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Q: regex not matching two delimiter chars I have a long string that contains url, title, description like this:
||url:foo||title:Books|Pencils||description:my description||

Data is always starting and ending with ||
How can I match that title (Books|Pencils) which might include an | (as in above sample) but not two || ?
I tried rules like these (using php preg_match):
#\|\|title:(.*)([\|\|])(.*)#

A: I guess,
(?<=\|\|title:).*?(?=\|\|)

might simply do that.
RegEx Demo 1
and if you want to get the other two,
(?<=\|\|\burl:|\btitle:|\bdescription:).*?(?=\|\|)

RegEx Demo 2
Test
$re = '/(?<=\|\|\burl:|\btitle:|\bdescription:).*?(?=\|\|)/m';
$str = '||url:foo||title:Books|Pencils||description:my description||';

preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);

var_dump($matches);

Output
array(3) {
  [0]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(3) "foo"
  }
  [1]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(13) "Books|Pencils"
  }
  [2]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(14) "my description"
  }
}

If you wish to simplify/update/explore the expression, it's been explained on the top right panel of regex101.com. You can watch the matching steps or modify them in this debugger link, if you'd be interested. The debugger demonstrates that how a RegEx engine might step by step consume some sample input strings and would perform the matching process.

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Whose Genitals Were Like Those Of Donkeys And Whose Emission Was Like That Of Horses
'She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.' Ezekiel 23:20
Tiger Photos Now Cliché On Dating Sites
'Tinder users estimate they encounter tigers in one out of every 10 profiles'
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'Weed Fairy' Hands Out Free Marijuana Around Seattle
Tapes nugs to flyers
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What Would REALLY Happen to Snowden If He Returns to the United States?
washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/snowde…
Blond blue eyed white guy gets plastic surgery to look Korean
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Man arrested for allegedly stealing more than $350,000 worth of human skin from a Philadelphia hospital
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Homophobic Texas restaurant is being trolled by gays on Yelp and Google reviews
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Pooping Dog Diverts Philly-Bound Flight
csnphilly.com/article/poopin…
Detroit's decline, as told by Google Street View
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World On Brink Of Sixth Great Extinction, Species Disappearing Faster Than Ever Before
huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/six…
Human consciousness is simply a state of matter, like a solid or liquid – but quantum
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Unidentified Flying Objects In Classical Antiquity
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Suspected I-81 state trooper killer blames 'time warp'
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The Spirit Radio That Creeped Out Nikola Tesla
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'Smart' Meter Spying Finally Admitted
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Man with manure fetish jailed for eight-year vendetta against farmer who banned him rolling naked in cowpats
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OMFG the Tarantula Hawk sting scores a 4 on the Schmidt pain index (on a scale of 0 to 4)
Cosmopolitan's A Beginner's Guide To Rim Jobs
'…just part the hair with your hands so you have better access.'
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Cops Spray Woman's Vagina With Mace To "Punish" Her After Drug Arrest
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Cop extorts 15 yr old girl into sendin' nudes, pretends he's from Brazzers
fox13now.com/2014/04/04/for…
How much cocaine can a honey bee take?
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Researchers use YouTube to examine the symptoms of 'robo-tripping' on DXM
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Could You Pass the Bullet Ant Test?
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Printable List of Monsanto Owned "Food" Producers
In light of the recent public anger over the Monsanto Protection Act, here's a simple, printable list of companies that use Monsanto products. By avoiding products made by companies on this list, you can help ensure your money isn't going to Monsanto and also watch out for the health of your family and yourself
Study: Bondage Aficionados Are Better-Adjusted Than Most
According to new research from the Netherlands, the psychological profile of people who participate in these types of erotic games "is characterized by a set of balanced, autonomous, and beneficial personality characteristics." Compared to those who engage in more mainstream sexual behavior, such aficionados report "a higher level of subjective well-being." "We conclude that (these activities) may be thought of as a recreational leisure, rather than the expression of psychopathological processes," psychologist Andreas Wismeijer of Nyenrode Business University writes in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars
The film, Star Wars, premiered on May 25, 1977. Today, on its 36th anniversary, I'm examining the evolution of the film's logo.
Google-owned Motorola reveals stomach acid-powered tablet that turns your body into a password
Regina Dugan, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) and current head of Google-owned Motorola's research division, introduced a prototype "vitamin authentication" tablet which turns your entire body into a walking authentication token. "We got to do a lot of epic shit when I was at DARPA," Dugan said. Indeed, DARPA has been involved in everything from weaponized hallucinations to tiny spy computers to military human enhancements to automated drone-borne targeting and tracking systems to linking rat brains over the internet and much more. Forget traditional usernames and passwords, this technology unveiled at D11 uses a tiny stomach acid-powered tablet to produce an 18-bit signal which can be detected by outside devices and used for authentication.
Ex-cop's odd underwear incident results in jail
A 20-year San Antonio Police Department veteran was ordered Wednesday to serve six months in jail for a bizarre incident last year in which he was found wandering the streets near his wrecked city vehicle, disoriented and without pants. Sgt. Joseph Earl Myers, 53, who resigned almost immediately after the incident, had no explanation for the odd occurrence as state District Judge Melisa Skinner pressed him for answers that have so far eluded authorities. "I made some bad decisions," Myers said while apologizing, conceding he'd mixed alcohol with the prescription sleep drug Ambien the night before. The former narcotics officer added that he has no idea how cocaine was found in his system, although he doesn't dispute it was. He'd never used illegal substances before, he said. "I don't know where I was. I was irrational. I was disoriented," he told authorities. "I don't remember leaving the house. I don't remember taking cocaine." Thanks Jasmine
Police: Ann Marie Haines poisons burritos, feeds them to husband, daughter
A Lehigh County woman is behind bars for allegedly poisoning burritos and feeding them to her family. Ann Marie Haines cooked up the meal Tuesday night inside her home on Yorkshire Drive in Lower Macungie Township because her husband and daughter didn't invite her to go along on a car shopping trip, police said. Investigators said Haines crushed up some sort of medication and put it into the burritos, which she then fed to her husband and daughter. They reportedly felt dizzy and tired and had to be taken to the hospital to be checked out.
Bloomberg: Medical marijuana a 'hoax'
In a discussion of efforts to legalize it across the country, Bloomberg said, "There's no medical. This is one of the great hoaxes of all time." He went on to make another eyebrow raising statement about how legalizing marijuana will cause other problems. "Drug dealers have families to feed," Bloomberg said. "If they can't sell marijuana, they'll sell something else." Bloomberg says that "something else" will be worse than pot. "The push to legalize this is just wrongheaded," Bloomberg added.
The most embarrassing graph in American drug policy
An enormous law enforcement effort seeks to raise prices at every point in the supply chain from farmers to end-users: Eradicating coca crops in source countries, hindering access to chemicals required for drug production, interdicting smuggling routes internationally and within our borders, street-level police actions against local dealers. That's why this may be the most embarrassing graph in the history of drug control policy. (I'm grateful to Peter Reuter, Jonathan Caulkins, and Sarah Chandler for their willingness to share this figure from their work.) Law enforcement strategies have utterly failed to even maintain street prices of the key illicit substances. Street drug prices in the below figure fell by roughly a factor of five between 1980 and 2008. Meanwhile the number of drug offenders locked up in our jails and prisons went from fewer than 42,000 in 1980 to a peak of 562,000 in 2007.
The Latest Cannabis Discoveries That the Federal Government Doesn't Want You to Know About
Frequent cannabis smokers possess no greater lung cancer risk than do either occasional pot smokers or non-smokers Subjects who regularly inhale cannabis smoke do not possess an increased risk of lung cancer compared to those who either consume it occasionally or not at all, according to data presented in April at the annual meeting of the American Academy for Cancer Research. Investigators from the University of California, Los Angeles analyzed data from six case-control studies, conducted between 1999 and 2012, involving over 5,000 subjects (2,159 cases and 2,985 controls) from around the world. They reported, "Our pooled results showed no significant association between the intensity, duration, or cumulative consumption of cannabis smoke and the risk of lung cancer overall or in never smokers."
44 percent of drinkers can't taste difference between cheap and top-shelf vodka: Post survey
More than two dozen New Jersey bars caught pouring cheap hooch into top-shelf bottles got away with cheating customers likely because 44 percent of tipplers can't even taste the difference, a Post survey has found. We enlisted eager volunteers to sample a shot of the $35-a-bottle French-made Grey Goose vodka and a shot of upstate Syracuse's $8-a-bottle grain vodka Alexis to see whether they could pick the "better" booze. The results were sobering — 22 of the 50 tasters preferred the low-end elixir.
'Smoking' alcohol is a highly dangerous trend among the calorie-conscious: experts
In an effort to gain a greater buzz for fewer calories, some young drinkers are inhaling their liquor – either pouring it over dry ice or 'freebasing' it and sucking up the vapors. Either way, going around the stomach and liver is incredibly risky, doctors say.
Iraqi farmer:" Im addicted to eating scorpions " Farmer eats Live Scorpions! [Video]
Crystal Meth Origins Link Back to Nazi Germany and World War II
It was in Germany, though, that the drug first became popular. When the then-Berlin-based drug maker Temmler Werke launched its methamphetamine compound onto the market in 1938, high-ranking army physiologist Otto Ranke saw in it a true miracle drug that could keep tired pilots alert and an entire army euphoric. It was the ideal war drug. In September 1939, Ranke tested the drug on university students, who were suddenly capable of impressive productivity despite being short on sleep. From that point on, the Wehrmacht, Germany's World War II army, distributed millions of the tablets to soldiers on the front, who soon dubbed the stimulant "Panzerschokolade" ("tank chocolate"). British newspapers reported that German soldiers were using a "miracle pill." But for many soldiers, the miracle became a nightmare.
Fan gets herpes from Rihanna-endorsed MAC lipstick
According to a suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court and reported on by New York Daily News, Greenidge says she was persuaded to try the lipstick at a pop-up shop outside of Barclay's Arena where the concert was held. "(MAC) didn't use a fresh or new lipstick tube, but rather one that had been used for other patrons," the Daily News quotes the suit as charging. Two weeks later, Greenidge says she developed a cold sore. A doctor later alledgedly diagnosed her as having herpes, a condition Greenidge says cost her two weeks of work as a waitress and, according to the suit, "mental anguish and emotional distress" that can only be relieved by an unspecified sum.
Arsenic being intentionally added to conventional chicken
The old saying, "You are what you eat," poses troubling implications for public health in light of a new study on chicken meat, which found that most of it contains dangerously high levels of toxic arsenic. And the worst part is that industrial chicken producers are directly responsible for causing this, as they intentionally add arsenic-based pharmaceutical drugs to chicken feed in order to bulk them up quickly and improve the color of their meat, which in turn poisons you and your family. You can thank researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future in Maryland for exposing this little-known fact in a recent paper published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. As it turns out, virtually all commercial chicken, including certified organic and "antibiotic-free" varieties, contain some level of inorganic arsenic. But it is the conventional chicken fed arsenic-based drugs that have the highest levels.
FBI Ran Pedophile Ring to Nab Pedophiles
As late as last year, the FBI ran a child pornography operation in an attempt to nab its customers. The service ran for two weeks "while attempting to identify more than 5,000 customers, according to a Seattle FBI agent's statements to the court." Court records indicate the site continued to distribute child pornography online while under FBI control; the Seattle-based special agent, a specialist in online crimes against children, detailed the investigation earlier this month in a statement to the court.
New App Claims To Cure Homosexuality In 60 Days
This week the company expanded its reach by releasing a free app for iOS and Android that covers the same ground, including a course to "cure" homosexuality. Gay rights organizations are beginning to cry foul, noting that the American Psychiatric Association, among other mental health sources, have denounced "gay-curing" courses as psychologically damaging.
'Atari Dump' Will Be Excavated, After Nearly 30 Years
The New Mexico landfill or "Atari Dump" where the game console maker buried its mistakes — the biggest being the game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — will be dug up by game developer Fuel Industries, which hopes to make a documentary about the project. Also known as the "Atari Graveyard" or the "E.T. Dump", the desert landfill is the spot where Atari decided to permanently off-load tons of games that were sitting unsold in a warehouse in El Paso, Texas, in 1983. So they went to a dump in Alamogordo, N.M. This week the city council voted to allow Fuel to excavate. "That September, according to newspaper accounts, 14 trucks backed up to the dump and dropped their loads," the blog Western Digs reports. "Company spokespeople told the local press that the waste was mostly broken and returned merchandise — consoles, boxes, and cartidges."
How to Fight Revenge Porn
But one legal argument has somehow failed to make a major appearance in revenge-porn cases: confidentiality. Broadly speaking, to confide is "to give to the care or protection of another," and it is often the defining trait of explicit media shared between romantic partners. Simply put, explicit images and videos are unlikely to be created or shared with an intimate without some expectation or implication of confidence. This reality has been acknowledged but underutilized in the dominant narrative on non-consensual pornography. In contrast to new rights that would be created by proposed "anti-revenge porn" laws, confidentiality is already a well-established legal concept. It is older than all of the privacy torts and statutes in America.
Schools scanned students' irises without permission
"It seems like they are mostly focused on this program, like the program was the problem. It's not, it's the invasion of my family's Constitutional right to privacy that is the problem, as well as the school allowing a private company access to my child without my consent or permission," one concerned parent wrote in a Facebook post that has since been shared hundreds of times. "This is stolen information, and we cannot retrieve it."
Latest Kinect sensors allow games to feed off your fear
The latest game spawned from the Alien film franchise is being made by Creative Assembly, a game studio in Horsham, UK. It is likely to be one of the first games to explore the potential of Microsoft's next-generation Kinect sensors for the Xbox One games console. Announced at the same time as the unveiling of the Xbox One last week, the new Kinect is a huge improvement on its predecessor (see "New wave"). It will have HD colour and infrared cameras that can see if your eyes are open or closed in the dark. It will be able to detect your pulse from fluctuations in skin tone and, by measuring how light reflects off your face, it will know when you start to sweat. This will allow the new Kinect to bring emotional gaming to your living room. Games can use the biological data to orchestrate your experience by adjusting the difficulty or intensity in real time, depending on how excited the system thinks you currently are.
"Absolutely Every One" – 15 Out of 15 – Bluefin Tuna Tested In California Waters Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation
The fish that will be arriving around now, and in the coming months, to California waters may be carrying considerably more radioactivity and if so they may possibly be a public health hazard. Japanese and U.S. officials – of course – are pretending that the amount of radiation found in the bluefin is safe. But the overwhelming scientific consensus is that there is no safe level of radiation … and radiation consumed and taken into the body is much more dangerous than background radiation.
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THE DRAWING POWER OF KEI CHIONG
By Hans Ebert
When time for the Longines Hong Kong International Races rolls around again- and gawd knows, time flies- there will be another reason for taking in The Greatest Show On Turf: Kei Chiong.
The Kei Chiong success story has happened almost faster than "Hiddleswift", the overnight and very public displays of canoodling for each other between Actor Tom Hiddlestone and serial love-bingeing singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. "Hiddleswift". Fiddlesticks. Same same.
The difference between these two stories is that one is all about substance and discipline and determination and making something out of, where a year ago, existed nothing. The other has to do with the world's preoccupation and obsession with the superficial love lives of celebrities.
In what has been an extraordinary few months, Kei Chiong has gone from being an average ten-pound claiming apprentice with the novelty factor of being the first female to be granted a riding license in Hong Kong in fifteen years, who many thought would not make the grade, to single-handedly- and some important background help- bringing Girl Power to racing- and not only Hong Kong racing. She's Kung Fu Spice.
In this social media-driven world, her rapid ascent and improvement as a rider taking on some of the best in the world, twice a week- and beating them with increasing frequency- has not gone unnoticed. "KK" is becoming an international phenomenon, and Longines might be looking at its first horse racing ambassador, a Chinese racing personality at that, with the appeal to actually transcend the often insular world of horse racing.
Voted The Most Popular Jockey in Hong Kong of last season by the public, where she beat out the phenomenon that is Joao Moreira aka The Magic Man for the title through the voting power of Facebook, and the recipient of the inaugural Tony Cruz Award for being the most successful local rider, Kei Chiong is a marketer's dream. She's also a USP for the HKJC that not only adds another level of interest in December's HKIR Week, but is also a terrific opportunity to attract the current non-racing section of the public to the sport. And this has started to happen.
While we wish Michelle Payne a speedy recovery from a horrific injury, and think back to last year when she became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup, one cannot help but feel that those promoting and marketing the sport in Australia missed a huge opportunity.
This lost opportunity was not working with the history-making jockey to create an ongoing campaign to expand the sport's customer base- to make it younger, to take it from being described as "eye candy" by oldsters trying desperately hard to be hipsters, and make horse racing a likeable sport, especially through social media, amongst females of all ages- females who still view it as something of a global Ye Olde Boys Club where many gather to make rhubarb rhubarb noises. That's not a pleasant picture.
Getting to where she is today has not exactly been a stroll in the park for the 23-year-old Kei Chiong, who grew up in the concrete jungle that is Tsuen Wan, a tough area of Hong Kong made up of housing estates, and where many face an uncertain future.
It's taken time and patience and some dedicated mentoring, both by Amy Chan, Headmistress of the HKJC's Apprentice Jockey School, and the great South African horseman Felix Coetzee to turn her into an "overnight sensation". Let's also recognise the efforts of New Zealand trainer Allan Sharrock for whom Kei Chiong rode for six months before returning to Hong Kong. The highly respected Sharrock gave her the grounding, discipline, and self-belief needed.
As for this "overnight sensation" label, this happened not that long ago, and when KK was sidelined for a few months through an injury to two of her fingers. As Coetzee explained, "After the races, a group of us sit down with Kei and (fellow apprentice) Jack Wong, and go through videos of their rides- what they're doing well, and where there should be improvement". It was at one of these internal clinics and classes that one weapon missing in her artillery became clear: Kei Chiong rarely used her left hand when riding. It was a simple Eureka moment, but it has made a world of difference between winning and losing. "While still recovering from her injury, we made Kei go everywhere with that whip in her left hand, and then really pushed her when exercising on the wooden and mechanical exercise horse".
The new, improved Kei Chiong returned to race riding a different rider- more confident, stronger, and an expert at playing catch me if you can, something that was a hallmark of Coetzee's front-running riding style, and seen to great effect on horses like Egyptian Ra, picture below, and, when it was required, the mighty Silent Witness.
Coetzee has been a great supporter of and mentor for Kei Chiong ever since being employed by the HKJC to improve the quality of local riding talent. During those early days and when the jury was still out as to whether Chiong would graduate from simply being labeled "the only female to be granted a riding license in Hong Kong in fifteen years", it was Coetzee who kept the faith. "She takes it all in. Don't you worry about her," he assured her doubters at the time. "There's something in her eyes- a steely determination to succeed by learning- and never stopping to learn". Perhaps, but who hit the ground running first was fellow apprentice Jack Wong. That was then.
Experienced horsemen like Felix Coetzee and Tony Cruz know only too well about apprentices' allowances and the ability to lead in a race. As Cruz recently remarked, and which Coetzee echoes, is now seeing Kei Chiong evolve into a more tactical rider, who can also win races by coming off the pace. It was a motivational challenge handed down by Cruz last weekend- this need to be a truly versatile rider and not a one trick pony. Challenge accepted by Kei Chiong.
"Kei has everything going for her," says one senior rider. "The improvement she has shown since returning from her accident, and how easily she adapted to riding the tight and challenging Happy Valley track is something I have seldom seen before. I have followed her in races, and when she's out there in front, she's in total control. Just being able to lead in a race is easy. Timing her rides to perfection isn't. Working with Felix Coetzee, who. we would half-joke, had a stopwatch in his head giving him details of every sectional when he was riding- something that made him such an incredible judge of pace-has no doubt rubbed off on Kei.
"She's also become much stronger in a finish. Go back and watch her beat a rider as strong as Zac Purton, something she did aboard Multimax at the last race meeting. Weight aside, that was a damn determined win, and it's winning rides like this that's making her as much in demand as Joao Moreira by stables and owners. Zac Purton is no longer the main competition to the Magic Man. It's Kei Chiong. And after her off-season stint in Adelaide with (trainer) Phillip Stokes, she'll return an even more polished rider with youth on her side. Her success is great for local racing fans who've been waiting for a local hero for decades."
Timing is everything, and having ridden 37 winners, placing her sixth in last season's Jockey Premiership, and above even the legend that is Douglas Whyte, Kei Chiong has finished part one of her journey.
On September 3 with the start of the new racing season, the next part of the journey continues. And if going according to the script, it points to more success. Then there's her appearance during Longines HKIR Week in December. This is something visitors to The World Turf Championships are already gearing up for along with the marquee value equine and riding talent that will be on show.
Will a little Chinese girl- a spunky little thing who has proven her doubters wrong, accepted challenges, and risen to the occasion- make her mark on the world stage in December? This is the same stage where she had a career-changing fall last year in front of 85,000 racing fans when the horse she was riding clipped heels. At that time, she had ridden only two winners in three months.
With everything she's changed around since then, this gives the HKIR yet another USP, and another star attraction to its cavalcade of names- a name that few had heard of this time last year. This is what makes Kei Chiong's journey through her Field Of Dreams all the more amazing- and all the more inspiring to a new generation of aspiring local female jockeys who finally have a genuine role model.
This entry was posted in DOUGLAS WHYTE, HAPPY WEDNESDAY, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Hong Kong Racing, Horse Racing, JOAO MOREIRA, The horse racing industry, Tony Cruz and tagged Amy Chan, Felix Coetzee, Kei Chiong, MICHELLE PAYNE. Bookmark the permalink.


A long touring section that is usually broken into shorter sections: there are plenty of alternative putin/takeouts.
Putin at Hereford just downstream of the A49 bridge on river right. Takeout at the B4260 bridge near Ross-on-Wye (about a km downstream of the A40 bridge).


Webster's dictionary defines speed as "the magnitude of a velocity irrespective of direction". Car enthusiasts define speed simply with one word: Bonneville.
For millions of years the elements have combined to create the flat, dry and vast playground we now call the Bonneville Salt Flats. Each year speed junkies gather together for the annual sacrament of speed known simply as "Speed Week" to test their metal and whits to see who is fastest.
Since 1949, the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA) has gathered the fastest cars and drivers in the world together for a sanctioned and organized week long run of top speed record attempts. The SCTA has a class for every conceivable type of vehicle ranging from go-karts all the way up to literal jet cars. If it has a motor and tires, it most likely has a class to run in. This type of inclusion makes for a much more entertaining week on the salt, guaranteeing that you'll see something you've never seen before.
One of the recent record attempts included one of our personal favorites, the Ferrari F40, who on his first attempt fell just short of the world record. We have it on good authority that this year will not disappoint the Ferrari fan in us all either as a recently completed Twin-Turbo Ferrari Enzo will be gunning for a new record. Yes, you read that correctly- a Twin-Turbo Enzo! With rumored twin 67 trim turbo's this Enzo is believed to be putting down 1000hp, possibly even more! Now we don't know the exact figures on this mythical beast but we DO know it exists and that it WILL be running this week at Bonneville.
If you're like us, you've never been to the Salt Flats even though they're here in our own backyard. Also if you're like us, you going to change that this year and head out to take in the amazing speed, beautiful cars and great sun!
Speed week begins tomorrow with registration and tech. Actual racing and record runs begin Saturday, August 14th, through next Friday, August 20th. See more information here.
StephAnn Knotts on August 12, 2010 at 8:59 pm.
"sacrament of speed" may be my favorite description of this event! I haven't been to Speed Week since I was 16 or 17, but anyone's first time on the salt is awesome… It's an entirely different sort of experience! I love it!


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import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Optional;

import de.kaiserpfalzedv.commons.api.data.base.Identifiable;
import de.kaiserpfalzedv.commons.api.data.base.Nameable;

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 * A bigger module of the software. May come with a software license of its own and therefore with an
 * own {@link ApplicationLicense technical license}.
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 * @version 1.0.0
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Click the Office button, install AutoKMS, and click the Activate button.
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Pchin-jin, též pinyin (čínsky 拼音, v samotném pchin-jinu pīnyīn, doslova "hláskování"; celým názvem schéma čínské hláskové abecedy, čínsky 汉语拼音方案, hànyǔ pīnyīn fāng'àn, chan-jü pchin-jin fang-an) je oficiální systém romanizace standardní čínštiny v kontinentální Číně a do určité míry na Tchaj-wanu. Užívá se při výuce čínštiny a také pro zápis čínských znaků skrze počítačové vstupní systémy jako jsou klávesnice. Slouží k zachycení výslovnosti čínských znaků včetně čtyř tónů, k čemuž používá čtyři diakritická znaménka a plní funkci transkripce čínských znaků do latinky (přijat jako mezinárodní standard ISO 7098). Proto je důležitý zejména pro jednotný přepis čínských zeměpisných názvů a osobních jmen osob čínské národnosti.

Prvotním významem čínského slova pchin-jin je "hláskování", takže tímto pojmem v čínštině může být označena jakákoliv hlásková abeceda (srovnej např. 捷克拼音, jiékè pīnyīn, ťie-kche pchin-jin = "česká abeceda"). Bez bližšího určení tento výraz nicméně označuje převážně chan-jü pchin-jin pro mandarínskou čínštinu.

Historie
Tvůrcem pchin-jinu je ekonom a lingvista Čou Jou-kuang (, pchin-jinem Zhōu Yǒuguāng, 1906–2017), který byl čínským vedením pověřen řízením asi dvacetičlenného týmu, který se tím zabýval po 3 roky. Ten také pro tento účel prosadil použití latinky oproti předchozímu systému bopomofo. První verze pochází z roku 1956, jako oficiální způsob fonetického zápisu čínštiny byl v Čínské lidové republice přijat v roce 1958. Začal se používat převážně ve výuce, aby usnadnil žákům pochopení výslovnosti standardní čínštiny a jejich zápisu čínskými znaky. Pchin-jin vychází ze starších transkripčních systémů z první poloviny 20. století, převážně z Latinxua Sin Wenz a Gwoyeu Romatzyh, způsob označování tónů diakritickými znaménky je převzat z bopomofo. Pchin-jin je oficiálně používán i v Singapuru, USA a dalších zemích, oficiálně je od roku 2009 zaveden i na Tchaj-wanu, i když zde v praxi stále přežívají jiné systémy, například Tongyong pinyin.

Přestože je jí zdánlivě blízký, pchin-jin není založen na anglické výslovnosti a výslovnost řady písmen se od angličtiny liší.

Většinou se pchin-jinem zachycuje standardní výslovnost čínských znaků ve standardní čínštině, založené na pekingském nářečí. Pro ostatní čínské dialekty či jazyky (např. kantonštinu, tchajwanštinu), které používají tytéž znaky, ale vyslovují je jinak, existují podobné systémy, založené na stejném principu, které jsou v čínštině rovněž nazvané "hláskování" čili abeceda, tj. pchin-jin.

Používání pchin-jinu v Čínské republice (na Tchaj-wanu)
Čínská republika, která v současnosti fakticky kontroluje prakticky pouze území ostrova Tchaj-wan, používání pchin-jinu dlouho odmítala, protože tento systém vznikl z iniciativy komunistické pevninské Číny. Užívání pchin-jinu bylo dlouho vnímáno jako výraz uznání komunistické vlády, a naopak preferování Wade-Gilesovy transkripce bylo v mezinárodním kontextu chápáno jako symbolický projev sympatií ke Kuomintangu a Čínské republice.

Po experimentech s jinými systémy transkripce (viz tongyong pinyin) a mnoha sporech, v nichž převládala spíše politická a symbolická než praktická stránka věci, byl pchin-jin tchajwanskou vládou formálně přijat teprve v roce 2009. Toto přijetí však znamená pouze to, že pchin-jin má být nadále používán v dokumentech vydaných státními institucemi, pro jednotlivce, firmy a nevládní organizace není nijak zavazující. Zejména pokud jde o přepis osobních jmen občanů v oficiálních dokumentech, tchajwanská vláda sice doporučuje používat pchin-jin, ale respektuje v tomto ohledu svobodnou volbu jednotlivců. V praxi mnoho obyvatel Tchaj-wanu přepisuje své jméno jiným systémem přepisu (především Wade-Gilesovou transkripcí), nebo i vlastním nesystematickým způsobem. Například politička Cchaj Jing-wen (znaky 蔡英文, pchin-jinem Cài Yīngwén) pro přepis vlastního jména do latinky užívá jinak značně neobvyklou transkripci Gwoyeu Romatzyh, tedy Tsai Ing-wen.

Averze vůči pchin-jinu však na Tchaj-wanu přetrvala i po jeho oficiálním přijetí: sinolog John F. Copper v roce 2015 poznamenává, že "některá města, společnosti a organizace, zejména na jihu Tchaj-wanu, to nepřijala, protože to budilo dojem užšího svazku mezi Tchaj-wanem a ČLR". Pchin-jin se v současnosti na Tchaj-wanu nadále nepoužívá ani ve školní výuce, jak je běžné v pevninské Číně; namísto toho se k výuce výslovnosti znaků používá zvláštní fonetické písmo bopomofo. Na rozdíl od pevninské Číny tedy pchin-jin není na Tchaj-wanu oficiálně vyučován na školách. Bopomofo se na Tchaj-wanu stále široce používá také pro zadávání textu do počítačů a mobilních telefonů, zatímco v pevninské Číně je preferován systém zadávání textu založený na pchin-jinu.

Hlásky
 Souhlásky: (v závorce odpovídající počeštěný přepis, který zhruba vystihuje jak hláska zní českému posluchači. V žádném případě však nelze brát přepis jako návod k výslovnosti – více než polovina hlásek se v češtině vůbec nevyskytuje):
 B (p), C (cch), CH (čch), D (t), F (f), G (k), H (ch), J (ť), K (kch), L (l), M (m), N (n), P (pch), Q (ťch), R (ž/r/ř), S (s), SH (š), T (tch), W (w), X (s/ś), Y (j), Z (c), ZH (č).
 Samohlásky:
 A, E (e, '), I (i, '), O, U, Ü (po J, Q, X, Y se místo Ü píše U, ale vždy se tam vyslovuje Ü).
 Skupiny samohlásek např.:
 AI (aj), AO, EI (ej), IA, IAO, IE, IU (iou), OU, UE (üe), UI (uej), UO.
 S koncovým N např.:
 AN, EN, IAN (ien), IN, UAN, UN.
 S koncovým NG např.:
 ANG, ENG, IANG, ING, ONG (ung), UANG.

Tón
Volitelně lze v pchin-jinu označit jeden ze čtyř tónů, kterými může být slabika vyslovena:

 vysoký rovný, např. Ā,
 stoupavý, např. Á,
 klesavě-stoupavý, např. Ǎ,
 klesavý, např. À.

Kvůli technickým omezením se někdy tóny značí číslicí za slabikou. I v pchin-jinu s tóny zůstanou některé slabiky bez označení tónu, protože jsou tónově neutrální. Ani pchin-jin s tóny nedokáže vystihnout rozdíl mezi všemi znaky. Čínština je velmi homonymní jazyk, tj. existuje mnoho výrazů, které se stejně vyslovují, ale jejich význam se liší. V čínském písmu lze významy odlišit, ale v pchin-jinu, jenž je založen na výslovnosti, ne.

Hranice slov
Slabiky jednoho slova se obvykle píší dohromady, např. Beijing (na rozdíl od tzv. českého přepisu, kde se slabiky jednoho slova oddělují spojovníkem, např. Pej-ťing). Tam, kde by spojování slabik mohlo působit problémy s interpretací, se slabiky oddělují apostrofem (např. Xi'an oproti Xian).

Zajistit jednotnost při stanovování hranic slov není jednoduché, protože v čínském písmu se hranice slov nijak nevyznačují a samotný pojem slova lze v čínštině považovat za importovaný. Přesto v řadě případů panuje shoda, co je a co není jedno slovo.

Např. drtivá většina čínských osobních jmen se skládá ze tří znaků (slabik), z nichž první, rodové jméno, je ekvivalent našeho příjmení a považuje se za jedno slovo, druhá a třetí slabika se pak spojuje do druhého slova, které odpovídá našemu křestnímu jménu (např. Mao Zedong = Mao Ce-tung, kde Mao je rodové jméno, příjmení a Ce-tung je vlastní jméno osoby, jakoby "křestní"). Nejvíce "slov" v moderní čínštině je dvojslabičných.

Abecední řazení
Pchin-jin se běžně používá při řazení slov v překladových slovnících z čínštiny do jiného jazyka (na začátku takového slovníku je tabulka znaků s odkazy na jim odpovídající výslovnosti v pchin-jinu). Při abecedním řazení slov podle pchin-jinu se v zásadě využívá pořadí písmen v latince (tedy A-B-C-CH-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-NG-O-P-Q-R-S-SH-T-U-Ü-W-X-Y-Z-ZH), ale je potřeba mít na paměti, že spřežky (CH, SH apod.) se řadí samostatně a řazení podle slabik má přednost před pořadím písmen (např. xiafeng by bylo mezi xi'an a xian). Slabiky lišící se tónem se řadí podle pořadí tónů (A-Ā-Á-Ǎ-À, např. xiáshān by bylo před xiàfēng).

Cizí jazyky

Teprve po zavedení pinyinu se postupně řešil problém, jak do tohoto systému latinky začleňovat slova z cizích jazyků (zejména geografická jména, u osobních jmen je situace poněkud odlišná), resp. uznaných minoritních jazyků, tedy dalších čínských jazyků zapisovaných oficiálně čínským písmem (hakka, kantonština, teochew ad.) a nečínských jazyků (mongolština, tibetština, ujgurština). U čínských "dialektů" byla až v 70. letech přijata zásada, že se oficiálně přepisují ze znaků podle výslovnosti standardní čínštiny (takže z dřívějšího města Amoy se stal Xiamen ap.). U druhé skupiny jazyků byla přijata zcela odlišná zásada, tedy že se mají slova nečínského původu přepisovat do pinyinu podle výslovnosti příslušných jazyků. Za tímto účelem byly přijaty zvláštní transkripční systémy, které byly jako oficiální součást pinyinu vyhlášené roku 1976 (tedy např. čínsko-mongolské jméno 内蒙古 se přepíše do pinyinu Nei Mongol a ne Nei Menggu, jak by odpovídalo standardní výslovnosti znaků – další příklady s vysvětlením uvedeny níže). Podobné zásady se užívá i u jmen mimo Čínu při tvorbě kartografických děl, např. Indický oceán se uvádí jako Indian Yang (místo Yindu Yang, což odpovídá znakům 印度洋), nebo Malajsie jako Malaysia (místo Malaixiya 马来西亚).

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Reference

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 TŘÍSKOVÁ, Hana ed. Transkripce čínštiny. díl I. – sborník statí, díl II. – tabulky a návody. Praha: Česko-čínská společnost, 1999.
 TŘÍSKOVÁ, H.; SEHNAL, D. Jak číst čínskou abecedu pinyin. In Pražská kulturní revue: Čínská lidová republika. Příloha Literárních novin č. 40 ze 3.10. 2013, pp. 4–10. On-line na orient.cas.cz
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The problem is, working out the exact amount we need is tricky. Our research showed that 77% of savers don't know how much they'll need and only 16% of savers can give a figure.
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What are the standards?
To keep things simple, the Retirement Living Standards are three levels of expenditure to help savers understand how much money they will need to live the lifestyle they want in retirement.
Inspired by, and similar to, the system used in Australia, the Standards provide a benchmark level of annual income to fund different standards of living in retirement. Each Standard is based around a basket of goods and services and also takes into account different circumstances (living inside or outside London; single or couple).
Five-a-day
The "Five-a-day" concept is now so engrained in our culture that we all instantly know what it means, and most of us (whether willingly or not) benchmark our diets against it.
We believe it is healthy - the experts have told us so
The Retirement Living Standards have been developed through extensive research based on what people really aspire to in retirement.
The Standards are the starting point to help you engage with your future lifestyle needs.
The Standards show clear outcomes that will make a difference for you and your loved ones.
We know that if we manage three of our five-a-day, it's not bad — and one of our five-a-day is still better than nothing. Why should the same standard not exist for retirement income?
That gives us 12 amounts:
Single Couple
Covers all your needs, with some left over for fun
£10,200 LONDON £12,400 £15,700 LONDON £19,800
More financial security and flexibility
More financial freedom and some luxuries
But the power of the Retirement Living Standards lies in giving people a real sense of what they will be doing and how they could be spending their money when they finish work.
Talking to people about the building blocks of their lives - their car, their home comforts, how much they can give their family, the kind of holidays they'll have - helps them to engage with their pension.
Of course, we're all different. Everyone who reaches the minimum standard is not going to have exactly £10,200 or £15,700 to spend. And anyone who can get above the minimum standard will be able to spend money on some of the lifestyle choices available to people who can afford a higher standard of living, even if they can't achieve every aspect of a moderate or comfortable lifestyle.
What the standards mean for people in the uk
Pension saving has changed significantly over the past decade, with automatic enrolment, master trusts, reforms to annual allowances and changes to the way we access our money.
We've created the standards because we think it's time to take stock of where we are, build on recent achievements and inspire people to engage with their retirement savings.
The first step is to build awareness - to picture your future and what it could cost. The second is to grow understanding, so we've created a series of examples to show what kind of living standard different people could have in retirement depending on their salaries, household and savings.
We're working with pension schemes and providers, the Money and Pensions Service and others who engage directly with savers to deliver a third step: personalised retirement plans that help people determine what level of income they need to afford the lifestyle they want in retirement and track their progress towards it.
We recommended a set of Retirement Living Standards for the UK in our July 2018 report, 'Hitting the Target: A vision for retirement income adequacy', which followed a consultation we ran with the pensions industry to find ways to give people a better income in retirement.
We then partnered with researchers at Loughborough University's Centre for Research in Social Policy. They developed the Minimum Income Standard, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which is the basis for our minimum standard.
We set the moderate and comfortable standard with the help of focus groups made up of real people held all over the country.
Between them, the focus groups pulled together a list of the goods, services and activities that they believed to provide our three standards of living in retirement. The work was extensive – here are all the items that go into the standards:
Household bills (e.g. water, council tax, insurance, electricity)
Telephone bills (landline and mobile) and line rental
Decorating and maintenance
Furniture, cleaning supplies, lightbulbs, cooking utensils, appliances (e.g. fridge, washing machine), garden supplies, towels, bedding, etc.
Gardener/cleaner/window cleaner (if applicable)
Funeral plan (if applicable)
Eating out budget
Car (if applicable)
Railcard and train travel
TV, DVD player, laptop, printer, speakers, CDs and stationery supplies
TV license and subscriptions
Holidays, spending money and passport
Clothing & Personal
Clothing and footwear budget
Cosmetics, toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving supplies, hair styling, beauty treatments (if applicable), suitcases, umbrellas
Dentist, opticians, podiatry, minor first aid (e.g. plasters, paracetamol)
Gifts for others
Helping others (if applicable)
From this, we were able to calculate a cost for all these items and work out what each living standard would cost a year.
Read a summary of how we carried out the research.
Read the full report on how we carried out the research.
Download the full data on the basket of goods for each standard.
* this data is free to view but, like every aspect of the Retirement Living Standards, must be used in accordance with our Terms of Use. Contact us to find out more about using the Standards.
What you need to know about the standards
Everyone's financial circumstances are different. The standards provide a rule of thumb guide based on common costs for many people in retirement. They are the first step on the journey: you might want to think about using them to go on to develop your own personal target. When doing this it is important to know what is and isn't included in the standards. We've listed the key things below. We've also included some information about what total DC savings might achieve the standards if you were to buy an annuity, and what income you need before tax to afford the costs of each standard.
State Pension – please do remember– you may well be entitled to the state pension which, along with automatic enrolment savings will get most people to the minimum standard - the current full State Pension is £8,767.20 per year
Housing – the standards assume people are mortgage and rent free, because this is still what most of the population close to retirement will achieve in the next few years. We will review this over time. If you think you will have mortgage costs or rent costs in retirement you need to add this onto the standards. As these vary considerably by location looking at your own individual outgoings is the best measure.
Social care - care costs may well arise, especially later into retirement. These costs are very specific to individuals so we haven't included them in the standards. If you think you are going to need to cover costs of social care, and want plan an income to cover these, then these would need to be added to the figure the standards provide. You might want to think about adding in an average cost to give you a ball park figure.
Where you live – our findings were based on research conducted in many locations across the UK which have enabled us to calculate figures for the UK and for London, but there may be some areas that have higher or lower costs of goods and services eg additional transport costs.
Dependents - the financial support of (a) dependent(s) other than a partner aren't included in the standards – for example, living with relatives could change your expenditure.
DC pot size and income tax – See How much income you could need for each standard to find out how pot size can provide a rough guide to likely living standard, and also what sort of income you need before income tax to afford the costs of each standard .
Other sources of income - remember, the standards are what the basket of goods cost – so if you have sources of income other than your pension – part time work or other savings – you might want to factor this in to whether you are on track for the future you want.
Financial advice – the Standards are designed to provide a helpful rule of thumb and are based on research findings - they do not constitute financial advice.
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I took these pictures at the exact minute she turned 4 months old.
Our little Cupcake is growing so fast! She is a delight to us all. She grabs things now with purpose (especially arm hair, says Sean) and plays on her play mat with excitement. She talks to us every chance she gets I just wish we knew what she was saying! She clicks and clucks her tongue in so many different ways like she's learning some sort of African Bush language. Maybe that's why we can't understand her. : ) She's working on scooting herself when she's on her tummy so I have no doubt she will be crawling in a few more months. Hard to believe she's as big as she is when she started out so small. But we like it!
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