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Q: java.lang.RuntimeException: Binary XML file line #24: Error inflating class fragment I have my app which gives the following error
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity
ComponentInfo{com.svpino.longhorn/com.appc.longhorn.activities.DashboardActivity}:
android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #24: Error inflating class fragment

When I run the app in Android 4.3 it works fine and everything loads correctly. However on version 4.4.2 it crashes. Furthermore on my Galaxy note 3 on CM 4.4.2 it works fine.
My question is this device dependent error ? From the stacktrace it does not look like it.
My XML
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/containerLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<fragment
    android:id="@+id/stockListFragment"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    class="com.appc.longhorn.fragments.StockListFragment" />

</RelativeLayout>

Here is the main activity
public class DashboardActivity extends FragmentActivity implements StockListFragmentCallback, StockQuoteCollectorObserver {

private final static String LOG_TAG = DashboardActivity.class.getName();

private BackStack backStack;
private Dialog searchDialog;
private Dialog noConnectivityDialog;
private Dialog termsAndConditionsDialog;
private StockListFragment stockListFragment;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    if (Extensions.isPriorHoneycomb()) {
        requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
    }

    setContentView(R.layout.activity_dashboard);

A: You have an IndexOutOfBounds Exception

Caused by: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Invalid index 0, size
  is 0
              at java.util.ArrayList.throwIndexOutOfBoundsException(ArrayList.java:255)
              at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:308)
              at         com.svpino.longhorn.artifacts.StockTileProcessor.createFixedHeaderRow(StockTileProcessor.java:119)

suggest you look at line 119 in StockTileProcessor class


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Recipe book brings the unique flavors of Quepos to the Cultural Heritage Center
A compilation of 186 recipes including main courses, mincemeat, ceviches, breads, desserts and drinks, is the recipe book that will be presented by the Center for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (CICPC), this Friday 29 November, at 3 p.m., in the Communal Hall of the Association of Integral Development of Quepos center.
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This is the presentation of the book Cocina Tradicional Costarricense 9, canton of Quepos, Puntarenas. This publication is a reality thanks to the compilation of the 186 recipes participating in the Traditional Food and Beverage Contest "I am Quepos", carried out by this institution attached to the Ministry of Culture and Youth in 2018.
Currently, the country has more than a thousand recipes among main dishes, breads, desserts and drinks, product of the registration made by the Cultural Heritage Center through the different contests of traditional cuisine ¹ said Paola Salazar, of the Intangible Heritage Unit.
He added that all recipes were provided by attendees as a requirement for participation. Each dish was presented for its respective evaluation by a qualifying jury, along with the written recipe and this material was published.
Every two years, since 2001, the Cultural Heritage Centre organizes this event in some region of the country. The last was in the canton of Quepos and included its three districts: Naranjito, Savegre and Quepos center. For this it was indispensable the support of a large group of associations of integral development, as well as of the municipality and La Cocina del Padre, space where the event took place in 2018.
The recipe book completes the project in Quepos, which, according to Salazar, consists of a preliminary record of one of the most memorable cultural events in Costa Ricans: traditional cuisine.
First the contest was organized and held, then 15 cash prizes were awarded to the winners -three prizes per category-, finally, the recipe book was published and, next Friday, the book will be presented and delivered to the community.
This recipe book has as aim, preserve in written form the knowledge and popular knowledge related to the traditional food of Quepos, so that the current and future generations continue to elaborate and retransmit them and, at the same time, to return to the community the contribution that these recipes have given to the knowledge of the intangible cultural heritage, represented in what Costa Ricans eat, said Sonia Gómez, Heritage Center official in charge of the project.
What Gómez said is confirmed by Vanessa Valverde Cubillo, winner of the first place in the category of "Picadillos". Valverde commented that he has been preparing for many years his delicious recipe of minced skunk leaves with potato, ground pork and panzada. This recipe, now printed on page 63 of the book, he learned from his grandmother.
Five months ago, God took her, but left me a good inheritance, said Valverde, thrilled when she won the contest. The tradition is that it is made to firewood, as our grandparents, also added about the preparation, which also includes some secrets of doña María Felícitas Vargas, Vanessa's grandmother.
The publication was made possible with the support of the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT), which, together with the National Institute of Learning (INA), uses this collection of nine recipes to train culinary students for use in hotels and businesses in tourist areas of the country.
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Bingham girls golf takes state
Jun 05, 2017 11:42AM ● By Billy Swartzfager
The 2017 Bingham girls golf team (Brett Boberg/Bingham Head Coach)
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Kassidy Wallin tends the flag for Jenique Jacobs (Brett Boberg/Bingham Head Coach)
By Billy Swartzfager | [email protected]
Bingham High School girls golf coach Brett Boberg firmly believes his team is as tough as they come. The coach and the golfers focused on the same things this season to achieve their goal of taking a state title.
Last season, the Miners took second place in the 5A state tournament. Boberg felt that the experience gained from last season would be a big factor for 2017.
"We were very young and didn't have a single senior in our lineup, so we're coming in this year with some more experience," he said.
After running away with the Region 3 title in 2016, Bingham didn't lose a step this year. The team didn't lose a region matchup or tournament in 2017. All of the success could easily be linked to the work ethic found throughout the program's rigor, including practices and the offseason. Boberg claims his golfers may be addicted to practicing. He said they go out to the range even when he has given them a day off or the weather has chosen not to cooperate.
"We have a culture of hard work on this team, and the girls go out and prove it every single day," Boberg said. "Furthermore, these girls work all season long to improve their golf games. There is no offseason for most of these girls."
This year's team was led by several of the region's top golf talents. Tess Blair, a sophomore, is Bingham's top golfer. She is Region 3's No.1-ranked player and has won every region match and tournament for 2017. She was also featured on the cover of Fairways Magazine. Tess recently shot a 69 at Meadowbrook Golf Course.
Bingham's No. 2 golfer is also a sophomore. Carissa Graft took home second-place at last season's state tournament and is currently sitting at No. 2 in Region 3, just behind Blair.
The No. 3 golfer on the squad is junior Jenique Jacobs. She has been swinging clubs at Bingham since she was a freshman, when she helped lead the team to a fourth-place finish at state.
Seniors, Kassidy Wallin and Pio Savageau are team captains and lead by example and through their experience.
The team is close with one another, as well, adding great chemistry to the already established expectation of hard work and dedication. The Miners travel to St. George every year to play golf against 3A powerhouse Desert Hills High School. They play golf at Sun River, and the Miners have never beaten the Thunder on their turf.
The team traveled south in April but was unable to golf due to poor weather but was able to get in some bonding time off the course.
According to the coach, 2016 was a tough year for the team. They weren't terribly experienced and there were some unforeseeable events that made golf a secondary concern. This season was different because the group grew together through the hard times and has come together as a more unified and experienced group.
"We've grown mentally tougher," Boberg said. "We don't whine on bad luck or bad breaks. These girls just keep grinding it out."
The Miners, led by Boberg and assistant coach Jodi Sadler, have likened the team to the original miners who inhabited the valley. Boberg says they are similar in that those on the team come from all sorts of different backgrounds but have come together for one goal and work hard to achieve it.
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BBC TV host David Olusoga has remembered the time when England legend Paul Gascoigne saved him from a racist attack.
Gascoigne is a national icon having helped the Three Lions to the semi-finals of Euro 96.
His off-field antics have been widely talked about with Gazza having battled alcohol addiction since retirement.
Though it seems the 53-year-old has always had a sensitive side, protecting A House Through Time presenter Olusoga.
Olusoga was born in Nigeria and moved to Gateshead as a child, though his family were often targeted by the National Front.
And the TV host has talked about how Gascoigne once pulled hum up after one incident.
He told Desert Island Discs: "My older sister, Yinka, was three years ahead of me and in her class was Paul Gascoigne. I have one memory of Paul, one strong memory.
"Which is of lying on my back having been pushed over and hit in the playground and this kid with light coloured hair and very bright blue eyes leaned over, he was beside my sister and he gave me his hand and he pulled me up.
"He must have been maybe nine, I must've been maybe six or seven, something like that.
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"He was one of the tough kids, you won't be surprised to learn.
"It wasn't really in his interest to be looking after this couple of black kids. And I'm very grateful for that."
Gascoigne previously said he had remembered helping his younger school-mate out.
He said: "I was only young but I do remember. I hated bullies and I did not like what was happening."
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If you remember the movie Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner you may remember one of the best lines... 'If you build it, they will come'. What manifests in our life at this moment is a direct result of what we focus on, care for and takes actions to achieve (plus, I personally believe a dash of divine will).
∞ Cultivate your dreams by taking at least one step/action towards them every single day... just one!
∞ Reflect your dreams like this photo which is using a setting on the camera to reflect a waterfall. Every morning and every evening before bed when your subconscious is more accessible, imagine yourself doing what you want to do. For example, I want to host a Yoga Retreat in April. So rather than 'watching' myself host the yoga retreat in the image I create, I imagine myself prodding people to move their bodies in a non-linear creative manner, see myself sitting in half lotus listening to Ken guide the portable mindfulness class at Quercus in the open air listening to the creek below, feel myself sweating as I dance to the live drums under the starlight and so on. The brain actually does not know the difference between living an experience and when we imagine it this vividly so the reflection implants itself as if it were real and our subconscious believes it is already happening!
So start today... set a CLEAR goal and get the ball rolling!


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Preview - A new tooled Fiat CR.42 "Falco" (Luftwaffe Ground Attack version) in 1/32nd scale from ICM
This is a plastic injection kit we thought might be coming, the Fiat CR,42 "Falco" in 1/32nd scale. This time from ICM in Ukraine. We know this one will be popular with modellers, so we bring you the CAS renders of the new kit in progress, along with some info about the real thing and the Luftwaffe version in this particular boxing in our preview...
ICM's new CR. 42 LW, WWII German Luftwaffe Ground Attack Aircraft kit in development
CR. 42 LW, WWII German Luftwaffe Ground Attack Aircraft
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Kit No #32021
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ICM's Kit no #32021, the all-new tooled kit of the CR. 42 LW, WWII German Luftwaffe Ground Attack Aircraft in 1/32nd scale:
The all-new tooled kit of the CR.42 LW, WWII German Luftwaffe Ground Attack Aircraft has only seen the light so far in CAD form, but we thought we might look at some of the details in the sprues and CAD images of the completed kit to pick out a few details of the forthcoming model...
The Fiat CR.42 Falco ("Falcon", plural: Falchi) was a single-seat sesquiplane fighter developed and produced by Italian aircraft manufacturer Fiat Aviazione. It served primarily in Italy's Regia Aeronautica both before and during the Second World War.
Fiat CR.42 Falco captured during the Battle of Britain. The aircraft was salvaged following a forced landing due to an overheated engine, on the shingle beach at Orfordness, Suffolk, on 11 November 1940.
CR.42LW
The CR.42 LW was a night harassment, anti-partisan aircraft for the German Luftwaffe. The aircraft was equipped with exhaust flame dampers, a pair of 12.7 mm machine guns and underwing racks for four 50 kg bombs. 150 were built, of which 112 were accepted into service by the Luftwaffe.
Service of the CR. 42 in the Luftwaffe
Shortly following the announcement of the Italian armistice of 1943, the Luftwaffe took over the majority of Regia Aeronautica aircraft. Among these aircraft were a number of CR.42s.[86] German Rüstungs-und-Kriegsproduktion Stab took control of Italy's northern aircraft industry; consequently, an order for 200 CR.42LW (LW=Luftwaffe) was placed with Fiat for use by the Luftwaffe. In German service, the type was used to conduct nighttime harassment operations and anti-partisan roles. A number of the captured Fiats were allocated to training divisions as well. The CR.42 was nicknamed "Die Pressluftorgel" or "the Pneumatic Organ" by Luftwaffe trainee pilots, presumably because of its profusion of pneumatic systems.
One of the German units to use the CR.42 was Nachtschlachtgruppe (NSGr.) 9, based in Udine. It was tasked with fighting against partisans in the region of the Alps, Istria and Croatia. During November 1943, the 1. Staffel received its Falchi and, in January 1944, the unit was transferred to the airfield at Caselle, near Turin, to operate against partisan units in the vicinity of the Southern Alps. On 28 January, the 2. Staffel was also equipped with the CR.42. The training of German pilots took place at a school in Venaria Reale.
During February 1944, after news of the Allies' landing at Anzio, 1.Staffel and 2.Staffel, based at Centocelle Airport in Rome, attacked Allied units in southern Latium, which were conducted mostly during moonlit night raids. NSGr9 attacked enemy troops in the Monte Cassino area. The CR.42 proved to be useful as a light bomber at night, but subsequently, NSGr9 began to be equipped with the Ju 87D. 2.Staffel kept using the Fiat biplanes until mid-1944. On 31 May, the unit still had 18 Falchi, 15 of which were operational.
As a consequence of Allied raids that damaged the Fiat factory in Turin, only 150 CR.42LWs were ultimately completed, of which 112 would reach operational condition. Another German unit that used the type, both in Southern Italy and the Balkans, was Jagdgeschwader JG 107, which flew them as night fighters, fighter-bombers and fighter-trainers.
CR. 42 LW Stats...
Developed from Fiat CR.32
National origin Italy
Manufacturer Fiat Aviazione
Designer Celestino Rosatelli
First flight 23 May 1938
Retired 1948 Spanish Air Force
Primary users
Spanish Air Force
Belgian Air Force
Swedish Air Force
Produced c. February 1939 – Late 1943
Number built 1,817–1,819
The kit from ICM:
You can see from this first sprue the simple layout of the model. Only Seven sprues and a transparency sprue in the box, this will be an easy kit to make and hopefully, we will see plenty on the competition tables because of the ease of construction.
All transparencies are provided of course, we would think no masks included as that is not ICM's usual M.O. - A clear gunsight is also included.
A view of the CAD drawings now, A good view of the loaded hardpoints under the aircraft and the bulbous spats on the large landing gear on the real aircraft.
4a full cockpit is included, of course, hopefully, some nice detail is to be had as this is exposed to the elements...
The Fiat A.74 R.C.38 14 cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, with 627 kW (841 hp) at 3,800 m (12,500 ft) and 2,400 rpm and the three-bladed G.50 type propeller is included upfront...
A walk around of the whole aircraft...
That is all we have on this kit so far, more as it comes close - might even get someone to build it if there is a chance - More info on this kit on the ICM Website


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Insurance is, unlike other commodities, a product you purchase with the hope of never having to use it. But if and when you do, protections are in place for you and your family. With insurance, you are covered in case of an accident or disaster that could-otherwise-wipe you out financially.


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How Belgium became the (food) start-up nation
By Hughes Belin
In his entrepreneurship bestseller, From zero to one, Paypal founder Peter Thiel teaches that innovation is at the heart of any start-up's competitive advantage.
Fair enough, but some companies want more. Let's do a little quiz. What do these brands have in common? Gimber, Kazidomi, Yugen, Nona, FrOui, Kriket, Beescoop, EnVie, Lili Bulk, Ritchie, efarmz, Yuma, Ferm, Pots de l'îlot, Vega fric, Brewksel, Coup d'barre, Pa'lais, Cutie-pie, Shake eat, Simone a soif, Beerfood and Le Champignon de Bruxelles. Yes, they all are Belgian food start-ups, but there is more: their founders all aim to have an impact.
Together with fashion, food is considered by would-be entrepreneurs as a sector to change in the way we produce, transform and consume goods and services. All the start-ups above want to change the world in some way. They propose food that is either healthier, more local, more socially responsible or more environmentally sound.
"There is a perfect storm in Belgium," according to David Mellett, CEO of Beefounders, an 'accelerators studio,' matching up investors and impact startups. The stars are aligned for something big to happen in the food sector. First, there is a demand from a growing number of people to 'consume differently' – think organic, vegan, local, seasonal or zero-waste. Second, large producers find it difficult to adapt their supply chains; small is beautiful and big names are keen to partner with ambitious start-ups. Third, Belgians love good food and have a high standard of living. Finally, more and more young Belgians want to become entrepreneurs, Mellett explains. Market trends and local specificities may have made Belgium the perfect place to launch a food start-up.
According to a European-wide poll on food safety in the EU in April 2019, Europeans are most concerned about "antibiotics, hormones and steroids in meat, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and food additives". Healthy food is a "megatrend", confirms Michel de Kemmeter, an expert in economic transition at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Vesalius College. Consumers are tired of junk food and food scandals. Food is seen as a partial solution to modern plagues such as climate change, chronic diseases and pandemics, soil and water pollution, animal abuse and forced labour.
Hence the steady growth in food entrepreneurs aiming to make a difference. "Ninety percent of my customers are vegetarian or vegan," says Sara Dirkx, CEO of the Brussels Food Business Center (BFBC), a co-kitchen space and food startup incubator. "The trend has been growing for the last two years."
Sara Dirkx, CEO of the Brussels Food Business Center, a food start-up incubator.
"Lots of young people want to have a positive impact when they launch their startup," says Virginie Robe, project manager at Start.LAB, an incubator at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 15% of whose startups are in the food sector. "Boosting the local economy through short supply chains is an option for food startups." More than a third of the 56 members of CircleMade, a network created by the Be Circular support scheme in Brussels, are in the food sector.
"Food is tangible and it is largely low tech," Mellett explains. Hence there is a low entry barrier. Food is one of the easiest ways to start an impact business. Yet Joséphine Henrion, head of food and consumption at the regional environment ministry in Brussels, sounds a note of caution: "Food is a theme people think they know well because it is part of their daily lives. But as a job, it is very different. The image of sustainable food is far too romantic. It looks more accessible, but it is just as technical as any other business." A lot of would-be entrepreneurs forget the fundamentals: a food start-up is first and foremost a business. In other words, you need to sell.
Start-ups would do well to remember that they need to compete with established brands. But large retailers have also embraced the new consumption trends. And they need the innovation that smaller, more agile players can bring. "The start-ups can invent new ways of sourcing food," says Mellett. "They can even create change in regulations."
Carrefour Belgium changed its supplier rules to enable tight partnerships with 800 local producers. The latter no longer need to be able to supply all Carrefour supermarkets but only up to ten local outlets. Delhaize is testing food deliveries with Urbike, a cargo-bike company to its 'Fresh Atelier' shops in the centre of Brussels. Colruyt recently became a minority shareholder of Kriket, a Flemish start-up that makes energy bars containing crickets. The Flemish supermarket brand has also partnered with frozen potatoes giant McCain in EnVie, a social enterprise project which makes soups from unsold vegetables on Belgian farms.
EnVie is one of many recent Belgian start-ups in the food sector. It makes soups from unsold vegetables by farms.
Food start-ups are attractive because they embrace new business models. Morgane Vouche, from Réseau Entreprendre Bruxelles, says one-third of the companies it has coached are from the food sector. New business models are following on the heels of the sustainable food trend, she adds. Think Gin-in-the-box, Our daily bottle and Vin du mois, for example, which sell drinks by post through a subscription.
Happy hour Market sells surplus food from supermarkets through an e-shop. Too Good to Go is an app to reduce food waste from shops. Lili Bulk relies on reverse logistics to sell glass containers of dry food. Mon cafetier rents out coffee machines and sells organic Fairtrade coffee by subscription. Beescoop is a cooperative supermarket owned by its members. Eats and Wolf are food courts in Brussels that each house more than a dozen street food restaurants in a single place. There are countless innovations out there, but are people buying?
Scaling up
"Belgians like quality," De Kemmeter says. "It's a premium market. On top of that, the country is small and highly meshed. It is a perfect test market." Maxime Willems, CEO of Proef, a product development laboratory near Gent, elaborates: "Belgium is not an easy market, but Belgians dare to try new things: if you want to test a product, launch it in Belgium." In short, Belgians like novelty and can afford it.
Willems points out that new hotels, bars and restaurants are also constantly in search of new products. The brand new Serra food hall on the ground floor of the Indigo hotel, for example, has partnered with the Brussels Beer Project and Nona non-alcoholic gin to offer innovative drinks. "Belgian entrepreneurs are great at revisiting existing concepts, maybe even more so than creating new ones," Willems explains, citing Ferm, one of his former clients, which makes aromatised kombucha drinks.
He also points to the elephant in the room by cautioning, "we have a problem to scale up in Belgium." Mellett explains: "Belgium is a risk-averse country. Public support is an issue. Regulations, subsidies and the like are not part of the perfect storm. As a consequence, many brands close down after just three years," Willems says.
There are solutions out there, such as crowdfunding, although this is used more for reputation building than core financing. Start-ups can also rent an incubator space to produce and test their products, and get coaching from the likes of Proef or BFBC. Mellett advocates a combination of subsidies and coaching: "Subsidies [alone] can be dangerous. You should not over-rely on them, otherwise you are not resilient." That is perhaps why this year, for the first time, all Be Circular applicants are being offered a business coaching session. The goal is to make sure that the projects – and ultimately the jobs created - have a chance to last. If passion is indispensable, it is not sufficient.
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After she admitted it's "time to let go," and shared receipts with her followers showing that Ray J blocked her on Instagram, the "One Wish" singer took to social media to defend himself and deny any accusations that he abandoned his family.
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"I am my family. I love my family. I've dedicated my life to my family," he said on Instagram. "To insinuate that I would do anything to harm my daughter is just sad. Man, I'm at the Sky Lofts right now, as you can see. I just don't understand how somebody can get 'stranded' when we never left! We've been right here. You're staying right there. We're gonna get into little arguments here and there, but it's small stuff that you can work out. But to take to social media and create this crazy story about me leaving my baby in harm's way is not cool."
In the video's supporting caption, Ray J apologized for what happened between them and explained, "I miss my baby Melody so much it hurts!"
"I'm so sorry the world has to watch a young relationship like ours fall down," he wrote. "In order to be solid in a relationship, you have to keep people out of it and let God work it out. But this hasn't been the case. I will continue being the best man and father I can be no matter what's on the other side. Without respect there is nothing. Love took [an] L this time."
My heart has been heavy for the last past week. I miss my baby Melody so much it hurts! I'm so sorry the world has to watch a young relationship like ours fall down. In order to be solid in a relationship you have to keep people out of it and let God work it out. But this hasn't been the case. I will continue being the best man and father I can be no matter what's on the other side. Without respect there is nothing. Love took a L this time. 💔
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After seeing Ray J's rebuttal, Princess returned to her Instagram story to call his bluff one more time and stressed that she refuses to "put on a front" to defend anyone.
"People can lie all they want," she wrote. "I will never put on a front for ANYONE. I still haven't gotten a call, text, nothing... I'm still BLOCKED! He still hasn't checked to see if me or my daughter are ok or where we are even at. So cut the SH** please. Thanks."
Going on to address his claim that they "never left," she added, "If we've 'so called' been there the whole time, why would you miss your baby?"
#PrincessLove had a couple more things to say after #RayJ claims he never left #Vegas!
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Princess, who is more than eight months pregnant with the couple's second child, further sparked divorce speculation when she commented on Ray J's Instagram Live using their daughter Melody's handle.
"Filing for divorce when I get back to L.A.," she wrote.
Waymenttttt! #PrincessLove is not playing with #RayJ at all! Sis said she's filing for divorce when she gets home 👀👀👀
In another video, Princess shined some light on where their issues stemmed from, adding that they hit a rough patch about two weeks ago when she learned of a second phone Ray J was keeping. She explained that he admitted to "entertaining some women."
"He asked me to move to Vegas," she continued. "And I'm like, no, I don't want to move to Vegas. And so he's like... 'Well can you at least consider it?' I'm like, 'No, I don't want to move to Vegas. I'm not even considering it.' This is not the place to have kids, this is not the place to raise your kids, and I just don't like it here. It's too many distractions. You already like to gamble. There's way too many parties going on every night, and it's just not the place I want to be. So, I said, sarcastically, 'Well, you can move to Vegas, but I'm going to be in L.A.' So, he got really mad."
She claimed that while she was not being sincere, her husband took her words literally and blew up anyway, which she said led to him leaving and not returning until the next day. Once he got back, she said they fought some more and the topic of divorce was introduced.
"I said, 'With the way you just get up and disappear, I gotta get back to L.A. and get my mind right before this baby comes, because with the way you move, I'm liable to be alone at any given moment," she continued. "And he said, 'Well, I'm preparing to be alone, too, as long as I can see my kids Monday until Wednesday. And I said, 'OK, we can just be separated then.' And he's like... 'Not before I file first.' So, the conversation got really, really ugly."
Now, the reality starlet says she is still in Las Vegas and Ray J has now blocked her from contacting him.
Watch her explain it all in the clip below:
A post shared by The Shade Room (@theshaderoom) on Nov 21, 2019 at 10:13pm PST
As of this publishing, it's not clear whether either of them has actually filed divorce papers.
(Photo by Denise Truscello/Getty Images for BET)
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Q: Correct interpretation of why rank(A^T) = rank(A)? I've seen different intuitive explanations on math SE, but none of them has really clicked for me. I cobbled together pieces of the explanations I've seen and come up with something that feels like it makes more sense to me. Is the following a correct interpretation of why $rank(A^T) = rank(A)$?
Explanation:
Suppose that $A \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times m}$ has rank $k$. This means that the image of $A$'s linear transformation is a $k$ dimensional subspace of $\mathbb{R}^n$. $A^T$ must then take this $k$ dimensional subspace to a subspace of $\mathbb{R}^m$ that is of dimension at most $k$. This means that
$$rank(A^T) \leq k = rank(A).$$
We can then apply the same result starting with $A^T$ so that $rank((A^T)^T) \leq rank(A^T)$, which means that $rank(A) \leq rank(A^T)$. Taken together, we have $rank(A) = rank(A^T)$.
Question: Does this make sense? What would I need to do to make this more rigorous?

Edit: With the help of @Paweł Czyż and some more digging, this is my updated argument.
If $A^TAx = 0$, then $x^TA^TAx = ||Ax||^2 = 0$ which means that $Ax = 0$ (by properties of norms). This shows that $N(A) = N(A^TA)$. Because $A^TA$ and $A$ have the same input dimension, the rank-nullity theorem tells us that $rank(A) = rank(A^TA)$. This completes the argument because we then have $rank(A^T) = rank((A^TA)^T) = rank(A)$.

A: Consider a map $A\colon \mathbb R^m\to \mathbb R^n$. Its rank is simply $\mathrm{rk}\, A = \dim(\mathrm{im}\, A)$. The transposition map is the unique map
$A^T\colon \mathbb R^n\to \mathbb R^m$ such that $$\langle A^Tb, a \rangle_m = \langle b, Aa \rangle_n \quad \text{for all}\; a\in \mathbb R^m,b\in\mathbb R^n.$$
Your argument only proves that $\mathrm{rk}\, A^TA \le \mathrm{rk}\, A$. In fact you can deduce the equality using the rank-nullity theorem and a simple lemma $\ker A^TA = \ker A$. (This follows easily from $\langle A^TA v, v\rangle = |Av|^2$).
With rank-nullity theorem you can also prove that $\mathrm{rk}\, A = \mathrm{rk}\, A^T$ – just apply it to the equality $\ker A^T = (\mathrm{im}\, A)^\perp$, which is trivial from the definition of the transposition given above.

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Real Madrid midfielder, Luka Modric has been named UEFA Men's Player of the Season, beating out Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah to win the gong.
The Croatian superstar who had a stellar year for his club and country, was also named Midfielder of the Season for the second successive year at a ceremony which took place in Monaco this afternoon.
Cristiano Ronaldo who now plays for Juventuswon the Champions League's best forward award with Real Madrid after becoming the top scorer in the competition for a sixth-year running
Real Madrid star, Sergio Ramos was voted as the competition's best defender last season, while his teammate, Keylor Navas was named as the best goalkeeper of last season's Champions League with Real Madrid.
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UEFA Men's Player of the Year: Luka Modric
UEFA Woman's Player of the Year: Penille Harder
Goalkeeper of the Year: Keylor Navas
Defender of the Year: Sergio Ramos
Midfielder of the Year: Luka Modric
Forward of the Year: Cristiano Ronaldo


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A pre-race burst of rain and high winds created turmoil in the MotoAmerica paddock at VIRginia International Raceway, destroying team canopies and tossing equipment and crewmembers into disarray right when Supersport Race 1 was about to begin. With the track surface affected by the quick, but prodigious deluge, tire selection became critical. The start of the race was only delayed a little more than 30 minutes, which meant that the track was still very wet, but warm temperatures and a brightening sun began to evaporate the water from the tarmac.
For JD Beach, the race strategy ssadly didn't work, as the defending MotoAmerica Supersport Champion and his team started from fourth position on the grid with his #1 Y.E.S./Graves/Yamaha R6 shod in full rain tires, and with expectations that the rain would return at some point in the race. JD got off to a great start in the race, immediately took the lead, and stretched out a gap that ballooned into more than a 12-second advantage.
The extra grip of the full rain tires on the wet VIR track helped JD dominate in the beginning of the race. But, as the laps clicked off, the rain stayed away, and the track dried out, JD's pace remained relatively consistent, while Garrett and several of the other riders who had decided against racing on full rain tires increased their lap times, caught up to JD, and ultimately passed him. JD finished the race in 14th, which was a devastating result for him and the team.
Sunday's Supersport Race 2 was run under dry and sunny conditions – much different than Saturday's Supersport Race 1, which was contested on a wet track due to a quickly passing storm that ravaged the paddock just prior to the start. Better weather made for an exciting race, as JD's teammate Garrett diced for the lead several times during the 23-lap event.
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"We've been struggling a little bit with bike setup," commented JD. "The front (of my R6) just hasn't been feeling good this year, for some reason. At New Jersey, I was able to ride over it, but we're still missing something. It's great to have two Y.E.S./Graves/Yamaha R6 machines on the podium, though. Congratulations to Garrett. He's on such a roll right now, and we're just going to keep working hard and try to stop it."
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Category: Opioids
Relaxed regulations in response to the pandemic means more access to addiction treatment medications. But recovery programs are accepting fewer people, and the danger of overdose remains high.
Before Philadelphia shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Ed had a routine: most mornings he would head to a nearby McDonald's to brush his teeth, wash his face and — when he had the money — buy a cup of coffee. He would bounce between homeless shelters and try to get a shower. But since businesses closed and many shelters stopped taking new admissions, Ed has been mostly shut off from that routine.
He's still living on the streets.
"I'll be honest, I don't really sleep too much," said Ed, who's 51 and struggling with addiction. "Every four or five days I get a couple hours."
KHN agreed not to use his last name because he uses illegal drugs.
Philadelphia has the highest overdose rate of any big city in America — in 2019, more than three people a day died of drug overdoses there, on average. Before the coronavirus began spreading across the United States, the opioid overdose epidemic was the biggest health crisis on the minds of many city officials and public health experts. The coronavirus pandemic has largely eclipsed the conversation around the opioid crisis. But the crisis still rages on despite business closures, the cancellation of in-person treatment appointments and the strain on many addiction resources in the city.
When his usual shelter wasn't an option anymore, Ed tried to get into residential drug treatment. He figured that would be a good way to try to get back on his feet and, if nothing else, get a few good nights of rest. But he had contracted pinkeye, a symptom thought to be associated with the virus that leads to COVID-19, so the evaluation center didn't want to place him in an inpatient facility until he'd gotten the pinkeye checked out. But he couldn't see a doctor because he didn't have a phone for a telehealth appointment.
"I got myself stuck, and I'm trying to pull everything back together before it totally blows up," he said.
Rosalind Pichardo wants to help people in Ed's situation. Before the pandemic, Pichardo would hit the streets of her neighborhood, Kensington, which has the highest drug overdose rate in Philadelphia. She'd head out with a bag full of snack bars, cookies and Narcan, the opioid overdose reversal drug.
She'd hand Narcan out to people using drugs, and people selling drugs — anyone who wanted it. Pichardo started her own organization, Operation Save Our City, which initially set out to work with survivors of gun violence in the neighborhood. When she realized that overdoses were killing people too, she began getting more involved with the harm reduction movement and started handing out Narcan through the city's syringe exchange.
When Pennsylvania's stay-at-home order went into effect, Pichardo and others worried that more people might start using drugs alone, and that fewer first responders would be patrolling the streets or nearby and able to revive them if they overdosed.
So, Pichardo and other harm reduction activists gave out even more Narcan. A representative for Prevention Point Philadelphia, the group that operates a large syringe exchange program in the city, said that during the first month of the city's stay-at-home order, they handed out almost twice as much Narcan as usual.
After the lockdowns and social distancing began, Pichardo worried that more people would be using drugs alone, leading to more overdoses. But Philadelphia's fatal overdose rate during the pandemic remains about the same as it was this time last year. Pichardo said she thinks that's evidence that flooding the streets with Narcan is working — that people are continuing to use drugs, and maybe even using more drugs, but that users are utilizing Narcan more often and administering it to one another.
That is the hope. But Pichardo said users don't always have a buddy to keep watch, and during the pandemic first responders have seemed much more hesitant to intervene. For example, she recently administered Narcan to three people in Kensington who overdosed near a subway station, while two police officers stood by and watched. Before the pandemic, they would often be right there with her, helping.
To reverse the overdoses, Pichardo crouched over the people who she said had started turning blue as their oxygen levels dropped. She injected the Narcan into their noses, using a disposable plastic applicator. Normally, she would perform rescue breathing, too, but since the pandemic began she has started carrying an Ambu bag, which pumps air into a person's lungs and avoids mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Among the three people, she said, it took six doses of Narcan to revive them. The police officers didn't step in to help but did toss several overdose-reversal doses toward Pichardo as she worked.
"I don't expect 'em to give 'em rescue breaths if they don't want to, but at least administer the lifesaving drug," Pichardo said.
In her work as a volunteer, she has reversed almost 400 overdoses, she estimated.
"There's social distancing — to a limit," Pichardo said, "I think when someone's life is in jeopardy, they're worth saving. You just can't watch people die."
Even before Philadelphia officially issued its stay-at-home order, city police announced they would stop making low-level arrests, including for narcotics. The idea was to reduce contact overall, help keep the jail population low and reduce the risk of the virus getting passed around inside. But Pichardo and other community activists said the decreased law enforcement emboldened drug dealers in the Kensington neighborhood, where open-air drug sales and use are common.
"You can tell they have everything down pat, from the lookout to the corner boys to the one actually holding the product — the one holding the product's got some good PPE gear," said Pichardo.
More dealers working openly on the street has led to more fights over territory, she added, which in turn has meant more violence. While overall crime in Philadelphia and other major cities has declined during the pandemic, gun violence has spiked.
Police resumed arrests at the beginning of May.
Now when she goes out to offer relief and hand out Narcan, Pichardo packs a few extra things in her bag of supplies: face masks, gloves and gun locks.
"It's like the survival kit of the 'hood," she said.
For those struggling with addiction who are ready to start recovery, newly relaxed federal restrictions have made it easier to get medications that curb opioid cravings and stem withdrawal. Several efforts are underway among Philadelphia-based public health groups and criminal justice advocacy organizations to give cellphones to people who are homeless or coming out of jail, so they can make a telehealth appointment and get quicker access to a prescription for those medicines.
During the pandemic, people taking medication-assisted treatment can renew their prescription every month instead of every week, which helps decrease trips to the pharmacy. It is too soon to know if more people are taking advantage of the new rules, and accessing medication-assisted treatment via telehealth, but if that turns out to be the case, many addiction medicine specialists argue the new rules should become permanent, even after the pandemic ends.
"If we find that these relaxed restrictions are bringing more people to the table, that presents enormous ethical questions about whether or not the DEA should reinstate these restrictive policies that they had going in the first place," said Dr. Ben Cocchiaro, a physician who treats people with substance-use disorder.
Cocchiaro said the whole point of addiction treatment is to facilitate help as soon as someone is ready for it. He hopes if access to recovery can be made simpler during a pandemic, it can remain that way afterward.
This story is part of a partnership that includes WHYY, NPR and Kaiser Health News.
Author Nina Feldman, WHYYPosted on June 2, 2020 Categories COVID-19, Mental Health, Opioids, Pennsylvania, Public Health, States, Substance Abuse
State officials in California have achieved some success in promoting the use of medication-assisted treatment for people with opioid addictions, but they are bumping up against familiar resistance and constraints.
Jennifer Stilwell, a 30-year-old mother of two young children, kicked heroin cold turkey five years ago, but she got hooked again last fall.
Stilwell, an accountant in Placerville, California, tried to quit a second time, but she couldn't tolerate the sickening withdrawal symptoms. She resisted going to the emergency room because "I thought they'd treat me like a drug addict and not a patient in pain," she said.
Instead, she kept smoking heroin to keep the agony at bay. Then, in February, a county mental health worker told her about a new program that promised stigma-free treatment for her addiction.
She went to the ER at Marshall Medical Center in Placerville, where a doctor put her on buprenorphine, one of three drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration for medication-assisted treatment (MAT) of people with opioid dependency.
Her ongoing treatment includes intensive counseling and social support, providing what is known in the recovery field as "whole person" therapy.
"It's still early in my battle," Stilwell said. "But my withdrawals are gone. Now I can concentrate on being a mother."
Marshall is one of a growing number of health care institutions across California that offer medication-assisted treatment with funding and support from the state's MAT Expansion Project, which started in 2018 and is financed by $265 million in federal grants.
Numerous studies have shown that relapse and overdose rates are lower among opioid users who get MAT than those who don't. From 2016 to 2018, for example, the overdose death rate in Humboldt County — one of California's highest ― dropped by about half, which officials attributed in large part to the MAT Expansion Project.
In February, California's Department of Health Care Services, which administers the project, touted its success, reporting that it has provided care for 22,000 previously untreated Californians with opioid addictions and created 650 new locations where patients can receive MAT.
But the number of new people brought into treatment is only a small fraction of those who need it. In 2019, more than half a million Californians with an opioid use disorder lacked access to treatment, according to a study by the Urban Institute.
The state effort faces many of the same obstacles that have hindered wider acceptance of MAT for years: the stigma of addiction, federal regulations that depress the number of MAT providers, and hostility in some corners of the treatment community to the very notion of using drugs to combat drug addiction.
Moreover, the addiction treatment industry has become a magnet in recent years for unscrupulous operators who aggressively recruit clients, eyes fixed on the dollar signs rather than on evidence-based treatments such as MAT.
Now there's another, hopefully temporary, challenge. The COVID-19 crisis and related social-distancing measures are forcing MAT practitioners to scramble for new ways to accommodate patients, said Eric Hill, a "substance navigator" at Marshall Medical Center who helps guide patients through their MAT treatment.
Hill said MAT patients entering the program through emergency rooms are now given prescriptions for up to a month, rather than a week. He said he is following up with clients by phone rather than in person, and he and others are trying to arrange video calls between doctors and patients for prescription renewals.
The state program seeks to broaden access to MAT by launching or enhancing treatment programs at ERs, hospitals, primary care clinics, residential treatment programs, county mental health centers, jails and drug courts. Training more doctors to provide MAT is also a pillar of the campaign.
But patients who take anti-addiction drugs can have difficulty finding housing and recovery therapy, which are integral to their treatment. They are often shunned by groups adhering to traditional 12-step theories of sobriety that require participants to be free of drugs — including MAT drugs.
"MAT patients will say that the treatment was working. They were just starting to feel better, going to support groups, back at their jobs, but they had a hard time finding a place to live," said Hill.
Many patients who stop taking their MAT drugs in order to get a roof over their heads have relapsed, Hill said.
Marlies Perez, a division chief at the state health care department, said the agency "is taking a strong stand against such stigma that prevents patients from their continued recovery." Through its media campaign, Choose Change California, it seeks to alter perceptions within the recovery community and persuade more doctors and patients to embrace MAT.
The state expansion project puts a strong emphasis on building MAT capacity in emergency rooms, where opioid users often face suspicion.
Of the 320 acute care hospitals with emergency rooms statewide, 52 currently offer MAT. In those hospitals, staff members like Hill help patients get the care they need, including the psychological and social dimensions. Health care department officials say they plan to quadruple the number of participating hospitals to more than 200 over the next few years.
(Photo Courtesy of Jennifer Stilwell)
Opioid misuse is not nearly as deadly in California as in the rest of the U.S., even though the rise of fentanyl has begun to cause bigger problems in the Golden State.
In 2018, the rate of opioid overdose deaths in California stood at 5.8 per 100,000 residents, far below the national average of 14.6 per 100,000. In some rural counties of California, however, opioid death rates exceed the national average. The two states with the highest rates were West Virginia, at 42.4 per 100,000, and Delaware at 39.3.
Another obstacle to MAT expansion, one squarely in the sights of California health authorities, is that many doctors are hesitant to participate because they must undergo federally mandated training for a waiver that allows them to prescribe buprenorphine.
"Doctors can prescribe OxyContin with abandon but not buprenorphine, which has been shown to be helpful to opioid addicts," said Dr. Aimee Moulin, a director at the California Bridge Program, which helps administer the state's MAT program.
Buprenorphine is less powerful and less likely to cause fatal overdoses than methadone, another drug commonly used to fight opioid addiction. And doctors who get the waiver for buprenorphine can prescribe it in their offices, while methadone must be administered in federally certified treatment programs.
The state's health care department said the expansion project has thus far trained 395 new MAT prescribers. But as of July 2019, just 3.2% of prescribers in the state were authorized to prescribe buprenorphine, according to the Urban Institute study.
Dr. Peter Liepmann, a Pasadena-based family physician with an interest in addiction medicine, said it can be difficult to find a buprenorphine prescriber. Not long ago, when he was thinking about opening a practice in Glendale, California, he consulted the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) listings of physicians who offer MAT.
"If you were looking for somebody to dispense buprenorphine and you called people on that list, you would have come up with one doctor who ran a cash-only, no-insurance practice, and he was very expensive," Liepmann said.
The state's Perez said some doctors may not fully understand the benefits of MAT because medical schools devote little time to addiction training. Another element of the MAT project, she said, is to fund a substance-use-disorder curriculum at training hospitals.
Perez counseled patience: "We didn't get into this opioid dependency situation overnight, and we're not going to find a total solution overnight either."
This KHN story first published on California Healthline, a service of the California Health Care Foundation.
Author John GlionnaPosted on April 1, 2020 Categories California, Health Care Reform, Mental Health, Opioids, Public Health


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Force Friday 2 has come and gone, and with it the release of a new Star Wars game from FFG, a two player boxed set of Star Wars Destiny. Fantasy Flight Games was rather hush about this release and wouldn't even let brick-and-mortar stores about what exactly was going to be released that Friday (stores had to blindly go in on knowing they were releasing some sort of a Star Wars game that day).
Star Wars Destiny is the collectible dice game being put out by FFG as a competitor to Dice Masters. In the game you will build a deck based on a set amount of points and dice, and then take your band of characters and equipment into battle against someone else. Drawing and rolling dice on your turn in order to activate the many abilities of the cards you have. In this new box set you will get enough cards, tokens, and dice to play the game right out of the box. Plus, for those who are veterans to the game, this new box also features unique characters that haven't been released like new versions of Captain Phasma, Kylo Ren, Rey, and Poe Dameron. So whether you are just getting into the game or have been around for a while, this new boxed set is worth a look.
You can find out my information on FFG website, or go to your FLGS and pick it up today!
Hot on the heels of the announcement for the Tomb of Annihilation setting for Dungeons and Dragons, Wizkids have announced a new game and expansion. The new game was the rumored Adventure System game from before, and now we know it's Dungeons & Dragons: Tomb of Annihilation Adventure System Board Game. This game will be released later this summer and will feature cooperative campaign play like in the previous games and will focus itself on the new setting. The biggest change though has nothing to do with gameplay though, but the minis, and that is the addition of a deluxe version of the game. So like with the Assault of the Giants game, you can purchase a standard game with unpainted minis, or the deluxe game for fully painted minis. Either way I am looking forward to this new game in the Adventure System line.
The expansion that was announced is the next set for the Dice Masters game, Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters: Tomb of Annihilation. This will expand the Dungeons and Dragons section of the game will more heroes, monsters, gear, and spells from the new setting. Best of all there is also a new basic action card you can get that will change gameplay significantly. You can look for this set to release this fall, and you can head over to the Wizkids site to read more about everything being released.
Wizkids announced the new DC Comics Dice Masters: Harley Quinn Starter Set is coming from Eric M. Lang and Mike Elliot. This new addition to the DC Dice Masters Line will include Harley, as well as Poison Ivy, and six other characters off the streets of Gotham. The starter set will have all the components necessary for 2 players.
DC Comics Dice Masters: Harley Quinn Starter Set is due out in January 2018.
Wizkids has announced the newest addition to Eric Lang and Mike Elliot's popular Dice Masters line, DC Comics Dice Masters: Batman. Players can soon patrol Gotham and recruit more than 30 heroes and villains into their games. There are not a lot of details forthcoming, but be rest assured the Joker and a good variety of enemies and allies will be included.
You can read the full press release from Wizkids here.
Zen Bins has made a name for itself as an inexpensive and yet effective storage solution for collectible dice games like Dice Masters and the newly released Destiny. Both have a need to be able to not only store some cards, but also a good number of dice to field with those cards. In Destiny's case, tokens as well. So Zen Bins is Kickstarting an update to their previous system with spots for tokens to be stored along with the cards and dice. An interesting add-on that they have to offer this time around is the blinder, this allows you to keep your dice hidden so that they aren't visible to your opponent until the game starts.
Having used their previous model to store my Dice Masters I can say that they are very good quality for the money and do exactly what they set out to do. So Destiny players should check out their Kickstarter page and pledge for a set.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dice Masters: Heroes In A Half Shell Box Set Is Out Now!
For those of you who love to chuck dice or pretend to be ninja, you will be green with happiness to know that WizKids and designers Mike Elliott and Eric M. Lang just brought us the next iteration of the collectible dice building game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dice Masters.
Expanding on the original game, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dice Masters: Heroes In A Half Shell Box Set introduces 8 new characters. The new set also contains game play scenarios supporting 2 to 4 players.
Play as new versions of Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello or Michelangelo or as allies or villains and each throw of the dice from this new box set will be sure to capture the imagination of Dice Masters rookies and veterans alike.
Dice Masters continues to grow and so Wizkids has to continue to find more heroes and villains to add to the series, so now they've brought in the X-Men from their early days. X-Men First Class will have 30 new characters in total, some will be from Professor X's first team he put together to What If? characters and stories from the comic books. This set will be a booster only set so you will only be able to get these characters in the two cards boosters and not in any form of starter set. Planned release for this set is April of 2017, so look forward to expanding your collection yet again.


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Wow, what else will people come up with next? Here's a All-Terrain wheelchair!
lol, yeah i saw that one.... that funny!
Actually, this is a good idea for any active person in a wheelchair--they do get stuck really easily. I've heard of at least one woman out with her dog in the park who died when her wheelchair got stuck in sand and no one was around to help (it got stuck in the sun and her particular disability didn't allow her to regulate her body temp well).
I saw that one Dr. G Medical Examiner.
yep think working a wheelchair is almost like working a 4x4 off road !!!
i just wish they would make the elct chairs more affordable !!!!
Climbs stairs, supposedly handles sand, can raise the person to eye level of a standing person. You want expensive? Those sumbitches are $26,000.00!! Talk about costing as much as the truck!!
Yup, that's where I saw it too.
Now that is a real Wheel Chair! !!!!!!!
Speed: up to 5 mph.
I see that as the only down fall, mod that SOB!


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Home Media Form 303-S: Improved And Approved
Form 303-S: Improved And Approved
By FHH Law on February 11, 2011 Posted in Media
Revised broadcast renewal clears OMB hurdle, now ready for first round of radio renewals
The recently revised broadcast license renewal form (FCC Form 303-S) has received the formal blessing of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) – which means that it's now just about ready for use by radio licensees whose renewals are due by June 1. (That would be licensees in Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia.) OMB signed off on the updated form on February 2 (a scant week after the close of the comment period); that approval has now been published in the Federal Register. Following a 30-day post-publication waiting period, the revised form will officially be "effective".
The limited materials generated in connection with the OMB review process do contain a couple of items worthy of mention.
First, the FCC's "supporting statement" confirms our post from last September relative to the basis for the new certification about non-operation. In its statement the Commission specifically quotes from a 2001 decision holding that a "licensee will face a very heavy burden in demonstrating that it has served the public interest where it has remained silent for most or all of the prior license term." Since serving the public interest is a crucial component of the renewal process, prolonged failure to operate could be a serious impediment to renewal.
Second, our friend John Crigler (on behalf of a number of noncommercial broadcast organizations) filed comments suggesting that the new certification concerning non-discrimination in advertising contracts should include a "not applicable" option for noncoms. That would make sense because, by definition, noncommercial licensees can't sell "advertising" and thus don't have any "advertising" contracts to certify about. The Commission rejected that suggestion, however. It turns out (according to the Commission, at least) that when an NCE licensee indicates (in the first section of the form) that it's noncommercial, the form will not display the advertising certification at all.
As noted, the revised form will be "effective" as of March 14, 2011, i.e., 30 days following Federal Register publication. Media Bureau officials have indicated that they're planning to issue a public notice on or about that effective date to provide additional guidance for renewal applicants. Check back here for updates.
Tags: Broadcast, Broadcast renewal application form, Diversity Order, Form 303-S, Nondiscrimination, Nondiscrimination clause, Renewal, RF certification, Silent authority, Suspension of operation