Truth be told I am not a person who cares for my hair. While I might splurge on skincare, makeup and other items I never bother much with my hair. If you follow my blog, you might remember that I said I don't even comb my hair on a daily basis. Well, I do color it to hide gray hairs and just use Lush Daddy-O because I heard it is great for removing brassiness from colored hair.
Last mother's day while it was raining cats and dogs and we stayed home I saw Mr. Tim Yap tweet, "Why does your mom rock?" I immediately tweeted back that my mom rocks because unlike most mom's who just teach their children how to be pretty, proper and such my mom was the one who taught me how to be strong and fight back.
My hair before the treatment. Colored, naturally wavy and DRY!!
Salon interiors are clean, well kept and impeccable.
It had the right blend of style and usability (in my opinion). Another word that might fit the description is posh. Well yes, it may seem posh. And yes, you may get intimidated by what you see now but my first question when I was given their flyer was, "Ate, bakit po mura yun treatments nyo?" O.o (Miss, why are your treatments cheap?) My consultant was taken aback by my stupid question. She explained that they have lowered their prices to cater to the needs of their clients.
Kerastase Treatments cost around 1,250-3,500Php - majority of the treatments are below 2,000Php. Yes that's cheap! That's what you pay for when you go to cheap salons isn't it? And other salons don't treat customers as nice as they do here.
My mom getting her hair examined. They have this state of the art machine which lets you see your hair and scalp in detail. When I say in detail think macro mode x 99 of your cameras. After examining the hair and scalp, they will recommend what treatment is suited for your hair.
My mom's scalp is healthy but her hair is a bit dry.
My mom was advised to get the Olei Fusion which is a treat for dry and sensitized hair; while I got the Peeling Purifiant a deep purification to eliminate dandruff.
The consultants are very nice and polite. Before they apply the treatments, they will tell the customer what the name of the product is, what's it for and why they'll be using it.
Totally candid shot of me and my mom.
They have leg chairs which allow customers to put their legs up and chillax (chill+relax) while getting their treatments.
I shall call this the peak of cam whoring pic. LOL!
I was playing with my phone while we were there though so I just drank the icetea and nibbled at the free oreo they also gave me (and, I also ate my mom's oreos).
Getting my hair blow dried.
My hair is a bit more softer and more healthier now. I suppose we all need to pamper ourselves once in a while; having hair treatments which other consider to be a luxurious thing is completely discretionary.
As for me, I am definitely going back to get another treatment because I enjoyed the experience. I was also advised to get an Oleo Fusion. I just didn't want to at that time because my mom was going to leave me and was heading to Rustan's to go shopping.
The consultants are very accommodating and polite (I am stressing this because some salon attendants behave like they just want to get rid of you sometimes.) If you noticed I patronize places, restaurants and products that have good customer service.
Location : Kerastase Institute by Salon ESA, Ground Floor 6750 Ayala Avenue, Makati City, Philippines For more information about Kerastase Products and Salon ESA you may visit their site HERE.
Thank you to Mr. Tim Yap, Miss Maita Gaerlan, the staff and consultants of Kerastase Institute by Salon E S A.
Posting a close up of the studs I picked up during my last haul as requested.


There is always talk about trying to unearth underrated gems and games that sit just outside the top BGG 100 that deserve more love and every time I hear and see this conversation unfold, Broom Service is mentioned within the first ten comments. It's so criminally underrated that it's almost in the 'rated' category as it's brought up so often.
But this begs the question, why is Broom Service only talked about in the vein of two topics: underrated board games and board games that are good for Halloween? I'm not any different. This is finally getting a write-up from me because it's almost Halloween. I've thought about writing about Broom Service before. I started the template and took some photos but always pushed it to the back burner.
Why is that? Is it the cute cartoon witch theme that masks the cutthroat mechanics of a ruthless game? Is it the guessing, over-guessing, and second-guessing of each turn and the analysis paralysis that affects players? Is it the awkwardness of announcing to the public that you're a brave or cowardly witch?
Broom Service is a re-implementation of Witch's Brew, a card version with similar mechanics but a different feel. I have not played Witch's Brew and as it's currently out of print and expensive as all get out, I'll probably never play it so I cannot provide any more of a comparison of the two but I felt it important to make this note.
Broom Service is incredibly easy to teach. While there's some complexity and strategy for the players turns (as they decide what to do and bluff/not bluff), what a player is doing and their end goal is simple.
Verbally choose Cowardly or Brave. If cowardly, perform the action immediately. If brave, go around the table in player order and see if any one has the card and wishes to play it as a brave action. This will cancel your action. If no one else has the card, perform the action (which is better than the cowardly version).
Rinse and repeat for seven rounds. There's actually a brilliant one-minute video by Best Play that provides an overview of the rules and gameplay that I recommend.
The deduction that occurs each round feels different than the similar feeling of other card games. Since players are choosing their cards, the randomness is removed and players are making their decisions based off not just the information in front of them (resources, map configuration, remaining rounds, etc.) but what they think their opposing players are going to do. You are playing the game as much as you are playing one another and this is what creates such an interesting dynamic when compared to other games.
Make no mistake about it, Broom Service is a game with direct interaction and players can (and will) cancel out one another's turns. This can be frustrating for some players as their plans cannot come to fruition as they either get blocked or don't adapt to the players around them. If players don't enjoy such interaction, they will not enjoy Broom Service. However, if they can handle this ruining of plans, this is a game that might endear itself to them. It's incredibly social and gets all players involved.
Broom Service plays well at any player count. It's shocking, I know, but the game works and scales at each level. At two-players, it's a tense cat-and-mouse game and at five-players, it's a hectic game where strategy becomes incredibly important as players might need to think outside the box to score points. Two-player games will have more opportunities for Brave actions but also the possibility to lose points due to the "Bewitched" mechanic (which penalizes players for using certain witches each round at random).
As far as game-time, ~45 minutes with four or more players and 30 to 40 when playing with two or three. The game feels twice as long (and I mean that as a compliment) as players try to decide which cards and which tactics to use on the current round. For stress and decision making, I would put Broom Service up against any game in my collection. Obviously, it won't have myriad of options that The Gallerist has or the direct confrontation that Scythe can offer but that doesn't make the decisions less important.
Broom Service is a game that while not heavy or complex rules-wise, I would recommend as the next step after a gateway game. Feeling ready for a new challenge after curing Pandemic diseases, completing continental routes in Ticket to Ride, and crafting kingdoms in Carcassonne? Broom Service will offer an experience that none of those games have given a player up to this point.
The game features a double-sided board with one side being the "easy" side and the other adding more complex variants and variables to the game. For everything in the box, you gain an incredible array of different ways to play and explore Broom Service. I wouldn't say the non-easy side makes Broom Service a heavier game by any means but it does increase the options available to players.
Another issue that gets mentioned is accessibility. The orange and green potions and towers tend to skew towards the same hue for individuals with certain forms of color blindness.
An aspect that causes confusion is what region the towers are residing in? To clarify, the base will let you know where that tower sits and what region you need to be in to score it. Some towers do straddle the borders of regions so it's possible to score from multiple areas.
Broom Service is not in my top ten games but it's definitely sitting comfortable in the mid-tier of eleven to twenty-five. I'll never turn down a game and enjoy playing at every player count. I'm also the absolute worst player at Broom Service. As far as I know, I've only ever won once and typically Rachel is wiping the floor with my potion delivery carcass. Everyone has the one game that they're great at and that game that they're terrible at and Rachel and mine overlap.
Yet I keep coming back to Broom Service because it's a great game.


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Aw Cmon
If there's one word to describe the sound of the first of two new records from this idiosyncratic Nashville-based, 13-member ensemble, it would be "French." Lambchop sometimes gets categorized as an Americana band, but that pigeonholing only makes sense if you substitute Leonard Cohen for Hank Williams. Group singer-songwriter Kurt Wagner has more than a hint of Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg in his voice, and the lush orchestral backing, which evokes Cohen and Barry White, also is quite French. Some of these songs are from a 2003 San Francisco International Film Festival commission to write music to back the 1927 F.W. Murnau silent film Sunrise. (Odd side note: The instrumental "Timothy B. Schmidt" takes its name from local product Tim Schmit of Glad-Poco-Eagles fame; Wagner misspelled his name.)
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Nashville "Americana" ensemble Lambchop has two new records. The second, <i>No You Cmon</i>, sounds quite French.
More navel-gazing from Alanis Morissette, the Canadian "lite" analogue to Ani Di Franco.
Gary Young's Hospital
Gary Young's third album contains a lot of great stoner prog, much of it nicked from his previous album.
The new Jackpot record unwinds like a long drive.
The Ligeti Project II
The second volume of an exploration of Hungarian composer György Ligeti is the best thing to happen to modern music in years.

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It all began watching helplessly as my life fell apart on the evening news.
Allow me to explain. Fresh out of college at the oh-so-wise age of 23, a business partner and I started what would quickly become an international, multi-million dollar business.
I had accomplished everything that everyone around me told me was success, but all the money and "success" didn't make me happy.
For years, I struggled with the idea of success and wanting even more in the hopes that more success = happiness. It wasn't until a sensationalized world-wide scandal took down my sports tour business and brought the world's news media and the US Secret Service to my door that I was able to truly define success on my own terms and in my own way. Of course (as someone who had never even had a speeding ticket) facing possible jail time does have a tendency to put things into perspective pretty quickly!
From telling my story to local high school classrooms to college campuses to jam-packed auditoriums of state student organization conventions, I've been on a mission to help students understand that success is defined by one person…YOU!


Roomba is an autonomous vacuum-cleaning robot - it cleans all rooms, then returns back to the docking station for charging. It works remarkably well - even cats love it. You can just give it as christmas gift to your mother, girlfriend or wife, without mentioning it real capabilities :-).
Although it comes with a remote control and it is fun to observe it - the fun part starts after reading the Hacking Roomba: ExtremeTech book. A hint: you should not order both at the same time, otherwise your girlfriend / wife *will* become suspicious.
You could pimp-up your vacuum cleaner with WI-FI, Bluetooth, even Linux etc.
Roomba has a remote control, so after equipping it with a web cam, it becomes a perfect spy toy / drone.
Interesting but one correction: In English, XMas has no meaning. We use Christmas. Thanks.
Interesting blog, but one correction: In English, the X in Xmas has no meaning. Christmas is the correct spelling. Thanks.
thanks - I replaced every occurrence of xmas with christmas - hope it is o.k.
Can a Roomba be hacked so that it can detect intruders in your house?
it really could. This is actually a good reason to buy a scooba :-).
Great idea Adam, but too late for this Christmas, maybe next i will buy me one. Have a nice Christmas.
Maybe you can attach a temperature sensor to it, so it can measure temperature in all parts of your house (as opposed to the stationary sensor which only measures temperature in one room), and then send the data over WiFi to GlassFish, and improve the accuracy of Greenfire based on more accurate temperature data?
thanks - a good idea. Greenfire is working for about 3 years now - and I forgot actually how it is working. It was a PoC for Java EE 5. I guess it is time to start over and re-implement it with Java EE 6. Let see :-).


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A: RTFM: http://wiki.typo3.org/Flow_Cookbook#Execute_arbitrary_DQL. So with the DQL I'm able to use the class names directly in a query.
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Regine Stapfer is an archaeologist specializing in Neolithic wetland sites and works as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Bern (Switzerland), Institute of Archaeological Sciences (Prehistory). She is part of the research team of the project 'Mobilities, Entanglements and Transformations in Neolithic Societies of the Swiss Plateau (3900–3500 BC)' supported by the SNFS.
In this project, she investigates the situation in western and part of Central Switzerland, studying the pottery of several settlements in this area. Further, she is concerned with the implementation of portable X-ray fluorescence analysis in this project. With Albert Hafner and Caroline Heitz she has published papers on Neolithic wetland sites. With Caroline Heitz she organized an international workshop 'Mobilities and Pottery Production: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives' at the University of Bern, 5-6 June 2015.


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Despite outhitting the Flying Squirrels Sunday evening, the Baysox found runs hard to come by in a 7-2 loss to Richmond. The Baysox grounded into three double plays despite picking up 10 hits to nine for Richmond.
Sammie Starr had a solo home run for the Baysox, It was Starr's first career Double-A hit. David Adams also homered for Bowie.
Bowie starter Jake Pettit pitched 61/3 innings and allowed five runs on five hits while walking three and striking out two in the loss. Marcel Prado pitched 12/3 innings and allowed two runs on three hits while striking out one and walking one. Reliever Matt Bischoff pitched a scoreless ninth inning for the Baysox, allowing one hit.
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FUTURES GAME: Texas Rangers prospect Joey Gallo showed off his power with a soaring two-run homer in the sixth inning to give the U.S. team the lead for good in a 3-2 victory over the World squad Sunday at the All-Star Futures Game for baseball's best minor leaguers.
Gallo's one-out drive to right field off Houston Astros right-hander Michael Feliz was estimated at 419 feet. The 20-year-old third baseman for Double-A Frisco hit several other balls farther than that during a head-turning batting practice display at Target Field.
The assumed successor for four-time All-Star Adrian Beltre with the Rangers, Gallo has 31 homers and 73 RBIs this season in 85 games. He followed a two-run homer in the top of the sixth by Javier Baez against Washington Nationals right-hander Lucas Giolito.
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Read, Participate, Discover, Repeat
Citizen Science SalonBy GuestJun 3, 2017 11:45 PM
Today is National Repeat Day and what better way to celebrate than to publish an older post?A recent article in Astrophysical Journal Letters has shown that citizen scientists have just discovered the first brown dwarf through the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project just four weeks after the project launched back in February. Now, isn't that worth repeating?
Post by Marc J. Kuchner, originally published on February 15, 2017 Eighty-seven years ago, this week, Clyde Tombaugh was poring over a pair of photographic plates, hoping to change the world. He was staring hard into an arcane device called a blink comparator, which allowed him to rapidly switch from viewing one image to the next. In those days before computers, that was the best tool he had for finding the faint, moving dot he was seeking, a new planet in our solar system. When Tombaugh discovered Pluto in those photographic plates on February 18, 1930, the news made headlines all around the globe. "In the little cluster of orbs which scampers across the sidereal abyss under the name of the solar system there are, be it known, nine instead of a mere eight, worlds," said the New York Times. It was a victory for Tombaugh, and for astronomy. Times have changed since that big day. Computers and the internet have changed the way we handle large data sets and interact with one another. Telescopes are bigger, and some fly in space, giving us access to wavelengths of light that astronomers in the 1930s could only dream of seeing one day. Pluto is no longer considered a planet, but a dwarf planet, the king of the Kuiper belt, which is a collection of icy bodies orbiting the sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. But the quest to understand the outskirts of our solar system has only picked up speed. Now evidence for a new planet in the outer solar system has surfaced, one more distant than Pluto. A pattern in the orbits of Kuiper belt objects points to a large perturber—possibly a new Planet Nine. This hypothesized planet could be as massive as Neptune, or even larger, but it has escaped detection because it is so cold and faint.
Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 shows you animated images of the sky taken at four different times. To participate in the search, click on the moving objects. Credit: Zooniverse Moreover, images of moving objects from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WISE) mission point to a population of ultracool brown dwarfs, or rogue planets, whizzing by the solar system beyond Neptune. Some of these nearby worlds may even lurk between us and the closest known star, Proxima Centari. These brown dwarfs hold keys to understanding how stars and planets form and how planetary atmospheres behave. So today we're announcing a new search for moving objects in the realm beyond Neptune: a citizen science project called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9. Hosted by Zooniverse, the project invites you to follow in the bold footsteps of Clyde Tombaugh by combing images from NASA's WISE telescope to find objects that move, like brown dwarfs and planets. Participants will share the credit for their discoveries in any scientific publications that result from the project. You won't need a blink comparator like Tombaugh's, just a laptop or cell phone. You'll view animated images of the sky, in color, and simply click on interesting candidates when you spot them. You'll join thousands of other citizen astronomers, whom you can chat with on the "TALK" social network, and a team of astrophysicists from NASA, the American Museum of Natural History, Arizona State University, and the University of California - Berkeley.
Artist's concept of the Planet Nine, cold and massive, orbiting hundreds of times farther from the Sun than Earth. Credit: NASA When you log into
Backyard Worlds: Planet 9,
you'll see images of the sky taken at four different times, one after another, from the WISE telescope. Planet Nine is expected to look like a blue dot, hopping and jumping all the way across the images. Brown dwarfs will be redder, and slower moving. Some moving objects will appear as "dipoles", pairs of bright and dark images. You'll also learn how to search other catalogs to see if someone else has already discovered the object you've found – or if you've made a new discovery. Making a big discovery these days still takes hard work. But it can be a lot more fun, thanks to citizen science. Before Tombaugh made his big discovery, Percival Lowell, the astronomer for whom Pluto is named, searched for Pluto for ten years, to no avail. Perhaps if he had help from citizen scientists, he might have lived to see its discovery. He might have made thousands of new friends as well.
Join this historic quest at BackyardWorlds.org and check out thousands of other citizen science projects at SciStarter! Marc J. Kuchner is an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the PI of Backyard Worlds: Planet 9. He's also the PI of DiskDetective.org, another popular citizen science project.
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Attribute Transformations with SAP Integrated Business Planning. Is it the end of custom developments?
Remember the days when we used to add additional auxiliary key figures in SAP APO DP and use custom macros to calculate date offsets (e.g. Delivered Quantity Year -1)? With SAP IBP, there is an improved way in which to achieve the same result – Attribute Transformations.
So, how can we achieve this scenario within SAP IBP currently? Can we do by using the Lifecycle Management app? Yes, but with limitations. The Lifecycle Management app will only copy and move my statistical forecast, not the final Consensus Demand. Also, I would need to create a lifecycle profile for each source Product-Location combination – which is very tedious.
There are many similar examples for using Attribute Transformations, like complimentary items forecasting. Let's take an example of a sports equipment company that manufactures tennis racquets and sells them with racquet covers. Now, there will always be a racquet cover with every new tennis racquet sold, but the racquet cover can also be sold as a spare single item (note this is not a DP BoM scenario where we have a parent and a child, but rather it is about generating a complimentary forecast). So, in such a scenario, we can generate a complimentary forecast for the racquet cover which is derived from both the demand of the spare single item sales, but also the requirements generated through new racquet sales. Let's say spare covers only sell 200 units a year, but the sale new of tennis racquets is 2000 a year – so, in this case the total demand for racquet cover would be 2200, of which 200 units as a standalone unit and 2000 units as dependant demand based on tennis racquet sales.
Does this mean the end to custom developments? We have heard this so many times recently from our current and prospective clients that SAP IBP as a cloud based solution means an end to custom developments as we know it. Well the initial answer is obviously yes, due to the fact that the ability for customers to write their own code in IBP is almost zero (we can request SAP to release 'L-Codes', but only SAP can write and deliver these). On reflection and second though, we believe it's not the end of custom developments, but rather a change in mindset from custom developments to configuration. We strongly believe that most of the business scenarios which are currently in APO DP can be modeled within SAP IBP using configuration. Functionalities like Attribute Transformations, Operators and Key Figure based calculations all play their role in achieving the end state of transforming data to the business requirement.
Although we believe development items such as Realignment and Phase-in/out functionalities are on the road map for future releases of SAP IBP, we have shown above the power of Attribute Transformations in replicating Realignment and Phase-in/out capabilities in our internal 1608 IBP system. Creative and improved ways of thinking – that's the new SAP IBP way!
I do hope this blog was helpful, please do share your views.
Very good article Jacky. Thanks for giving glimpse on IBP.
Also i Have question about IBP : Why IBP need Planning level ?
Does S&OP heuristics runs only on Product + Location + Time? What if we use Buy Strategies , Selling start date and Purchasing group master as part of planning operators to act on.
Implementing partners are forcing us to have a complex master data created first for IBP like in our system we use Product , purchsing group,Buy strategy , do we need o out of box poriuct replaced b this new IDs?
Thanks for your comments. Apologies I missed this before. Please let me know if you are still looking for answers to above questions.
In v1705, this series of Key Figure configuration results in 'Cycle Found in KF Calculations' error. Is there any alternative way to perform the same ?
Hope this issue is now resolved Shivpriye. Please let me know otherwise.
That's a nice write up.
Just wanted to curious about the other uses like DC closure or Product Substitution.
Could you please hint as to what whould be expression used in the attribute transformation KF ?
Like we used PERIOD0 = PERIOD0+12 so what in case we want to replace one location by other?


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For more information, please take a look at the website of the Australian Department of Health.
Australia has a government-funded healthcare system for medical care called Medicare. The insurance is paid for by a tax surcharge (Medicare levy) and the general funds of the Australian federal government.
People with low incomes do not have to pay a tax surcharge. People with a high income who do not have private insurance, pay a higher surcharge.
In addition to Medicare, the costs of most medicines are covered by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
If you are staying in Australia with a permanent residence permit, you will be covered by Medicare.
Medicare is also available to Dutch students going to Australia on a student visa. They must also take out Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC). This can be done via the educational institution in Australia. For more information, please take a look at the website of the Australian Department of Health.
Travellers from a limited number of countries - including the Netherlands - are eligible for limited Medicare cover even during a short stay in Australia.
If you have a permanent residence permit, you must register at a Medicare office after you have arrived in Australia. Processing your request takes about 10 days.
If you are only going to stay in Australia temporarily, then you will need a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) in order to be eligible for restricted Medicare cover. You can apply to EHIC for this card, or your Dutch health insurer. It could still be sensible, however, to take out travel insurance with medical cover.
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I'll be at Meanwhile… Worthing this Saturday! Come say hi.
Plenty of poignancy & effective mood-setting in this sequence. Also good to get another reminder that Bryan isn't a *total* weasel.
Thank you! I'm glad you're reading it like that, on Webtoons everyone thought he was hitting on her!
Yeah, I distinctly recall these two being waaaay past that stage. You're quite proficient at plausibly spacing-out Bry's moments of decency.


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Q: Android Studio emulator keeps freezing, crashing, and is not responding at all I'm a starting Android development and have recently ran into some problems. I don't know whether it is my hardware or if it's Android Studio but the emulator keeps freezing or is not responding.
The first 2 days Android Studio was running fine. However, after that it cannot run my apps. I reinstalled Android Studio and it worked for one day, but now even if I reinstall it, it won't run any apps and even Android Studio itself would occasionally freeze and I will have to restart it.
The emulator either does this or does not even turn on:

it won't even respond when I click on anything on the emulator

Here is a break down of what's been happening.

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*Day 1: works fine.

*Day 2: Android Studio freezes multiple times when I launch the emulator. Emulator unresponsive to clicks. I uninstall Android Studio thrn install it again. After reinstallation it works 100% again with the same app

*Day 3: emulator unresponsive, freezes. Menu bottons such as rotate screen, back etc. unresponsive.

*Day 4: same as day 3. Uninstall Android, reinstall. Unresponsive.

A: You can try changing this line of code System.out.println(userinput1); to Log.d(MainActivity.class.getSimpleName(), userinput1) because on emulator system.out.println() automatically redirects to logcat but sometimes not.
This problem may arise due to low ram size, android studio works fine with 8GB Ram.Or try to config emulator properly.  Let me know if problem continues.

A: I would suggest that import just specific address of class not the whole package or as bundle.
With
import java.util.*;

all classes of java.util package is imported.
The problem might be that, your hardware might be overwhelmed.

A: I don't think anything is wrong with your code. What is your system configuration? Does other applications work on emulator work? Can you post you
post your logcat?
PS: I know it should have been a comment. But I don't have permissions, sorry.

A: Problem and solution
Same problem, unusable for serious testing, whole system locking up regularly (Linux Mint Vera | 16GB-RAM | Nvidia GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] -- worked fine on Windows 7, exact same hardware (although hard drive config has changed slightly, might need to double-check the OS drive is connected port0 on motherboard in case of performance impact).
It's ironic that Android being Linux based, struggles to run in a Linux env xD.

Tried different:

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*Linux APIs

*Emulator Phone Models

*Phone RAM specs, processor specs, etc
( All different graphics modes (both in native A-Studio emulator and using the apt install-google-emulator option for vanilla standalone (old school) version. Old school version runs better (standalone version).

*Checked all microcode updates and drivers are in order. (Using Nvidia GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB]

*System is up to date (apt)

Found the best options:
Performance Better: Restart Android Emulated Device with 'Cold Boot' option specified
or
Use Diff Emulator: Virtual Machine Manager / Virsh (KVM-QEMU)
or
Use Physical Device: With Android 11+ you can wifi pair.

With devices APIs lower than 11, there is no Wi-Fi pair feature so I found solution was to install termux on the handset I wanted to use for app testing, which gave me a standardish shell with apt pkg manager -- then I could install sshd and connect to dev-PC with portforward i.e
$ SSH from Phone to PC with: ssh -R 4444:127.0.0.1:5555 ubuntu@192.168.1.20
$ SSH from PC to Phone with: ssh -L 4444:127.0.0.1:5555 ubuntu@192.168.1.20
(The exact command may vary, written from memory as quick guide to get you moving right direction thought ports are correct, syntax may need adjusting and of course, the username@hostIP needs setting to your you-login@your-computers--LAN-IP).

Once an SSH connection has been established, which you can check using something like
$ ss -tulpan | grep 4444
or
$ netstat -tulpan | grep 4444

Once confirmed established, you need to fire up adb to connect to the now available Android adb service that we forwarded from the handset into the dev-PC by running the command (also make sure you have USB debugging enabled  on the handset before doing this);
On dev-PC run;
$ adb connect 127.0.0.1:4444

It should say 'CONNECTED'.
Then to double check, run:
$ adb devices

Emulator should show up in Android Studio  Device Manager. Give it a few minutes and Android Studio will pick it up!
I can't remember the specific reason I needed to do it this way as opposed to just connecting with a USB cable. I think I was doing some mad routed setup. But there we have it!
I found using a physical device to be the ultimate performance solution but is of course a bulky arrangement.
Update
Increasing memory available to Android Studio and the VM made big difference (I have 16gb RAM).
Android Studio > Help > Change Memory Settings (2048 -> 4096)
Android Studio > Help > Edit Custom VM Options > add/replace-->
                                   (-Xmx4096m
                                   (-Xmx4096m

(Then finally added extra config to Gradle script to allow extra memory but I don't think that would have an impact on the slow running issue as was entire emulator crumbling not just the app.)
In gradle.properties, replace order.gradle.jvmargs.... (with)
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
Finally, restart Android / Emulator and remember to do a COLD BOOT on your emulator device.


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Q: How to keep track the amount of even integers when looking through randomized list using recursion Sorta newbie here. So in trying to wrap my head around using recursive functions I wanted to try to make a program that:
1: Generates a list containing 10 random integers ranging from 0 - 20
2: Using a recursive function goes trough the list and finds out what elements of the list are even integers
3: Prints out only the aformentioned even numbers
Where I have gotten stuck is in how to print out the result. I can't seem to figure out what value i want to put inside the function when calling it ( F(?) )
I tried to integrate a counter that kept track on how many times the program found a even number but it always resulted in an error that the variable is not defined no matter how hard I tried to make it global.
How could I go about this? Am I totally in the wrong?
import random
numL = []
for i in range(10):
    x = random.randint(0,20)
    numL.append(x)

print(numL)

def F(x):
    if numL[x] % 2 == 0:
        return numL[x]
    else:
        return F(x+1)

print(F( ??? ))

First question asked on this forum, hopefully I did okay, appreciate any help!

A: Assuming you want to return a list of the even numbers then you have 4 cases to consider

*

*This is the last number in the list and its even so return this number

*This is the last number in the list and its odd dont retrun this number

*There are more numbers to check and this number is even so return
this plus the function result

*There are more numbers to check and this number is odd to return
only the function result  and not this num

So we can code this as
import random

def get_even_nums(nums):
    num = nums[0]
    #This is our terminating case we definitivly return a value here
    if len(nums) == 1:
        return [num] if num % 2 == 0 else []
    else:
        #If we got here we will be recursivly calling the function
        #If its even number return that number plus the result of the function
        #it its not even then just return the reult of the function and not this num
        if num % 2 == 0:
            return [num] + get_even_nums(nums[1:])
        else:
            return get_even_nums(nums[1:])

numL = [random.randint(0, 20) for _ in range(10)]
print(numL)
print(get_even_nums(numL))

OUTPUT
[3, 6, 5, 10, 20, 18, 5, 0, 3, 9]
[6, 10, 20, 18, 0]

A: So I took your function and changed it up slightly (using a slightly different approach). There's no need to a global list, though you could do that as well, if you wanted. The problem that you have is the lack of a base case or rather an incorrect one.
If you run your original function with an argument 0, which basically is the first element of your generated array, the fucntion will run until it hits one even number. At that point it'll exit recursion, because the base case basically stops recursive calls once you hit an even number.
Now, to fix this, you have to approach the problem differently. I would put your generated array as the input argument to your function, then ask myself "What would be a good base case?" Probably one that stops your recursive calls once you reach the end of the input list.
if len(numL) == 0:
    return ...

Also, we need a way to return the even numbers that we found during our search through the list. For that reason I'd introduce a new acc list, where we would append the even numbers that we found. Thus the function input arguments would be
def F(numL, acc):
    ...

Now, in the recursive call we should check wether the current element is even or not. If it is, great, we add it to the acc list and continue into the recursive call. If it's not, we don't add anything to the acc but just continue with recursion.
if numL[0] % 2 == 0:
    acc.append(numL[0])
    return F(numL[1:], acc)

Putting it all together, we get:
def F(numL, acc):
    if len(numL) == 0:
        return  acc
    else:
        if numL[0] % 2 == 0:
            acc.append(numL[0])
        return F(numL[1:], acc)

where numL represents your generated list and acc represents the resulting list we'll return after we traverse the list.

A: This is your function (as I understand it, you wanted this):
import random

def F(i):
    r = random.randint(0,20)
    if r % 2 == 0:
        print(r)
    i += 1
    if i != 10:
        F(i)

F(0)


A mysterious object was found in a 6,000-year-old Stone Age settlement at Sømmevågen, near Stavanger Airport in Norway.
"The most magnificent artefact was found in an oval bed of rocks covered over with flat stones. By the flat stones we found a wooden tool about 20 cm long which had been painstakingly constructed," says project leader Trond Meling.
Meling is an archaeologist at the University of Stavanger's Museum of Archaeology.
Layer by layer, archaeologists have uncovered several settlements from this period (4,000-2,600 BC). Last summer they discovered an arm, which turned out to be 6000 years old.
First they found a bone from the upper arm. Then they dug out parts of the forearm and a bit of the wrist. But no more. The rest of the man is not there.
The archaeologists have more questions than answers about the place where the human arm was found. They do not think it is a grave. More likely it was a garbage dump, since they also found bones from animals.
The excavation also turned up the molars of a person, in what they do think is a grave.
"The grave is rectangular and about two metres long and one metre wide, lined with stones. It is rare to find such old graves in Norway." writes Meling.
The grave also yielded three stone axes and a chisel.


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12 June 2019 - by Gráinne Walsh
On Monday 3 June, as part of its Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland project, the Carnegie UK Trust brought together Community Planning, data and communications colleagues from the 11 councils and statutory partners to discuss all things data and communication with some research, UK wide approaches, best practice and storytelling thrown in for good measure.
The day started with a presentation from NISRA - represented by Tracy Power - who set out the current data landscape, looking to the future with insight to innovation. Tracy referenced the Economic and Social Research Council £5million investment until March 2021, which will facilitate the monitoring of change at a population level. With a key priority of maximising the use of government data, the partnership between NISRA, Queen's and Ulster University is in place to address major societal challenges, demonstrating a commitment to getting our data landscape in order. A lack of co-terminosity between Super Output Areas - the smallest data collection unit - and wards remains a challenge for certain council areas. NISRA offered helpful insights into how this information could be utilised most effectively, explaining the reasoning for this: the need to provide consistent and measurable data that withstands administrative boundary changes, of which there have been many in recent years.
We then moved from our data landscape to the moon and beyond with Brenda Kent from CENI who explored different approaches and attitudes to change and how we talk about change or progress. How do we present progress - goals and individuals? People and purpose? Dashboards or personal stories? Making her case in the very presentation of her point, through an engaging example of storytelling via a space odyssey, Brenda reminded us that we need to make audiences care by telling stories - personal, autographical, articles and interview, vlogs, blogs and letters, composite characterisation or even graphic novels, reminding us that we engage with stories for the journey as well as the outcome.
Celine McStravick from NCB NI then shared two examples of the organisational change required to move to an outcomes-based approach. Talking about her work with the South Eastern HSC Trust, she inspired those in the room to think about the possibility of cultural change in a big, chunky organisation such as a health trust - enabled through strong leadership. We then moved to West Belfast and the experience of the Colin Neighbourhood Partnership and how they report progress through Report Cards.
Moving beyond Northern Ireland to new cutting edge UK-wide policy and data developments, participants heard from ONS about their work to bring consistency to the loneliness measurement, which aims to build a clearer picture of who is lonely, where and why. Silvia Manclossi, Head of the Quality of Life Team, discussed their analysis of children's and young people's views, experiences and suggestions to overcome loneliness – something that we can expect to hear more about in the near future.
Karly Green, Head of Research & Equality in the Northern Ireland Housing Executive talked through her experience of developing and implementing a research communications strategy with the practical examples of work on Private Renters and affordability, welfare reform and fuel poverty, all issues that feature in some way or another in the 11 Community Plans.
Karly encouraged the room to think about the person behind the research. She talked through the construction of the composite character of 'Sam' who was profiled using NIHE research and which focused her mind on her audience, again highlighting the ways in which stories can capture the imagination and help to communicate research in ways that are meaningful to the audience.
Nichola Creagh from the Department for Communities joined a panel discussion of other presenters, providing useful practical guidance to participants before the final input of the day from Susie Brown of Tourism NI. Drawing on her experience as Head of Communications for the Northern Ireland Assembly - as well as her work with the range of partners involved in the delivery of the 148th Open in Portrush - Susie's contribution prompted a really valuable conversation about the principles and reality of communications, particularly in partnerships. Susie has subsequently shared a useful resource on the topic of storytelling.
So, what did we learn last Monday?
If community planning is about the collective impact of the community planning partnership, which it is, then we need collective ownership.
If community planning is about collective understanding based on shared knowledge, which it is, then we need to share information.
If community planning is about people, which it is, then we need to get people interested.
With the 11 Community Planning Partnerships set to produce statements of progress by November, there was a clear sense in the room of the need to use the fulfilment of statutory duties to inform and engage citizens. The challenges of partnership working and, specifically, coalition communication was explored with a sense that there is an opportunity to build on existing partnership work and to use this communication opportunity in November to provide a launch pad for future travel along Northern Ireland's Community Planning odyssey.


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Ring in the new year with a shiny new smartwatch.
By Haley Henschel on January 4, 2022
This bad boy's got almost 20% more screen area than the Apple Watch Series 6. Credit: Apple / Mashable Photo Composite
SAVE $60: Amazon has the green variant of the new Apple Watch Series 7 on sale for its all-time low holiday price of $339. The ultra-durable, biking-friendly wearable normally retails for $399, so you'll be saving a good 15%.
Overly ambitious New Year's resolutions are decidedly not the vibe for the start of 2022 (or as we like to call it, the nth iteration of March 2020). But for all you eternal optimists out there who are hoping to achieve certain fitness or wellness goals in the coming months, a new smartwatch with advanced health-tracking features is the ideal workout buddy for these socially distant times.
Conveniently, Amazon just revived its holiday pricing on the latest Apple Watch Series 7: It usually retails for $399, but as of Jan. 4, you can pick one up in the new green hue for just $339 — a $60 savings.
Released just a few months ago in October 2021, the Series 7 took its health data-packed predecessor and upgraded it with better biking support, fall detection, faster charging, improved durability, and Tim Cook's largest-ever watch face. (It's, like, really pretty.) You probably don't need to upgrade if you already own an Apple Watch Series 6, FWIW, but it's an excellent buy for anyone who's got an older smartwatch with limited functionality or crappy battery life.
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Aravind Melligeri
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Aravind Melligeri brings relentless focus on creating value to every Aequs endeavor. His long-term, strategic perspective is the driving force behind the company's tremendous growth.
Aravind knows that success in manufacturing is powered by two things: continuous innovation and unbridled collaboration. It is precisely these ideas that have allowed his vision - a global ecosystem driving scale and efficiency through organic growth, acquisitions, and partnerships - to become a reality.
Aravind is a board member of QuEST Global, a company he co-founded in 1997 which is now a globally-recognized provider of outsourced engineering services.
Aravind holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka and a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. He was recently conferred the 'Young Achiever Award' by the Indo-American Society.
Dr. Ajay Prabhu
Ajay is associated with Aequs since 2007 and is currently the COO of QuEST Global. Under his leadership, QuEST Global has grown from 200 employees to 7300 employees. He has played a pivotal role in QuEST Global's foray into aero structures domain, which has led to some major business wins for the organization in the aerospace and defense sectors.
Ajay was working with HP & Agilent Technologies in California for six years before moving to QuEST Global. He has turned QuEST into a global company by setting up delivery centers in several cities of USA, Italy, Japan, India, UK, Australia and Spain. Ajay's passion and commitment to excellence permeates through every facet of QuEST Global. His relentless drive to build a best-in-class company through delivery and people process excellence has resulted in several industry recognitions for QuEST Global. Ajay has designed a unique business process and institutionalized the rhythm that has resulted in scalability, predictability and enhanced customer and employee satisfaction.
With a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NITK, Surathkal, India, Ajay holds MS & Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts, USA. His research work on very high frequency amplifiers was recognized with an award from the IEEE (Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Microwave Society Fellowship and he holds two US Patents.
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With 25 years of rich industry experience, Rajeev has played a significant role in advancing Aequs' presence in India while setting up various subsidiaries and establishing Joint Ventures. For Rajeev, bringing new capabilities to the global manufacturing ecosystem while transforming Belagavi into an aerospace knowledge centre for India, is a vital mission in helping India realize it's global potential.
Rajeev also serves as a board member of JV companies of Aequs. Prior to joining Aequs, Rajeev was with QuEST Global providing support and guidance to operational leadership on financial matters. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Delhi University and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.


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Le Royaume de Cuzco ou Cusco (en quechua, Qosqo ou Qusqu) est un petit royaume entourant Cuzco, dans la cordillère des Andes. À sa création, ce n'était qu'une petite ville-État fondée par les Incas aux alentours du . Au fil des ans, des acquisitions de terres grâce aux guerres et des assimilations pacifiques, le royaume s'est agrandi, en commençant par la « vallée sacrée », jusqu'à former l'Empire inca (1438-1533).

Histoire

Tour d'horizon

Le peuple inca était tout d'abord une tribu de la région de Cuzco vers le . Sous la coupe de Manco Cápac, les Incas fondèrent la petite ville-État de Cusco (en quechua Qosqo), indiquée en rouge sur la carte ci-contre.

En 1438, sous le commandement du Sapa Inca (empereur cuzquénien) Pachacutec (« secoueur de monde »), les Incas ont débuté une campagne d'expansion très large. Le territoire conquis par Pachacutec était à peu près de la taille des Treize colonies au moment de l'éclatement de la Révolution américaine de 1776 et comprenait quasiment tout le territoire de la cordillère des Andes.
Pachacutec réorganisa alors le royaume en un empire, le Tahuantinsuyu, un état fédéral qui consistait en un gouvernement centralisé avec le peuple Inca à sa tête et quatre gouvernements provinciaux (le Chinchay Suyu au Nord-Ouest, l'Anti Suyu au Nord-Est, le Kunti Suyu au Sud-Ouest et le Qulla Suyu au Sud-Est), dirigés par des chefs puissants. On pense que Pachacutec a construit la cité du Machu Picchu, soit comme résidence familiale, soit comme lieu de vacances.

Sapa Inca
Les Sapa Inca de la première dynastie du royaume de Cusco étaient, dans l'ordre : Manco Cápac, Sinchi Roca, Lloque Yupanqui, Mayta Capac, et Capac Yupanqui. Des preuves d'organisation étatique remontent à 1200 ap J.-C. On a peu de connaissances sur cette population mais vers la fin de leur existence, le mot cápac avait la signification de « chef de guerre » et sinchi signifiait « meneur », ce qui ferait penser qu'ils  étaient des chefs d'État.

Bien avant que les Espagnols découvrent les Incas, la civilisation inca avait été créée sous la forme d'un petit État centralisé pour s'élargir sur une grande partie du territoire du long de la côte ouest de l'Amérique du Sud, de la Colombie au Chili. La civilisation inca s'est étendue rapidement à partir de leurs débuts pour devenir ensuite le royaume de Cusco au sud du Pérou.

Les débuts de l'empire

Les parties suivantes décrivent le rôle de chaque empereur inca dans l'expansion de l'empire.

Mayta Capac : vers 1290

Mayta Capac (en quechua: Mayta Qhapaq Inka) était le quatrième Sapa Inca du royaume de Cuzco (à partir d'environ 1290 ap J.-C.) et un membre de la dynastie Hurin. Les chroniqueurs le décrivent comme un grand guerrier qui a conquis des territoires aussi éloignés que le Lac Titicaca, Arequipa, et Potosí, bien que dans les faits, son royaume était toujours limité à la vallée de Cusco.

Chute de la civilisation

Túpac Amaru : 1571–1572

Túpac Amaru était le dernier Inca légitime à gouverner, dans la région du Vilcabamba (Pérou), et, malheureusement, le moins apte à gouverner. À la suite de la mort de son frère ainé, Titu Kusi Yupanqui, il ordonna l'exécution de tous les Espagnols vivant au Vilcabamba et mena une rébellion désordonnée et sans succès contre les colons. Cela mena à sa mort et à la fin de la souveraineté inca. Vilcabamba était alors occupée et les survivants furent réduits à l'esclavage.

Références

Bibliographie
 María Rostworowski. Enciclopedia Temática del Perú: Incas. Lima: El Comercio S.A., 2004.
 Editorial Sol 90. Historia Universal 5: América precolombina. Barcelona, España, 2002.
 Bushnell. Peru, Ancient people and places.
 MacQuarrie, Kim. The Last Days of the Incas. Simon & Schuster, 2007. .

Liens externes
  « The Political Force of Images », Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520–1820

Histoire du Pérou
Ancien royaume en Amérique
État disparu en 1438

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EP: ½ – Miccoli
By birminghamreview on May 12, 2017 in BR Content, Releases
Words by Ed King / Pics from AFA Records
Pronounced 'half', on Friday 12th May Miccoli release their ½ EP through AFA Records – five tracks of solid and somewhat indefinable alternative-pop-indie-soul-generally good music. There isn't an HMV shelf long enough.
Coming from Halesowen (a quick civic cheer) Miccoli are three siblings: twin brothers Adriano and Alessando, with their sister Francesca. Not really that important to their music but if you ever get invited round for dinner…
Miccoli had been 'hotly tipped' some years ago, but due to a nasty case of nearly dying on stage they had to embrace a hiatus and, you know, live. Five years later and the family are back, with some extremely slick looking and sounding material to make up for lost time. Seriously, my first question was which 'Birmingham' do you think we 'Review' – not that Alabama is the bastion of urban chic, but Miccoli do not present like your usual Midlands music act. They recorded in 'off the coast of Malaysia' for Christ's sake; Robannas, Rich Bitch, Muthers… you get where I'm going with this.
So, polished, belt and braces; check. But are Miccoli any good. Yes. Reassuringly so. Their single 'Lights', which was given away in an act of generosity and publicity earlier in May, is a good introduction. Beautifully restrained, a hint of staccato, comfortable addiction behind the melody, the brothers' lead vocals coated in Francesca's harmonies; it's the kind of song you'd pack your life into a car to, and then listen to on repeat until you've reached the ocean. Mental note – I must stop doing that. But it works. Then it works again, and again, and again…
'Idle Stranger', the EP's opening track, was the first to be released back in March and may be more your preference. It's not mine, but it packs a similar punch to 'Lights'.
Track Two, 'Undo', is a variation on a theme, then comes the EP closer – 'Devices'. A soft goodbye to a new sound; remember the first time you heard an XX track, and it crept into your brain, made a nest in the neural pathways, then dug in with squatter's rights that would make a Bristol Uni student blush. Yeah, save some cerebral cortex 'cos it's happening again.
Miccoli's ½ EP is out from 12th May – with a curious selection of tour dates, focusing on America as opposed to the UK. But starting in Liverpool. A schedule that's slightly unfortunate for this acerbic pen because the Achilles heel will be the live performance. As a wise man once said, when you sound that polished on a CD (they sent out a physical copy, result) it could mean you're going to suck balls live.
Which, unless I'm prepared to travel to The Viper Room (oh yes, this band mean business) I'm not likely to find out anytime soon. Still there's probably an album waiting in the wings to distract us. I get the feeling, with Miccoli, after an unscheduled stop in their trajectory, there's a plan in place. To be continued…
'Lights' – Miccoli
On Friday 12th May, Miccoli release their ½ EP through AFA Records. For more on Miccoli, including full tour details and online purchases, visit www.miccoli.co.uk
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Centrum Tańca i Teatru Suzanne Dellal (; ) – największe centrum kultury w osiedlu Newe Cedek, w mieście Tel Awiw w Izraelu. Centrum składa się z kompleksu czterech budynków, w których odbywają się liczna przedstawienia teatralne i tańca współczesnego. Ośrodek organizuje także liczne przedstawienia na wolnym powietrzu.

W 2009 izraelski minister kultury Gideon Saar wyróżnił Centrum Tańca i Teatru Suzanne Dellal nagrodą Izraela w dziedzinie sztuki tańca.

Historia

Ideą założenie centrum była chęć utrzymania kontaktu z dziedzictwem kulturowym w aglomeracji miejskiej Tel Awiwu. Na początku lat 80. XX wieku działalność artystyczna rozpoczęła się w ośrodku kultury "Jaron Jerushalmi" (ירון ירושלמי), nazywanym wówczas Teatrem Neve Tzedek (תיאטרון נווה צדק). Jego działalność była finansowana przez rodzinę Jerushalmi, która nadal wspiera działalność centrum. W oparciu o doświadczenia zdobyte w Teatr Neve Tzedek powstało współczesne centrum.

Pod koniec lat 80. rodzina Dellal z Londynu z inicjatywy ich syna, Zeev Sokołowskiego, zainteresowała się ideą utworzenia w Tel Awiwie nowoczesnego centrum teatru i współczesnego tańca. Przedstawiciel Fundacji Rodziny Dellal, ówczesny burmistrz Tel Awiwu, Szlomo Lahat, umożliwił rozpoczęcie prac remontowych zaniedbanych budynków szkół Aliance i Yechieli w osiedlu Neve Tzedek. Umożliwiło to otworzenie w 1989 Centrum Tańca i Teatru Suzanne Dellal. Innymi sponsorami centrum były władze miejskie Tel Awiwu oraz Ministerstwo Kultury.

Działalność
Centrum prowadzi swoją działalność w dwóch odrębnych, ale równoległych kierunkach: pierwszy opiera się na działalności wychowawczej poprzez propagowanie idei współczesnej sztuki w młodym pokoleniu, a drugi koncentruje się wokół głównej sceny na której artyści prezentują osiągnięcia swojej pracy. Takie myślenie zaowocowało realizacją licznych projektów, koncentrując wokół centrum tancerzy, artystów i choreografów, wspierając ich twórczość i umożliwiając im dzielenie się swoimi pracami z dużą publicznością.

W centrum realizowane są liczne projekty:
 Cienie Tańca – projekt umożliwiający debiut młodym niedoświadczonym choreografom, którzy mogą rozwijać swoje umiejętności pod nadzorem zawodowego dyrektora artystycznego. Dla większości izraelskich choreografów był to pierwszy krok na scenie współczesnego tańca.
 Kurs Choreografii – projekt umożliwiający młodym izraelskim choreografom przejście szkolenia pod kierownictwem światowej sławy choreografów, takich jak Bob Cohen, Daniel Ezralow, Josef Nadj i Ohad Naharin.
 Zasłony w górę – projekt finansowany przez Ministerstwo Edukacji, Kultury i Sportu. Jest to atrakcyjny projekt wspierający przedsięwzięcia artystów we wszystkich aspektach ich produkcji: próby, szkolenia, kostiumy, kampania reklamowa, scena i dochód ze sprzedaży biletów. Artyści mogą skupić się wyłącznie na swojej pracy, wystawiając swoje przedstawienia w całym Izraelu.
 Lato tańca – w okresie letnim w centrum odbywa się dwumiesięczny festiwal tańca, który kończy sezon sceny tańca izraelskiego. Umożliwia on zaprezentowanie najlepszych dzieł roku.
 Inny taniec – projekt umożliwia artystom tańca korzystać ze wsparcia technicznego i logistycznego centrum, w celu prezentacji tancerzy w mniejszych i bardziej kameralnych dziełach. Artyści mają pełną wolność artystyczną przy realizacji swoich prac.
 Międzynarodowe Narażenia – projekt będący w całości inicjatywą Centrum Suzanne Dellal. Odbywa się każdego roku, na przełomie listopada i grudnia. Projekt zaprasza zagranicznych artystów do zaangażowania się w działalność miejscowej sceny tańca. Inicjatywa ta otworzyła nowe kanały komunikacji i zainteresowań, umożliwiając wielu izraelskim tancerzom wejście na znane sceny na całym świecie. Jest to także dobra promocja izraelskiego tańca na międzynarodowych festiwalach.

W centrum realizowane są także imprezy o znaczeniu międzynarodowym:
 Międzynarodowy Konkurs Tańca Suzanne Dellal – główny projekt realizowany w centrum, którego celem jest połączenie lokalnej sceny ze sceną międzynarodową. Niektórzy laureaci zostali zaproszeni do realizacji choreografii izraelskiego tańca, ucząc w ten sposób izraelskich tancerzy i choreografów.
 Taniec Europy – projekt został zainicjowany w 1999 przez delegację Unii Europejskiej, aby wzmocnić wymianę doświadczeń i osiągnięć izraelskiej sceny z europejską sceną tańca. Od 2003 jest to wspólne przedsięwzięcie Centrum Suzanne Dellal i Tel Awiw Performing Arts Center.
 Teatroneto – oryginalny międzynarodowy projekt realizowany Teatr Bimot i Centrum Suzanne Dellal, który promuje jednego aktora lub aktorkę. Dla wielu artystów projekt ten był początkiem międzynarodowej kariery. Wiele produkcji tego projektu weszło na stałe do repertuaru izraelskich teatrów.
 Magiczne Bajki, w pamięci Yaron Yerushalmi – letni projekt promujący taniec, teatr, muzykę i śpiew. W jego ramach są organizowane wydarzenia kulturalne dla całych rodzin.
 Dzień Flamenco – festiwal promujący taniec flamenco i kulturę hiszpańską w Izraelu.
 Konkurs Baletu Mia Arbatowa – konkurs baletu, zorganizowany w celu upamiętnienia pioniera izraelskiego baletu, Mia Arbatowa.
 Taniec Brzucha – konkrs promujący taniec wschodni.

Centrum służy jako siedziba dwóch zawodowych zespołów tańca nowoczesnego – Bat-Sheva i Inbal.

Zespół Tańca Bat-Szewa

Zespół Tańca Bat-Szewa (ang. Batsheva Dance Company) został założony w 1964 przez Martha Grahama i baronową Batsheva de Rothschild. Zespół prezentuje współczesny taniec i jest znany z wielu przełomowych i innowacyjnych spektakli o zasięgu międzynarodowym.

Teatr dla Dzieci i Młodzieży Orna Porat
Teatr dla Dzieci i Młodzieży Orna Porat został założony przez Ministerstwo Edukacji i Kultury w 1970 i jest organizacją publiczną non-profit. Przewodniczącym jest Michael Jerushalmi. Wszystkie przychody teatru są wykorzystywane do realizacji jego celów i finansowania dalszej swojej działalności. Głównym celem jego działalności jest zapoznanie wszystkich izraelskich dzieci ze sztuką teatru. Każdego roku teatr wystawia około 750 przedstawień dla 400 tys. widzów w 250 miastach i osiedlach całego kraju. Jest to największe przedsięwzięcie teatralne realizowane w Izraelu.

Teatr Tańca Inbal – Inbal Ethnic Centrum
Teatr Tańca Inbal został założony w 1950 przez Sarę Levi-Tanai. Grupa teatralna koncentruje się na tradycji i dziedzictwie żydowskim, ale interesuje się także folklorem innych grup etnicznych żyjących w Izraelu, takich jak folklor jemeński, marokański, perski, kurdyjski, chasydzki i arabski.

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On Saturday, 8 September, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met with U.S. CENTCOM Commander Joseph L. Votel in Cairo.
For more information, see the release below from the Office of the Presidency.
Today, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met with the CENTCOM Commander, General Joseph L. Votel.
President El Sisi confirmed the importance of the growing strategic relations between Egypt and the U.S., particularly ongoing military cooperation. The President welcomed the launch of the joint exercise "Bright Star 2018" scheduled to take place in September 8-20. This is in addition to the implementation of joint training between the two sides over the past days to exchange expertise in the area of counter-terrorism. In this context, the President reviewed developments pertinent to counterterrorism efforts at various levels.
The CENTCOM Commander lauded the strong and solid military relations between the two countries and affirmed his country's keenness to continue developing and strengthening partnership with Egypt at various levels. He referred to the "Bright Star 2018" exercise as a demonstration of the importance and strength of military cooperation between the two countries especially in light of the circumstances that the region is experiencing, which requires concerted efforts to confront challenges that threaten the security and stability of the region and the world. General Votel valued Egypt's counterterrorism efforts and lauded its role in reinforcing regional security and stability.
The meeting touched on ways to enhance military cooperation between Egypt and the U.S., in addition to the latest regional developments, in light of ongoing crises in a number of countries in the region.