warning infected website, the visitors are gone and probably will never return. No crypto miner can come up with weighting the losses out in this case. So it will be important that the code will be added to the exception list of security software.
2) so that point 1 will work, it is important that JSEcoin is easy and transparent to be seen to any visitor, example the JSEcoin.com website, I did not see any pop up or warning you have it running here. Put one up and explain why you have it here and let the user decide to continue running it or not.
3) continued from point 2) the WordPress plugin needs to have this option in addition and that could work well, let the visitor decide what he she wants to see: choose advertisements on the website or the miner in the background or option 3 sign up for an account on that website (paid or free) to disable both. The webmaster will still make his money to cover the costs of a website and the visitor decides how he is going to support the website he she visits. Everyone happy.
4) as pointed out, the spread of the new coin needs to be supported worldwide, offer affiliate possebilities for anyone to join.
5) translation in different languages, more languages will create more trust in this product, I know as I speak 4 languages fluently and people always feel closer connected if they can talk in their language with their culture.
5) creating more trust can also be reached in making educational videos to be spread over social media, why is JSEcoin the answer to all cryptos out there. Make it a bit funny too and you win many hearts.
Now I can go on with many more ideas to help JSEcoin, but I think for now these 5 should be the one being taking care off. I like to hear any suggestions and your meanings to this.
I'll reply to these points individually.
1) We are working to get whitelisted with the antivirus and ad blocking companies. This is an ongoing process and we are putting together tools to flag early warnings and a formal CRM type system.
2) You will see the pop up on any site that is running the JSEcoin mining code. It'll only show once per hour to stop it popping up on every page as a user browses through a site.
3) This is a good idea and might be something we will look at if/when we build out the advertising system. Potentially a user could choose whether to mine or have a banner added at the bottom of the page or something like that.
4/5) Translation is something we are working on. The new version of the platform has support for multiple languages. When this is released we will be looking to translate the whitepaper and platform. We still probably wont be able to offer support in anything other than English but this will be a good start.
5) Yes I did a quick walkthrough video that has proved quite popular so we will do some more of those and also record some team Q&A type sessions. We have to focus on the development at the moment and not get distracted but this is on the to do list.
I have a suggestion. JSE coin number and mining seems difficult. With increase in difficutly people will be getting 0.5 coins per day or something like that. Psychologically it hurts. These 0.5 coins might be worth 100 USD but if you give people 100 coins worth 1 USD each, they will be happier. In my opinion JSE should release a micro JSE coin and rewards should be calculated accordingly in micro JSEcoin. I know this does not seem big deal but I think it will have huge impact psychologically.
This is a good point. Someone else suggested that investors would be more inclined to purchase a token that is priced below $1 usd because some don't take the market cap into consideration.
We could potentially increase everyone's holdings and the market cap by 100x and decrease the cost x100 at ICO. So everyone's holdings in the project would be the same they would just hold 100x the tokens but the same percentage of the total supply. It would be fairly easy to do from a technical point of view, would need to check out the legalities of changing the whitepaper.
This will positively affect the view of the coin as a better future prospect.
I think increasing the total amount of coins would make it more desirable from a viewers standpoint. I am very optimistic about this product and happy to have found it so early haha.
Thumb up for the idea!
You are all too optimistic,like the other currencies, the value of jse will be very inferior at 1 us cent.
Marketing, marketing, marketing, oh and increase the amount of maximum coins and initial coins.
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How do we best share this city?
Those of you who have been paying attention will know that we are premiering our new show The Capital at the end of this month. Staged on twin moving walkways, it is a fast paced journey through the big city, following the lives of 5 people from different backgrounds and how their differing circumstances affect their interactions with the city and with each other. The production was originally inspired by discussions about economic inequality with economists at the University of Warwick.
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Professor Kiran Trehan
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Marc Reeves
Marc Reeves is West Midlands editor-in-chief for Reach plc, and editor of the Birmingham Mail and its website, BirminghamLive.In a 30-year career in regional media, he has held senior positions across the country, but in 2006 returned to his home town as editor of the Birmingham Post. Since then, he has led the company's transformation into a digital-first business, and BirminghamLive, with 38 million monthly page views, is now one of the largest regional news sites in the UK. BirminghamLive was launched from the foundations of the Mail's previous site, and its digital-only approach is built on a raft of innovations from podcasting to video journalism.The site has also continued the Mail's campaigning heritage, with an appeal for the city's foodbanks on target to collect 100 tonnes of food.
Professor Kathyrn Moore
Kathryn Moore, Immediate Past President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) and Professor of Landscape Architecture at Birmingham City University, Kathryn has taken a lead role in redefining the relationship between landscape, culture and governance, finance, health and community engagement within the context of a radical proposal for a West Midlands National Park, launched in a major conference held in BCU in June 2018. She is a member of the Independent National Design Review Panel for HS2 as well as the recently formed Enfield Borough Council Place and Design Quality Panel.
Tru Powell
Truchio aka Tru was born in Birmingham and grew up in a single parent household with his six siblings.He learnt at a very early age he had a passion for enterprise, the arts and events, something that would later in life give him a career. Tru is the Founder & Managing Director for The Alternative Events & Wedding Company, a company that specialises in coordinating high quality corporate, youth events and weddings. In addition, Tru is the Creative & Events Director for Aston Performing Arts Academy, a community interest organisation that exists to empower young people through performing and creative arts and a visiting lecturer for University College Birmingham. Tru is also a Trustee for Creative Academies, and a NED for TAG Network and more recently has assumed a Non Executive Director post for the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) as the Marketing and Events Champion. Over the years Tru has been awarded with numerous accolades for enterprise and his contribution to the arts. In 2014 he was recognised as one of Birmingham's most inspirational young leaders and in 2018 was crowned Birmingham's Young Professional of the Year – Marketing and Communications. In addition Tru is a finalist in the both the Phoenix and Natwest Entrepreneur Awards as 'Entrepreneur of the Year 2018′.
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Server must serve from behind the end line until after contact.
Ball may be served underhand or overhand.
Ball must be clearly visible to opponents before serve.
Served ball may graze (touch) the net and drop to the other side for point.
First game serve is determined by a volley, each subsequent game shall be served by the previous game loser.
Serve must be returned by a bump only, no setting or attacking a serve.
Rally scoring will be used.
There will be a point scored on every score of the ball.
Offense will score on a defensive miss or our of bounds hit.
Defense will score on an offensive miss, out of bounds hit, or serve into the net.
Game will be played to 25 points.
Must win by 2 points difference.
Team will rotate each time they win the serve.
Players shall rotate in a clockwise manner.
Maximum of three hits per side.
Player may not hit the ball twice in succession (A block is not considered a hit)
Ball may be played off the net during a volley and on serve.
A ball touching a boundary line is good.
A legal hit is contact with the ball be a player body which does not allow the ball to visibly come to a rest.
If two or more players contact the ball simultaneously, it is considered one play and the players involved may not participate in the next play.
A player must not block or attack a serve.
Switching positions will be allowed only between front line players. (After the serve only).
Basic Rule Violations
Stepping on or over the line on a serve.
Failure to serve the ball over the net successfully.
Hitting the ball illegally (carrying, palming, throwing, etc.)
Touches of the net with any part of the body while the ball is in play. If the ball is driven into the net with such force that it causes the net to contact an opposing player, no foul will be called, and the ball shall continue to be in play.
Reaching over the net, except under these conditions:
when executing a follow-through
when blocking a ball which is in the opponents court but is being returned (the blocker must not contact the ball until after the opponent who is attempting to return the ball makes contact)
Reaches under the net (if it interferes with the ball or opposing player)
Failure to serve in the correct order
Blocks or spikes from a position which is clearly not behind the 10-feet line while in a back row position.
If there are any deviation the document of the Federation Internationale De Volleyball Rules 2015-2016 shall be referred.
Frequently asked questions and their answers are as follows:
Q 1. Can I touch the volleyball in leg?
Answer: The ball may touch any part of the body (which includes leg). Also, it is not mandatory that after hitting with leg the ball must go over the net to the other side.
Q 2. If the opponent hist shot and the ball touches shoulder, chest or back of player of other team and rises up and returns back after crossing over the net, does the play continue?
Answer: Yes the play continues.
Q 3. Is it correct or foul to block or spike the ball which is served?
Answer: No player is permitted to complete an attack hit on the opponent's service, when the ball is in the front zone and entirely higher than the top of the net.


You can find this note right next to the Madahândos' brothers in the Trailer park on a table. Read the note in which Paul Gamelin complains that the Trailer park is running low on supplies. Now it's your job to scavenge some supplies from the construction side. Yes, that's right, the lair area. But it's not so hard as it sounds.
Just follow the rocky pathway on the right side from the table. The road should take you to the southeast side of the construction side. Continue until you find an opening to some construction scaffolds. It should be around 382,785.
Even though you are now inside the lair, you will not have to fight as long as you stay on the scaffolds. Here you have to gather 3 propane tanks, 3 potential weapons and 7 Water bottles, which you can all find on various scaffold platforms. It is a little tricky to get up on the boards, just jump a little if you're stuck. If there are not enough items, wait until they respawn, but don't jump down in the construction side if you have not a high enough faction rank/equipment.
If you have everything you need, go back to the Trailer park and click on the door of the Madahândos' trailer.


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Murder on the Orient Express, 2017
The Murder on the Orient Express script comes scribed by the 2017 Blade Runner writer, Michael Green. Judging from the triumphant transpose that is Blade Runner 2049 from the original film, we may be conclude that Green is indeed capable of adapting an older story for audiences today. This very fact begs the question of if Murder on the Orient Express is sure-fire enough a story to tell on screen outside of the novel it originates from.
This movie follows a world-renowned detective, Hercule Piorot, as he's faced with the duty of uncovering a murder on the luxurious train from Istanbul to Calais, named the Orient Express.
Going into the movie, having not seen the original, I was quite intrigued by the plot. A cat and mouse on a moving train where nobody could escape and everyone was to forced to cohabit with a murder until they arrived at their destination; that's if they lived long enough to. How exciting and intense, right?! Well, wrong. The movie turns out to be not so enticing as it is a nagging drag.
There isn't much to divulge in this movie except perhaps for some pretty cool shots of the Orient as it gracefully huffs and puffs through elevated railways under an enchanting blizzard. The lack of character-development burns the movie out before it can take off. The movie having one confined setting makes it an obvious bet that the movie's fate would rest on the shoulders of its characters. I guess it wasn't so obvious to the filmmakers because not even the lead has enough flare to propell our interest as an audience that is initially supposed to be at the edge of our seats all through this murder mystery.
Hercule Piorot reminds me of M. Gustave (The Grand Budapest Hotel) as he's fueled, animated and seems to be out of touch with humanity outside of his own little perfect world of flare and wonder where only things of the finest standard mattered. He is as much a drama queen as Edna Mode from The Incredibles, but lacks the dutiful and passionate haughtiness in his eye as he sniffs through scones and measures eggs in accordance to his extravagant taste. Piorot, though, does have some shining moments–assisted by that fuzzy, whiskered mustache that proves more interesting than the movie's star-studded cast–but they're quickly drowned by a crumbling, tasteless story.
I'd love to get into the rest of the cast, but there's really nothing to tell about any of these characters. They were shockingly underused, which left me with the question of why they'd need folk like Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench and Michelle Pfeiffer in the first place if their capacity as actors would not be used to benefit the narrative in the slightest.
What was supposed to be a glare-eyed toe-to-toe show-down between Piorot and the passengers of the luxury train never really rises up to the occassion. Interrogations fizzle down to a boring "I know you did it, but I'll play it cool for now because you might not be it", and it becomes a tedious practice after a while; sadly, this is the only play they have up their sleeves. Out of all the intriguing subplots that could've come out of this adaption of the movie, we're merely afforded a surface chase-down that can be summed up as a bland sorry excuse of taking cinema back to its roots.
Full disclosure, Murder on the Orient Express is a nicely packaged cargo of horsesh*t.


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Q: Maven compile error "cannot find symbol" after any change to one project Well iam learning JEE with maven in the same time :p
i have this structure of projects in netbeans
->core
->frontoffice
frontoffice uses classes from core so i've added dependency in pom.xml like this :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.directmedia.onlinestore</groupId>
    <artifactId>frontoffice</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <packaging>war</packaging>

    <name>frontoffice</name>

    <properties>
        <endorsed.dir>${project.build.directory}/endorsed</endorsed.dir>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>m.directmedia.onlinestore</groupId>
            <artifactId>core</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax</groupId>
            <artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
            <version>7.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                    <compilerArguments>
                        <endorseddirs>${endorsed.dir}</endorseddirs>
                    </compilerArguments>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3</version>
                <configuration>
                    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>validate</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>copy</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <outputDirectory>${endorsed.dir}</outputDirectory>
                            <silent>true</silent>
                            <artifactItems>
                                <artifactItem>
                                    <groupId>javax</groupId>
                                    <artifactId>javaee-endorsed-api</artifactId>
                                    <version>7.0</version>
                                    <type>jar</type>
                                </artifactItem>
                            </artifactItems>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

core project pom.xml not changes.
every thing works fine i can use classes of core project in frontoffice, however when i add something to core classes and clean & build.. OK but when i do clean & build on frontoffice project i got error of what i've added :
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com/directmedia/onlinestore/controller/CatalogueServlet.java:[79,15] cannot find symbol
  symbol:   variable aa
  location: variable titre1 of type com.directmedia.onlinestore.core.entity.Work
com/directmedia/onlinestore/controller/CatalogueServlet.java:[80,15] cannot find symbol
  symbol:   variable aa
  location: variable titre2 of type com.directmedia.onlinestore.core.entity.Work
com/directmedia/onlinestore/controller/CatalogueServlet.java:[81,15] cannot find symbol
  symbol:   variable aa
  location: variable titre3 of type com.directmedia.onlinestore.core.entity.Work
com/directmedia/onlinestore/controller/CatalogueServlet.java:[101,27] cannot find symbol
  symbol:   variable aa
  location: variable oeuvre of type com.directmedia.onlinestore.core.entity.Work
4 errors
-------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
BUILD FAILURE
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total time: 2.899 s
Finished at: 2019-10-14T22:19:21+02:00
Final Memory: 17M/196M
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.1:compile (default-compile) on project frontoffice: Compilation failure: Compilation failure:
com/directmedia/onlinestore/controller/CatalogueServlet.java:[79,15] cannot find symbol
symbol:   variable aa
location: variable titre1 of type com.directmedia.onlinestore.core.entity.Work
com/directmedia/onlinestore/controller/CatalogueServlet.java:[80,15] cannot find symbol
symbol:   variable aa
location: variable titre2 of type com.directmedia.onlinestore.core.entity.Work
com/directmedia/onlinestore/controller/CatalogueServlet.java:[81,15] cannot find symbol
symbol:   variable aa
location: variable titre3 of type com.directmedia.onlinestore.core.entity.Work
com/directmedia/onlinestore/controller/CatalogueServlet.java:[101,27] cannot find symbol
symbol:   variable aa
location: variable oeuvre of type com.directmedia.onlinestore.core.entity.Work
-> [Help 1]

To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.

For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

It's like the old version of classes still there and the compiler compile them not the modified ones.
i've tried to clean project and netbeans cache but the same errors i don't know why this happen it seems to me illogic.
Can you help me to figure out what is the problem ?
To see my code and test that here is the repository : https://github.com/AmineJonahi/jee.maven

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Amber Heard cross-examined about fights with Johnny Depp
Questioning was particularly intense over a March 2015 fight the couple had in Australia while Depp was shooting a fifth 'Pirates of the Caribbean' film.
Actor Amber Heard, left, and actor Johnny Depp appear in the courtroom at the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Fairfax, Va., Thursday, May 5, 2022. Depp sued his ex-wife Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a "public figure representing domestic abuse." (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Photo via AP)
Published: 2:50 PM CDT May 16, 2022
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Lawyers for Johnny Depp on Tuesday questioned the truthfulness of Amber Heard's accusation that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle.
Heard was cross-examined for most of the day after her testimony in Depp's libel suit against her.
Depp is suing Heard in Virginia's Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as "a public figure representing domestic abuse." His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name. The trial is now in its fifth week.
Depp's lawyer, Camille Vasquez, questioned Heard about a variety of incidents in which she says she was assaulted by Depp.
Questioning was particularly intense over a March 2015 fight the couple had in Australia, shortly after they were married, while Depp was shooting a fifth film in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.
It was during that fight that Heard says she was sexually assaulted. Depp, on the other hand, says he was the victim, and that he lost the tip of his middle finger when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him.
Vasquez questioned why Heard never sought medical attention, even though she said her feet were cut by broken glass and she was bleeding after the attack.
"You're the one who assaulted someone with a bottle in Australia, isn't that right, Ms. Heard?" Vasquez asked.
"I didn't assault Johnny in Australia. I didn't assault Johnny ever," Heard responded.
Vasquez then questioned why Heard wrote a series of love notes to Depp in the months after she said she was assaulted.
Heard has said she believed Depp had hit rock bottom after the Australia fight and was committed to sobriety. She has said most of the assaults occurred while Depp was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
"When things were good, they were really good," she said.
The jury also saw a recording of a deposition Heard gave in 2016 in connection with her divorce in which she appeared to inadvertently admit that she had tipped off the celebrity news outlet TMZ to aspects of her initial divorce proceedings.
Heard testified to the jury that she was taken aback when paparazzi swarmed her courthouse appearance seeking a temporary restraining order and that she tried to avoid publicity as much as possible.
During the 2016 deposition, though, Heard puts hands to her lips as though she mistakenly blurted something out after she said she wanted Depp to learn of the divorce filing "from some other source other than TMZ, which was alerted ..."
"You slipped up there, didn't you, Ms. Heard?" Vasquez asked.
"That's not what I'm talking about," Heard responded.
During redirect examination, Heard, said she "asked my team to file in the most discreet way, literally to put it under a stack of papers and file it at the end of the day so it kind of had more of a shot of being missed by the paparazzi and by TMZ."
The redirect questioning of Heard lasted only a few minutes, as Depp's lawyers objected to nearly every question that Heard's lawyer, Elaine Bredehoft, tried to ask.
After Heard's testimony concluded, jurors heard recorded testimony from a mutual friend of the couple, iO Tillett Wright, who said Depp confided to him that he hated sobriety.
"He wanted to get sober for Amber," Tillett Wright said. "He didn't enjoy being sober. It wasn't fun, and that it was distressing and exhausting and very hard to do. He really, really resented having to be sober."
Tillett Wright said Depp's personality turned mean and paranoid when he was using alcohol or drugs.
There was also testimony about Heard's $100 million counterclaim against Depp. She says she was defamed by Depp's lawyer, Adam Waldman, when he called Heard's accusations a hoax.
Heard has said the accusations hurt her career, but Vasquez pointed to a series of negative articles about Heard that preceded Waldman's comments.
The jury also heard an audio recording of a verbal fight between the two in which each belittled the other's acting career. Heard laughed mockingly at Depp's career-making role in the '80s television show "21 Jump Street."
"Hey, at least I didn't do, like, a teeny show where I'm a heartthrob. God that would be, like, embarrassing," Heard said.
Depp responded with dismissive commentary about Heard's biggest film role to date, shouting "Aquaman!" in a mocking way to denigrate the superhero film.
And Heard took offense when Vasquez suggested that Heard only got the role in "Aquaman" with Depp's help.
"Excuse me?" Heard said. "No, Ms. Vasquez, I got myself that role by auditioning."
Amber Heard expected to resume testimony in Depp libel trial
No, Amber Heard didn't quote lines from 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' during testimony
Depp-Heard trial: Psychologist testifies actor assaulted Heard
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Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Department of Philosophy and Humanities/
International Research Training Group Interart Studies
Research Training Group
Viktoria Volkova
Cognitive concepts of "doing gender" in improvisation. (at the material of rehearsal)
Judith Butler determined the gender identity as a product of performative acts. Trough the term of performativity the gender identity which describes the perpetual process of quoting and repetition along the discursive lines was established as human activity. In the effect of performativity the acting object and his intention plays an essentially new role: the acting object attains his meaning as production of starting point of his activity while he embodies this meaning spontaneously. Turning our attention to the regularly repeating character of performative acts it is obviously that the conditions of embodiment can be compared with these of the theatre performance (after J. Butler). My research is focused on rehearsal processes where through developing of the performing text the character (figure) and the gender identity can be constituted and where the intention of the performer is embodied in form of "mental representations" (or concepts). Whether cold ignoring mixed with arrogant mockery as the result of jealousy or a serious face full of pride is performed on stage – both "jealousy" and "pride" are structured in our awareness in form of mental representations or concepts. Such concepts can be embodied and performed through improvised acts. That's why mental representations – or cognitive concepts – which are embodied through improvisation are object of my research. Moments in the same scene which are staged by the performer from rehearsal to rehearsal in a new, unrepeatable way can be called improvised moments. The research focuses on the improvisations during the rehearsal process where cognitive concepts "love", "jealousy", "shame" and "pride" are embodied through performative acts of the actors (performers) and where the gender identity of the figure is constituted through the performer's body. But if we take into consideration the fact that actors are also bodies with specific genders, then there is a question to what extent they are free to develop the role if they may only act within the instructions of director. By what staging means do they embody every above-mentioned cognitive concept on stage? The eventful character of "doing gender" on stage has in this sense a very aesthetic effect which rises the question of development of new aesthetics – the aesthetics of "doing gender" and reveals possibilities for further research.
Contact: vivalavika[at]mail.ru


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Q: Confirmation on input types supported by \keeppages? It seems a little odd that \keeppages{x-y} is not supported?  Perhaps I'm not using the proper syntax.
This code should be adapted to satisfy the case that the first several pages of the document are labelled as i, ii, iii, iv, etc.
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\discardpages}[1]{% \discardpages{<csv list>}
  \xdef\discard@pages{#1}% Store pages to discard
  \AtBeginShipout{% At shipout, decide whether to discard page/not
    \renewcommand*{\do}[1]{% How to handle each page entry in csv list
      \ifnum\value{page}=##1\relax%
        \AtBeginShipoutDiscard% Discard page/not
        \gdef\do####1{}% Do nothing further
      \fi%
    }%
    \expandafter\docsvlist\expandafter{\discard@pages}% Process list of pages to discard
  }%
}
\newif\ifkeeppage
\newcommand{\keeppages}[1]{% \keeppages{<csv list>}
  \xdef\keep@pages{#1}% Store pages to keep
  \AtBeginShipout{% At shipout, decide whether to discard page/not
    \keeppagefalse%
    \renewcommand*{\do}[1]{% How to handle each page entry in csv list
      \ifnum\value{page}=##1\relax%
        \keeppagetrue% Page should be kept
        \gdef\do####1{}% Do nothing further
      \fi%
    }%
    \expandafter\docsvlist\expandafter{\keep@pages}% Process list of pages to keep
    \ifkeeppage\else\AtBeginShipoutDiscard\fi% Discard page/not
  }%
}
\makeatother

A: Asking "why" is rather senseless. The command has been written as it has been written.
If you want to select by page range you could use the pagesel package.
Activate the page selecting option only after the document has been fully compiled and all cross references resolved. The page range uses absolute page numbers.
\documentclass{book}

\usepackage[4-7,9] %activate options after a full compilation cycle
 {pagesel}

\begin{document}
\frontmatter
TITLE
\mainmatter
\ExplSyntaxOn
\int_step_inline:nn {15}{\newpage A~PAGE}
\ExplSyntaxOff
\end{document}


Week in Review: School's out for summer!
Here we are at the end of another school year. Students wrapped up their finals on Monday then had Tuesday off. They were back for a minimum day on Wednesday to sell back their textbooks and clean out their lockers. Our favorite library dog-in-training, Quaffle, stopped by to wish us a happy summer vacation. Later on Wednesday, after the AP Art presentations, copies of this year's The Glass Knife were handed out. We think it came out great!
We hope you have a wonderful summer and read some good books!
We held our final Book Club of the 2017-18 school year on Wednesday. Ms. Melinson started us off with some her summer reading choices, The Stranger by Albert Camus and Warlight, from the same author as The English Patient, one of her favorite books. She then went on to talk about some of our new additions to the library, The Burning Maze (the latest in the Trials of Apollo series), A Court of Frost and Starlight (a novella to tide you over until next year when the newest Sarah J. Maas book comes out), The Belles (for fans of The Selection), Leah on the Offbeat (follow-up to Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda), Vincent & Theo, Obsidio, I'll Be Gone in the Dark, and Munmun, and The Remains of the Day (as recommended by Ms. Fels).
Jackson shared that he plans to read Game of Thrones over the summer. Heloise read Stardust (and watched the movie, but the book was better) and loved it and then started reading American Gods. Ms. Nellis started reading Barracoon, a fascinating book about the last man smuggled illegally into the United States as part of the slave trade. Ms. Fels read No Man's Land by Simon Tolkien and talked about her growing retirement reading list. Ms. Fels said No Man's Land was an interesting World War I novel and described the author's writing as pretty good, but not quite as good as the author's grandfather's, J.R.R. Tolkien. Doctora Portillo was reading Interpreter of Maladies, a collection of short stories, and was enjoying it. She plans on reading biographies and autobiographies this summer.
Be sure to check out our Goodreads page for summer reading inspiration. Happy reading!


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Brač (de vegades escrit "Brac", pronunciació [ˈbɾaːtʃ]) és una illa de la regió de Dalmàcia, situada a Croàcia. El poble principal és Supetar (italià: San Pietro di Brazza) i una de les seves principals atraccions és la platja de Bol, que es troba en un altre poble al sud de l'illa. L'illa té una població de 13.956 habitants. Hi ha un autobús que recorre l'illa de nord a sud i viceversa (Supetar-Bol-Supetar), dura aproximadament una hora. Té connexió regular per ferri amb Split.

Història
L'illa ha estat poblada des de fa milers d'anys. A més de restes de la cultura iliria, s'han trobat vestigis del paleolític.

Els romans en conquistar la Dalmacia van anomenar a l'illa Bretia. (o també Brattia) Durant segles posteriors va ser envaïda per àvars i tribus eslaves.

Durant els segles  i  l'illa va estar sota l'autoritat de la República de Venècia, i se li va donar el nom de Brazza. Més tard s'incorporaria al regne d'Hongria, per després tornar a domini venecià.

Al  l'illa va ser disputada pels venecians, l'Imperi Otomà i la corona d'Habsburg. Finalment, en 1815 el Congrés de Viena la va assignar a l'Imperi Austrohongarès juntament amb la resta de Croàcia.

Durant la segona meitat del  i les primeres dècades del segle XX els seus habitants van emigrar cap a països com Xile, Argentina, Austràlia, Nova Zelanda, Alemanya i Àustria. De fet, al primer país el 90 % dels descendents de croats té els seus ancestres en aquesta illa. Després de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el 1918 l'illa va ser integrada a Iugoslàvia. El 1991, va passar a formar part de la recentment independitzada Croàcia.

En 1999 va ser batejat un asteroide conegut pel nom 10645 (Brac) en el seu honor, per que va ser descobert en l'observatori Višnjan, situat a l'illa.

Economia
L'illa ha depès principalment de l'agricultura i la pesca. Plini el Vell comentava positivament sobre el vi, oli d'oliva i el formatge de cabra produït allí.

No obstant això, l'illa ha estat famosa per la seva pedra blanca, que ha estat utilitzada per construir palaus com el de Dioclecià en Split i la Casa Blanca a Washington.

En temps més recents, s'ha donat un fort impuls al turisme, a causa de la confluència de diferents cultures i les seves obres.

Ciutats i pobles
Algunes ciutats i pobles de l'illa que podem destacar són: Supetar, Pučišća, Splitska, Postira, Nerežišći, Donji Humac, Milna, Mirca, Gornji Humac, Selca, Ložičća.

Personalitats
A l'illa de Brač van néixer els ancestres de diverses personalitats sud-americanes d'ascendència croata:
 Filip Lukšić, marina mercant, pare d'Arturo Lussich (metge i polític) i d'Antonio Lussich (arboricultor);
 Šime Matulić, avi matern del metge uruguaià Teodoro Vilardebó;
 Polikarp Lukšić, de qui descendeix la família Luksic, important al món empresarial de Xile.
 Mateo Franulić, pare de Lenka Franulic destaca pionera del periodisme xilè i escriptora.

Referències

Illes de Croàcia

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HomeCinemaMasalaDiljit Dosanjh can't help but fan-boy over Kareena Kapoor Khan on the sets of Dance India Dance
Diljit Dosanjh can't help but fan-boy over Kareena Kapoor Khan on the sets of Dance India Dance
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Diljit Dosanjh is currently promoting his upcoming film, Arjun Patiala with his co-star Kriti Sanon. To do the same, they recently visited the dance reality show, Dance India Dance which also happens to have Kareena Kapoor Khan as a judge. Diljit has never made any efforts to hide his admiration for Kareena in the past and his latest Instagram post proves the same.
While he was on the sets, from the looks of it, there were rose petals showered on the two of them and Diljit has posted pictures of the same. The pictures are straight up adorable. Diljit's Arjun Patiala is a fun cop-comedy that will have him contrast his previous cop role in Udta Punjab where he was paired opposite Kareena Kapoor Khan.
Take a look at the pictures.
GULAAB Ke Phoolon Jaisi MUDD GORNING ???? WITH QUEEN ???? #kareenakapoor
A post shared by Diljit Dosanjh (@diljitdosanjh) on Jul 12, 2019 at 7:03pm PDT
Kareena and Diljit will also be seen in Karan Johar's upcoming film Good News with Akshay Kumar and Kiara Advani as their respective partners. Good News is slated to release on December 27.
Also Read: Here's why Diljit Dosanjh owes Good News co-star Akshay Kumar money
Click HERE to read more and view the original source of this article.
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Everything's bigger in Texas, right? Well, in that event, let's have two meetups there!
At 12:04 a.m., the Steelers signed their receiver, Donte Moncrief. You might have appreciated that move. We ... uh, we got right back to work.
Good morning. We lost a reader yesterday.
It would certainly appear that the Antonio Brown's settled at long last, but we aren't quite done with him yet.


Ed Westwick arrived at LAX yesterday and totally stroked my quiver. He's disgusting. And it's hot that way. Not to be confused with Jacek's HateF-ck either. A HateF-ck and a ShameF-ck are two totally different beasts. I don't hate Ed Westwick. I just wouldn't want you to know.
And he's supposedly single now. News broke a few weeks ago that Jessica Szohr cheated on him and he was devastated and apparently it's over. They haven't been seen together in a while. And she was poseharding like a Jenny Humphrey at the Met Gala the other night. Then again, at that age, breaking up and getting back together is what being in love is all about.
As for Gossip Girl, it's not a must watch Monday night show anymore for me, and I am an episode behind, but it's better these days. I actually quite like it. Especially since I love hating Little J. And there's all this angst happening between Chuck & Blair that's getting me all angsty too. In other words, I pay attention half the time and tune out when Serena starts mumbling.
Season Finale is promising some CB drama. Fine. I'll buy.


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//  © Component Factory Pty Ltd 2017. All rights reserved.
//	The software and associated documentation supplied hereunder are the
//  proprietary information of Component Factory Pty Ltd, 13 Swallows Close,
//  Mornington, Vic 3931, Australia and are supplied subject to licence terms.
//
//  Version 4.6.0.0 	www.ComponentFactory.com
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using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Design;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.ComponentModel.Design;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace ComponentFactory.Krypton.Toolkit
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Implement redirected storage for common month calendar appearance.
	/// </summary>
    public class PaletteMonthCalendarRedirect : PaletteDoubleMetricRedirect
	{
        #region Instance Fields
        private PaletteTripleRedirect _paletteHeader;
        private PaletteTripleRedirect _paletteDayOfWeek;
        private PaletteTripleRedirect _paletteDay;
        #endregion

        #region Identity
        /// <summary>
        /// Initialize a new instance of the PaletteMonthCalendarRedirect class.
        /// </summary>
        public PaletteMonthCalendarRedirect()
            : this(null, null)
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initialize a new instance of the PaletteMonthCalendarRedirect class.
		/// </summary>
        /// <param name="redirect">Inheritence redirection for bread crumb level.</param>
        /// <param name="needPaint">Delegate for notifying paint requests.</param>
        public PaletteMonthCalendarRedirect(PaletteRedirect redirect,
                                            NeedPaintHandler needPaint)
            : base(redirect, PaletteBackStyle.ControlClient,
                             PaletteBorderStyle.ControlClient)
		{
            _paletteHeader = new PaletteTripleRedirect(redirect, PaletteBackStyle.HeaderCalendar, PaletteBorderStyle.HeaderCalendar, PaletteContentStyle.HeaderCalendar, needPaint);
            _paletteDayOfWeek = new PaletteTripleRedirect(redirect, PaletteBackStyle.ButtonCalendarDay, PaletteBorderStyle.ButtonCalendarDay, PaletteContentStyle.ButtonCalendarDay, needPaint);
            _paletteDay = new PaletteTripleRedirect(redirect, PaletteBackStyle.ButtonCalendarDay, PaletteBorderStyle.ButtonCalendarDay, PaletteContentStyle.ButtonCalendarDay, needPaint);
        }
		#endregion

        #region IsDefault
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets a value indicating if all values are default.
        /// </summary>
        [Browsable(false)]
        public override bool IsDefault
        {
            get
            {
                return (base.IsDefault &&
                        _paletteHeader.IsDefault &&
                        _paletteDayOfWeek.IsDefault &&
                        _paletteDay.IsDefault);
            }
        }
        #endregion

        #region SetRedirector
        /// <summary>
        /// Update the redirector with new reference.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="redirect">Target redirector.</param>
        public override void SetRedirector(PaletteRedirect redirect)
        {
            base.SetRedirector(redirect);
            _paletteHeader.SetRedirector(redirect);
            _paletteDayOfWeek.SetRedirector(redirect);
            _paletteDay.SetRedirector(redirect);
        }
        #endregion

        #region Styles
        internal ButtonStyle DayStyle
        {
            set { _paletteDay.SetStyles(value); }
        }

        internal ButtonStyle DayOfWeekStyle
        {
            set { _paletteDayOfWeek.SetStyles(value); }
        }
        #endregion

        #region Header
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets access to the month/year header appearance entries.
        /// </summary>
        [Category("Visuals")]
        [Description("Overrides for defining month/year header appearance entries.")]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)]
        public PaletteTripleRedirect Header
        {
            get { return _paletteHeader; }
        }

        private bool ShouldSerializeHeader()
        {
            return !_paletteHeader.IsDefault;
        }
        #endregion

        #region Day
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets access to the day appearance entries.
        /// </summary>
        [Category("Visuals")]
        [Description("Overrides for defining day appearance entries.")]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)]
        public PaletteTripleRedirect Day
        {
            get { return _paletteDay; }
        }

        private bool ShouldSerializeDay()
        {
            return !_paletteDay.IsDefault;
        }
        #endregion

        #region DayOfWeek
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets access to the day of week appearance entries.
        /// </summary>
        [Category("Visuals")]
        [Description("Overrides for defining day of week appearance entries.")]
        [DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)]
        public PaletteTripleRedirect DayOfWeek
        {
            get { return _paletteDayOfWeek; }
        }

        private bool ShouldSerializeDayOfWeek()
        {
            return !_paletteDayOfWeek.IsDefault;
        }
        #endregion
    }
}


This note evaluates President Bush's new proposals for stimulating the economy via tax cuts. We evaluate the proposals relative to a series of principles for effective stimulus proposals that we developed in earlier work.
Similar principles have been endorsed by the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate Budget Committees in a recent statement.
Set an overall stimulus budget first.
Design business incentives to provide incentives for new investment, rather than windfalls for old investment.
Design household tax cuts to maximize the effects on short-term spending.
Focus on temporary (one-year) items for businesses and households, not permanent ones.
We find that the Administration's proposals (with the exception of the temporary household rebate) are generally not consistent with the principles for a sound stimulus package. Most importantly, the Administration's business proposals would be permanent—even though temporary investment incentives would have bigger investment effects in the short-run and lower budget costs. In addition, the proposed acceleration of the personal income tax reductions would be poorly targeted for generating stimulus, because of its patterns across time and across households. Furthermore, the Administration's proposals may not maintain long-term fiscal discipline.
The Administration's proposal could be improved dramatically by making all of the permanent business cuts temporary, and by forgoing the option to accelerate the previously enacted tax cut.
It is not clear why the Administration is proposing a permanent investment incentive when a temporary incentive would be more effective in stimulating the economy in the short run and less expensive in the long run.
Unlike investment incentives, which only give tax breaks to firms that are undertaking new investment, eliminating the corporate alternative minimum tax would give tax cuts to firms irrespective of whether they are investing at all. Thus, it is very poorly targeted as a stimulus measure.
The corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT) applies when corporations owe no corporate income tax because of substantial deductions or other tax preferences, relative to their income. The elimination of the corporate AMT would effectively reduce the tax rate on corporate income. But the vast the majority of such income represents a return to previous investment, not new investment. For example, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the value of non-residential structures, equipment, and software amounted to more than $10 trillion at the end of 1999.
Yet annual investment in such areas amounts to roughly $1.3 trillion. If the return from existing capital is equal to the return from new investment, and if existing capital is just as likely to be subject to the corporate alternative minimum tax as new capital, roughly 90 percent of the benefits from eliminating the corporate alternative minimum tax would accrue to old investment rather than new investment. In other words, elimination of the corporate alternative minimum tax is an extremely blunt and inefficient approach to encouraging new investment in the short run. It would also cost roughly $20 billion over the next decade by some estimates.
Under current law, corporations can offset current losses against previous income taxes for up to two years. The Bush Administration's proposal would allow such loss carry-backs for up to five years. Like the corporate AMT cuts, this proposal would reward old capital, not new investment, and thus may do little to stimulate new investment. For example, the proposal would provide tax subsidies to firms that had high profits three or four years ago, that had ceased investing, and that were currently experiencing losses. Such firms may or may not use the additional funds to undertake new investments; the tax subsidy is provided regardless of how the firms decide to use the funds. To be sure, this proposal (unlike corporate AMT repeal) would provide funds to firms that are losing money and help them weather the economic downturn. But there is no reason to make such a change permanent. Even if the goal is to provide more cash to firms with current losses, the objective could be achieved at much lower long-term budgetary cost – and therefore with less negative impact on interest rates – by making any change in the carry-back rules be temporary.
Another component of the Administration's proposals would accelerate to January 1, 2002, the income tax rate cuts—or some portion thereof—currently scheduled to occur on January 1, 2004, and January 1, 2006. This proposal violates the principle that any household tax reductions should maximize the effect on demand in the short run, and it may undermine fiscal discipline in the long run. First, the proposal does not maximize the effect on demand in 2002. The ten-year cost from accelerating the reductions scheduled through 2006 would amount to more than $120 billion, yet only a small percentage of the costs would accrue in 2002. Furthermore, the accelerated rate cuts would only apply to high-income households—those who are in the top 25 percent of the income distribution. The marginal propensity to consume income among the higher-income group who would benefit from the acceleration is below that of lower- and moderate-income groups. Since most of the cost would occur after 2002, and since the amounts that would flow to individuals in 2002 would be concentrated among those with relatively low propensities to consume, accelerating the tax cuts would have a low bang-for-the-buck.
Second, the ultimate objective of the proposal may have the effect of undermining long-term fiscal discipline. Accelerating the rate cuts would have the political effect of helping to lock in further tax rate cuts for the highest-income taxpayers. Yet in the near future, Americans will need to reconsider such further reductions in tax rates for high-income taxpayers, as the economic and budget outlook after the terrorist attack and the current slowdown become clearer. Careful consideration will have to be given to the policy adjustments necessary to maintain a sound long-term fiscal position (particularly in light of ongoing anti-terrorism costs). Steps that would be perceived as reducing policy-makers' flexibility to re-establish fiscal discipline could actually be counter-productive in the short run, by causing long-term interest rates to remain substantially higher than they otherwise would.
The final component of the Administration's tax stimulus package is the only one that represents a sound short-term stimulus item. The Administration is apparently willing to endorse another round of temporary household rebates, targeted on lower and middle income households. Economic research suggests that these households have tendencies to spend a greater proportion of any new income than high-income households do – and the more the rebate is spent, the more effective it is as a stimulus. Since it is temporary and maximizes its effect on demand, this proposal represents the most auspicious component of the Administration's package.
With the exception of the household tax rebate aimed at lower- and moderate-income workers, the Administration's proposed tax stimulus package is flawed. It includes permanent changes that are less effective at stimulating the economy in the short run than temporary changes but more expensive. And its acceleration of the recently enacted tax cuts for higher-income taxpayers is poorly targeted and potentially counter-productive. A more effective stimulus package would combine the household rebate aimed at lower- and moderate-income workers with a temporary incentive for business investment.


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Q: kotlin how to implement an image description (R.drawable) in ImageView set in shuffled mode i can't figure out how i can solve to get a description of an object in drawable by extracting a description
i am using a simple constraintlayout
I am sending you the code of my activity
I would be grateful if someone can give me an example
I don't think a photo cannot be described in its own right every time it is viewed and changed, right?

private lateinit var listId: List<Int>

 private fun pickNumber (){
        val (id1, id2, id3) = listId.shuffled()
        binding.imageView.setImageResource(id1)
        binding.imageView2.setImageResource(id2)
        binding.imageView3.setImageResource(id3)

        private fun initializeList() {
        listId = listOf(
            R.drawable.r02 ,
            R.drawable.w02s,
            R.drawable.ror,
            R.drawable.rands,
            R.drawable.rups,
            R.drawable.rles,
            R.drawable.rsw)


Please email us on the contact page for senior package options and referral program information! We can't wait to see you this year!
Booking 2019 Seniors now thru Spring! Message Regan on the contact page for details. If you are a LAKE TRAVIS SENIOR, let us know for a special discount!
Good Luck to all the upcoming 2018 graduates!
Enjoy the last few months of your mom and dad doing your laundry and cooking you homemade meals!


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Realme News
Realme to launch Smart Google TV Stick in Europe from €55
Realme will introduce the Smart Google TV Stick in Europe, which will be available in two versions.
Realme 4K Smart Google TV Stick debuted in India in mid-autumn. A version without 4K support will also be sold in the European market. The presentation is expected next month.
TV Stick is equipped with 2 GB of RAM, 8 GB of storage and quad-core Cortex-A35 processor. The device connects to TV via HDMI 2.1 interface. Also note the support of Google Assistant, Chromecast technology and Google app store.
The cost of Realme 4K Smart Google TV Stick will be €70. For comparison, in India the set-top box costs only $53. The version with 2K support will cost €55. The model will compete with the €50 Xiaomi Mi TV Stick. Although now in Europe Xiaomi is selling its gadget at a discount of €20.
Source: GSMArena
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After many, many months I'm really excited to say Dlongo's Halo 3 montage is finally finished. Although I can't say this montage doesn't have its flaws, I'm still satisfied with how it came out. I'd like to thank Derek for giving me his clips for nearly the past two years and everyone who has been supportive or inspirational along the way. We both put a lot of time into this and hope it meets your expectations.
We hope you enjoy the show. Sorry for the wait.
The full catalog of my video game editing.
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Tatami | Ishii & zhestaL [Halo 3] - Duration: 102 seconds.
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Delta - Halo: Reach Montage 1 - 100% MLG :: Edited by Zhestal - Duration: 5 minutes, 21 seconds.
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Scrap compilationalism - Duration: 5 minutes, 18 seconds.
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My name is David Hochstadt and I have a passion for animals! Especially snakes! Here, at High City Reptiles, we focus our attention specifically on Ball Pythons and Green Tree Pythons. As a relatively new breeder on the scene, I established myself as High City Reptiles in 2017. The name High City Reptiles comes from my last name, Hochstadt, which is German for High City. Having an extreme passion for all animals since a young age, I always dreamed of working with animals. However I didn't know that I wanted to work specifically with snakes until I met the love of my life, Danielle Paul. We immediately bonded over our shared passion for animals. We both had years of experience keeping reptiles, amphibians, and all types of animals.
My first birthday we celebrated together, Danielle surprised me with my dream snake... a green tree python! Something happened inside me that day when I held my first chondro, something big. I knew immediately this was what I wanted to do. I needed to be breed these beautiful creatures! Slowly but surely my collection of ball pythons and chondros grew over the next few years. I wanted to get my foot in the door, but not knowing much about the business I decided to get a part time job working for Chris Nettles of C Serpents. Learning everything I could, I worked diligently caring for the snakes and helping build racks! Over the few years I worked for Chris I gained loads of experience, but eventually it had to come to an end. With the experience and a quality collection I had built up, it was time... and High City Reptiles was born! We're still a small company with big dreams. Please give us a follow on Instagram @HighCityReptiles and watch us as we grow!!


Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States and home to almost 4 Million people. When wanting to get out of the city, Arroyo Grande is the perfect escape for that. Arroyo Grande is located in the heart of the Central Coast. Just minutes away from beautiful beaches, Lopez Lake, award-winning golf courses and wineries. San Luis Obispo is a 10 minute drive away, while Pismo Beach is only 5 minutes. It is the perfect town to vacation at when you want to get away from your daily city routine. Sometimes it is tricky to find the perfect way to get to Arroyo Grande. The three common ways to reach this beautiful city by: train, plane, or car. If you are travelling from Los Angeles below are common routes, airports, train stops and locations for your convenience.