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'Battle of the Sexes' Review
Battle of the Sexes is a semi-biographical sports film, starring Emma Stone, Steve Carell, and Sarah Silverman. The film is loosely based on the 1973 tennis match between a 29-year-old Billie Jean King and a 55-year-old Bobby Riggs. Riggs had been a top men's player in the 1930s and 1940s in both the amateur and professional ranks. King, who had previously rejected challenges from Riggs, finally accepted the challenge after a lucrative financial offer was made to play him for $100,000, winner-take-all. King further explained that she accepted the match not only for the money, but also for all of women's tennis and to prove that women are equal to men. The match, dubbed "The Battle of the Sexes", took place at the Houston Astrodome in Texas and garnered huge publicity. Emma Stone is great as Billie Jean King. The Academy Award-winning actress shows off her talent once again as she basically becomes King. Stone looks very much like a young Billie Jean King and even speaks like her. She does well in making the character more than a two-dimensional athlete. She gives the audience a look into King's soul as she works through the complexities of her emotions, need for equal rights, loyalty to her husband, and love of tennis. The same goes for Steve Carell's performance as Bobby Riggs. He plays a loveable yet damaged guy very well. He's a good dad and a great tennis player, but he's also a gambler and a hustler. He knows he has a problem, but he doesn't hide it. Well, he mostly doesn't hide it. He wants this happy life with his wife but is unwilling to change for her. Also, I really enjoyed Sarah Silverman's portrayal of Gladys Heldman. She provided comic relief as well as a small dose of sincerity when needed. I wouldn't be surprised if she got a few Best Supporting Actress nods this upcoming award season. The film's story was easy to follow and very believable. The writer did a great job of focusing the story on the characters' lives building up to the match instead of just focusing on the match itself. With all the ups and downs each character experiences, the audience is never overwhelmed as the events unfold on screen. Also, the director's pacing was smooth and use of camera angles and color was phenomenal. Lastly, the editing of the older footage into the film fit in seamlessly. While watching the final match, there are times when you can't tell if they edited the old match footage or shot new match footage. The only negative I have for this film is how it was advertised. The trailers made it seem like just a comedy, but clearly, it's much more than that. I give Battle of the Sexes a Decent 8/10. This film offers up a fun and interesting history lesson about tennis and equality.
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Brave bobbies rescue woman from Shustoke Reservoir
The officers have been called "a credit to the force"
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Two brave police officers have been praised for their courage after jumping in to a reservoir to save a woman in distress.
PC Murray Young and Special Constable Michael Bliss disregarded their own safety as they stripped off and entered the water at Shustoke Reservoir in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The pair, from Bedworth police station, rescued the 39-year-old woman at around 3am and used safety equipment to take her back to the bank.
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PC Young and SC Bliss have been praised for their bravery and swift actions in saving the woman.
Chief Inspector Andrew Reynolds, of Warwickshire Police, said: "At 2.58am on Saturday we received a report raising concern for a woman. The woman was located in distress in Shustoke Reservoir.
"Without a second thought, two officers entered the water with rescue equipment and, with guidance from their colleagues on the shore, they reached the woman and rescued her.
"The woman was uninjured. She was detained under the Mental Health Act.
"The quick action and bravery of all the officers involved meant that the woman was rescued from the water and could receive medical attention. They are all a credit to the force."
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Composting Toilets: How They Work and the Benefits of Having One in Your RV
How Do RV Composting Toilets Work
RVs allow for many of the creature comforts of home to follow you into the great outdoors, and the exact amenities you can find in any one vehicle will vary. For many, having some form of a restroom can make a huge difference in their experience, and many RVs have risen to the occasion, bringing showers, sinks, and toilets into the game.
While many toilets use the RV's water tanks to operate, they aren't the only option available. RV composting toilets are also available, providing an alternative to the traditional idea of what a restroom is. So how do RV composting toilets work?
What Is an RV Composting Toilet?
If you're unfamiliar with the term, it doesn't take much to guess what an RV composting toilet is. As the name suggests, the bathroom works through composting human waste, rather than using water and plumbing to flush it away into a tank that you have to reset. The result is an organic approach to waste handling that also creates a fertilizer—just like regular compost.
That's not to say that these toilets don't require any maintenance, but they don't rely on plumbing and running water as their counterparts do. Using one such bathroom and properly deposing the humus can also help the environment in the long run. Composting toilets don't necessarily have to go in RVs, but they're a useful addition.
So how do these appliances work?
The first stage in how composting toilets work is in that they drop any waste down into the lower tank areas. When you "flush," instead of water, a trapdoor opens that drops what's in the bowl to where it will ultimately turn to compost. In some models, liquids go to the front of the tank, while solids head to the back end. When they don't mix, it helps prevent sewage smell that can happen with traditional setups.
While different manufacturers have different setups, most composting toilets have the same three primary functions in mind that make them work well:
● They evaporate moisture. Liquids naturally evaporate over time, and these toilets provide enough aeration to escape outside without the compost pile coming completely dry. Newer systems can also include heating elements that make this process go by faster, while others have liquid tanks you can regularly empty.
● They don't create odor while they compost. It wouldn't do much good to have a collection of waste that makes your bathroom stink, so composting toilets work to eliminate this problem. If you leave feces on its own, it takes a long time and produces odors. The use of bulking materials (such as sawdust or peat mix) help break down waste quickly to avoid smells.
● They make it safe to handle compost. Since you'll ultimately need to empty the toilet, you want the product you're managing to be free of any potential health risks. Having the right bulking material helps with this, and the build of the system allows you to have a sage compost to handle.
Once the composting process has completed, you can then take the resulting materials and use it as fertilizer for a garden if you have one. Alternatively, you can dump the waste in a designated area, just as you would empty a dump tank, with the added benefit of knowing your waste will quickly disappear without any potentially toxic effects.
Emptying the solid and liquid chambers is a regular occurrence, though how often you'll need to do so will depend on how much use the restroom in your RVs sees and the size of your tanks. Generally, you'll need to dump things out every couple of weeks if your camping trailer is in constant use.
Single and Multi-Chamber Toilets
To accomplish these goals, you'll generally find two main types of composting toilets: single chamber and multi-chamber models. Ones with multiple chambers will separate the kinds of waste to handle each process; in two-chambers, you have solids and liquids separate, while a single chamber model may need you to remove the humus to dry.
Since oxygen is essential to quick composting, some toilets will also include ways to turn the waste regularly to help the process, which in turn helps eliminate the risk of odors and other potential issues.
Self-Contained and Central Compost Systems
The distinction between these two types is just as the names suggest. Self-contained units are all-in-one models, which have both the toilet and the composting areas all-in-one units. On the other hand, a central unit will appear like a traditional toilet with the storage chamber separate (generally stored below the bathroom).
Central systems generally can hold compost for much longer as they have more available space. However, because of their size and additional components, a central compost system toilet will be more suitable for a traditional home, rather than an RV. For people trying to get a composting toilet into their camping trailers, self-contained units are much more likely.
Recent Models
While the overall concept is simple, a poorly constructed composting toilet won't be as effective as it could be. Here are some options to consider when searching for the newest addition to your RV:
● Nature's Head
● Sun-Mar
● EcoJohn
● Dry Flush
● Separett
Take note that these brands offer toilets with different sizes, prices, crank systems, and more to consider. You'll want to compare what's available and if it's suitable for the size of your RV. Remember that you'll need a self-contained unit if you want it to fit in your travel trailer, as some models are much more suitable for full-size homes or cabins.
Advantages to Composting Toilets
For many people, the idea of a composting toilet may not seem very appealing, especially when one feels used to the concept of traditional plumbing. After all, letting your waste sit around doesn't seem like something you'd want to do. However, even if your first impulse thinks otherwise, composting toilets have numerous benefits.
Saving Water and Energy
When you're in an RV without any hookups, you only have so much water at your immediate disposal. Regularly flushing the toilet is something that can potentially use up plenty of water, which can also lead to high costs if you're renting an RV or using a campground's resources.
You may have noticed when reading our overview that composting toilets don't require running water to work; the only moisture they need is what your body produces. You can save your RV's water use for other things, such as showering and camping, rather than washing away what happens in the restroom. You might even be able to take longer trips without as much worry about water!
Fewer Odors
Remember how we mentioned that separating the liquids and solids makes fewer odors? We'll bring it up again because that's a benefit to composting toilets; while you may think otherwise, they actually smell less than a regular bathroom, and having a composting unit means that you won't need to experience the potential sewage smell. Built-in fans usually help with this aspect as well.
Instead of sewage, you may get the smell of fresh dirt, or maybe even nothing at all. Sounds like an improvement to us.
No Need for a Black Tank
RVs rely on black tanks to handle wastewater from toilets, and emptying them tends to be an unpleasant experience. Not only do you need to find an appropriate dumping station, but it's also just not a pleasant smelling chore to handle. In comparison, working with a bucket of composted dirt is far more comfortable, and far less gross.
Since you won't need the black tank anymore, you have the alternative of taking it out and adding in extra fresh water or used water storage tanks. Both will give you more options, though it can take some effort to handle the reconnections properly. The process is well worth it, though.
Free Plant Food
Fertilizers can cost a lot of money if you buy them in a bag, but using a composting toilet to let nature do its work is much cheaper—plus the results are nutrient rich for minimal effort. For the gardener, this incentive can be reason enough on its own to switch to a compostable toilet.
Eco-Friendly Waste
Even if you're not interested in upping your garden game, there's nothing wrong with being environmentally conscious. Your resulting compost will be eco-friendly, so you don't have to worry about its impact once it leaves your RV.
If you want to install a composting toilet on your own, it's not too completed to setup, which makes it straightforward to add one to your camping trailer. With the growing interest in this technology, we might even see RV manufacturers offering these options right out of the gate.
Since RVing brings together the conveniences of home with the ability to enjoy nature at its finest, getting a composting toilet makes sense.
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Q: Apache Calcite Fails to Parse Its Own Google BigQuery Output I'm new to Apache Calcite and am running into a strange "gap" - given a simple select query:
select * from orders

I parse it using:
SqlParser.Config sqlParserConfig = SqlParser
    .configBuilder()
    .setConformance(SqlConformanceEnum.LENIENT)
    .build();
SqlParser parser = SqlParser.create(sqlQuery, sqlParserConfig);
SqlNode parseAst = parser.parseQuery();
CalciteCatalogReader catalogReader = buildCatalogReader(schema, typeFactory);
SqlValidator.Config validatorConf = SqlValidator.Config.DEFAULT.withSqlConformance(SqlConformanceEnum.BIG_QUERY);
validatorConf = validatorConf.withIdentifierExpansion(true);
SqlValidator validator = SqlValidatorUtil.newValidator(SqlStdOperatorTable.instance(),
    catalogReader, typeFactory,
    validatorConf)
validator.validate(parseAst).toSqlString(BigQuerySqlDialect.DEFAULT).toString();

Which results in:
SELECT ORDERS.o_orderkey, ORDERS.o_custkey, ORDERS.o_orderstatus, ORDERS.o_totalprice, ORDERS.`o_order date`, ORDERS.o_orderpriority, ORDERS.o_clerk, ORDERS.o_shippriority, ORDERS.o_comment
FROM ORDERS AS ORDERS
(reasonable, note the quoted identifier for `o_order date`, necessary due to whitespace in columnname)

If I then take that query string and pass it back through (setting conformance to  SqlConformanceEnum.BIG_QUERY) the parse fails with:
org.apache.calcite.sql.parser.SqlParseException: Lexical error at line 1, column 95.  Encountered: "`" (96), after : ""

Puzzling on face, I tried again with a parse config:
SqlParser.Config sqlParserConfig = SqlParser
    .configBuilder()
    .setConformance(getConformance(SqlConformanceEnum.BIG_QUERY))
    .setQuoting(Quoting.BACK_TICK_BACKSLASH)
    .build();

to force handling backtick-quoted identifiers and I up with:
SELECT ORDERS.o_orderkey AS O_ORDERKEY, ORDERS.o_custkey AS O_CUSTKEY, ORDERS.o_orderstatus AS O_ORDERSTATUS, ORDERS.o_totalprice AS O_TOTALPRICE, ORDERS.`o_order date`, ORDERS.o_orderpriority AS O_ORDERPRIORITY, ORDERS.o_clerk AS O_CLERK, ORDERS.o_shippriority AS O_SHIPPRIORITY, ORDERS.o_comment AS O_COMMENT
FROM ORDERS AS ORDERS

which is usable... but

*

*why is the "default" conformance for BigQuery setting DOUBLE_QUOTE when bigquery uses backticks

*why does loop-parsing lead to a different query than on the input? (running the aliased query back through a second time gets itself back, so it does stabilize, but the initial inconsistency is weird

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Square Enix President Writes New Years Letter All About NFTs, Blockchain Games, The Metaverse, and More
Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda kicked off 2022 with a New Year's letter that focuses on companies' growing focus on NFTs, blockchain games, and the Metaverse.
Matsuda started the Letter by wishing everyone a Happy New Year and saying that the Metaverse "was a hot topic in 2021 that sparked a lively global discussion first about what the Metaverse is and then about what kind of business opportunities it offers".
He then noticed the name change from Facebook to Meta and that this was just proof that the concept is not just a buzzword, but will remain, and that this attention led to 2021 being called the "Metaverse Year".
Thanks to the advances in "Extended Reality (XR) technology, the proliferation of cloud and 5G, more sophisticated blockchain technology, and other technological developments that have taken place in a variety of areas over the past few years," Matsuda believes the metaverse will "probably experience a meaningful transition to a business phase with a wide range of services in 2022".
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"When this abstract concept takes on concrete form in the form of product and service offerings, I hope that it will bring about changes that will also have a greater impact on our business," said Matsuda.
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, were the next topic of discussion, and Matsuda began by saying, "2021 not only as 'Metaverse: Year One' but also as 'NFTs: Year One' as it was a year when NFTs were made by received with great enthusiasm by a rapidly growing user base. "
While Matsuda agrees that there are "here and there unfortunate examples of overheated trading in NFT-based digital goods with somewhat speculative undertones, regardless of the observed value of the content provided," he believes the ship will straighten up in time will.
"This is obviously not an ideal situation, but I do expect that digital goods deals, as they become more common among the general public, will eventually see a rights adjustment, revising the value of any available content to its actual estimated value, and I want them to be as familiar as trading in physical goods, "Matsuda said.
Referring to Square Enix, Matsuda reiterated that the company behind the Final Fantasy series, upcoming Forspoken and more, in May 2020, "identified AI, the cloud and blockchain games as new domains on which to focus our investments. and we have consequently aggressively advanced our R&D efforts and investments in these areas. "
In the case of AI, the focus was "primarily on the processing of natural language, world models and simulation technology".
"These efforts will help us develop the games we release and improve their overall quality, but that's not all," said Matsuda. "By incorporating the results of these R&D efforts in virtual avatars and elsewhere, we plan to apply those results to a wide variety of content and make the relevant technology available to other companies to use these R&D efforts across our digital entertainment business to use ."
On the cloud front, Square Enix is exploring this technology from "two primary perspectives: first, the use of cloud technologies to distribute content, and second, the development of content that offers customers new forms of excitement made possible by the attributes of the cloud will".
Finally, blockchain games will be discussed, which are different from traditional games, which "have a one-way flow with creators like us offering a game to the consumers who play them".
"In contrast to this, blockchain games that have emerged from their infancy and are currently entering a growth phase are based on the premise of a token economy and therefore have the potential to enable self-sustaining game growth," said Matsuda. "The engine that most enables such self-sustaining game growth is diversity, both in terms of the way people interact with interactive content such as games, and in terms of their motivations for it. Advances in the token economy are likely to add further momentum to this trend of diversification. See the "play to earn" concept that people are so excited about as a prime example of this. "
While recognizing that players who "play to have fun" and "currently form the majority" have "reservations about these new trends," he also notes that there is another side of the coin – players who "play to contribute" – this is worth exploring.
"However, I believe there will be a certain number of people who are motivated to contribute, so I want to help make the game more exciting," said Matsuda. "Traditional gambling did not offer any explicit incentive to this latter group of people, who were motivated solely by such conflicting personal feelings as benevolence and volunteerism.
"This fact has nothing to do with the limitations of existing UGC (user-generated content). UGC was born out of an individual's desire for self-expression, not because there was an explicit incentive to reward them for their creative endeavors. I see this as part of the reason why there wasn't as much major breakthrough content user-created as one would expect. "
As the token economy advances, Matsuda says, "users are being offered explicit incentives, which not only increases the persistence of their motivation, but also creates a tangible benefit in their creative endeavors."
"I believe this will lead to more people dedicating themselves to such endeavors, and games to grow in exciting ways," says Matsuda. "From having fun to earning to contributing – a variety of motivations will inspire people to engage in games and connect with one another. There are blockchain-based tokens that make this possible. "
All of this and more has led Matsuda to say that this ecosystem "is at the heart of what I call" decentralized gaming "and he hopes it will become a major trend in gaming in the future.
"By developing viable token economies in our games, we will enable self-sustaining game growth. This kind of ecosystem is at the heart of what I call 'decentralized gaming' and I hope this becomes an important future trend in gaming, "said Matsuda." When we look at the one-sided relationship between game players and game providers Linking games that are finished products together, calling them 'centralized gaming' to contrast it with decentralized gaming, then adding decentralized games to our portfolio in addition to centralized games will be a major strategic issue for us from 2022 onwards.
"The basic and elementary technologies to enable blockchain games already exist, and the social education and acceptance of crypto assets has increased in recent years. We will keep a close eye on social changes in this area as we address the many user groups that populate it and step up our efforts to develop a business accordingly, with the aim of potentially issuing our own tokens in the future. "
In summary, Matsuda believes that, given the changing lifestyles and learning from Square Enix, "the new technologies and concepts that I have discussed and the changes they are bringing to our business environment," during the ongoing Living and functioning COVID-19 pandemic will provide us with numerous opportunities to enrich people's lives through digital entertainment that is at the core of our business. "
"At the same time, we see the beginnings of further leaps in our business," concluded Matsuda. "We continue to strive to create, develop and deliver world-class content, and we will contribute to the happiness of society and its people by providing new forms of excitement. I wish you all the best for 2022. "
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→The Best Multivitamins
The Best Multivitamins
MegaFood Women's One Daily — Best for Women
MegaFood Multi for Men — Best for Men
Kirkland Signature Daily Multi — Best Value
Rainbow Light Kids One MultiStars Food-Based Multivitamin — Best for Kids
Kirkland Signature™ Adults 50+ Mature Multi — Best for Seniors
If you grew up popping Flintstones vitamins like most of us did, you might think that of course it's a good idea to take a multivitamin every day. That's just what healthy people do, right? Kind of. "You really cannot supplement your way out of an unhealthy diet," says Robin Foroutan, a registered dietitian nutritionist and spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. If you're eating a diet that includes grains, lots of leafy vegetables, a wide variety of brightly colored fruit, and lean meats, you probably don't need to take a multivitamin at all.
The nutrients in these multivitamins are sourced from real foods — which also ups their price tag. In an industry filled with misdirection and misinformation, MegaFood is a beacon of transparency. Its supplements are certified as GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) with NSF International, which assures "the product produced has the identity, strength, composition, quality, and purity that it is represented to possess," and MegaFood adheres to ISO 9001 standards, meaning its labs comply with the highest standards of quality assurance and testing.
In an industry filled with misdirection and misinformation, MegaFood is a beacon of transparency. Its supplements are certified as GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) with NSF International, which assures "the product produced has the identity, strength, composition, quality, and purity that it is represented to possess," and MegaFood adheres to ISO 9001 standards, meaning its labs comply with the highest standards of quality assurance and testing. Across both formulas, MegaFood boasts a nice balance of ingredients. Of the 27 nutrients the body needs, Multi for Men is purposefully missing iron, calcium, and magnesium — and while it does contain potassium, it has only a negligible amount. Women's One Daily contains all 27, although it also contains barely any potassium.
A great roster of nutrients, third-party certifications, and only 2 cents per serving. If you're just looking for a non-gendered, adult multivitamin, you can't get a much better bargain than the synthetic Kirkland Signature Daily Multi from Costco. It contains all 27 wishlist nutrients, though it only has 80 milligrams of potassium — about 2 percent of the recommended daily value. Unlike MegaFood, the nutrients in these multivitamins are synthetic, meaning they're created in a lab instead of extracted from a carrot or a head of broccoli. (This may make some people squeamish, but there's no evidence that synthetics are better or worse than naturally sourced vitamins.)
A food-based, child-friendly formula from a well-regarded brand. It contains kid-friendly doses of a wide range of necessary nutrients — even potassium, important for children and adults, but absent in many formulas — and it's free of fillers and artificial dyes. It does include sweeteners (in the form of sucrose and dextrose), but this comes with the territory: We couldn't find a single children's multivitamin that didn't contain sweeteners of some sort. And if you want your child to willingly eat their multivitamin, that's probably just as well. The tablets themselves are crunchy and star-shaped, with a surprisingly tasty "fruit punch" flavor that comes from natural orange, cherry, and pineapple flavor.
Adults age 50 and older have slightly different nutritional needs than those in the 18-49 age bracket. Seniors tend to absorb less B12 as they age, with the Mayo Clinic recommending supplementation to maintain healthy B12 levels. Seniors also typically require higher doses of vitamin D to maintain bone health. Multivitamins designed for older adults can help cover these needs.
How We Found the Best Multivitamin: First, we ditched anything with a "proprietary blend."The FDA does require that manufacturers disclose all supplement ingredients and detail the amounts per serving — unless it's classified as a "proprietary blend." In that case, the manufacturer doesn't have to disclose anything besides a list of ingredients and the total amount in the bottle. Then, we cut products that didn't have credible third-party verification. Then we drilled down on inactive ingredients. "Inactive ingredients" is a blanket term for everything included in the pill that isn't adding nutritional value. Typically, a short list of inactive ingredients is a good sign of quality. Lastly, we examined labels for a good blend of nutrients.
With vitamins, more isn't necessarily better.
Perhaps more important than scouring daily recommended values is keeping an eye on recommended upper limits. ConsumerLabs has a detailed chart that compares recommended daily values with upper limits, but in general, it's not a good idea to consume excessive doses of any one vitamin or nutrient.
Upper limits for any vitamin vary widely: over twice the recommended amount of Vitamin A is dangerous, but you can have up to 26 times the recommended daily amount of Vitamin C without experiencing any ill effects.
Price said her research shows a multivitamin probably won't contain a dangerous amount of vitamins or minerals on its own — and none of our top picks exceed recommended upper limits for any ingredient. But she said taking a multivitamin while supplementing with other vitamins or while consuming fortified foods or beverages could lead to a "superdose" — a vitamin dosage so far over the recommended amount it can lead to problems.
For kids, superdoses can be fatal. Warnings to keep multivitamins containing iron out of children's reach are there for a reason: Accidental iron consumption is a leading cause of poisoning deaths in children younger than 6. Gummy vitamins can be especially dangerous for kids, since they resemble candy or fruit snacks.
And remember: Most people probably don't need a multivitamin at all.
In our research for the best multivitamin, we kept running into the same question: Do most Americans even need to take a multivitamin?
When we called Dr. Edgar Miller, a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he told us he doesn't recommend that his patients take multivitamins, since several studies have indicated they might do more harm than good: Research has shown high doses of vitamin A seemed to increase the risk of lung cancer, and another study of vitamin E's effect on prostate cancer was called off after those taking the supplements showed higher cancer rates.
Overall, multivitamins are not a necessary part of your diet, but they are beneficial if you are lacking vitamins from your meal intake! Learn more here: http://www.reviews.com/best-multivitamin/
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Q: jQuery popup box with options I looked around on the web and this site, but can't seem to find an answer to my particular question.
I want to make a jQuery popup box that displays two options after someone clicks on a photo. "Showtimes" & "Trailer" If they click "Showtimes" it's an obvious link that takes to the corresponding page. The trouble I'm having is if they click the "Trailer" I want the popup box to turn into a trailer of the movie. aka just a embedded trailer from YouTube.
I just don't know how to make the popup box transform into the trailer with the button press.

A: In the absence of any significant information, all I can really suggest is something like the following, which assumes something similar to the following HTML:

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import store from 'app/core/store';
import { API_KEYS_MIGRATION_INFO_STORAGE_KEY } from 'app/features/serviceaccounts/constants';
import { ApiKey, ThunkResult } from 'app/types';

import {
  apiKeysLoaded,
  includeExpiredToggled,
  isFetching,
  apiKeysMigrationStatusLoaded,
  setSearchQuery,
} from './reducers';

export function addApiKey(apiKey: ApiKey, openModal: (key: string) => void): ThunkResult<void> {
  return async (dispatch) => {
    const result = await getBackendSrv().post('/api/auth/keys', apiKey);
    dispatch(setSearchQuery(''));
    dispatch(loadApiKeys());
    openModal(result.key);
  };
}

export function loadApiKeys(): ThunkResult<void> {
  return async (dispatch) => {
    dispatch(isFetching());
    const [keys, keysIncludingExpired] = await Promise.all([
      getBackendSrv().get('/api/auth/keys?includeExpired=false&accesscontrol=true'),
      getBackendSrv().get('/api/auth/keys?includeExpired=true&accesscontrol=true'),
    ]);
    dispatch(apiKeysLoaded({ keys, keysIncludingExpired }));
  };
}

export function deleteApiKey(id: number): ThunkResult<void> {
  return async (dispatch) => {
    getBackendSrv()
      .delete(`/api/auth/keys/${id}`)
      .then(() => dispatch(loadApiKeys()));
  };
}

export function migrateApiKey(id: number): ThunkResult<void> {
  return async (dispatch) => {
    try {
      await getBackendSrv().post(`/api/serviceaccounts/migrate/${id}`);
    } finally {
      dispatch(loadApiKeys());
    }
  };
}

export function migrateAll(): ThunkResult<void> {
  return async (dispatch) => {
    try {
      await getBackendSrv().post('/api/serviceaccounts/migrate');
      store.set(API_KEYS_MIGRATION_INFO_STORAGE_KEY, true);
    } finally {
      dispatch(getApiKeysMigrationStatus());
      dispatch(loadApiKeys());
    }
  };
}

export function getApiKeysMigrationStatus(): ThunkResult<void> {
  return async (dispatch) => {
    const result = await getBackendSrv().get('/api/serviceaccounts/migrationstatus');
    dispatch(apiKeysMigrationStatusLoaded(!!result?.migrated));
  };
}

export function hideApiKeys(): ThunkResult<void> {
  return async (dispatch) => {
    await getBackendSrv().post('/api/serviceaccounts/hideApiKeys');
  };
}

export function toggleIncludeExpired(): ThunkResult<void> {
  return (dispatch) => {
    dispatch(includeExpiredToggled());
  };
}

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Are You a Carrot, an Egg, or a Coffee Bean?!
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I love this story. It moves me each time I read it aloud, and I share it with colleagues seeking advice, in a course on Leadership, and even with my children as it serves as a fantastic analogy for human character, and the power that we all possess to influence outcomes but often times forget when our will or determination is tested.
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Here's a quick blog post with my playoff picks in both sports. All 8 NHL first-round playoff series have each played one game thus far…but when you see my picks, you'll realize that these picks were made LONG before the games started.
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Brandi Angela Brandt (born November 2, 1968) is an American model and actress, who was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for October 1987.

Early life
Brandt was born on November 2, 1968, in Santa Clara, California to parents Mike Brandt and drummer, percussionist, and vocalist, Brie Howard-Darling (née Berry). Her parents divorced in 1972 and she split her time with her mother in Los Angeles, California and her father in Sacramento, California. When Brandt was 12 years old, she met comedic actor Jon Lovitz, who at the time was in a Groundlings class with American Girls bandmate Hillary Matthews. Brandt and Lovitz became friends.

Career

Playboy
At age 18, Brandt appeared as the Playmate of the Month and cover girl for the October 1987 Back To Campus issue of Playboy magazine. She also appeared in Playboy Blondes, Brunettes, Redheads magazine and on the cover with Debi Nicole Johnson and Sandra Wild.

She was the cover model for Playboy's August 1989 Women Of Wall Street issue and appeared on the cover of the March 1990 issue with Donald Trump. An autographed copy of Playboy with President Donald Trump and Brandt on the cover sold at auction for $4,900 by Goldin Auctions and has Trump's recognizable signature scrawled across its cover. The minimum bid was $100, and there were 33 bids on Lot #1338.

Acting and television appearances
Brandt appeared as herself in "Desperately Seeking Miss October", the November 5, 1989 episode of the television sitcom Married... with Children. In the episode, Brandt patronizes the store at which protagonist Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) works, to purchase a pair of stiletto heels (... black, size 6), setting off a competition to please her between Al and his visiting friend Steve Rhoades (David Garrison), who recognize her from Playboy. When she asks how much the shoes are, a grateful Al gives them to her for free, explaining to her that she made it possible for Al and Steve to have sex with their wives.

In 1989, Brandt appeared as the elevator operator in the beginning of the video for the Aerosmith song "Love in an Elevator".

In 2000, she played Glamorous Gyno-American in the Troma Entertainment film Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.

Filmography
 1987 Can't Buy Me Love (film) as Girl Named Penny In Ferrari
 1987 The Joe Piscopo Halloween Party as Dancer
 1988 Beach Boys "Kokomo (song)" Music Video as Beach Girl
 1989 Married... with Children as herself (1 episode entitled "Desperately Seeking Miss October")
 1989 Aerosmith "Love in an Elevator" Music Video as Elevator Operator
 1990 Wedding Band (film) (1990) as Serena
 1991 Mötley Crüe "Anarchy In The USA" as Stage Guest (with son, Gunner)
 2000 Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV as Glamorous Gyno-American
 2001 Ticker as Cocktail Waitress

Personal life
From May 1990 to November 1996, Brandt was married to Nikki Sixx, the bassist of heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. They have three children: Gunner Nicholas Sixx (born January 25, 1991), Storm Brieann Sixx (born April 14, 1994), and Decker Nilsson Sixx (born May 23, 1995).

Brandt was involved with a cocaine-trafficking syndicate importing cocaine into Australia between July and December 2007.  On November 15, 2013, Brandt was extradited from Los Angeles, California, to Sydney, Australia, to face criminal charges in a Sydney court. In April 2014, Brandt pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to import drugs. On August 29, 2014, Brandt was sentenced to up to six years but was eligible for parole in November 2016. As of 2019, Brandt lives in southern California.

See also
 List of Playboy Playmates of 1987
 List of people in Playboy 1980–1989

References

External links

1980s Playboy Playmates
1968 births
Living people
20th-century American actresses
American drug traffickers
People from Santa Clara, California
21st-century American women

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Nigeria vs Twitter: The ongoing saga
BY Wesley Diphoko	2 MINUTE READ
A single tweet by Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, has sparked a war between the country and the social media giant.
"MANY of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War. Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand."
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's tweet, started a war between the country and the social media giant.
A Twitter spokesperson said it violated Twitter rules. The tweet referred to the 1967 to 1970 Nigerian Civil War.
Nigeria said on Friday it had indefinitely suspended Twitter's activities, two days after the social media giant removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists. Lucy Fielder reports.
There's more to the issue than just tweeting. Nigeria is known to be harsh on telecommunications companies, as seen in its treatment of MTN.
The Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ) said there were signs that Nigeria wanted to establish a Nigerian internet, similar to the one in China, which it would control.
Banning the social media giant, Twitter, was followed by enabling a competitor platform from India, Koo. The Nigerian government's decision to join Koo after banning Twitter reinforces its position as an alternative platform to Twitter. In India, the progress of Koo came against backdrop of the government's disagreements with Twitter.
The FIJ said Nigeria was exploring the internet firewall. It would allow for a separate network for the Nigerian internet that would give the government control over social media platforms.
Social media users in Nigeria expressed their shock and outrage after the government announced the indefinite suspension of the tech giant's operations in the country. Many in Nigeria see it as an attempt by the government to limit freedom of speech.
However, the outcome of the ban may be partly positive for the local tech ecosystem. It may lead to Nigerian and other African tech companies developing African social media platforms. Although such bans may be negative for international trade, they do create an opportunity for local tech companies to develop local tech solutions. The downside is that even those companies may be subjected to similar harsh treatment.
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When it comes to referring to who has the care of children in family law proceedings, the reference to who has "custody of children" is considered old fashioned and no longer appropriate.
The underlying premise is the right of the child to have a meaningful relationship with both parents.
The terms "equal time" and "substantial and significant time" are now used when it comes to considering the time that children should spend with each of their parents under Court orders.
But what do these terms mean? In this article, we explain what the terms "equal time" and "substantial time" means to the Court and for you as a parent.
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Parental responsibility encompasses all duties, powers, responsibilities and authority conferred by law upon parents. This means responsibility for the day to day issues and for the big issues such as their health, education, religion etc.
Make a genuine effort to come to a joint decision about that issue.
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4 Apr, 2015 in Uncategorized by craig
The Foreign Office has denied the existence of any such memo as that allegedly leaked to the Daily Telegraph, which has now published the full text. Reading it, I can say for sure it is not an FCO memo. That has led some to assume this means it is a Scottish Office memo. But there is a problem here.
Firstly, if the Scottish Office – or any other government department – made a record of a conversation with the French Consul-General, they would undoubtedly have copied it to the FCO. Particularly as the FCO is mentioned and a number of overseas visits and an international negotiation are discussed. If this were a genuine minute, the FCO would undoubtedly have a copy. If the FCO denies it exists, that means there was no such memo made in the Scottish Office and distributed in the ordinary channels.
Secondly, as I stated, the media's claim that it was a protocol requirement for the French Embassy to report such conversations to the FCO was a complete fabrication. Not only is there no such requirement, it would be contrary to normal diplomatic practice. That is even more true with the Scottish Office. It is unthinkable that the French Consul-General would report those kind of confidential comments from Nicola Sturgeon to the Scottish Office.
If Embassies reported everything people told them to their host governments, nobody would tell the embassy anything. Indeed this episode has already damaged the French Embassy, because it casts a slur upon the discretion and confidentiality which is essential to operate as a diplomat. It may well be that driving a wedge between the SNP and the French Embassy was part of what the security services sought to achieve.
It damages the French Embassy, it damages the SNP, and it damages Miliband by repeating the meme about his being weak and unfit. Those would all seem good results to the security services. Only Miliband has been stupid enough to go along with it.
It seems to me the overwhelming probability is that this document, whether it purports to be a FCO or Scottish Office document, was originated by the Security Services, possibly with the active collusion of someone in the Scottish Office, or equally possibly without their knowledge. Whatever it purported to be, it never entered the normal civil service distribution systems, as the FCO would have a copy, and it would have raised alarm bells all over the place as seriously weird and improbable. It is in that sense a fake, even if it were physically produced inside the Scottish Office. Its purpose was to be leaked to the media and influence the election.
88 thoughts on "#Frenchgate: Definitely the Security Services"
John Goss April 5, 2015 at 08:47
Those who love our spooks might like to watch this before it gets pulled again. Never been shown in the UK except for those of us fortunate to have seen it. Watch now. Or it might be never.
http://yournewswire.com/banned-in-the-uk-princess-diana-documentary-unlawful-killing-must-see/
Happy Easter everyone.
Jim Morris April 5, 2015 at 09:30
In the Telegraph's full version there is also an attempt to drive a wedge between Salmond and Sturgeon, to devalue the SNP presence in Westminster.
callum April 5, 2015 at 09:54
Wrong side of the river, Craig. Looks like a CX written off the back of a phone intercept, either on the French consulate phones or more alarmingly the Fm's phone.
CX then is turned into a cutnpaste memo to be leaked by a Scotch office staffer, worrying about protective marking.
BrianFujisan April 5, 2015 at 10:42
Here is the Grab of Nicola's speaking at Bairns not Bombs rally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=36&v=pMiFKfe-eTY
and the view i got from the crowd –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM7gLSyqMTA
No one i spoke believed a word of the smears, even at the earliest stages yesterday morning…after the referendum, we Know what they are like…how low the could stoop.
P.s My mum foned me to say i was on bbc news walking past Nicola, she could tell me what we were wearing..Fame.
Mary April 5, 2015 at 11:12
Thanks Brian and good on all of you up there.
The PTB are certainly blackening Nicola. Following the Mail's 'Is this the most dangerous woman in Britain' front page, they now have a before and after on her appearance just to let us know that she has had a makeover. They would not dare to do the same with the snake oil salesmen.
Ref Smoothface Cameron, he is shown looking at babies and pushing one in a buggy, (we are told by ZBC that he gets broody about babies) and he constantly refers to his deceased child. Today we have SamCam doing the same in print in the Mail and praising her wonderfully supportive husband. Their strong Christian faith also gets a mention.
It is sickening hypocrisy especially when you consider how many babies he helped to kill in Libya and those he planned to kill in Syria and his weak response to the Israeli slaughter of little ones in Gaza.
Is the imminent royal birth going to form part of his electioneering for a feel good factor?
Habbabkuk (La vita e' bella) April 5, 2015 at 15:13
"Note that the troll found it necessary to repeat the content of the Crawford smear against Craig, not dissimilar from the original FCO muck that was thrown at Craig.
The troll normally creeps around Craig but not this time. The knives are out."
What a desperately silly person you are, Mary.
The Charles Crawford "smear" was to say that Craig spouts left-wing nonsense. That is a statement of opinion with which you might agree or not agree, but not a smear.
If you cannot see the difference between that remark of Charles Crawford and what Craig was accused of by the FCO then you are really losing it and should retire forthwith.
As for "creeping round Craig", O Oily One, I notice how silent you keep when Craig is giving us his opinions on Ukraine, Russia and Mr Putin. Idealogically you must be bursting with the effort of holding back from criticising him, but your oiliness and sycophancy will not allow you to do so.
Mary, your time has come and gone. Retire!
You are not only Oily but also Desperately Hypocritical.
The vast majority of the babies killed in Libya has been killed in the fight between tribes and by Islamic fanatics and not by David Cameron.
The vast majority of babies killed in Syria have been slaughtered either by Assad's "army" good against civilians, not so good against Israel, eh!) or by the IS killers and not by David Cameron.
As for the children killed in Gaza, perhaps you should use some of your Palestinian contacts to advise Hamas fighters to come into the open and not embed themselves amoung civilians.
One example,
Sarkozy, Cameron, Obama, Al-Thani and the suffering of the children of Sirte
http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/2011/10/11/sarkozy-cameron-obama-al-thani-and-the-suffering-of-the-children-of-sirte/
Warning. Graphic video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R3sFvy1zGg
See what happened to this child…NATO Rebels Crimes in Sirt.wmv [SaveYouTube.com].mp4
Another hell brought to earth.
Syria: Palestinians flee fighting in Yarmouk refugee camp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-32189636
'Yarmouk was first built for Palestinians fleeing a different conflict, the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.'
That above is the BBC's coy description of Al Naqba.
'Before the Syrian civil war began, it had more than 150,000 refugees living there and had its own mosques, schools and public buildings.'
Yes, and is Mr Cameron responsible for the Syrian civil war??
If not, what is your point?
You are losing it.
If you really live in Catalonia as you claim, you will know that the main motivation of the Catalonian independence movement is economic.
The Catalonian independentists are no different from the Italian Northern League, which openly states that industrious, well-off Northern Italy is fed up with having to support their lazy, corrupt and impecunious Southern countrymen.
To claim otherwise is tosh.
The troll utters the usual neocon assertions without any evidence or links as per usual.
Now it's baby lambs. Cameron has just been shown bottle feeding an orphan lamb. How sweet. What a kind man he is.
Gideon was in a garden centre pretending to look at plants in a section marked 'Intense Blue'!
You could not make this infantile stuff up. The hand of Lynton Crosbie is at work of course.
RobG April 5, 2015 at 19:08
@BrianFujisan
5 Apr, 2015 – 10:42 am
Thanks for the YouTube links of Sturgeon's speech at the anti-Trident rally (I particularly liked your view from the crowd).
I'm sure that you lot north of the border are aware that the Establishment will now be doing everything they can to take out Sturgeon, quite literally (Craig is certainly aware of it). The smear campaign this weekend will be child's play by comparison.
'They' know that they won't get away with a 'fatal car crash', but it will be something almost as nasty.
The fact that England is now controlled by such corrupt vermin is almost entirely the fault of the brainwashed English public.
Cue Habba…
@Mary
5 Apr, 2015 – 6:11 pm
I'm saving all these campaign photos, such as Clegg standing by the 'DANGER: DEEP WATER' sign, for a later presentation.
I think the best one so far must be Cameron wearing shiny red gloves and holding a big hammer.
I'm sure there will be lots more to come.
No, Mary, I am just exposing the sheer silliness and ignorance of you saying things like this about David Cameron:
In response to that tosh, I corrected you as follows:
Time to retire, Mary, I am your nemesis.
Let me assist you with your life-long learning, Mary.
Politicians have been taking young, cuddly animals in their arms* during election campaigns for ages now, it's nothing new.
Why, I remember Eduard Balladur picking up a young calf (or perhaps it was a lamb)during his Presidential campaign. There was some considerable hilarity when the frightened animal relieved itself on him.
Not a Lynton Crosbie in sight, Mary.
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* Calm down there, Lysias, no need to send a learned post about British politicians; zoaphilia!
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Hi Brian, Thanks for recording Nicola's speech. I can just glimpse the back of my head in your video. Fame!
Habba, didn't Eduard Balladur shag a young calf?
Your continual attacks on Mary are a complete disgrace, given the fact that Mary always provides links to back-up what she is saying (whether you agree with her or not). Habba never gives links to anything, because Habba is not only a complete joke, but also a complete betrayal to humanity.
Welcome to Britain in the 21st century, where vermin are now in control.
John Spencer-Davis April 5, 2015 at 23:15
I copied my comment on here (04/04/2015, 5:00 pm) over to Charles Crawford's website to see what he had to say about the matter. He didn't make a public retraction as I requested, but it does seem to have been enough (with comments from a few other people) to warrant an entirely new posting:
http://charlescrawford.biz/2015/04/05/that-sturgeon-memo-again/
Looks like a bit of a back pedal to me. I will take it apart and have a good look at it, and if I have more to say, I will let you guys know. If I do, I'll comment over there first and then over here.
Hullo Bro Node
Somwhere just in Front of me were Anons… But ya got me wondring as to WTF Napper izat….IZZ Yours… We should communicate More..Are you going on the 13th?
John Well done for bearding him in his den.
Thank you, Mary.
I regret to say, on further reading, that Mr Crawford's second posting on this matter appears still more unsatisfactory than his first.
I will be giving my remarks on his latest obfuscation in due course.
Francis Fallan MBE April 6, 2015 at 11:07
I can't for the life of me see why
Nicola Sturgeon would even want
to say such a thing, again I don't agree
that a dreadful comment would come from
Ed Milland as he doesn't stoop to such
hideous and dreadful situations, more like
one of Cameron's Uni pals to me?
Four of us were down from the Highlands for a party near Perth and took the chance to swing by the rally. Great atmosphere and exciting to see Nicola in the flesh. As to which napper, it's a bald one. I was sunburnt by the time we drove home on Sunday night. There were 3 or 4 Anons on our right. Won't be there on the 13th, doing other stuff. Hope it goes well.
Dave Hansell April 6, 2015 at 20:24
The semantic twists and turns of Mr Crawford and his groupie Habb, full as they are with ifs, buts and conjecture are revealing inasmuch as they offer not a single shred of evidence that the claim by the UK 's equivalent of the Chinese People's Daily (The Daily Telegraph) on this story has any foundation or is in any way congruent with reality.
What their contributions so far do offer evidence of is the sheer desperation on their part of wanting it to be true. Pitiful really. You would think the Enlightenment never happened.
Perhaps they could offer me some advice and guidance on a similar matter.
As at happens I have a story of a similar nature. In the locale where I live there is a popular eating establishment specialising in seafood and potatoes cooked in a French style.
For some years they have had a now elderly gentleman working there with a definite transatlantic accent with a pronounced Southern drawl who claims to be a once well known international singing and entertainment artiste who used to regularly appear at venues in Las Vegas and who is widely believed to have died some years ago.
I suspect he may be an illegal immigrant as he has confided in me that he would like to vote Tory in the coming election but cannot as he is intelligible to vote in the UK.
My question to youboth (Mr Crawford and Groupie Habb) is; do you think the Daily Telegraph would publish this story if I submitted it or do you think it would stand a better chance of publication if the story came from the Foreign Office?
Thank you for your attention and consideration.
Re: Charles Crawford critique of CM's posting on Sturgeon memo.
I've written a lengthy response to Charles Crawford's latest comments on the Nicola Sturgeon memorandum business and submitted it to his website. I don't yet know if he is going to permit it to appear. If he does, I will direct you to it. If not, if enough people want to see it over here then I will post it over here, if Craig permits it. Give him a day or two. Please let me know if you would like to see it. (Craig, would you like to see it?) It's 2,300 words long and I submitted it in 4 postings of 600 words approx.
Published simultaneously on the "Labour Appeals to Tories" thread and the "#Frenchgate" thread.
A2 April 9, 2015 at 10:44
So that makes Carmichael (having claimed to have fingered the culprit) complicit?
Clark April 12, 2015 at 23:32
John Spencer-Davis, I just read through your comments on Charles Crawford's blog:
That is a careful and detailed deconstruction; thank you JSD.
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Magašići (cyr. Магашићи) – wieś w Bośni i Hercegowinie, w Republice Serbskiej, w gminie Bratunac. W 2013 roku liczyła 486 mieszkańców.

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Her son is only 29 yrs old & does have a bad heart,but they don't associate the siezures with that condition.
The reason I asked is because a friend has a son who has siezures at least twice monthly & is taken to the hospital(actually several different ones)& they cannot figure out what is causing them.This has been going on for years & getting worse!
How often does he have them & what brigs them on?
No nothing about this clinic,but a friend has an appointment & I'm afraid she will be late.Will they still take her?


Let me tell you a bit about the process of making mugs for a special order.
Background: The person wanted the names of her grandchildren on a mug for each child. Being left handed myself, I'm a little OCD about wanting to see the name or image when I hold my coffee mug. So when this wonderful lady asked for names on her new cups, I discovered that nearly half of the mugs would be left handed, and some would be in red glaze, while others would be in green glaze. It turned out that I needed a spreadsheet to keep the order on track.


This is a gorgeous studio, you will love working out here with Jada! Her fusion class is a combination of all my favorites – pilates, yoga, bar and resistance band work – a real total body workout. Jada is not only an amazing instructor, she's also just a great human being who somehow found a way to make working out fun. I highly recommend checking out a class at Elevate!


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Q: ListView, how to centered elements I writing an app in Kotlin language.
How can I centered items in my listview ?
I try a lot of methods, but I can't find answer for that.
I paste also my custom Base Adapter.
Moreover I try to make a view with multiple chioce items.
But for now I know how to select one option.
private class MyCustomAdapter(context: Context, AnsArray: List<Answer>): BaseAdapter()
{
    private val mContext: Context
    init {
        mContext = context
    }
    val arr:List<Answer>
    init {
        arr = AnsArray
    }

    override fun getCount(): Int {
        return arr.size;
    }

    override fun getItem(position: Int): Any // odp.setOnItemClickListener zwraca mi z tego co chce :)
    {
        return arr[position].id;
    }

    override fun getItemId(position: Int): Long {
        return position.toLong();
    }

    override fun getView(position: Int, convertView: View?, parent: ViewGroup?): View
    {
        val layoutInflater = LayoutInflater.from(mContext);
        val rowMain = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.row_main, parent, false)
        val questionTextField = rowMain.findViewById<TextView>(R.id.question)
        questionTextField.text = arr[position].text
        return rowMain
    }
}

active_main.xml
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    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:gravity="center"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/pytanie"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginBottom="20sp"
        android:text="Pytanie"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:textSize="20dp" />

    <View
        android:id="@+id/divider2"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="1dp"
        android:background="?android:attr/listDivider" />

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/odpowiedzi"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="79dp"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:layout_marginBottom="0dp"
        android:choiceMode="multipleChoice"
        android:clickable="true" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/przycisk_dalej"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="0dp"
        android:text="Next question"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:textStyle="bold" />
</LinearLayout>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
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    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    >

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        android:id="@+id/question"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textSize="20sp"
        android:textAlignment="center"
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        android:background="@drawable/selected_item"
        />

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<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item
        android:state_pressed="true"
        android:drawable="@drawable/teal_700"
        >
    </item>
    <item
        android:state_selected="true"
        android:drawable="@drawable/anserws_drawable"
        >
    </item>

</selector>

answer_drawable.xml
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<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="rectangle">
    <stroke
        android:width="1dp"
        android:color="#FF03DAC5" />
    <solid android:color="@android:color/white" />
    <corners android:radius="5dp" />
</shape>

A: *

*Use RecyclerView instead of ListView

*Use ConstraintLayout instead of LinearLayout

*Use match_parent instead of fill_parent
For your case: set
ListView android:layout_width="wrap_content"

to
android:layout_width="match_parent"


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Chinese leader Xi Jinping warns Davos forum against 'new Cold War'
Chinese leader Xi Jinping warns Davos forum against 'new Cold War' /node/1798556/business-economy
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned global leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum against starting a 'new Cold War' while he championed multilateralism. (World Economic Forum/AFP)
https://arab.news/5m7ed
Updated 26 January 2021
Xi Jinping presents himself as the defender of multilateralism
PARIS: Chinese President Xi Jinping warned global leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum Monday against starting a "new Cold War" while he championed multilateralism.
Representing the only major economy to record economic growth last year, Xi presented himself as the defender of multilateralism, as he did at the same forum four years ago when Donald Trump was about to assume the US presidency.
Without naming the United States, Xi seemed to have a message for Trump's successor Joe Biden, who entered the White House just a few days ago, but who is not addressing the annual World Economic Forum (WEF).
"To build small cliques or start a new Cold War, to reject, threaten or intimidate others... will only push the world into division," Xi told the world's political and economic elite as the Biden administration plans to revitalize global alliances to counter China's growing influence.
Trump had chosen open confrontation and verbal attacks, without tangible results for the enormous US trade deficit with China.
Though Biden may be dismantling one by one the controversial measures of the Trump era, he has nonetheless signaled the United States will closely look out for its own interests.
An executive order is to give US companies and products priority in contracting with the federal government as part of an overall plan to save industrial jobs by increasing investments in factories and workers.
Meanwhile, European leaders presented agendas of their own at the WEF — normally held in the Swiss ski resort of Davos but taking place virtually this year because of the pandemic.
German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier defended a controversial accord signed by the European Union and China in late December to provide increased mutual market access.
The deal duplicates "a lot of the arrangements that the US already has with China," Altmaier said.
Herbert Diess, head of the German auto giant Volkswagen, which has several plants in China, noted that the country represented a great opportunity for European companies.
But some members of the European Parliament and activist groups say the accord should be contingent on Beijing's ratifying international conventions banning forced labor.
And Kenneth Roth, head of Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental organization, commented on Twitter that Xi "promotes global collaboration on Covid-19, so long as it doesn't involve investigating his three-week cover-up of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan, which enabled the virus to go global."
A year ago, the emergence of a mysterious flu-like disease in China prompted few comments at the forum when it took place at its usual site in Switzerland.
A year later, the world is still struggling to contain the coronavirus, which has killed more than two million people and cost 225 million jobs, according to the UN's International Labour Organization.
The world's richest people have barely been touched, the non-governmental organization Oxfam charged.
Meanwhile, "it could take more than a decade for the world's poorest to recover," Oxfam said in the study titled "The Inequality Virus."
Optimism raised late last year by new vaccines has been tempered by production delays and new variants, and many countries are again mulling lockdowns to stem the spread of the virus.
But European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde nonetheless forecast that 2021 will be "the year of recovery."
She said that while renewed economic activity "seems to be a little bit delayed," it "should not be derailed."
Other forum subjects broached on the first day was global taxation of digital giants, a priority for France that until recently has been opposed by the United States.
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire welcomed a more conciliatory tone from the new Biden administration on the subject.
He hoped that a multilateral accord under the auspices of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development could be reached by the middle of this year.
Topics: China Xi Jinping Davos WEF
Asia to dominate Davos virtual forum as virus-hit West struggles
In Singapore, a very different Davos takes shape


In my last post I discussed some of the challenges facing business owners this year. Increased costs, regulatory changes and the uncertainty surrounding Brexit were top of the list.
Running parallel to these challenges is evidence suggesting that business owners are lacking in confidence. A large minority are planning to sell, downsize or close their companies this year.
There is a clear need for business coaching, which gives owners and entrepreneurs expert advice, help instilling a systematic approach to problems and the confidence necessary to grow their businesses in the future.
The following checklist contains seven questions. If your answers to some of them are 'no', it may be time to consider coaching.
Do you have a growth mindset and behaviours?
Do have the personal vision to drive you and the company vision to motivate your employees?
Can you focus your time on the key issues that you are skilled at and delegate other work responsibly to others?
Are your products differentiated in the market and are you watching your competitors, old and new, like a hawk?
Do your targets reflect the opportunity or your motivation?
Does your balance sheet reflect reality not fantasy?
Are you measuring the real business success measures or a pile of KPIs that actually mean nothing?
Success is impossible without solid foundations.
Solid foundations can only be laid down with expertise.
Expertise needs confidence to flourish.


Click here for Lucian Pera's "President's Perspective: What's A Court?" for The Tennessee Bar Association.
In his second article as President of the Tennessee Bar Association, Adams and Reese's Memphis Partner Lucian Pera addresses the role of online disputes in the legal profession in his "President's Perspective: What's A Court?"


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Rob Kardashian's Request To Strip Blac Chyna Of Primary Custody Of Dream Denied
The reality star claimed his ex is a violent and unfit mother.
By Victoria Edel, February 28, 2020
Credit: Broadimage/Shutterstock
Rob Kardashian's emergency request to get Blac Chyna stripped of custody of their three-year-old daughter Dream has been denied.
In January, Rob, 32, filed for primary custody of his daughter with the reality star. He claimed that Chyna, 31, is a violent and unfit mother. He alleged in his complaint that she throws parties, gets drunk and does drugs in her home while their toddler is there.
The Arthur George founder also claimed that the model teaches their daughter inappropriate sexual dances and cuss words. Rob also alleged that when he picks up Dream on weekends, she's often dirty or messy.
But a judge in Los Angeles did not find an emergency issue with Chyna and rejected Rob's ex parte emergency motion, according to documents obtained by The Blast.
A post shared by Rob Kardashian & @dream daddy (@robkardashianofficial)
The Halfway Dead founder can still try to change the custody agreement, but without an emergency motion or immediate decision from the court.
For her part, Chyna denied all of Rob's claims about her parenting. In the documents, she said she "was shocked to learn that Defendant Rob Kardashian moved ex parte on January 3, 2020, for an emergency order to permanently change the Custody Order for Dream so that Chyna would only be permitted to see her daughter from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday with a 'monitor;' present, rather than the 5 days a week she now sees and cares for precious Dream."
Chyna said that their current custody deal is "working perfectly fine" and accused Rob and his older sister Khloe Kardashian of trying to "spread defamatory lies about Chyna."
Khloe, 35, also testified in the custody case and claimed that Chyna is "out of control." In the filing, she alleged that her niece has been "decidedly more aggressive" lately and has said she doesn't want to go home to her mom.
Rob and Chyna have been in and out of court from almost the moment they broke up in 2017. In addition to their messy custody battle, Chyna also sued Rob for posting revenge porn of her on Instagram after they split.
In 2018, Rob filed court documents to have his child support payments lowered, saying that he could no longer afford them since he'd stopped appearing on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. He blamed Chyna for putting him in $300,000 in debt and said he had to give up his house and move in with mom Kris Jenner.
A judge agreed with Rob and, as of March 2019, he no longer has to pay child support to his ex.
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You have already learned much about pigments, especially chlorophyll. You know that a pigment absorbs light and is altered electronically at least for a instant. This alteration results in a change in other chemicals in the immediate environment to drive photosynthesis. Chlorophyll is not the only important pigment, you learned about antenna pigments too. Today we are examining a pigment that fundamentally alters plant behavior. It is phytochrome.
Lettuce seeds kept in the dark germinate at low frequency. Seeds kept in the dark but briefly exposed, after imbibing water, to red light results in considerable germination. Seeds kept in the dark but briefly exposed, after imbibing water, to far-red light results in virtually no germination. Seeds kept in the dark but briefly exposed, after imbibing water, to red light and then briefly exposed to far-red light results in virtually no germination. The FR exposure appears to reverse the R response. Seeds kept in the dark but briefly exposed, after imbibing water, to far-red light and then briefly exposed to red light results in considerable germination. The R exposure appears to reverse the FR response.
Lettuce seeds kept in the dark but exposed, after imbibing water, to any sequence of red and far-red light ending in FR, results in very low germination. Lettuce seeds kept in the dark but exposed, after imbibing water, to any sequence of red and far-red light ending in R, results in considerable germination.
Obviously Pr absorbs red light (660 nm) very strongly, while Pfr absorbs far-red light (730 nm) very strongly. Both have some absorption in the blue-end of the spectrum. These differences in absorption have to do with differences in the chemical structures of these two forms.
You can see the relationship between chlorophyll and phytochrome, both have evolved from a tetrapyrrole ring system also seen in the phycobilin pigments of bacteria. The chromophore is bound to a protein, just as in the case of chlorophyll. The protein has a mass of 165 kilodaltons. What is interesting is how the chemical structure of phytochrome is altered to its complementary form when struck by photons of the correct energy level (wavelength!).
The phytochrome binding protein is coded in nuclear genes, transcribed in the nucleus and translated on cytosolic ribosomes. The phytochrome chromophore is produced in the plastid. These are assembled in the cytosol. However, phytochrome has been found to be associated with plastids in terms of final destination. The regulation of the "central dogma" for phytochrome is shown below. Obviously there are feedback mechanisms so that phytochrome levels are kept to essential and not excessive levels.
The phytochrome protein includes a kinase domain that, after exposure to red light (i.e. when the chromophore is in Pfr form), allows the protein to phosphorylate itself. This way the autophosphorylation of phytochrome protein activates it. It may not proceed to somewhere else in the cell to activate other proteins that need to be phosphorylated to become activated. This is the beginning of the response part of our phytochrome mediated physiology.
The homeostatic regulation of amount of phytochrome can be observed by measuring its level throughout the plant. The famous example of pea seed germination is shown below.
The plant maintains higher levels of phytochrome at its growing points where phytochrome plays important roles in growth responses to light. You will also notice the correlation with the zones of greening. Many of the genes for photosynthesis related proteins are regulated by phytochrome. The mechanism for this is shown below for the light harvesting complex b protein.
The active phytochrome moves into the nucleus, joins to the dimer of the PIF 3 transcription factors bound to the G-box promoter of the myb genes. The pre-initiation complex (PIC) binds to the TATA box and the myb genes are transcribed and translated. The myb proteins (CCA1 and LHY) are activated and, as transcription factors, bind to the promoter regions of light-stimulated genes...such as LHCB.
There are several famous examples of phytochrome responses including seed germination in Arabidopsis. Is this plant responding in the very same way as lettuce?
After a seed germinates, the hypocotyl lifts the cotyledons above the soil in some species (epigeous). This growth is rapid until the plant penetrates the soil and is exposed to light. This rapid water-uptake growth of a seedling is called etiolated growth. The seedling has evolved to include a mechanism to ensure that it rapidly penetrates soil before it runs out of stored nutrients in the seeds. Once in the light, the growth of the hypocotyl is inhibited for strong stocky normal growth of the shoot system. From the diagram below, can you tell which color of light (R or FR) is inhibiting hypocotyl growth? So which form of phytochrome (Pr or Pfr) appears to be active in this case?
So now we look at the corresponding growth differences between responses of two genotypes of plants. Sun plants are defined here as those with higher light compensation points and requiring greater photon flux density to grow and reproduce. Shade plants are defined here as those with lower light compensation points and requiring lower photon flux density to grow and reproduce. We could think of these as canopy and forest floor species, respectively. Their different responses are shown in the graph below.
As you can see, the canopy species responds to the light available in shaded environments by growing rapidly, and remains compact while in full sun. The shade-tolerant plant does not respond to the different red/far-red light ratio.
Phytochrome initiates different responses by the plant at different photon flux densities in terms of the environmental signal perceived. These are classified as: VLFR (Very Low Fluence Responses), LFR (Low Fluence Responses), and HIR (High Irradiance Responses). Thus phytochrome can elicit correct behavior for the lighting conditions found in the plant's environment.
Hypocotyl elongation in lettuce observed above, is inhibited by the Pr form of phytochrome A under far-red light. In Sinapis alba this same inhibition of hypocotyl elongation is a response to the Pfr from of phytochrome B under red light. The difference between phytochrome A and B has to do with which genes are used to make the phytochrome binding protein. The inhibition of hypocotyl elongation in Sinapis alba is an HIR response. You can see that the seedling is already greened. What color of light is inhibiting hypocotyl growth? Which phytochrome binding protein (A or B) is likely involved?


Joy -- my schedule was finally such, and the weather warm enough, that I was able to go out for a walk with my camera this afternoon, to see what I could see. Granted, it was a gray day, as you can see above, but it was a gentle gray, a soft, peaceful gray.
What caught my eye today was the cycle of change-- the delicate calligraphy of a dead and dried weed against the gray sky, and the range of decay on these orange berries, with new buds showing tight and plump on a side shoot.
Which sounds like it could have been really depressing, but it wasn't. The old, broken, dried up stuff will make way for new growth soon. In fact, when I got up close and looked carefully, I kept seeing signs of that new growth already present, like the pale buds on the stem in the photo above.
I saw this old log from a ways down the bike path, and it looked from that angle like the epitome of death and decay. But close up, it was full of all sorts of amazing moss and lichens. Life is full of surprises -- and, apparently, so is death.


Brazil's central bank has unveiled details of a newly-developed blockchain platform that will be used to facilitate information exchange between the country's financial regulators.
Dubbed 'Pier', the blockchain was developed by the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB)'s own IT department and will be used to share data securely between the central bank and other domestic regulators, the BSB said in an announcement. Specifically, Pier will allow for data exchange between the BCB, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil, the Superintendence of Private Insurance and the National Pension Funds Authority.
As a decentralized ledger, blockchain technology was specifically picked by the BSB for providing a 'horizontal network of information-sharing' that negates the need for a centralizing entity that could otherwise weld 'operational hierarchical superiority' over others, BCB's IT department deputy chief Aristides Cavalcante explained.
It's a significant leap in digitizing and automating communication between regulators in Brazil.
Initially, the central bank envisions Pier's utility in allowing access to information related to administrative sanctioning processes, adding that 'any participant my grant access to any information considered to be of mutual interest' in real-time.
Pier is expected to be operational by the end of 2018 and represents a marked effort by the central bank to experiment various applications of blockchain technology despite previously labelling bitcoin a bubble and a pyramid scheme in October 2017.
A comprehensive technical report [PDF] outlining its research reveals the BCB experimenting with the Hyperledger Fabric, R3's Corda and JP Morgan-led Quorum blockchains to explore the development of a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system that supports domestic interbank payments in the country.