The Early Years are the most incredible time of development and, for those of you making important decisions about preschool and beyond, we welcome the possibility of teaming with you through these 'wonder-full' years.
From 2019, Williams House is delighted to offer a day care option to our families.
Our day care will include quality full and half day options for 3 to 5 year olds, designed to support families who have children attending our sessional programs.
Since its humble beginnings over 30 years ago, Williams House Kindergarten has established a solid reputation in the holistic care, wellbeing and education of the pre-schoolers that have come through our doors. With the support of a progressive school leadership, our Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) based programs have been developed to acknowledge that Kindergarten is a time to recognise all that is valuable about the 'now' –the 'now' of children's ideas and skills and the 'now' of what children can bring to their own learning and emotional development – while gently challenging and extending our children's capabilities. Our programs also acknowledge the role that 'environment' plays in inspiring confident, creative investigation and exploration of ideas.
We are proud of our dedicated team of educators, the care taken with our learning environments, our innovative programs and, most importantly, our record in partnering with families in supporting their children through a key period of transition.
Commencing in 2015, Christian College Geelong was one of the first organisations to initiate 'Bush Kinder' in our region. Over this time, we have provided access to spaces that allow regular opportunities for children to participate in a Bush Kinder experience. From the initial pilot project, Bush Kinder has flourished and become a much-valued part of both Williams House and Butterfield House Kindergartens.
Through this program we connect children, their families and other professionals in the field, to the brilliance of regular, unstructured time in nature.
- We acknowledge the role of professional expertise in understanding and connecting children to nature.
- We understand the importance of immersing children in authentic experiences that include sensory, visual and aural opportunities in nature.
- We provide for intentional teaching moments, sharing of knowledge and increased confidence in understanding our planet.
- We do not treat nature with tokenism; we consider it in all aspects of our programs; inside, outside and beyond.
Time in nature, put simply, gifts us with so much including a sense of wellbeing and is a proven contributor to fine and large motor development. It enables us to get to know planet earth, to love it and ultimately to do what we can to protect it.
If you would like to know more, please contact Butterfield House or Williams House. We are excited to share from our knowledge and our experience.
Williams House Kindergarten was rated 'Exceeding in ALL Quality Standards' by the Australian Children's Education & Care Quality Authority.
Williams House Kindergarten acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government.


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The Hilton Garden Inn offers all-day dining at the Garden Grille, a casual restaurant serving fresh inspired American fare. Our wine bar is perfect for after-work drinks and appetizers, and the Pavilion Pantry® is always open for snacks and travel items and 2,500 sq. ft. of event space for up to 120 guests.
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In 10 or perhaps 15 years, most if not all of these former Konyak headhunters and their wives will be dead. Their faded tattoo adorned faces will be buried beneath Christian headstones in hilltop villages in the remote Mon district of Nagaland in Northeast India. With their demise, the living memories of their unique cultural existence will disappear for eternity.


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Q: Examples of great tag wikis I feel very comfortable editing questions and answers to improve their content. I've been doing that for a while and after asking questions on Meta Stack Overflow and reviewing others' edits, I feel I understand what makes a good question/answer edit and what does not. I am less comfortable in creating and editing tag wikis. On one Area 51 site beta I am participating in, there are hardly any tag wikis, and when I tried to create one, I did a very poor job and my edit was (rightfully so) rejected.
I think seeing some examples of great tag wikis would really help me. What are some examples of really well done tag wikis, across the entire network? I'd really like to see them for a variety of topics, not just Stack Overflow.

A: I think it's important that a tag wiki not only covers:

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*What the tag is about

*What the tag is not about

But also:

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*How to use the tag appropriately (e.g. more specific tags if needed)

*What similar tags or alternative exist on the site

Here's a list of some that I think are good representation of the above. Although I wouldn't mind others improving on what we already have.
Super User:

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*Microsoft Office

*Windows

*Mac

*Mac OS X

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What are some examples of really well done tag Wikis?

The Scala one. My goodness. If every wiki looked like that....

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Chase Elliott proud to rebound for fourth after costly midrace pit stop error at Richmond
By Nate RyanSep 12, 2021, 12:01 AM EDT
RICHMOND, Virginia – It was driver error that put Chase Elliott in a deep hole Saturday night, but in his defense, the No. 9 Chevrolet driver also had "a lot going on."
That was how the defending NASCAR Cup Series champion described a disastrous 36-second pit stop on Lap 181 that included contact with another car, a slide into the pit stall and a broken jack.
Though it dropped him a lap down, Elliott still rebounded for a fourth-place finish that put him in solid points position to advance to the second round (seventh in the standings, 19 points above the cutline) after a 31st in the playoff opener at Darlington Raceway.
The Hendrick Motorsports driver led 58 of 400 laps and battled throughout the first half with runner-up Denny Hamlin (who led a race-high 197 laps).
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"Not sure I'd have had anything for them but sure would have liked to have found out," Elliott said. "Nice rebound. Everything about last weekend was miserable aside from our foundation efforts. Nice to come here and put together a solid night. We performed at a really high level I know we're capable of every week. We perform like that the rest of the season, I know we'll be just fine."
The only blemish came on his second pit stop, which happened under the frenzy of a green-flag cycle. Elliott was entering his stall directly ahead of Ross Chastain, who was about to exit.
"I misjudged when they were going to get done on the left sides, but I've got a lot going on right there," Elliott said. "It's kind of hard to tell exactly when he's going to get done, and I felt like I got to a point next to him that I had to go. There was no stopping anymore, so I tried to gas up and get by him."
Super proud of our effort. Unfortunate what happened on pit road but we had a great rebound to secure P4. Onto Bristol. pic.twitter.com/dKMafq7Dnu
— Chase Elliott (@chaseelliott) September 12, 2021
Chastain and Elliott made contact, which damaged the left rear of the No. 9 Camaro. As a result, Elliott slid long into his pit box, and he was about whether he was over the line as the team began its stop.
Trying to avoid a potential penalty for service outside the box, Elliott hit reverse just after the pit crew lifted his car into the air. That resulted in a broken jack that necessitated a replacement prolonging the stop. When he returned to the track, Elliott had fallen from second to 17th.
Crew chief Alan Gustafson radioed Elliott that the team would let him know if he needed to back up in future situations, but Elliott later said he still wasn't sure if he'd do anything different on the stop other than let Chastain go, but "it's so close and always hard to tell when they're going to get done on the left side" of the car.
#NASCAR … Chase tells Gustafson he didn't know what to do with 42 abut to exit pit stall the last time that led to all the issues and Chase backing up on his own thinking he was over the line. Alan says they'll tell him if he needs to back up in those situations.
— Dustin Long (@dustinlong) September 12, 2021
"I knew I was way long," Elliott said. "Obviously, it's really hard to tell. I can't see the line. I know our guys are off the top of the box to help with the pit stop. So I'm sitting there, and I know I'm deep. And maybe they didn't have the ability to key up a mic because they had a lot going on, so I just kind of took it upon myself to back up.
"And (jack man) T.J. (Semke) had already hit the right-side jack, and that point, I should have known not to, but obviously I wouldn't have broke the jack if I knew it was going to break the jack, so I just didn't want to do the pit stop over the line. I felt like that was just going to make problems even way worse. Tried to be cautious, ended up hurting us worse."
Chase Elliott led a career-high 58 laps Saturday night at Richmond Raceway (Sean Gardner/Getty Images).
Elliott said his car was wounded by the damage from the incidents, but he still managed to claw his way into the free-pass position when the stage ended on Lap 235 and then motored to a gain of more than 10 positions over the final 160 laps.
It was the fourth top five in seven races at Richmond, which Elliott told NBC Sports earlier in the week had been a track that had stymied him recently.
"Prior to (the pit stop damage), I thought we were really solid," he said. "It's definitely good to come here and run fourth. This has been a tough place, so I was proud of that."
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As a college instructor, I'm relatively young compared to my peers. I don't have 20+ years experience teaching nor have I been in the journalism field that long. However, just because I'm young, it does not mean that I'm dumb.
Academia can be an intimidating environment for newcomers. Ironically, in an industry that is supposed to foster fresh, new learning opportunities, the practices at some colleges and universities often discourage any type of change. The ideology of "that's not how we do it" stops innovation in its tracks and stalls progress for both faculty and students.
Over the past few years, I've been fortunate to have many colleagues who are innovators (both young and not-so-young) and who are willing to take risks. I've also worked with colleagues who were so terrified of the "younger, inexperienced" instructors that they went to extremes to criticize, chastise, and even manipulate the forward-moving efforts of others.
As a younger faculty member, I can assure those in fear that I'm not here to take your job, I'm not here to make you look bad, nor am I here to mess up the academic universe. I'm here to make an impact on the lives of my students. I'm here to share my knowledge with others, and I'm here to learn from you and adapt this knowledge to fit my style of teaching.
Even though I'm young, I've worked hard to ensure that I continue learning, that I stay on top of practices in my industry, and that I grow each semester as much as my students hopefully do. I'm not afraid to try something new in the classroom or the student newsroom. I'm not afraid to learn alongside my students. I'm also not afraid to admit when a trial turns into an error.
I am not an expert, but I am not a novice. I may not have decades of experience, but I have the energy, drive, and passion to accomplish big things now and in future decades.
I'm not dumb just because I'm young. Someday, hopefully others will judge me based on what I've accomplished rather than the date on my birth certificate. I just hope that day does not take 20 years to get here.


One of the victims of the shooting at the theatre in Aurora is Petra Anderson, the daughter of one of CCWC's conferees, Kim Anderson. Petra was shot three times. Once through the nose. They removed the bullet and she is walking. Miraculous . . . but still quite a trial. On top of that, Paula Moldenhauer, ACFW Colorado Coordinator, emailed me that Kim's cancer is back. Below is information about a fund to try to get Kim to a cancer center.
Dear Friends, Kim Anderson began her fight with cancer after her diagnosis in October of 2009. She has since then faced difficult obstacles with steadfast faith, exemplary strength, and an amazing resolve that is an inspiration to all who know her. Kim's cancer went into remission at the beginning of 2011. Unfortunately, 18 months later, her stage-3 cancer is fighting back. After this recent diagnosis she and her family discovered the Burzynski Clinic in Texas, an alternative cancer treatment center that offers hope for her inoperable condition. She is determined to continue living a life of purpose, resolve, and blessing. However, treatment is expensive and your help is greatly needed.
But today, July 20th, the Anderson's are facing a new tragedy. Kim's daughter, Petra, was among those shot and wounded during the massacre at the Batman premiere in Aurora, Colorado. Petra suffered 3 shots in the arm and one through her nose that lodged in the back of her skull and required emergency brain surgery to remove. Petra's condition remains serious, adding to the difficulties for this dear family.
With limited resources, Kim now must balance her own urgent treatment needs with her daughter's critical situation. It would be wonderful if they could experience an outpouring of love and assistance through the prayers and donations of an army of well-wishers from around the world.
Kim Anderson has lived a life of pouring into others. She lovingly raised and homeschooled her three children. Now as a single mother she continues to inspire and encourage them on their life journeys. Kim also pours into the community. For many years she volunteered long hours in helping to develop the homeschool speech and debate opportunities from which many Colorado families have benefitted. She was a state and regional leader for a national speech and debate league, has written curriculum, taught debate classes, and coached a local speech and debate club. Kim has helped homeschooling students achieve academic excellence, and then turn that excellence into opportunities for college acceptance, scholarships, and other career-launching opportunities. She has led with vision and strength, and has made a difference in many, many lives.
Please consider how you can help Kim raise the funds she needs to be admitted for treatment at the Burzynski Clinic by the end of July and to ensure her daughter receives the critical care she needs!
For those living in Colorado, you may go into any US Bank and write a check or give cash to the "The Kim Anderson Healing Fund".
Please pass this information along and thank you in advance for your support and prayers for the Anderson Family.
Also, click here for a powerfully inspiring news clip interviewing their family.
And below is an amazing fb post from Petra's cousin. Shows the kind of family they are.
Update from Petra's cousin: WOW, was my time visiting Petra at the hospital today encouraging!! PRAISES: 1. she was able to walk through the halls! 2. she was able to eat a sandwich, chips, fruit and 2 bite of angel food cake! 3. the nurse was able to get the IV into her vein on the 1st try!!!! 4. the doctor estimates she has an 80% recovery in her brain. 5. she's able to joke with the nurse about golfing! 6. that Andrew, Austin, and Chloe put in hours to get her and other victim's stories out on youtube, twitter, FB and email!! I was humbled by God to see all those things happen right before my eyes! PRAISE HIM!!!! I also thank the Lord for the amazing prayer time we had as a family praying for Petra, Aunt Kim and the victims!
PRAYER REQUESTS: 1. that she can continue to get her short term memory back! 2. that she can get healed enough that Aunt Kim and my mom, Renee, would be able to fly to TX to get her cancer treatments. 3. That God would continue to be glorified through this….


The Blacherne Apartments at Vermont Place is located on Meridian Street, just a few blocks north of Monument Circle. This historical landmark has been completely renovated with a focus to maintain the historical context of the building, while incorporating modern luxuries.
Originally constructed by General Lew Wallace, author of Ben Hur, The Blacherne was completed in 1896 as a lavish apartment building on a scale Indianapolis had not yet seen. The Blacherne now houses 68 completely renovated apartments and 3 commerical suites. Elegant foyers, controlled access, wood flooring, and garage parking are just a few of the unique features of The Blacherne.


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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer – Movie Review
By June Williams On November 23, 2008 In Reviews: Movies 17 Comments
Twilight – Movie Review
The Twilight novels have built up a huge fanbase. Did the movie live up to the hype? The good, the bad and the corny.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writers:Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay), Stephenie Meyer (novel)
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner,Robert Pattinson
Spoilers Below
Twilight has a HUGE fandom presence. These new fans are called Twilighters, Fanpires, Twihards and there is even a special category for the middle-aged women – Twi-Moms.
I must begin by telling you that I have never read the books upon which this movie is based. My perceptions are influenced only by what I have seen onscreen.
I was aware going in that this was to be a movie about teenagers and vampires. Having imbibed my share of vampiric fiction as well as been a fan of Forever Knight, Buffy, Ultraviolet and True Blood I am reasonably familiar with the
How I wish an editor had refined the first third of the movie. The story of the new girl in town finding her way was told in a manner that was dead boring. Kristen Stewart who plays Bella makes you wonder what could ever cause the century old vampire that is Edward Cullen to not only take an interest in her, but be instantaneously smitten by her at first whiff.
Bella first arrives in her biology classroom and a convenient fan blows her hair about like the heroine of an old romance novel perched on the tip of a cliff. The reaction to this by Edward Cullen is the uber obvious move of putting his hand over his mouth, which everyone in the audience is aware means he is hiding his fangs-to-meet-you look.
SHOP BUZZY TEES!
Bella perceives this as him becoming nauseous at the thought of her sitting next to him. There is nothing in the movie to distinguish her from the other kids at school. No special powers, no calling, nothing at all. I am hoping that the books let the reader in on the reason, but the movie does no more than hint about halfway through that the telepathic Edward can't read her mind. That causes her to be compelling to him, that and also his belief her blood would be like "heroin".
This is romance with a big R – the kind of trappings you might see on a fannish web page filled with hearts and flowers with extra glitter and sparkles.
Charlie Swan was born and raised in Forks, Washington. Through his life-long friendships with Billy Black and Harry Clearwater, he is the prime connection to the Native American tribe in Forks.
Now for the things I liked. The use of Native American folklore to explain to both the audience, and Bella, about the Cullen family ties to the area was done well. Having a couple of Native American actors play realistic-seeming people who have every reason to be connected to Bella and her father was another plus.
Bella's father was not only likeable; he was someone I could relate to. It was easy to understand why Bella chose to live with her dad after seeing what life with her flighty, but loving, mother and her new husband would have been like.
Keep out of Direct Sunlight
As far as I am concerned the movie didn't take off till the baseball scene. All American vegetarian vampires playing baseball in a thunderstorm was definitely my favorite part of the movie.
The predictable and sometimes spectacular chase and rescue scenes did not suck in a bad way. ALL the actors that played vampires did so believably. Especially endearing was the entire Cullen family. I would have loved to hear more of the history of Dr. Carlisle Cullen who is father to this clan. I've mixed feelings on the soundtrack. It fit the scenes but in some cases was so overblown as to make what was supposed to be a very serious moment into something campy yet at other times it was spot on.
Bottom line is that if you have not read the books what you see is what you get. I'm sure it is more enjoyable if you are a tween or even a teen who was a tween when the first novel was published. The person I saw the movie with said it had the feel of an ABC TV after school special. Having never watched any of those myself I'll leave it for you to say if they were right or wrong about that. If you are over 18 and on a budget this is not the first film to rush out to see this holiday season. On the other hand it certainly is not the worst film I've seen in the past 3 years. I'll give it a B-.
by June Williams
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Always a Science Fiction fan and dabbler in writing she had thought herself too practical to pursue a career in the field. Before coming to Buzzy she spent over 30 years in the travel industry, then one day decided it was time to spread her wings and plunge into publishing. Everyone she knew thought she had gone slightly daft but as this was not the first time they had expressed that opinion she took the red pill anyway and now spends all of her time putting together projects that make each day a pleasure.
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At Adcote we offer an excellent well-rounded education serves as a foundation for future achievement. Adcote girls gain experience in a wide range of subjects and the curriculum is supplemented by a lively extra-curricular programme. Our after-school activities are available each day until 6pm. We offer an exceptional all-round education and we are proud of our strong academic performance.
Although we cater for the social, spiritual, sporting and emotional needs of our pupils, academic work is central to life at Adcote. All of our pupils go on to University or some other form of Higher Education, and our A-level results are among some of the best in the country.
Needless to say, throughout the curriculum, we wish to promote confidence, excellence and achievement. Pupils with specific learning needs are offered a tailor-made timetable to focus on the academic essentials. At Adcote, our committed staff stretch our most able girls and nurture those who need additional support, so that all our pupils can achieve the very best they can.


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Nadine Dorries tells sporting bodies that elite women's competition should be reserved for people born female
Ms Dorries has said she wants other sports to follow in the footsteps of swimming authorities in banning trans athletes from women's elite events.
John-Paul Ford Rojas
Political reporter @JPFordRojas
Tuesday 28 June 2022 20:00, UK
Nadine Dorries has said she expects sporting bodies to reserve competitive women's sport "for people born of the female sex" after holding a meeting with a number of governing bodies.
The culture secretary, whose department also covers sport, said on Twitter that "asking women and teenage girls to compete against someone who was biologically born a male is inherently unfair".
It is the latest intervention in the debate over transgender rights in sport and follows the decision by FINA, the international swimming federation, to ban trans athletes from elite women's competitions.
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FINA's decision sparked outrage from the likes of Tom Daley, the British gold-medal wining diver.
But in an article for the Mail on Sunday at the weekend, Ms Dorries urged other sporting bodies to follow FINA's example.
The newspaper reported that Ms Dorries was to meet Sport England, which promotes the take-up of sport and physical activity across the country, as well as organisations representing football, cricket, rugby, tennis, athletics this week.
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She said on Tuesday that she had just met the sporting bodies to discuss trans participation and that it was "a complex and emotionally charged issue" that had "been ducked for too long".
"We can't pretend that sex doesn't have a direct impact on a person's athletic performance," she said.
"Today I have made my position absolutely clear: I expect sporting bodies to follow the policy that competitive women's sport must be reserved for people born of the female sex.
"We need to do this in a way that protects and shows compassion to all athletes - including the creation of open categories.
"But fairness in competitive sport has to take priority above all else.
"Some clear direction is long overdue - not only for athletes, but also event organisers and fans. There is evidently more to do to make sport fairer for female athletes."
Nancy Kelley, chief executive of the LBTQ+ group Stonewall, said in response to the comments that International Olympic Committee guidelines made clear that "inclusion is the starting point and that we should not presume an advantage based on someone's trans status or intersex characteristics".
"What we are seeing today is blanket bans being encouraged by the minister as a knee-jerk response to a tiny number of elite level trans athletes globally," she said.
"Many of these athletes have not even been given a chance to compete."
Daley last week told iNews that he was "furious" at FINA's decision, adding: "You know, like most queer people, anyone that's told they can't compete or can't do something they love just because of who they are, it's not on.
"It's something I feel really strongly about. Giving trans people the chance to share their side."
However, former Olympic medal-winning swimmer Sharron Davies said FINA was "standing up for fair sport for females".
The debate comes after the controversial success of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in the US and New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard becoming the first transgender athlete to compete at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Boris Johnson made his position clear in April when he said that "biological males should not be competing in female sporting events".


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Why Drake Would Never Actually Date Kylie Jenner
Christina Montford
Drake is already over Kylie Jenner. Jenner/ Kardashian relationships usually start and end pretty quickly, but this has to be a record. Fresh off of her breakup from rapper Travis Scott, Jenner had been seen hanging out with Drake a few weeks ago and rumors quickly began to swirl that the two were doing more than just flirting. But now, sources have said that Drake no longer wants to date Jenner.
Drake | AARON M. SPRECHER/AFP via Getty Images
Why did Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott break up?
Jenner and Scott broke up in early October, leaving fans of the couple shocked. Most sources chalked the breakup up to the two being in different places in their lives.
"Kylie is young, but she really wants the traditional family life," a source told Entertainment Tonight. "She has seen her older sisters with big families and multiple kids and she wants the same. She loved being at home with Travis and their daughter, Stormi Webster, more than anything. But right now, their priorities are different."
"It was hard for him to be coming home every night to be with the family and putting Stormi to bed." the source continued. "That's not where he is in his life. It made Kylie insecure and anxious. The last few months, Kylie felt they were drifting and she was never really sure what was going on."
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Drake and Jenner were first seen together at his 33rd birthday party.
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"She spent the most time near Drake and his friends," a source told Us Weekly of Jenner at the party. "Kylie was rapping to songs and dancing with her friends while she was next to Drake, but they weren't dancing together. They seemed to have a connection though."
In the beginning, the two just wanted to keep things casual between them.
"Drake has always had a thing for Kylie and it's mutual," a source told the outlet. "They hang out here and there and have been more recently than in the past because Kylie is technically single right now and the two of them live so close to each other."
Drake doesn't want a relationship with Kylie Jenner
Unfortunately for Jenner, Drake no longer wants anything romantic with the makeup mogul.
"Drake has definitely moved past any type of romantic feelings towards Kylie and it's purely platonic between them at this point," a source told HollywoodLife.
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But Jenner is apparently okay with this new development.
"Drake feels like he's on good terms with Kylie and he believes they're on the same page in terms of where things stand between them now," the source said.
Ultimately, neither one of them wanted to let things between them get messy.
"Drake would never want to upset Kylie or any of the family that he has known forever so that is why he wants to cool down any and all of the romance rumors," another source told the outlet. "Drake is not going to make anything uncomfortable with Kylie, he'd never want to deal with the repercussions if they would become an item and then break up. He'd rather quit pursuing anything while they are still great friends."


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Q: Insert commas into string flutter Say I have a string value as: June 22 2022 and I want to add comma with code such that it prints out this value: June 22, 2022. How do I achieve that?

A: In this particular case, you could use DateTime's DateFormatter:
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void main() {
  DateFormat inputFormatter = DateFormat('MMMM dd yyyy');
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  print(formatted);
}

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February 13, 2042


David Enrich is an author, reporter and the current European Banking Editor for The Wall Street Journal. He is responsible for coordinating the Journal's coverage of banking and regulatory policy across Europe.
David Enrich joined the Journal in December 2007 in New York as a reporter writing about the U.S. banking industry, with a particular focus on Citigroup. He relocated to the Journal's London bureau in March 2010, covering British banks and regulation. He was named European banking editor in March 2012. Prior to joining the Journal, he was a reporter with Dow Jones Newswires for several years.
Mr. Enrich has received numerous journalism awards, including in 2012 an Overseas Press Club award for coverage of the European financial crisis and a George Polk Award for coverage of insider trading. Mr. Enrich was part of teams of Journal reporters who were finalists for Pulitzer Prizes in 2009 and 2011.
Prior to joining Dow Jones in 2003, David was a reporter for States News Service in Washington, D.C.
In 2017 David Enrich released The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History, the book, that covers the ins and outs of the Libor Scandal, has been nominated for the Financial Times and Mckinsey Business Book of the year.


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Trump Campaign Sells Out $500 Candles That Smell Like President's Butthole
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump 2020 Re-Election campaign announced this weekend that they have completely sold out of a special candle that was offered on the campaign website to donors who gave $500 or more. The candle, made of red wax, stamped with "Keep America Great 2020," and produced in China under a copyright awarded to First Daughter Lady Ivanka Trump, is described as being scented in a way that "makes you feel like you're in the room with the president after he's had a great American meal of hamberders, fried chicken, nachos, taco bowls, hot dogs, and more fried chicken."
More specifically, the candle is scented like President Trump's butthole.
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Sources say great care was taken to ensure that every candle truly carries the olfactory essence of Trump's rectum. Experts in both chemistry and Trump's butthole were brought in by the campaign to ensure that anyone who donated enough to get a candle would feel satisfied that, when lit, they were in the room with Trump, and he was "farting up a storm," one campaign staffer told us via Skype. The Trump campaign brought in Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, and "Judge" Jeanine Pirro to consult on the exact smell the candle would give off when burning.
"If you've seen any of their interviews with the president, you understand that they have a deep and personal relationship with Trump's ass," a campaign associate told the press this morning, "so we're quite sure that anyone who donated enough to get themselves a candle will light theirs up and truly feel like they're as close to the president as they could ever hope to be."
Brad Parscale, Trump's campaign manager and chief digital propagandist, said that he's "never seen such a tremendous response" to any prize offered to campaign donors before. Parscale said that within moments of offering the special candle on the website, they had sold out, and many were snatched-up by congressional Republicans.
"I guess when you spend so much time around the president's rectum, you're bound to fall in love with the scents and flavors it offers," Parscale tweeted. "Still, it was incredibly sweet of Sen. Lindsey Graham to pick up an entire case of them. He told me he plans to give them out at his own campaign rallies, and to anyone who comes and visits him."
Parscale credits Trump's "cult like, rabid, fanatical, foamy-mouthed, ammo hoarding" base for helping sell the candles out so quickly.
"They may not be able to count to twenty-one with their flies zipped up," Parscale explained, "and they might be naive and dumb enough to believe a reality-TV conman who has bankrupted multiple businesses and couldn't even keep a casino in the black could guide our economy well, but they sure do love their president. And many of them clearly fantasize about close enough to him to kiss his butt, which would give them an up-close and personal idea of what it smells like. Hence, we sold out of the butthole candles incredibly fast."
The Trump 2020 campaign says they plan to have another batch of candles scented like the president's cinnamon hole ready in the next couple of weeks. They anticipated a lot of interest in the candles, but not quite the level of interest they received, Parscale said. There are other special gifts the campaign says are in the works.
"Of course, we all know the president shits ice cream. He literally shits ice cream," Parscale said, "and so we're thinking of offering a pint of Trump's shit ice cream to anyone who donates $1000 or more to his campaign, or $130,000 or more to his illegal hush money for women he's fucked on the side fund. We'll let everyone know as soon as we've figured out if the president can shit that much ice cream to meet what will surely be a historically high demand for it."
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The Government will continue to fund the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to eliminate Australian subterranean termites at Otorohanga but it will not compensate residents for property damage caused by the termites, the Associate Minister for Biosecurity, Marian Hobbs said today.
The government rejected a Local Government and Environment parliamentary select committee recommendation that it make ex-gratia payments to affected property owners.
Marian Hobbs said any ex-gratia payments to property owners would be inconsistent with compensation provisions under the Biosecurity Act 1993 and with previous treatment of residential property damaged by termites.
"Similar requests for ex-gratia payments, such as at Seatoun in 1991, were declined," she said. "It is important we do not set a precedent or raise expectations that could apply to any losses caused by organisms in New Zealand.
"The most appropriate and long-term solution for the affected homeowners is the successful elimination of termites from their properties. Significant progress has been made and no termite activity has been recorded in the Otorohanga area since February 2000."
Subterranean termites were first reported from Otorohanga in 1990, but are thought to have entered the country via hardwood utility poles, imported from Australia in the early 1950s. They cause significant damage to timber, wood structures and trees even before their presence becomes apparent.
Despite treatment carried out after each report, there were recurrences of termite activity until 1999. Sentricon bait stations placed at selected properties in November 1999 appear to have been effective in eliminating the termites.


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Melbourne Council Backs Central Business District Injecting Room
The Melbourne City Council has voted 7-4 to back the state government controversial proposal for a safe injecting room in the CBD.
By Callum Godde May 26 ,	2021
There has been speculation that Flinders Street could be the site of Melbourne's second injecting room. (Tracey Nearmy/AAP Image)
MELBOURNE, Australia — Melbourne City Council will support the state government's controversial proposal for a safe injecting room in the Central Business District.
But several councilors have voted against the plan.
A motion by Councillor Roshena Campbell to oppose the injecting room was voted down 7-4.
Likewise, a separate motion on a council management report that recommended support for the room also was passed 7-4.
Campbell had claimed that the proposal was "nothing short of insanity," saying it would harm the city's recovery from the Covid-19 lockdown, but Lord Mayor Sally Capp endorsed the room.
"I acknowledge that the location of a medically supervised injecting service in the City of Melbourne will be controversial," Capp said.
"But the evidence shows services such as these save lives, and they do reduce the number of people who are shooting up in our city streets.
"Combating addiction is incredibly complex. Reducing drug use and dependency would benefit our entire society."
Capp claims a local resident near a known drug "hotspot area" at the intersection of Flinders and Elizabeth streets described it as a slum.
"Nobody wants that," she said.
The facilities at the new Medically Supervised Injecting Room in Melbourne. (Tracey Nearmy/AAP Image)
"And I acknowledge that any response to address these issues must improve the outcomes, not exacerbate the situation."
She added a balance had to be struck between public health and the livelihoods of local residents and businesses.
"I acknowledge that this can be a difficult balance to achieve, but it is not impossible," she said.
There has been speculation that Flinders St could be the site of Melbourne's second injecting room to follow the facility in North Richmond.
The location of the second room is subject to a consultation process being run by former police commissioner Ken Lay. (Ellen Smith/AAP Image)
The location of the second room is subject to a consultation process being run by former police commissioner Ken Lay.
The supervised injecting center at North Richmond, which opened in 2018, has been controversial due to its proximity to a school.
But Acting Premier James Merlino insists the North Richmond center is saving lives and other initial problems have improved.
As per officials, over 18 months, it was estimated that 119,000 people accessed the North Richmond Centre, successfully managed 3,200 overdoses, saved an estimated 21 to 27 lives, and provided important screening, assessment and treatment initiation, and monitoring of blood-borne viruses to approximately 300 people.
Staff provided 10,540 services beyond the supervision of injecting during the trial period. This was most commonly health promotion, dressing wounds, providing medication, and first aid. It also provided social welfare needs, mental health, counseling, and family violence support.
(Edited by Vaibhav Vishwanath Pawar and Pallavi Mehra. Map by Urvashi Makwana)
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\section{Introduction}

The study of communities in networks has received considerable attention
recently. Generally, a community can be thought of as a subset of nodes of the
network in which the nodes within a community are more connected among each
other than they are connected to the other nodes in the network.  By analyzing a
network in terms of its communities, it is possible to gain understanding of the
structure of a network on a larger scale and to uncover previously unnoticed
connections between nodes or groups of nodes.  Examples of successful community
division studies include a study on the relationship between diseases and genes
\cite{Wilkinson2004}, the identification of transition states in potential
energy landscapes \cite{MassenCP:Idecwe}, and the identification of recording
locations and racial community structures in a jazz musicians network in the USA
around 1920 \cite{GleiserPM:Comsj}. We have recently used our modularity
optimization algorithm to optimize the performance of a recursive inverse
factorization technique used in large scale electronic structure calculations
\cite{Rubensson}.

The analysis of a network in terms of communities poses a difficult challenge.
The clustering algorithm has to be accurate so that it identifies informative
community structures.  This implies that the algorithm has to consider many of
the possible community divisions in the network before it can decide which one
is the best.  From a computational point of view we are faced with a rapidly
growing problem as a function of network size. To consider all possible
community divisions becomes computationally unfeasible even for relatively small
networks. In fact, it can be shown that the number of ways of dividing a network
into communities grows as the Sterling number of the second kind
\cite{NewmanMEJ:Fasadc}.

In order to quantify the quality of a community division, a quality function is
introduced that assigns a ``value-reflecting'' number, or ``quality-of-split''
\cite{Ward63} to a community division. The modularity, as introduced by
\citet{GirvanM:Comssa}, is a popular choice for such a quality function.
Although there may be some drawbacks to this approach as pointed out by
\citet{Fortunato}, the community divisions that are obtained by optimizing the
modularity typically give valuable information \cite{Wilkinson2004,
MassenCP:Idecwe}.

In the literature many different optimization strategies can be found that
employ the modularity. They vary in quality, i.e.\ the value of the largest
modularity they find, and in the computational effort. An efficient
agglomerative method is the greedy algorithm of \citet{NewmanMEJ:Fasadc} which
\citet{ClausetAaron:Fincsv} showed to run in $\mathcal{O} (N \log^{2} N)$
computational effort. Other methods however, find modularity values larger than
the greedy algorithm. These include extremal optimization \cite{DuchJ.:Comdcn},
basin-hopping \cite{MassenCP:Idecwe}, simulated annealing
\cite{DorsoCO:Detcsn}, recursive filtration \cite{Shen20086663}, a heuristic
algorithm \cite{Chen20092741}, and a spectral algorithm
\cite{NewmanMEJ:Modacs}.

In this article we introduce a new agglomerative method which we demonstrate by
using the modularity as the quality-of-split function. Our method is general
however and can be used with any other quality-of-split function. We find
modularity values comparable to the extremal optimization method for a set of
well-studied networks. In section~\ref{sec:Theory} we summarize the
agglomerative greedy algorithm and introduce our method. In
section~\ref{sec:Results} we compare with results for some popular networks
using the greedy method and the extremal optimization method.  Finally, in
section~\ref{sec:Conclusions} we present our conclusions.

\section{Theory}
\label{sec:Theory}

A network of $N$ nodes can be divided into any number of communities, $C$, where
$1 \leq C \leq N$. The extremal cases $C = 1$ and $C = N$ are the two trivial
solutions in which all nodes either belong to only one common community or each
belongs only to its own separate community, respectively. Given that the number
of possible community divisions is exceedingly large for any decently sized
network, the problem of finding the optimal community split cannot be approached
by calculating all possible splits. Instead one has to resort to approximate
solutions of the problem. One possibility is to attempt to find the optimal
community division by starting with one of the two trivial cases and proceeding
by either stepwise merging two communities or by splitting a community into two
until the opposite extremal case is reached. These two approaches are commonly
referred to as agglomerative and divisive methods, respectively. The set of
community divisions for every value of $C$ between $1 \leq C \leq N$ is called a
dendrogram.  Such dendrogram-based optimization methods aim to find the best
community split by optimizing each step along the dendrogram based on the change
in the quality-of-split measure \cite{NewmanMEJ:Fasadc, GustafssonM:Comavc,
NewmanMEJ:Finaec}.  These methods are typically very efficient computationally,
but the quality of their result depends critically on the heuristic chosen
during the stepwise optimization process. In fact, in a recent comparison of
dendrogram-based methods and a simulated annealing technique,
\citet{DanonL.:Comcsi} found that the simulated annealing method, which is not
bound to a dendrogram, is able to find better solutions to the community
division problem than the dendrogram-based methods.

The quality-of-split function we will use for this study is the modularity, $Q$,
of \citet{GirvanM:Comssa}. It is defined as

\begin{equation}
  Q = \mathrm{Tr} (e) - \sum_{ij} (e^2)_{ij},
  \label{eq:modularity}
\end{equation}

\noindent
where $e$ is the assortative mixing matrix (which is a $C \times C$ matrix).
The elements $e_{ij}$ are given by the number of links from community $i$ to $j$
for a particular community division as a fraction of the total number of links.

The greedy algorithm was introduced by Newman \cite{NewmanMEJ:Fasadc} and is a
good example of an agglomerative method. A range of other agglomerative methods
have been proposed which differ in how each step in the merge process is chosen
\cite{NewmanMEJ:Fasadc, Ward63, MacQueen67, ClausetAaron:Fincsv}. The change in
modularity due to merging two communities $i$ and $j$ can be written as
\cite{NewmanMEJ:Fasadc}

\begin{equation}
  \Delta Q = e_{ij} + e_{ji} - a_{i} b_{j} - a_{j} b_{i},
  \label{eq:deltaQ}
\end{equation}

\noindent
where $a_{i}$ and $b_{i}$ are the column and row sums of $e$, respectively. Each
merge process is chosen such as to maximize the effected modularity change in
the hope that this leads to the community division with the maximum modularity.
What makes the greedy method particularly attractive is the fact that
eq.~(\ref{eq:deltaQ}) is inexpensive to evaluate (it is of $\mathcal{O} (1)$
computational effort). In addition, the number of community merges to evaluate
is at most $(N - 1) (N - 2) \cdots$ which leads to an overall computational
complexity of $\mathcal{O} (N \log^{2} N)$ \cite{ClausetAaron:Fincsv}.

\subsection{Sub-optimal iterations}

Optimization techniques which are bound to a dendrogram generally find smaller
values of the modularity than methods which do not operate along a dendrogram
\cite{MedusA:Detcsn}. This is due to the fact that the optimal solution may not
be accessible by walking a stepwise optimized dendrogram.  Optimal choices in
the beginning of the dendrogram (large $C$ for agglomerative methods) may lead
to community divisions which can not be merged further to achieve the optimal
division. This is of course also a problem for divisive methods. It may
therefore not be possible to find a heuristic that finds the optimal community
division along one single dendrogram.  Motivated by our previous work on the
modularity density of networks \cite{Holmstrom20091161} we avoid the problem
by performing incomplete optimizations in each merge process. We do not
consider all $C (C-1)$ possible merges, but only a smaller randomly chosen
subset and pick the merge with the largest modularity increase from this
subset.  This procedure has the advantage that it allows for randomness in the
agglomeration process so that two different runs will not give the same
result.  The randomness is obviously also a drawback since it is very unlikely
that we find the optimal community split in one such random dendrogram. Even
several sub-optimal dendrograms will be unlikely to have produced the optimal
community division. We therefore iterate over several random dendrograms in an
inner loop and optimize a list of modularity values for each value of $C$ in
an outer loop.  Our algorithm is expressed in terms of a pseudocode in
figure~\ref{alg:dendJump}.

\begin{figure}
  \begin{algorithmic}[1]
    \FOR[Outer loop]{$N^{\mathrm{outer}}$ times}
      \FOR[Inner loop]{$N^{\mathrm{inner}}$ times}
        \FOR[Suboptimal agglomeration]{$C = N \mbox{ to } C \geq 2$}
          \STATE Find $n$ random merge candidates.
          \STATE Calculate $\Delta Q_{n} (C \rightarrow C-1)$ from eq.~(\ref{eq:deltaQ}).
          \IF[Accept proposed merge process]{$\max (Q^{\mathrm{inner}}_{C} + \Delta Q_{n}) > Q^{\mathrm{inner}}_{C-1}$}
            \STATE $e^{\mathrm{inner}}_{C} \Leftarrow e$
            \STATE $Q^{\mathrm{inner}}_{C-1} \Leftarrow Q^{\mathrm{inner}}_{C} + \Delta Q_{n}$
            \STATE Calculate new $e$.
          \ELSE[Reject proposed merge process]
            \STATE $e \Leftarrow e^{\mathrm{inner}}_{C-1}$
          \ENDIF
        \ENDFOR \COMMENT{Suboptimal agglomeration}
      \ENDFOR \COMMENT{Inner loop}
      \FOR[Update list of modularity values]{$C = 1 \mbox{ to } C < N$}
        \IF{$Q^{\mathrm{inner}}_{C} > Q^{\mathrm{outer}}_{C}$}
          \STATE $Q^{\mathrm{outer}}_{C} \Leftarrow Q^{\mathrm{inner}}_{C}$
        \ENDIF
      \ENDFOR \COMMENT{Update list of modularity values}
    \ENDFOR \COMMENT{Outer loop}
  \end{algorithmic}
  \caption{
    \label{alg:dendJump}
    Sub-Optimal Dendrogram Jumping Algorithm: (line 3) This loop performs the
    suboptimal agglomeration. In this study $Q$ means the modularity, but any
    quality-of-split function can be used. (line 2) The inner loop restarts the
    agglomeration process. We improve on the best modularities found by
    accepting proposed merge processes only if they lead to higher modularity
    values. (line 1) The best modularity values found in the inner loop are
    stored and the inner loop is restarted.
  }
\end{figure}

Inside the inner loop we analyze a ``somewhat'' random dendrogram. By this we
mean that we pick the best out of $n$ randomly chosen possible merge processes
in each step of the dendrogram (line 4 in figure~\ref{alg:dendJump}).  Clearly,
in the limit $n \rightarrow 1$, the dendrogram is random. The greedy method, on
the other hand, corresponds to at most $n = C (C-1)$ different merge processes.
For any value $n < C (C-1)$ we achieve sub-optimal agglomeration. As we
decrement $C$ and walk the dendrogram from larger to smaller $C$ values, the
merge process with the largest modularity gain becomes the proposed merge
process. We store a list of the best modularities found so far for each value of
$C$ and merge along the proposed merge process only if the proposed merge
produces a higher modularity value than the previous best value.  If the
proposed merge process produces a modularity value equal or less than the best
modularity value thus far, we discard it and load the community division
corresponding to the best modularity found so far to continue. It is this step
(lines 6 through 12 in figure~\ref{alg:dendJump}) which leads to a dendrogram
jump.  The list of best modularity values of the inner loop usually converges
rather quickly and the algorithm cannot improve on the modularities any longer.

In the outer loop we store another list of best modularity values. Once the
inner loop completes we update the list of the outer loop with the values found
in the inner loop (lines 15 through 19 in figure~\ref{alg:dendJump}).  We then
reinitialize the inner loop for another run. This step allows the algorithm to
explore a different part of the community division space since it will randomly
choose other dendrograms.

The 3 tunable parameters in our algorithm, $n$, $N^{\mathrm{inner}}$, and
$N^{\mathrm{outer}}$, are chosen according to the following heuristic: (1) The
number of suboptimal trials, $n$, should be significantly smaller than the
greedy limit, $C (C-1)$. Although our method will work with any $n \ge 1$, we
have found in practice that any value between $5 \le n \le 10$ works well. (2)
The number of inner loops, $N^{\mathrm{inner}}$, should be chosen as small as
possible such that the $Q_{C}^{\mathrm{inner}}$ list is converged. This process
is exemplified by the convergence of the blue dashed lines in the upper panel of
figure~\ref{fig:GenDendrogram}. The value of this particular parameter depends
strongly on the network size. We have found values of $N^{\mathrm{inner}}$
between 8 and 150 for the smaller networks (Zachary Karate Club) and the larger
networks (Jazz musician and e--mail network), respectively, to work well. (3)
There is no predetermined limit on the number of outer loops,
$N^{\mathrm{outer}}$. It is determined by the level of convergence desired for
the maximum modularity value. The more outer loops are performed, the more
likely it is to find the maximum modularity value.

Iterating over the inner and outer loop converges rapidly and we find a list of
the best modularity values for all $C$. In the following section we will compare
our results with previously studied networks.

\section{Results}
\label{sec:Results}

\begin{figure}
  \begin{tabular}{r}
    \includegraphics[width=0.90\linewidth]{ZacharysKarateClub.Unw.QMax.4.eps}
    \\
    \includegraphics[width=0.85\linewidth]{Gen.Dendrogram.4.eps}
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{
    {\bf Upper panel}:
    The dashed lines (blue online) indicate the maximum modularity values found
    in the inner loop. With each iteration of the inner loop the maximum
    modularity increases and eventually converges, shown with the bold dashed
    line (blue online). The circles show the maximum modularity values found
    after the outer loop is converged. The vertical lines indicate sections that
    belong to one dendrogram. Dendrogram jumping occurs across the vertical
    lines.
    {\bf Lower panel}:
    A generalized dendrogram that corresponds to the maximum modularity of the
    unweighted Zachary Karate Club network. Events that indicate dendrogram
    jumps are marked with red circles.
  }
	\label{fig:GenDendrogram}
\end{figure}

In the upper panel of figure~\ref{fig:GenDendrogram} we show the best modularity
values found by our iterative dendrogram jumping method for the unweighted
Zachary Karate Club network (black circles). This result was obtained with
$N^{\mathrm{inner}} = 8$ inner loop iterations and $N^{\mathrm{outer}} = 20$
outer loop iterations. The number of sub-optimal trials in each agglomeration
was $n = 10$. We indicate the borders between sections of the curve that belong
to the same dendrogram to illustrate the dendrogram jumping of our algorithm. In
the case shown, we find 12 such borders.  We find the maximum modularity at $C =
4$ at a value of $Q = 0.4198$. The blue dashed lines show the evolution of an
optimization in the inner loop consisting of 8 sub-optimized $Q(C)$ curves
obtained by 10 merge trials per $C$. We find that this particular run over the
inner loop of the dendrogram jumping method achieves high modularities for $C =$
3, 7, and 8 but fails to find the largest modularity that we find after looping
over the outer loop.

In the lower panel of figure~\ref{fig:GenDendrogram} we show the first few
branches of the resulting disconnected dendrogram for the overall optimization
of the Zachary Karate Club network. At $C = 1$, all nodes are in the same
community as indicated by the single black circle. As this community is split
into two and subsequently three communities, we find that the figure looks like
an ordinary dendrogram.  However, splitting 3 into 4 communities, the community
division corresponding to the highest modularity value results in the merging of
two communities and the splitting of two communities. We indicate this merging
by the first red circle.  This is a situation that cannot occur in a dendrogram
and thus indicates a dendrogram jump in the maximum modularity curve.  Two more
such events are marked with red circles.

We have performed modularity optimizations by means of our improved sub-optimal
dendrogram jumping algorithm for a set of well-known networks.  In
table~\ref{tab:QMax} we present our results for the maximum modularity and the
number of communities that were obtained. The results are compared to the
corresponding maximum modularity found by the greedy method
\cite{NewmanMEJ:Modacs} and the extremal optimization method
\cite{DuchJ.:Comdcn}, where applicable. We find that dendrogram jumping always
finds modularity values larger than the greedy algorithm and values comparable
to the extremal optimization method. In most cases the number of communities
corresponding to the largest modularity value differs from what was found with
the other methods. We never found a case in which the communities had the same
members in the different methods even in the cases were the number of
communities was the same. For the small networks the community members differed
only in few nodes. For the larger networks however, we found more significant
differences in the assignment of nodes to communities.

The evaluation of $\Delta Q$ of eq.~(\ref{eq:deltaQ}) can be done in
computational effort $\mathcal{O} (1)$ time. The subsequent update of $e$ after
a merge operation takes $\mathcal{O} (N)$ worst time and there are $N-1$ such
merge operations per dendrogram. We iterate through a fixed number of inner and
outer loops, i.e. the total computational effort is $\mathcal{O} (N^{2})$. Not
surprisingly, this is identical to the computational effort found for the greedy
algorithm \cite{NewmanMEJ:Fasadc} in the sparse graph limit. The inner loop of
our algorithm is a generalization of the greedy method in the limit of $n
\rightarrow C (C-1)$. In our algorithm we only consider a small fixed number $n$
of merge candidates, which implies that our method always scales $\mathcal{O}
(N^{2})$ even in the dense graph case.  However the data structures used by
\citet{ClausetAaron:Fincsv} to speed up the greedy algorithm clearly are readily
applicable in our case as well, which makes it possible to reduce the
computational effort to $\mathcal{O} (N \log^{2} N)$.  For comparison, the
extremal optimization \cite{DuchJ.:Comdcn} method runs in $\mathcal{O} (N^{2}
\log N)$ time.

We have successfully used our algorithm in its current implementation for
networks of up to $\approx 1200$ nodes but networks an order of magnitude larger
should be analyzable with a current desktop workstation and sufficient memory
installed.

\begin{table*}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lcrrcccccc}
\hline
\hline
\  Network \  & \ Ref. \ & \ Nodes \ & \ Edges \ & \ $Q^{\mathrm{max}}$ \ & \ $C$  \ & \
$Q^{\mathrm{greedy}}$ \ & \ $C^{\mathrm{greedy}}$ \ & \ $Q^{\mathrm{EO}}$ \ & \
$C^{\mathrm{EO}}$\\
\hline
Zachary                & \onlinecite{ZacharyURL,Zachary77}           & 34   & 156   & 0.4198 & 4  & 0.3807  & 3  & 0.4188 \ & \ 4 \\
Zachary (W)            & \onlinecite{ZacharyURL,Zachary77}           & 34   & 156   & 0.4449 & 4  & 0.4345  & 3  \\
Fraternities Subj. (W) & \onlinecite{ZacharyURL,Bernard80,Bernard82} & 58   & 3306  & 0.0486 & 3  & 0.0412  & 3  \\
Fraternities Obj. (W)  & \onlinecite{ZacharyURL,Bernard80,Bernard82} & 58   & 1934  & 0.1460 & 6  & 0.1408  & 6  \\
Dolphins               & \onlinecite{NewmanURL,Lusseau2003}          & 62   & 318   & 0.5285 & 5  & 0.4923  & 4  \\
Prisoners              & \onlinecite{ZacharyURL,MacRae60}            & 67   & 182   & 0.6232 & 9  & 0.6217  & 9  \\
Les Miserables (W)     & \onlinecite{ZacharyURL,Knuth93}             & 77   & 508   & 0.5667 & 6  & 0.5472  & 5   \\
Les Miserables         & \onlinecite{ZacharyURL,Knuth93}             & 77   & 508   & 0.5600 & 6  & 0.5006  & 5  \\
Grassland              & \onlinecite{FoodwebURL}                     & 88   & 274   & 0.6627 & 9  & 0.6609  & 10   \\
Jazz bands             & \onlinecite{GleiserPM:Comsj,GleiserNote}    & 198  & 5484  & 0.4450 & 4  & 0.4389  & 4  & 0.4452 &  5\\
Littlerock             & \onlinecite{FoodwebURL}                     & 183  & 4886  & 0.3629 & 4  & 0.3395  & 3  \\
Jazz musicians         & \onlinecite{GleiserPM:Comsj,GleiserNote}    & 1265 & 76714 & 0.5780 & 18 & 0.5235  & 20 \\
e-mail                 & \onlinecite{Guimera2003,GuimeraNote}        & 1133 & 10902 & 0.5718 & 11 & 0.5093  & 15  &  0.5738 & 15\\
\hline
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{
  Our results for the optimized networks in this study compared to the greedy
  algorithm and the extremal optimization method were applicable. The entries
  labeled (W) are weighted networks. Shown are the number of nodes in the
  network (Nodes), the number of directed edges (Edges), the maximum modularity
  found by our method ($Q^{\mathrm{max}}$), the number of communities for this
  value of the modularity ($C$), the same quantities for the greedy algorithm
  ($Q^{\mathrm{greedy}}$ and $C^{\mathrm{greedy}}$), as well as for the extremal
  optimization method ($Q^{\mathrm{EO}}$ and $C^{\mathrm{EO}}$).
}
\label{tab:QMax}
\end{table*}

\section{Conclusions}
\label{sec:Conclusions}

We have presented a generic optimization technique that applies to community
detection algorithms that are agglomerative. We demonstrated the efficiency of
our method by calculating the maximum modularity for a set of networks and
comparing our results with two other methods, the greedy method by Newman and
coworkers \cite{NewmanMEJ:Fasadc, ClausetAaron:Fincsv} and the extremal
optimization method by \citet{DuchJ.:Comdcn}. In this comparison we found
modularity values for all examples studied that are larger than the results of
the greedy algorithm and comparable to the results of the extremal optimization
method. The computational complexity of our method ultimately is $\mathcal{O} (N
\log^{2} N)$. Our method therefore has the same computational complexity scaling
behavior as the greedy method. The extremal optimization method is
computationally more expensive and scales with a computational complexity of
$\mathcal{O} (N^{2} \log N)$. In applications in which sufficient memory is
available, our algorithm therefore is the method of choice.

Our study showed that the community divisions of maximum modularity are not
connected by one single dendrogram and thus any method which aims at optimizing
the modularity by optimizing each step along a dendrogram will fail.  This
finding confirms a similar conclusion drawn by \citet{MedusA:Detcsn}.  This has
important implications for the further development of modularity optimization
methods.

\section{Acknowledgments}

We would like to thank Travis Peery, Eric Chisolm, and Anders Niklasson for many
helpful discussions. We would also like to thank Mark Newman who graciously
provided us with his network data which we analyzed in this paper.  Special
acknowledgments also to the genuine and professional scientific atmosphere
provided by the International Ten Bar Caf\'{e}.

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Grace Gori, mezzo-soprano has been praised by The Washington Post for her "fine sense of style" and "strong dramatic impact", and is known as an acclaimed performer in both the concert and operatic repertoire. Her opera credits include the Third Madrigale in Puccini's Manon Lescaut with the Washington National Opera, Carmen with the Eldbrooke Artists Series, Cherubino in Annapolis Opera's The Marriage of Figaro, Tessa in The Gondoliers with the Washington Savoyards, and numerous credits including Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte goes Hollywood and Elvira in Don Giovanni of Long Island with the In Series during their annual Mozart festivals.
Ms. Gori's concert credits include guest appearances with the North York Symphony of Toronto, Canada, the Millbrook Orchestra of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and the Amherst (New York) Symphony. She has placed as a Semi-Finalist in both the Center for Contemporary Opera Vocal Competition (1998) and the Oratorio Society of New York Vocal Competition (1999) and twice has been a Finalist in the Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition. As a recitalist, she has entertained audiences from Mississippi to Vienna, Austria, and Munich, Germany, where she was a guest student at the Munich Hochschule fuer Musik in 1990-91.
In the Washington DC area, Ms. Gori has been a featured soloist with many fine musical organizations including the Cathedral Choral Society, the New Dominion Chorale, the Washington Bach Consort, the Maryland Handel Festival and the Washington Women's Chorus. She made her Kennedy Center Concert Hall debut in 1999 with the Master Chorale of Washington in Alice Parker's Melodious Accord, and returned there in December 2004 as the mezzo soloist in the Kennedy Center's 2004 "Holiday Celebration" Messiah Sing-Along. In December 2007 she made her television debut from the Kennedy Center Opera House Stage as the second soprano soloist in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with Peabody Conservatory Orchestra and the Choral Arts Society at the 2007 Kennedy Center Honors gala concert (broadcast December 26, 2007 on CBS).
Ms. Gori has performed world and American premieres of a number of musical works, including the song cycle, "Reflections: a trilogy for mezzo soprano and piano" by Marshall Ocker (1926-2004) in June 2005 , the choral work Hannah's Song by Katherine Dienes with the Washington Women's Chorus (June 2006), and composer Kim D. Sherman's operatic setting of Ibsen's Love's Comedy, in which she created the role of Miss Skjaere in a world premiere concert reading with the George Mason University Center for the Arts (June 2008).
Ms. Gori's performances in recent seasons have included the Second Madrigale in Puccini's Manon Lescaut with the Washington National Opera, the 2nd Noble Orphan in a Gala Concert performance of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier with the National Symphony Orchestra, Zita in the In Series production of Johnny Schicchi, Miss Todd in Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief with Odyssey Opera Theater, and a variety of recital and concert performances, including two performances in Italy at the InterHarmony International Music Festival.
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Alla corte di re Bum-bum (Mother Goose Melodies) è un film del 1931 diretto da Burt Gillett. È un cortometraggio d'animazione della serie Sinfonie allegre, distribuito negli Stati Uniti dalla Columbia Pictures il 16 aprile 1931. Il film è costellato da svariati personaggi delle filastrocche britanniche. È stato distribuito in DVD col titolo Storielle di Mamma Oca.

Trama
Il vecchio King Cole viene presentato da una banda di animali e viene fatto accomodare sul suo trono. Il Re chiede che gli vengano portati il libro con le storie di Mamma Oca e tre violini. Arrivano quindi i tre topolini ciechi che iniziano a suonare una melodia con i violini, mentre Mamma Oca inizia a sfogliare le pagine del suo libro e a raccontare varie filastrocche. La prima a comparire è Miss Muffet, la quale mangia felice dalla sua scodella finché non arriva un grosso ragno che le ruba il pasto. La seconda storiella riguarda invece Jack e Jill che salgono in cima alla collina e incontrano Simple Simon, il quale si diverte a fare scherzi spaventosi. Poi appaiono Humpty Dumpty seduto in cima al suo muro che ride a crepapelle finché non cade. La quarta storia è quella di Jack Horner con la sua torta di Natale dalla quale escono tanti merli dispettosi. Poi c'è la storia di Bo Peep che ha perso le sue pecorelle e di Boy Blue che l'aiuta a ritrovarle (ma una cade nel fango e diventa nera). Infine, un gatto, una mucca e un cagnolino suonano un'allegra melodia, il libro si capovolge e tutti i personaggi escono dalle pagine ed iniziano a ballare insieme, compreso King Cole.

Distribuzione

Edizione italiana
Il film fu distribuito in Italia nel 1932 in lingua originale, venendo doppiato dalla Royfilm solo nel 2004 in occasione della distribuzione in DVD. Non essendo stata registrata una colonna internazionale, nelle scene in cui i personaggi cantano la musica è sostituita da una versione sintetizzata.

Edizioni home video
Il cortometraggio fu distribuito in DVD-Video nel primo disco della raccolta Silly Symphonies, facente parte della collana Walt Disney Treasures e uscita in America del Nord il 4 dicembre 2001 e in Italia il 22 aprile 2004.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Sinfonie allegre
Film d'animazione statunitensi

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Suarez marks 12 years as Converse mayor
By Jeff B. Flinn, Staff writer
Published 12:00 am CDT, Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Converse Mayor Al Suarez beams after receiving a gold medal from Judson High School girls basketball coach Triva Corrales. Corrales presented the team medal to Suarez during a May 7 tribute to Suarez and his 12 years of service as the Converse mayor.
Converse Mayor Al Suarez beams after receiving a gold medal from Judson High School girls basketball coach Triva Corrales. Corrales presented the team medal to Suarez during a May 7 tribute to Suarez and his 12
Photo: Jeff B. Flinn / Staff
Cheerleaders, band members, dignitaries and family members filled the Converse City Council chamber in a surprise tribute to Mayor Al Suarez, who this month marks his 12th year as the city's mayor.
Bexar County Precinct 4 Commissioner Tommy Calvert was one of several speakers who addressed the mayor and council on May 7 about Suarez's tenure and the accomplishments the council has realized in recent years.
"I know mayor that by looking at what's happening in Converse, this is a very proud moment for you," Calvert said. "All of you here on council represent citizenship at its highest level. Being responsive to your citizens' needs 24-7 is a high calling. We do know the sacrifice that all of your families make, and mayor, you've certainly been there."
When Judson girls' basketball coach Triva Corrales presented Suarez with one of the gold medals her squad received this spring for its Class 6A state basketball championship, Judson High Principal Jesus Hernandez III "struck up the band," as members of the Judson High School band launched into the Judson fight song.
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Hernandez thanked Suarez for his continued support of Judson academics and athletics and held up a Lady Rockets Way street sign that will be posted May 17. The city decided to rename a portion of Rocket Lane as Lady Rockets Way in honor of the team's state championship.
City Parks and Environment Department vice chair Marcelo Buckley, a 15-year resident of Converse, presented Suarez with a plaque thanking him for his 13 years of city service, 12 as its mayor.
"I have seen Converse grow into an exciting, colorful city with a great variety of homes, businesses, schools, churches and entertainment, not to forget our awesome parks," Buckley said. "We are growing very steady and attracting many new residence and businesses. We are delighted to honor you for your 13 years of continued and unselfish service to the city of Converse."
Judson ISD public affairs director Steve Linscomb thanked Suarez for creating and developing a relationship with the Judson schools.
"I don't know if there's anybody outside the school district organization that attends as many meetings, as many events, and just shows that support for the staff, teachers, students and administration, as you do," Linscomb said. "It shows you are one of those individuals that, along with the council, see the importance of public education in the community, and the value in it. We appreciate that."
Suarez thanked those in attendance and quickly turned the praise onto the council and city staff.
"This is what it's all about," Suarez said. "This just shows you're doing it the right way, because this isn't just about one person. I've got a good team up here, a good team in the audience and foremost I have a great wife, Misty."
Suarez talked about accessibility and the constant phone-ringing, email answering and door-knocking that go with being a reachable mayor.
"The phone never stops ringing, there are constant emails, and people even knock on our door now, because they know we're going to answer ... and take their concerns very seriously," he said. "I'm not complaining, I think that's good. That (accessibility) is important to me.
"But this isn't about any one person, it's about the team," the mayor said, adding, "We've got a great city manager, we have a good council, and we have responsive department managers. That's what it takes to get things done, teamwork."
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That's twice the population of New York City!
Some Surprising Symptoms of Acid Reflux!
What Causes of Acid Reflux?
Needless to say, long term relief is to address what your particular causes (listed at the left) may be.
If you are over 50 years of age, your stomach can fail to secrete enough acid to properly digest some foods. I have found that supplementing after a meal with Betaine hydrochloride (Betaine HCL) helps tremendously. This may seem counter-intuitive, but when there isn't enough stomach acid secreted, what little there is tends to bubble up into the esophagus, causing irritation.
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Knarf Van Pellecom (Oostende, 1959), geboren als Frank Van Pellecom is een Vlaamse acteur en scenarist.

Carrière
Knarf Van Pellecom acteerde in veel televisieseries en films, maar hij stond ook vaak op de planken in het theater. Hieronder volgt een overzicht van de reeksen en films waarin hij acteerde.

 De Boot naar Spanje (1982)
 Ni avec toi, ni sans toi (1984)
 Postbus X (1988)
 De Grijze Man (1991)
 Langs de Kade (1993)
 Niet voor publikatie (1994)
 Samson & Gert (1994)
 De Kotmadam (1997)
 Heterdaad (televisieserie) (1998)
 Thuis (1999, 2006, 2009, 2011)
 Flikken (1999 en 2006)
 Verschoten & Zoon (2000)
 Kamiels Kerstverhaal (2000)
 F.C. De Kampioenen (2000 en 2002)
 Spoed (2000, 2001, 2003 en 2005)
 Chris & Co (2001)
 Sedes & Belli (2003)
 Kaat & co (2004)
 Zone Stad (2005 en 2012)
 Vidange Perdue (2006)
 Aspe (2006)
 Dag & Nacht: Hotel Eburon (2010)
 Familie (1994, 2012, 2013 en 2016)

Naast acteur is Van Pellecom ook scenarist. Hij schreef al scenario's voor de volgende televisiereeksen:

 Thuis
 Kaat & co
 F.C. De Kampioenen (2000-2011)
 Crème de la Crème

Van Pellecom schrijft ook tal van theaterstukken. Sommige vertaalde stukken van hem worden over de hele wereld gespeeld.

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Vlaams acteur
Vlaams scenarioschrijver


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With strong collaboration of FAO, UNEP-WCMC, Forest Department and UN-REDD PMU, national workshop on development of REDD+ safeguards information system was conducted for two days in Nay Pyi Taw at Amara Hotel focusing on identifying of significant information required for REDD+ safeguards information system (SIS).
Myanmar has started the process of developing its own approach for implementing the internationally agreed Cancun Safeguards in 2017 and has made some tangible progress; key achievements include the analysis of possible benefits and risks for the REDD+ PAMs proposed for the National REDD+ Strategy, and the development of a draft national clarification of the Cancun Safeguards.
On first day of the workshop, U Kyaw Kyaw Lwin, Deputy Director General of Forest Department described the importance of national clarification of Cancun Safeguards in the context of Myanmar in his opening speech. He also emphasized that the next major step in completing Myanmar's approach to the safeguards is the development of a Safeguards Information System (SIS), as required by UNFCCC.
And then, Ms. Cordula Epple, Safeguards Expert from UNEP-WCMC presented about Myanmar Safeguards roadmap, safeguards information system and summary of information. She also discussed about expected outcomes of the workshop.
SIS National Consultant U Thein Tun Hlaing from FAO introduced the information systems and sources assessment highlighting the information assessment results and key gaps. He also presented about technical knowledge and tips on information collection, quality and consolidation.
After that, the participants discussed in groups for SIS information sources especially on PLRs (Policies, Laws and Regulations), information gaps, risks related to information quality and collection. Estimated 50 participants from government agencies, development partners, local NGOs and CSOs attended on two- day workshop and actively participated in group discussion.
On second day of the workshop, Safeguards Expert Ms. Cordula Epple explained about SIS issues and options identified for Myanmar by giving two international examples of Vietnam and Sri Lanka.
For developing SIS design in Myanmar Context, participants discussed in term of groups on Institutional arrangement for the SIS, potential role of site-level information for the SIS, potential role of civil society in the operation of the SIS and development of Summaries of Information (SOI) and possible stages in a phased approach to SIS development.


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National City Stops Trying to Court San Diego Chargers With Stadium
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NATIONAL CITY, Calif. (AP) National City is no longer seeking to build the San Diego Chargers a new stadium, city officials said.
Mayor Ron Morrison said May 11 there was not enough financial support from around the region for his city's stadium bid, which might have cost $1 billion after the construction of parking garages, new freeway off-ramps and realigned trolley tracks.
"From day one, I knew it would be an uphill battle because I've worked with local governments for a very long time," Morrison said. "This is a very fast process, and local government isn't used to moving very fast."
The city had been the first to offer the team a stadium proposal after San Diego officials said they would not build the Chargers a new home last year. Fifty-seven percent of National City residents said they would like to see a sports facility built in a survey taken in December.
Chargers officials liked the location, but studies showed it would be a pricey spot for a new home.
National City did not own the proposed site just a few miles south of downtown San Diego. Most of it was owned by the San Diego Unified Port District and was home to maritime-industrial businesses, many of whom strongly opposed the stadium idea.
Morrison had hoped National City might get some financial support from San Diego city and county, but decided that was unlikely.
The Chargers also are still considering sites in Chula Vista and Oceanside, and have been approached by mayors in Las Vegas and San Antonio.
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Beyoncé has a new visual album in the works titled 'Black Is King'
WORDS Ella Jane PHOTOGRAPHY via Parkwood Entertainment PUBLISHED Mon, 29 Jun 2020
Four years after the release of her visual album, 'Lemonade', Queen Beyoncé is gearing up to release her next musical and visual debut, 'Black Is King'.
It launches just as the clock ticks over to July 31st PST on Disney+. This is 3am EST. Beyoncé shared these timings on her Instagram. This is technically 5pm July 31 for those of us on the East Coast of Australia - so if you're looking to watch it when it launches, that's when you'll need to tune in.
It will also be available on a selection of other services a day later on August 1 including M-NET.
The album will reportedly feature Childish Gambino, Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, 070 Shake, Tierra Whack, Jay-Z, Blue Ivy Carter and Jessie Reyez, as well as African artists including Wizkid, Shatta Wale, Burna Boy, Mr Eazi, Tiwa Savage, Tekno, Yemi Alade, Busiswa an`d Salatiel and pay tribute to the Black experience, and is set to be based off songs from The Lion King 2019 remake, where Beyoncé voiced Nala.
'Black Is King' is reportedly written, produced and directed by Beyoncé herself, similarly to 'Lemonade', and the 1-minute preview seems to follow a similar create direction. In a statement, the visual album is explained, "Black Is King pays tribute to voyages of Black families throughout time, the visual album tells the story of a young king's 'transcendent journey through betrayal, love and self-identity.' His ancestors help guide him toward his destiny, and with his father's teachings and guidance from his childhood love, he earns the virtues needed to reclaim his home and throne.".
In the trailer which has been released on her website, we are privy to colourful visuals and voiceovers that allude to the storyline, all in classic Beyoncé style where visuals are stitched together to enforce layered storytelling. Clips of kings and queens are intercepted with super 8 style footage and intimate glimpses of Beyoncé herself. If 'Lemonade' is anything to go off, we are anticipating 'Black Is King' to be even more evocative than her last.
On Juneteenth, she unexpectedly released 'Black Parade' a single co-written with Jay-Z, which focused on Black empowerment and touched on the global Black Lives Matter movement following the murder of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade.
While Disney Plus is no longer offering a five-day free trial, 'Black Is King' is one you'll likely want to sign up for.
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