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'Devolution' Consultation Deadline Approaching
Ruddingtonians are being reminded that time is running out to have our say on proposed regulatory changes which could impact many aspects of village life – including housing, transport, education and the environment. On August 30th 2022 the leaders of Nottinghamshire County Council, Nottingham City Council, Derbyshire County Council and Derby City Council all signed up to work on proposals to set up a brand new body called the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA). It followed an announcement from the Government that a package of new powers and funding, worth…
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Ruddington Co-op Reveals Latest 'Good Causes'
The three beneficiaries of this year's 'Local Community Fund' – courtesy of shoppers at the Ruddington Co-op – have been announced. This time two of the organisations are based in our village and the third over in Clifton. It's been revealed this week that The Ruddington Pantry, Ruddington & District U3A and 1st Clifton Scout Group will all receive cash from the new round of funding – which runs from 24th October 2022 for the next 12 months. Member Pioneer for Ruddington and Clifton, Gwen Eyre, explains: "The Ruddington Co-op store and the…
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Calling All Dog Owners!
4th July 2022 1st September 2022 Graham Wright
There's no doubt that Ruddington enjoys a considerable canine population; not only the hundreds of four-legged friends owned by village residents but also the many visiting Rushcliffe Country Park and our rural footpaths to be exercised by their owners. Villager Lucinda Martin, who works for Nottingham's FRAME charity, is encouraging others to join her to get fit whilst raising funds for medical research by taking part in the 'Summer 100-mile Dog Walking Challenge!' You're invited to sign up now via their dedicated Facebook page, send off for your FREE t-shirt, get people…
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Our Village Market Turns Three!
25th January 2022 7th February 2022 Graham Wright
Organisers of Ruddington Village Market are planning something of a celebration this February – as the popular, monthly event celebrates its third birthday. Whilst it might seem like only yesterday, in fact its launch was way back in February 2019. Since then, the market has grown from 15 stalls and a few hundred visitors at The White Horse Inn, to an anticipated 74 stalls of quality food, drink and crafts on The Green when it returns from its 'winter break' on Saturday February 5th 2022. It now attracts shoppers from all…
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Bloomin' Marvellous!
A Ruddington charity which was set up four years' ago to give a better quality of life to dementia sufferers and their families has been the first to officially receive its cash from the 2020-2021 round of the Co-op Local Community Fund. Local shoppers raised a total £5232.13 for Bloomin' Dementia, based on Easthorpe Street, and representatives were presented with their cheque at the Church Street Food Store yesterday (November 25th). Pictured above (L to R) are store manager Chris Bradbury, Amy Louise Troke & Andy Hallam from Bloomin' Dementia, and…
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Free School Holiday Meals to Continue
9th October 2021 9th October 2021 Graham Wright
Ruddington's schools are welcoming the announcement by Nottinghamshire County Council that it will continue to fund Free School Meals for the October half-term and over two weeks at Christmas. This means that village schoolchildren will be among more than 25,000 across the county who will receive 250,000 meals during the October break. Councillor Tracey Taylor, chairman of Children and Young People's Committee, says that the Council recognised the cost of living challenges were impacting on large numbers of people and was grateful to receive the funding to continue the support until…
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Volunteers Needed for Expanded Museum
14th September 2021 25th November 2021 Advertorial
As Ruddington's Framework Knitters' Museum on Chapel Street moves towards re-opening in October, it's looking for new volunteers. Jan Perret writes… If you are local to Ruddington, you will probably have noticed that the museum has been undergoing extensive building work over the last few months, thanks to a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and FCC Communities Foundation. This money has allowed us to create a new entrance, reception, shop and cafe in the old 'Gunn Cottage' and this means we have more opportunities for you to be involved…
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What are called equivalent fractions?
A given fraction and various fractions obtained by multiplying (or dividing) its numerator and denominator both by the same non-zero number, are called equivalent fractions.
The value of the fraction does not change if both the numerator and the denominator are multiplied by the same natural number.
(i) (3 × 2)/(4 × 2) = 6/8, (3 × 3)/(4 × 3) = 9/12, (3 × 4)/(4 × 4) = 12/16 etc. are equivalent fractions equivalent to the fraction 3/4.
1/3 = (1 × 9)/(3 × 9) = 9/27 and so on.
So, 1/3, 3/9, 6/18, 9/27, etc., are equivalent fractions.
So, 45/27, 15/9, 5/3, etc., are equivalent fractions.


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The Epic Online Services tool suite that powers the multiplayer hit that is Fortnite is now being made available by Epic Games for free.
Epic Games powers a lot of gaming experiences across the industry via the Unreal Engine platform and the company is introducing something new to help developers with their titles-in-progress. Epic Online Services is a free set of tools to help create robust multiplayer experiences and the company is unleashing them to developers while GDC 2019 charges forward.
"Building a game is only the beginning for developers," said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. "We know from experience that successfully managing and scaling your game requires a robust infrastructure, with numerous back-end services. With Fortnite we are now operating these services at an enormous scale, and we are glad to start opening them up to the game development community at large in order to make it easier for teams of all sizes to succeed."
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After emergency on plane, Bristol Borough woman advocates for EpiPens on flights
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Aboard an American Airlines flight high above the Pennsylvania countryside, Ashley Spencer felt the familiar tingling in her throat and hives well up on her skin. She didn't feel well after she ate some kettle chips, and would soon realize she was having an anaphylactic crisis.
Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction that can lead to difficulty breathing and death. Epinephrine is a hormone and medication used to treat the reaction.
Before Spencer, of Bristol Borough, could get back to her seat to get her EpiPen with its lifesaving injection of epinephrine, she collapsed on the plane's floor. When she came to, she asked for the injectible before blacking out again.
Luckily, two doctors were aboard the flight and injected her with both EpiPens she carried with her as well as more epinephrine one of the doctors had.
The flight made an emergency landing in Pittsburgh where Ashley spent most of that day in May 2018 in a hospital before continuing her journey to the Cleveland Clinic for a clinical trial treatment for her rare, autoimmune disease that causes inflamed blood vessels.
Her emergency landing made headlines, and spurred her to advocate for change.
On Thursday, Spencer and Dr. Jonthan Spergel, chief of the allergy section at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, headed to Washington to meet about 20 members of the U.S. Senate.
They and members of the Coalition for Lifesaving Epinephrine Access and Responsibility (CLEAR) hope that Congress and President Donald Trump will enact legislation requiring airlines to stock epinephrine auto-injectors on board commercial flights.
Spencer, 29, said the meeting went well. Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey had representatives from his staff at the meeting.
"It was very informative and there was a lot discussed about the need for epinephrine auto-injectors on planes," Spencer said.
"Epinephrine auto-injectors on airplanes just make common sense," Spergel said. "It saves lives with low cost."
The epinephrine auto-injectors, called EpiPens by the most popular brand's producer, Pfizer, are easy to use injections that can save the life of someone going into anaphalaxic shock. Advocates want it made law that airlines need to have them in their emergency medical kits.
"When seconds can mean the difference between life and death in a person who suffers anaphylaxis, particularly in-flight when the passenger is thousands of feet in the atmosphere with no immediate recourse to a hospital or first responder, this action is urgently needed," CLEAR states.
There's another reason as well. There is an on-going shortage of EpiPens available. Pfizer and the company that prices and markets the pens, Mylan, announced jointly in June that they extended the expiration date by four months on EpiPens, but not on EpiPen Jrs., which are used to treat young children.
"EpiPen is a product that requires a highly complex and technical manufacturing and assembly process," the Pfizer announcement stated. The pharmaceutical firm said its subsidiary that makes the EpiPens, Meridian Medical Technologies Inc., "continues to experience manufacturing challenges. ... We place great importance on the consistent availability of EpiPen for everyone who needs it and understand the frustration this ongoing situation continues to pose for patients, caregivers and schools."
Spencer said that some people who should carry epinephrine auto-injectors aren't doing so, either because of the supply shortage or the prohibitive cost.
Online prices have ranged from more than $100 to more than $600.
Spencer said airline emergency kits may carry epinephrine for injection since it can also be used for heart disorder patients but it needs to be given by someone with knowledge of how to administer it, preferably a medical professional, while the auto-injectibles can be injected by anyone in an emergency.
The issue has gained importance, CLEAR notes, because there are now 32 million Americans, including 5.6 million children under age 18, with food allergies.
According to FARE, a private organization that supports food allergy research and education, between 2007 and 2016, medical procedures to treat anaphylaxis from food allergies increased by 380%, according to CLEAR.
While many allergies are first noticed in young children, Spencer said hers developed after she took chemotherapy and steroid treatments for the autoimmune disease that struck her as a teenager, eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis vasculitis or EGPA for short.
It caused her severe asthma and limb paralysis. She praised St. Mary's Rehabilitation Center for helping her get back the use of her legs.
At 23, she was eating a peanut-butter and chocolate candy she had eaten many times before, and suddenly developed an allergic reaction. She has been hospitalized multiple times since then for the life-threatening condition, including times when she needing a ventilator to keep her breathing while she recovered, she said.
Spencer is staying in Cleveland where she now is being treated at the Cleveland Clinic with a new drug that seems to be helping. She's hoping it will help her allergies as well. Her immune system is so suppressed, she said, that she cannot work. And she has a blood clot near her heart that has required the use of blood thinners.
Still she's trying to help other people.
"In an emergency, it's all about time," she said.
She realizes how lucky she was to be on a flight with two doctors.
"They saved my life. Hopefully, I can use the platform to save others' lives by getting EpiPens aboard all planes."
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a notice about the EpiPen shortage because of "constraints" at Meridian Medical Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Pfizer that makes the auto-injectors, and said that supplies vary from pharmacy to pharmacy. "Mylan, the distributor, is expediting shipments to wholesalers upon receipt from Pfizer. Patients who are experiencing difficulty accessing product should continue to contact Mylan Customer Relations at 800-796-9526 for assistance in locating alternative pharmacies," the FDA stated.
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johnjohnW
Posted: 12/06/20 7:03 pm ::: Stewart Among 5 Selected by SI for SOTY Reply
https://www.syracuse.com/sports/2020/12/breanna-stewart-an-activist-athlete-named-to-symbolize-sports-illustrated-sportsperson-of-year.html
Breanna Stewart on of 5 athletes selected to represent the Activist Athlete as Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of the Year.
pilight
Location: Where the action is
Posted: 12/06/20 9:08 pm ::: Reply
I find Stewart a curious choice
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pilight wrote:
I didn't want to be the one to say it, but SI missed the mark here. The whole point of the WNBA's social justice campaign this season was to bring awareness to the institutional racism faced by black women and to amplify the voices of black women...and SI chose to spotlight a white player.
Stewart has been an excellent ally and activist and nothing against her getting recognition for that but SI bungled this one.
Bob Lamm
Posted: 12/07/20 12:26 am ::: Reply
Of course it was right to select a WNBA player as one of the five honorees. And I intend nothing against Ms. Stewart, who is completely admirable both as an athlete and as an activist.
Sports Illustrated obviously wanted to have a white woman among the five honorees rather than having too many Black or mixed-race athletes on that list. Additional benefit for SI: Breanna Stewart is a bigger, better-known star than various African American players in the WNBA who could have been named. This is traditional, sickening corporate marketing governing decisions. It's not about who most deserves honors, even honors for outstanding political activism. It's about who will sell more magazines.
Again, to be as clear as possible, I have nothing but respect for Breanna Stewart. She deserves lots of honors. But a Black woman should have been honored for the WNBA's remarkable, unprecedented dedication of an entire season to "Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor." johnjohnw has that exactly right.
In memory of Clifford Glover, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Eleanor Bumpurs, and too many others.
Richard 77
Location: Lake Mills, Wisconsin
Posted: 12/07/20 4:51 am ::: Re: Stewart Among 5 Selected by SI for SOTY Reply
johnjohnW wrote:
Congratulations Breanna!
If you cannot inspire yourself to read a book about women's basketball, or any book about women's sports, you cannot inspire any young girl or boy to write a book about them. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Richardstrek
FrozenLVFan
Posted: 12/07/20 12:36 pm ::: Reply
If the emphasis is on "Sportsperson" who happens to be an activist, then Stewart is a fine choice. If they were trying to recognize an activist in the WNBA who is an exceptional sportsperson, there are better options.
IM in OC
Imani McGee- Stafford tweeted her opinion on the matter in this thread. Several tweets in her thread.
https://twitter.com/imanitrishawn_/status/1335776740258570240
IM in OC wrote:
Thanks for sharing these powerful tweets from Imani McGee-Stafford. I agree with every word she wrote.
Bob Lamm wrote:
One of the tweets further down says the entire league should get the award. I would strongly agree with that.
FrozenLVFan wrote:
That would have been great. To my knowledge, this is the first time in any professional sport anywhere where an entire league has dedicated an entire season to ANY issue of social justice. Every player, coach, staff member, and executive in the league who was part of this should be proud.
Who Gets The Magazine Cover?
https://defector.com/who-gets-the-magazine-cover/
Sports Illustrated pretends to play along, but its true message is some new, ironic inversion of "Shut up and dribble." It is "Dribble, and then you can talk."
GlennMacGrady
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I haven't paid attention to SI's Sportsperson of the Year for decades, especially after they began naming multiple winners.
Nonetheless, I don't understand the criticism of Stewart being one of the five SOTY's, given what SI clearly stated their criteria to be this year. They first looked at athletes who won championships in their sports in 2020, and then picked five individuals who they conceived to be the best "activist athletes" on their championship teams or, for tennis, league.
Here is how SI explains their selections in the SOTY article:
And so our Sportsperson of the Year award goes to five men and women who in 2020 were champions in every sense of the word: champions on the field, champions for others off it. Patrick Mahomes, the Super Bowl MVP who used his platform as the NFL's transcendent star to push the league to recognize the Black Lives Matter movement and players' rights to protest. Naomi Osaka, the U.S. Open tennis champion who embraced her fame and found her voice in the fight against social injustice. Breanna Stewart, who returned from a devastating injury to lead her team to the WNBA title and who spoke loudly against racism and for women's equality. Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, the Chiefs' lineman who became a Super Bowl champion and then left the NFL to join the front lines of the battle against COVID-19. And James, who led the Lakers to the NBA title, won his fourth Finals MVP trophy and worked tirelessly to end voter suppression and ensure that in 2020 everyone—especially Black people—had equal access to the polls.
So, the the honorees had to be, first of all, individuals who were champions in 2020. Saying the entire WNBA, NFL, NBA or tennis association should have won the award is completely contrary to the historical practice of naming a SportsPERSON of the Year.
Fans should be happy that SI even looked at such a niche sport as the WNBA. But when they did, and obviously decided to pick a player from the 2020 league champion Seattle Storm, why isn't Stewart the obvious choice? Who else on that team was a more effective "activist athlete"? I don't really follow such things, but if someone thinks another player on the Storm was more deserving, please name her and make your case with specific details and arguments.
On edit: SI often used to have different covers in different regions of the country. If that's still the practice, I would expect that each of the five 2020 SOTY's may be on the front cover in different places.
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Posted: 12/11/20 1:03 am ::: Reply
So to summarise the thread so far, Stewie is a champion and an activist but her skin is white so she shouldn't have won but we're not saying who should have won.
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mavcarter
GlennMacGrady wrote:
Somewhat surprised people didn't fully read the article to understand why Stewart was chosen.
Or maybe said poster should quit being a nuisance when people don't agree?
ucbart
No! They shouldn't have. Every other person either won their title as part of a team or in Osaka's case, won everything. This was for a person who won at their sport and won in activism.
The NBA also used their voices, not as much as the W, but still. But, NOBODY is questioning LeBron's choice and saying that the entire league should've won.
Every year the award is about sports, this year they tied in activism because well, woke sells, and they would've been crucified if they didn't. I don't see how anyone other than Stewie won it from the WNBA, expect maybe A'Ja Wilson, the league MVP, but her team got swept and she wasn't even close to the best player in that series.
mavcarter wrote:
Really? You're surprised that in 2020, people didn't read, investigate, and form a decision based on facts? HAAAAAAA . This thread, including praising IMS, is the antithesis of our entire culture now.
ucbart wrote:
I completely understand why they chose Stewart and think she is a worthy recipient. I just think it's unfortunate that the very activism she is engaged in, is about amplifying the voices of black women and SI felt it was more important to adhere to arbitrary standards rather than choose someone such as Natasha Cloud or Maya Moore. A missed opportunity and I forced error on SIs part.
Completely agree. Is the arbitrary qualifying standard of athletes who won championships in 2020 more important than the standard of who best represents the Activist Athlete? Not to me it isn't.
Just to continue being as clear as possible, I mean nothing against Breanna Stewart. I have complete respect for her as an athlete and as an activist. Nevertheless, Sports Illustrated should have changed their standards a little and honored a Black woman from the WNBA or, even better, the entire WNBA.
My goodness, to find an SI sportsperson of the year who didn't win a championship that year we have to go all the way back to the distant past of 2017...
https://www.si.com/sportsperson/2017/12/05/si-sportsperson-of-the-year-jj-watt-houston-texans
Being an actual champion seems far from arbitrary to me in a Sportsperson of the Year award. On the contrary it seems like a very logical first place to start looking.
Kudos to johnjohnW for actually nominating some alternatives though instead of just complaining about the winner.
To be fair, being a champion isn't arbitrary but why limit yourself when honoring activists? Like what does being a champion have to do with being an activist? It seems like an unnecessary requirement. Colin Kapernick isn't a champion and honestly, despite his campaigning, isn't really cut out to be an NFL starter anymore, but he is most definitely the most important athlete activist of the last few years.
tfan
I think the NBA, WNBA, and Black Lives Matter should have a broader focus, dealing with the economic situation of black people in the parts of American metro areas that have been called "the inner city" for at least 55 years. One that talks about income levels and employment, not just interactions with the police. And discussing how to improve that (which would require fighting the policies of the donor class). But it doesn't appear that the WNBA had the broad focus that you stated. However, they did add "racial violence against women and girls" in a news release, in addition o police interactions and killings of black people.
WNBA dedicates 2020 season to social justice, announces creation of Social Justice Counci
During the season, which is scheduled to begin later this month at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, players will wear special uniforms to seek justice for women and girls, such as Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor and Vanessa Guillen, who "have been the forgotten victims of police brutality and racial violence," the news release said.
Players also will wear warm-up shirts with "Black Lives Matter" on the front and "Say Her Name" on the back. Like NBA courts for its restart, WNBA courts will have the words "Black Lives Matter" displayed on courts during games.
WNBA dedicates season to Breonna Taylor and Say Her Name campaign
Before the start of its 2020 campaign on Saturday, the WNBA dedicated the season to Breonna Taylor and the Say Her Name movement, which raises awareness for Black female victims of police violence.
Thanks. Well said.
ClayK
The idea that elite athletes are somehow doing more for movements of any sort than the dedicated volunteers and staff that have in the trenches for years annoys me. It's fine to honor the athletes, I guess, but why not pair them with somebody who's done real work?
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Elmar Edel (* 12. März 1914 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein; † 25. April 1997) war ein deutscher Ägyptologe und Hetithologe.

Nach dem Abitur an einem Gymnasium in Würzburg studierte Elmar Edel Ägyptologie in Heidelberg bei Hermann Ranke und ab 1934 in Berlin bei Kurt Sethe und Hermann Grapow. Hethitologie studierte er in Berlin bei Hans Ehelolf.

1937 bearbeitete er für die Deutsche Orientgesellschaft in der Vorderasiatischen Abteilung der Berliner Museen verschiedene hethitische Texte. Während dieser Zeit kam er mit der ägyptisch-hethitischen Korrespondenz in Kontakt. Dabei handelt es sich um Schriften zwischen Ägypten und Ḫattuša aus dem zweiten Jahrtausend v. Chr. Im Jahr 1941 wurde er bei Hermann Grapow promoviert. Seine Dissertation trug den Titel Untersuchungen zur Phraseologie der ägyptischen Inschriften des Alten Reiches.

1955 wurde er außerordentlicher Professor für Ägyptologie an der Universität Bonn, seit 1963 war er dort ordentlicher Professor. Elmar Edel und sein Team von der Universität Bonn untersuchten die Nekropole des Qubbet el-Hawa in den Jahren 1959 bis 1981 in 20 Feldkampagnen. Er dokumentierte systematisch die ca. 80 Felsgräber in ihren ober- wie unterirdischen Abschnitten mit allen epigraphischen Daten sowie den Funden und Befunden.

Elmar Edel war seit 1960 ordentliches Mitglied des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts und korrespondierendes Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, 1970 wurde er ordentliches Mitglied der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1977 korrespondierendes Mitglied des Institut d'Égypte, 1979 korrespondierendes Mitglied der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und 1982 ordentliches Mitglied der Academia Mediterranea delle Science Catania.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Neue Keilschriftliche Umschreibungen ägyptischer Namen aus den Boghasköi-Texten, (1948)
 Die Reiseberichte des Harchuf (Hrw-hwff) in seinem Grab am Qubbet el-Hawa (34n), Berlin (1955)
 Altägyptische Grammatik I, (1955)
 Der geplante Besuch Hattusilis III. in Ägypten, (1960)
 Altägyptische Grammatik II, (1964)
 Altägyptische Fürstengräber bei Assuan. Ausgrabungen auf der Qubbet el-Hawa, Berlin (1966)
 Die Felsengräber der Qubbet el-Hawa bei Assuan, Wiesbaden (1967–1971)
 Beiträge zu den Inschriften des Mittleren Reiches in den Gräbern der Qubbet el-Hawa, Berlin (1971)
 Ägyptische Ärzte und ägyptische Medizin am Hethitischen Königshof (1976)
 Die ägyptisch-hethitische Korrespondenz aus Boghazköi in babylonischer und hethitischer Sprache, Opladen (1994)
 Der Vertrag von Ramses II. von Ägypten und Hattusili III., Berlin (1997)
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Q: How to set position of j button? Hi  i am trying to make java desktop application where i am having 4 jbutton  i want to set them  bottom left corner one by one i  am  using null layout for setting them  but i dont want to use  null layout  so
how can i achieve this ?
Thanks in advance
   ok = new JButton(s);
      ok.setBounds(800, 725, 100, 40);
      ok.setBackground(Color.red);
      ok.setOpaque(true);
       ok.setForeground(Color.BLACK);
       c.add(ok);

     print = new JButton("Print");
      print.setBounds(925, 725, 100, 40);
       print.setBackground(Color.red);
      print.setOpaque(true);
       print.setForeground(Color.BLACK);
       c.add(print);

     next = new JButton("next");
     next.setBounds(400, 725, 100, 40);
      next.setBackground(Color.red);
      next.setOpaque(true);
       next.setForeground(Color.BLACK);
       c.add(next);

     home = new JButton("home");
     home.setBounds(500, 725, 100, 40);
       home.setForeground(Color.BLACK);
        home.setBackground(Color.red);
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A: Sort answer, use a layout manager.
Long answer, pixel perfect layouts are an illusion in modern user interface design.  You can't possible predict the combination of hardware and software that is used to render content to the screen and what effect that will have on your components.
Each system could be using different fonts, rendering pipelines, DPI, hardware...and much more, all of which will change the size of the text and other elements on your UI.
Swing was designed to work around the use of layout managers, trying to do with out greatly increases your work load, as you now need to do the work that the layer manager was as well as be able to detect changes that occur around you and the parent components that you've been added to...
Looking at your code, I could suggest FlowLayout or GridBagLayout as a possible starting point

A: As @MadProgrammer said you really should use layout managers.
But if you insist on working like this use:
c.setLayout(null);

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ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: Miné par les divergences, le G20 accouche d'une souris
Undermined by Divergences, the G20 Summit Ends in Stalemate
Translated Monday 15 November 2010, by Isabelle Métral and reviewed by Henry Crapo
The planet's most powerful powers did not succeed in striking more than a minimal agreement that merely postpones tackling the war over exchange rates or trade imbalances.
The G20, the planet's most powerful countries (rich or emerging) displayed its inner divergences during the two-day summit in Seoul before adopting a final statement so minimal that it certainly does not amount to so much as a compromise, let alone an agreement.
Real monetary dumping
The 20 did mention the divisive issues, like the manipulation of exchange rates and trade imbalances. These had come up on the eve of the summit following the announcement by the US Federal Reserve of a plan to purchase 600 billion dollars in US Treasury bonds. Which amounts to flooding the planet in green banknotes to hold down the rate of the US currency. This planned monetary dumping provoked sharp criticism especially from big exporting countries, like Germany or China. Other countries like Brazil also virulently voiced their fears that the flood of dollars might turn into a flood of speculative capital ready to position itself on their country's Treasury bonds (their rates being higher) and so push up the rates of their currencies. While the US itself persisted in accusing Beijing of unfair commercial competition by undervaluing the yuan.
Confronted with this imminent commercial war, the G20 did not even succeed in waving the white flag. More often than not, negotiation was a dialogue of the deaf, so much so that serious measures have simply been postponed. In order to define the reasons for the global imbalances and pinpoint responsibilities, the 20's finance ministers have been invited to probe into "indicative directives", the modalities of which are to be "assessed" in the first semester of 2011, at the beginning of the G20's French presidency.
Nicolas Sarkozy was obviously far more interested in taking advantage of the stature of international one-man band that looms ahead of him than in defending the text adopted in Seoul. He once more declared his ambition "to moralize capitalism", "to make it more efficient and better regulated", and pointed out the importance of opening the way to a reform of the international monetary system in the near future. This must be no less than "a Bretton Woods", he insisted, in reference to the agreement struck after WWII on which, basically, the global monetary order is still founded.
The challenge is more formidable than ever
Unwilling to gloss over the "great difficulties to be surmounted" in order to strike an agreement on the subject, the French president announced that he was to set out on a mission to meet several heads of State, starting with Barack Obama, leadership obliging, "before the end of December", then the South-African president Jacob Zuma. He promised that Angela Merkel would be associated in all the stages of the reflection and congratulated himself at great length that Beijing had agreed to host a first seminar on those issues in the spring. France will have one year exactly to produce a draft at a summit planned in Cannes in early November, 2011.
Beyond its obvious sensational impact and possible uses on the French political scene, the challenge is effectively more formidable than ever. But instead of the necessary drastic overhaul, the French president has come out in favour of more conventional solutions. At no time does he mention the disorder provoked by the domination of the green currency. He unreservedly supports the IMF reform on which the 20 managed to reach an agreement, even though it extends the US power of veto … He also, like the 20, advocates the completion of the Doha cycle on the liberalization of trade. In short, his plans for reform madly mimic a blind rush along the old familiar track.


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End-of-Life Talks Lacking Between Doctors, Patients
10:00AM EDT 4/2/2013	 Genevra Pittman/Reuters
Although many older patients in Canada have thought about end-of-life care and discussed it with family members, a new study suggests fewer have spoken with doctors and had their wishes noted accurately in their medical record.
Many elderly people prefer to die at home instead of in the hospital—but that's not always the way it works out, researchers said.
Dr. Daren Heyland from Kingston General Hospital in Ontario said a lack of discussion about patients' wishes is often what leads to very aggressive care at the end of life, followed by stress and regret from family members.
"These are 80-year-old patients who are frail, sick, in hospitals, and so they've obviously considered their end-of-life situation," Heyland, who led the new study, told Reuters Health.
"The real problem is the failure of the health care team to engage them."
One recent U.S. study found an increase between 2000 and 2009 in the proportion of people admitted to the intensive care unit in the month before they died. And although use of hospice care seemed to be increasing, dying patients were often transferred only for their last few days of life (see Reuters Health story of February 5, 2013 here: reut.rs/Y8xUyp).
To gauge whether patients' wishes for end-of-life care were clear and known to everyone involved, the researchers interviewed 278 sick, elderly patients who were in the hospital and expected to live less than six months and 225 family members. The interviews were conducted at 12 hospitals across Canada.
About three-quarters of the patients said they had thought about end-of-life care before being hospitalized, and the majority of them had discussed their goals for care with a family member.
But most patients also said they had not discussed how much time they had left with their doctor or been asked about any earlier end-of-life talks when admitted to the hospital this time around.
Even when people's wishes were noted in their medical records, two-thirds of the time those notes differed from what patients and their family members expressed during interviews.
People typically preferred less aggressive treatment than what was recorded, Heyland and his colleagues reported Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
"That to me is a huge and alarming problem, that an 80-year-old patient says, 'When it comes to the final stages of life, just focus on keeping me comfortable,' and on their medical record, they're up for full resuscitative practices," Heyland said.
Dr. Mary Tinetti, chief of geriatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, said the findings aren't all troubling.
"I was heartened by what a high percentage of people actually had discussed preferences," Tinetti, who wasn't involved in the new study, told Reuters Health. "Patients really are beginning to feel comfortable having those conversations, at least with their family."
She said it's hard to tell just how different patients' and families' real preferences were from what was noted in medical records, based on this study alone.
"In any of these kinds of surveys, the way the question gets asked is really key," she said.
Still, Tinetti said the findings do echo recent research suggesting talking to patients on a regular basis about their end-of-life wishes should be considered part of routine care. And patients shouldn't be afraid to bring up those issues on their own, she added.
"Because they're the ones that are most affected by the treatment results, they should really feel comfortable and feel it is appropriate that they raise it with their clinicians," Tinetti said.
Heyland agreed.
"It is important that they open their mouths and adequately communicate their wishes and request or ensure that they get documented appropriately in whatever medical record the facility has for them," he said.
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Top 10 moments of the 2016 NBA season
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2016 was a great year for NBA fans, especially if you were a Cavs fan, and maybe not so much a Warriors fan. Regardless, we saw some great basketball in the 2015-2016 season and the offseason that followed it. It wasn't just some things that caught us by surprise, but rather everything about it caught us off guard.
Thunder lose in the Western Conference Finals, change NBA landscape forever.
Kicking the top 10 off is OKC's huge collapse in the Western Conference Finals against the Warriors. Preceding the dubs at their own fortunes, the Thunder blew a 3-1 lead over the former NBA champs after knocking off a Spurs team that was on it's last legs mentally and physically after capturing a title just 2 years prior. The Thunder finally looked to be avenging their 2012 appearance in the Finals when they were still so young and promising, except this time with the departure of James Harden, the team of Westbrook and Durant looked primed to walk right into a Finals meeting with the Cavs.
In actuality however, it took a absolutely crushing Game 6 loss for the Thunder to finally see the writing on the wall. After Klay Thompson lit them up for 11 three's in the game, with the Warriors not yet finished writing NBA history, Thompson's playoff record setting shooting display propelled the Warriors to a Game 7 back at the Oracle for the nail in the coffin.
Curry gets second MVP in consecutive years, this time unanimously.
Steph Curry set a new record for most-recorded 3-point field-goals in a regular season at 402, yes you read that right, accumulating over 1200 points alone on 3-point shots. That wasn't the only milestone that he and the Warriors achieved but it does help add some insight into one of the greatest regular seasons from a player and team we've ever seen. Steph Curry led the Warriors through some of the most exhilarating games and at times himself appeared to be in his own world out on the floor. Some of the performances that Curry had last season were jaw-dropping and usually dominated media headlines for days on end.
And yet even with all of the praise and attention, there were still doubts about Curry receiving the award for a second time as some pinned him to be the shiny object that dazzled and swindled everyones vote. Well, even if that was the case the voters certainly didn't seem to disagree as Curry made more history becoming the first player to be unanimously voted as Most Valuable Player.
Toronto Raptors reach Eastern Conference Finals for first time in franchise history
The Raptors had a great run last season after they made a push to become the 2nd best team in the East, and ultimately reach their first Eastern Conference Finals in the franchises history. A huge deal for the Raptor fans who have been longing for some success for the last few years with their great tandem of Lowry and Derozan.
While the Raps looked relatively dominant throughout the season, they definitely kept their fans on edge once the playoffs began. Looking back at it now – I said it at the time – the Raptors had one of the most difficult playoffs and it was usually to their own detriment. Toronto found themselves in 2 Game 7 situations before even meeting with the Cavaliers and while it was certainly the hard path taken, it did give some entertaining basketball in the Eastern playoffs.
Wade leaves Miami, Durant leaves Oklahoma City
Appropriately at #7 we combine 2 of the biggest moves in the NBA this past offseason, as if the Finals didn't give us enough excitement, the moves made over the summer changed franchises and broke hearts.
Dwyane Wade was beloved in Miami (and still is) and its doubtful that will ever change after giving the franchise 13 years of greatness, including 3 NBA Championships. Sure he had to make room for both LeBron and Chris Bosh, but at the heart of the team it was Wade county through and through. After conversations broke down with Pat Riley, Hassan Whiteside receiving a max deal rather quickly and the franchises obvious pursuit of Kevin Durant it seemed as though Wade was pushed to the side in Riley's list of priorities. Well for Dwyane, it was clear he was searching for more and was tired of being an afterthought, which ended up landing him in the windy city with the Chicago Bulls, or better known to Wade as home.
Kevin Durant was all the buzz throughout the entire offseason and for alot of us who weren't Durant himself, Draymond Green, Steph Curry or his immediate family we were for the most part led astray that he would be considering any other team not named the Warriors. After the fact, it was clear that the courting from the Warriors players and the crushing defeat in the Western Conference Finals that Durant's mind was made up – Oakland was the destination and it has been weird to see Durant in a Warriors jersey ever since.
Feb. 27 2016 – Warriors vs. Thunder, the game winner for the ages
The Warriors dominance was in full force when they met up with the Thunder for just the second time in the same month of February. The Thunder and Warriors games were 3 of the best games of last season because it served as a preview to the Western Conference finals. Our post-All Star hangover was met with possibly the best regular season game of last season as the Warriors and Thunder dueled it out all the way into overtime.
The game itself was back and forth the entire time, leading all the way up to the wire which is what we wish every NBA game was like as it brings the best out of players. In a crazy finish that saw Kevin Durant cough up a costly turnover leading to the fouling of Andre Igoudala who stepped up and hit 2 massive free-throws to send the game into OT. Overtime was once again a back and forth fight until Russell Westbrook had the ball in his hands as the final 20 seconds ran off the clock. Westbrook's attack led him to a shot of hope as hit attempted to lay the ball up only to watch it bounce off the rim into the Warriors hands. With the rebound secured, the ball found Steph Curry who dribbled it just past half court with around 2 seconds remaining – the rest is history.
The Dunk contest heard around the world
If as picture was a thousand words then this top 10 list wouldn't be enough to even begin to describe the high level of entertainment that the Dunk Contest brought fans worldwide back in February this year. Everyone's seen it by now, if you haven't then I don't know what to tell you other than you've missed out on one of the best Dunk Contest's since the battle between Jordan and Dominique back in 1988.
For years the Dunk Contest was losing it's "wow-factor" and was forever being compared to the last time it truly took the NBA world by storm in 2000 by Vince Carter and company. That was until this years past All-Star Weekend where the seemingly unchallenged Zach Lavine was met head-to-head by Orlando Magic's Aaron Gordon. The 2 made it to the final round without much competition, but once they began their final dunks it quickly turned into a "anything you can do I can somehow do inhumane-video-game-style better".
For a moment in time we were in the trance of some of the most amazing stretch of dunks that I personally have ever seen. The best part about all of it is that it was everything that encompasses the Dunk Contest – mind-blowing dunks, 2 or more competitors battling it out and dunks being completed in less than 3 attempts.
Kobe's Finale in LA
In 2016 believe it or not there was another attraction in the league not named the Golden State Warriors. The Lakers Kobe retirement tour of the United States kicked off early into the 2015-2016 season and didn't stop for anybody. The Lakers became a travelling spectacle purely for fans to get a final glimpse of Bryant that in turn took the Laker's focus completely off of basketball and just through them into a sideshow all season.
Regardless, all good things must come to an end and given Bryant's track record, his final game of his career couldn't have ended any better being at home and giving a performance that was only fitting for Kobe to exit on. Unbelievably, the Warriors make another return into 2016 storylines as Kobe's last game happened to coincide with the night that the Warriors were going for their 73rd win against the Grizzlies. However, in true Kobe fashion he stole the show by dropping 60 points against the Utah Jazz in a close game and eventually winning that game to much of the delight of the fans in Staples that night. It was truly Bryant's showcase of everything his career was in LA and his loyalty to the franchise has cemented his legacy as one of the greatest Laker's in history.
Move over Chicago, there's a new record in town.
The questions that eventually surrounded the Warrior's completing the feat that was 73 regular season wins is something that will haunt the franchise for years to come. However to most people it's debatable that this had anything to do with how the Warrior's playoff run eventually ended.
The Warriors started off the season going on a 24-0 run on the league and had the NBA media in a frenzy from there onwards as they scrambled to try and explain just how dominant the Warrior's were being and if it was fair on the rest of the league. As the season went on the wins began to pile up, they had stats that would almost begin to guarantee wins – unbeaten at home, up by 15 at any point they win etc.
It was incredible to watch and with all the hypothetical 1996 Bulls vs 2016 Warriors match-ups aside it now etches them into the history books, for a record that was seemingly untouchable, the Warriors proved that basketball had changed and was in a new phase of how the game will be played for decades to come.
The big 3's big moment
By now i'm sure you can guess whats coming at #1, but before that could even happen there was a series of events that deserve their own top 10 spot. The big 3 of Cleveland came together for one reason and like a previous LeBron lead team in Miami the beginnings were not so smooth and their trip to the Finals was not how they wanted it to turn out with injuries being a big part of their failures.
So how do you bounce back from a year of criticism as a team as well as LeBron shouldering alot of the criticism as he likes to do? In a 7 game series with the Warriors it all built up to one of the great 5 minutes of basketball in NBA Finals history. What will forever be tagged as "The Block, The Shot, The Stop" marks one of the greatest achievements in Cavaliers history.
The Block was one of the defining moments in LeBron's illustrious career as he sprinted from half court to deny Andre Igoudala a go ahead bucket for the Warriors. The Shot was Kyrie Irving's arrival to the grand stage, in one of the most gutsy isolation situations with so much on the line, it was too much Uncle Drew to handle. Lastly, The Stop which remains as one of the most underrated defensive plays to this day. With Kevin Love switched on to Steph Curry it was a true hold-your-breath moment as Curry danced on Love with several dribble moves, something that all year resulted in bigger players having a 3 drilled right in their face. This time however, Kevin Love re-wrote the script and challenged Curry just enough.
Capping off this list was the biggest moment of 2016 for obvious reasons, and with fandom aside, no mater which team you back it's difficult not to admit that the 2016 NBA Finals was something special. A series that boasted some of the biggest storylines and history between 2 teams in just 2 years. A build up that almost didn't happen.
If you'd like to really dive deep into the #1 moment of 2016 then I urge you to read the breakdown of just how important these storylines were.
What a year and hopefully 2017 will bring us just as many moments if not more.
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Discussion in 'Portable Source Gear' started by Bengkia369, Sep 20, 2017.
saw on their official FB, I wonder how this budget DAP in the AK lineup sounds like?!
Honestly, I'm not a big fan of AK70 sound.
This time they are coming with dual dac so I have a quite hope on this model as it is small and portable. would be nice to use as secondary DAP if the sound meets my requirement.
Looks promising except the price.
I think they are trying to catch up after onkyo launched their dp-s1 with dual sabre DACs. But onkyo is much cheaper and I believe still be with a better SQ.
Uses dual Cirrus Logic CS4398 (from AK240) instead of single from the MkI and balance output is 4Vrms @ no load which is the same as the SP1000 series and nearly double that of the MKI. THD and S/N is also improved.
It seems that this is a modernised small AK240 on lots of steroids. Seems strange they call it the AK70MkII, I would think it should brand a new model number to avoid the confusion and cries of being "too expensive".
Success will be in the pricing, because competition is fierce in this lower mid-range market (thinking FiiO X5iii, Opus #1, Pioneer/Onkyo DAPs and other less famous DAPs).
And most of the listed competition has 2 micro sd slots, which A&K abandoned a while ago, except on Kann.
IRiver used to be my favourite company for portable audio, but to see them release so many players very often is disappointing.
Pricing will not be the determining factor - AK is the Apple of the DAP world where everyone else are Android makers, pricing don't affect them in the same way that it does for other brands - how many years has it been where people claim the prices of Apple device will kill their business because you can get cheaper/better with Android? Years and we are still waiting. Remember AK is the one who trail blazed the market for a nice looking, user friendly palm size device and distilled it into the AK70 while everyone else's aim back then was stuffing the most powerful thing in their device, ignoring ergonomics and user experience and was just comparing on spec sheet check boxes alone. Everyone though AK were crazy with the girly colours but it turns out they were right and it attracted lots of new budding audiophiles. The similarity is uncanny and its no wonder AK is bullish on the pricing and announcement. AK will be selling a lot of these, especially catching a few upgraders from the AK70.
natto and tenedosian like this.
Agreed. And perhaps a few upgraders from other brands might jump to AK70ii due to the fact it is Astell & Kern a premium brand that released a nice looking DAP that is least expensive compared to AK380, SP1000 that they can't afford.
With its feature set (especially balanced output) and price level, it also seems to be a direct competitor to new Sony ZX300 which will be released very soon.
In the coming years, it is likely that we shall see some heating competition between Astell & Kern and Sony.
This is looking like the device I might want when I upgrade from my X5iii. I'm hoping for "solid" firmware from AK... something Fiio has continually failed to provide.
My life and musical acquisitions are in a constant state of flux!
Was also looking at the Sony ZX300 as my next DAP, which had stolen my attention from looking at a used AK70 (mk I)... now all of a sudden it looks like A&K have my attention again. Fantastic timing from a business point of view, as I'm sure I'm not the only one!


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Q: Override YAML subkey say I have the following YAML file:
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   key1: value
# and so on...
   key99: value
   key100:
      subkey1: value
# and so on...
      subkey100: value
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   key1: value
# and so on...
   key99: value
   key100:
      subkey1: value
# and so on...
      subkey100: SOME DIFFERENT VALUE

The natural way to handle a large amount of identical data would be with anchors, and overriding just the key that changed.
The question is, here, a subkey is different.  Is there an easy way to just reference that key100['subkey100'] changed?  Or do I have to use a series of anchors at each level?
I.e., is there a shorthand for:
- &anchor
   key1: value
# and so on...
   key99: value
   key100: &subanchor
      subkey1: value
# and so on...
      subkey100: value
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A: If I've understood the question correctly, I don't think the spec supports overriding elements of anchored nodes.
On reading the spec (version 1.2, but 1.1 says the same), section 7.1 Alias Nodes states (emphasis mine):

Subsequent occurrences of a previously serialized node are presented as alias nodes. The first occurrence of the node must be marked by an anchor to allow subsequent occurrences to be presented as alias nodes.
An alias node is denoted by the "*" indicator. The alias refers to the most recent preceding node having the same anchor. It is an error for an alias node to use an anchor that does not previously occur in the document. It is not an error to specify an anchor that is not used by any alias node.
Note that an alias node must not specify any properties or content, as these were already specified at the first occurrence of the node.

Two points here:

*

*"Previously serialized node" - this wording suggests that the alias is meant to represent another occurrence of the original node, not just the data in the original node.  In other words, it represents the same object, not a copy.

*If an alias cannot have any content (second bold section), then you cannot specify the override in the fashion suggested in the question.
So my interpretation of the spec is that you cannot do this according to the spec.
However - If you paste the example (second code block) from the original into this online tool(you may want to uncheck 'canonical'), that tool interprets it as intended in the question, copying the original content but overriding subkey100.  Same for this YAML Lint Tool, as does this online parser.
So it seems to work in practice, but I can't find support for it within the spec.


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Phil Galfond is well known for being one of the most successful online cash players in the game, with $7,865,837 in winnings at Full Tilt since January 2007.
However, along with many other US pros, the 26 year-old talent saw his livelihood come to an abrupt end after the US Department Of Justice shut down Full Tilt Poker in April, 2011.
Although surprised, Phil Galfond seemed optimistic the online poker giant would be back up on its feet in no time and tweeted at the time:
"Everyone is panicking too much (tho I understand). We are extremely likely to be paid our $. I'll guarantee $1M in payouts from FTP/Stars. If they somehow don't pay, I'll figure out a fair way to disperse it, and send out all the gelt over Hanukah 2012."
A few months down the line and with $1 million of his own money still stuck on Full Tilt, Phil Galfond has now been spotted playing at PokerSars, after moving to Vancouver, Canada, of course.
"Hey twitter I'm in Canada…staying here for 3-6 months and then re-evaluating," announced Galfond.
Phil Galfond was used to playing high stakes NL and PLO cash games of $200/$400 stakes and above at Full Tilt, where he was known as 'OMGClayAiken.' However, PokerStars cash games have always been second to Full Tilt's and so Phil Galfond, known as MrSweets28 at PokerStars, made his surprise entrance at PokerStars's virtual tables at the $25-$50 and $50-$100 level.
Phil 'MrSweets28' Galfond was soon spotted by his fellow pros with Isildur1 humorously exclaiming; "Oh no, he's back."
However, before long things had settled down and after around 2,500 hands, Galfond had lost approximately $18k before signing off for the session. It may not have been the start he had hoped for, but Galfond seemed pleased to be at least involved in the game once more and looking forward to plying his trade at his new home at PokerStars.
As Phil Galfond later tweeted; "After 3 months off of online poker, I'd forgotten about downswings. Oh well. Still happy to be playing. I love the game."
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Phil Ivey and Maurice Hawkins In The Ascendancy Ahead of 2018 WSOP
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Tsoukernik and Kirk Settle High Stakes Lawsuit Out Of Court
One of the stories to emerge from the 2017 World Series of Poker had nothing to do with winning a coveted gold bracelet, but instead involved a multi-million dollar dispute between King's Casino owner Leon Tsoukernik and Aussie poker pro Matt Kirk, with the latter accusing the former of stiffing him out of $2 million
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Doug Polk and Dan Bilzerian are both cryptocurrency investors with large social media followings, although this week there emerged some pretty serious differences between their approaches to digital asset. Whereas Polk prefers a long term approach to investing, Bilzerian seems to favor dipping in and out of the market depending upon whatever coin prices may
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Flores Diving Centre (FDC) was born in March 2013. DC is located on the main street of Labuan Bajo, a small fishing village on the west coast of the island of Flores facing the Komodo National Park. We offer an attentive and personalized service, comfortable boats and quality Mares equipment. We are all diving enthusiasts with a keen interest in marine biology and we look forward to taking you to the most beautiful dive sites in the region.
Flores Diving Centre showed their main focus especially in the partnership that was established through Dive Operators Community Komodo (DOCK) and Komodo National Park Office. Flores Diving Centre has actively participated several sessions with NGO regarding their wish to contribute in Komodo National Park management, such as Marine Megafauna Foundation and WWF Indonesia. Flores Diving Centre is also prominent for their commitment in joint-activity with Trash Hero that has moved and promoted waste-collecting action and improved awareness of waste in Labuan Bajo area. Flores Diving Centre showed that they have known the condition of territorial waters very well by having their own excellent dive site guidance in Komodo National Park area.


St Mary's University, Twickenham is launching an innovative new distance learning Master's degree aimed at coaching professionals that develops and applies cutting-edge, evidence-based knowledge and skills in football coaching and performance.
The Performance Football Coaching (Distance Learning) MSc, PGDip, PGCert degree launches in September with a tailor-made online programme and St Mary's is the first institution worldwide to offer a distance learning football coaching course of its kind - allowing students to study when and where suits them.
The one-year course is delivered for full-time students, or 2-3 years for part-time students, and allows football coaching professionals worldwide to develop a critical understanding of issues relating to coaching and performance in football and advance their professional practice while working.
The programme content and design is informed by the University's partners in the football industry, including professional coaches and coach educators from the English FA and clubs across Europe such as Chelsea Football Club, who St Mary's has developed a strong relationship with.
An induction, which is also available online, is organised on-site to welcome and prepare students for the course while a week on-site in May gives them opportunity to visit Premier League club academies in London, go to a coaching conference and take part in practical sessions and workshops.
Students will also be provided with a GoPro camera to help them complete video-based tasks and a highly-regarded and professional personal tutor to support and guide them through their studies.


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Game Of Thrones Showrunners End HBO Stint With USD 200 Mn Sign-Over To Netflix
Game Of Thrones ended rather controversially, as you already know. Some liked the resolution, some – well, many – did not. Irrespective of that, the brains behind what is still regarded as the world's most-watched TV series, David Benioff and Dan Weiss, have ended their HBO run. The duo has signed a reported USD 200 Mn deal which finds them a new home at Netflix.
Netflix has been spend-happy as of late, bringing in show creators in a blatant bid to be the best. The deal with the writers of Game of Thrones is a multiyear contract, and these creators have literally been looking for a new challenge since they ended the final season of their epic show. According to Deadline, Netflix beat HBO parent WarnerMedia, Disney, Amazon, Apple, and Comcast for these two creatives.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have signed an overall deal to develop new films and series for Netflix pic.twitter.com/57gLQOSTLE
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While nothing has been heard from Netflix or David and Dan about the real value of the deal, we understand the development will help the streaming giant come up with and develop new as well as compelling projects, exclusively so.
Reports say that in spite of the HBO run wrap-up, the creators will in the meantime, fulfill their existing commitment to an ongoing multi-film contract with Disney for the Star Wars franchise.
Apparently, Weiss and Benioff have been wooed by up to six studios for their creative prowess. This development comes almost three months after Netflix's contextual rivals tried to ink deals with the duo for an overall global contract to write, produce and direct new series and films.
The nine-figure development is in the range of Netflix's other mega-deals with show creators such as Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes, both of whom are now Netflix property.
Ryan Murphy's deal was closed last year. Netflix paid USD 300 Mn for a five-year contract with the producer of titles such as Glee and the American Horror Story.
The streaming platform spent USD 100 Mn bringing over the creator of Grey's Anatomy and How To Get Away With Murder, Shonda Rhimes, to produce eight shows.
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said: "We are thrilled to welcome master storytellers David Benioff and Dan Weiss to Netflix. They are a creative force and have delighted audiences worldwide with their epic storytelling. We can't wait to see what their imaginations will bring to our members."
David Benioff & Dan Weiss said: "We've had a beautiful run with HBO for more than a decade and we're grateful to everyone there for always making us feel at home. Over the past few months, we've spent many hours talking to Cindy Holland and Peter Friedlander, as well as Ted Sarandos and Scott Stuber.
We remember the same shots from the same '80s movies; we love the same books; we're excited about the same storytelling possibilities. Netflix has built something astounding and unprecedented, and we're honored they invited us to join them."


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Are the Sixers the Next Thunder?
Ben Detrick
by Ben Detrick
For the second year in a row, the Sixers' season ended awash in the rosy glow of overachievement. It's still an enchanting narrative, one that might feature Tom Berenger as Doug Collins in Basketball Educator: The Triumphant Ballad of Lavoy Allen. Yet again, the tough-but-golden-hearted headmaster led his plucky band of youngsters to new heights before being defeated by a heavy favorite. Last time it was the Heat, this time it was the Celtics. No shame there.
For Philly, a franchise that has reeked of mediocrity since Allen Iverson was banished to Denver, this has the intoxicating scent of progress. In 2010, they went 27-55; in 2011 they went 41-41 and made the playoffs; this season, they were 35-31 and ventured into the second round.
Superficially, the Sixers' current trajectory resembles the ascension of the Thunder. From 2008 to 2011, Oklahoma City's wins rose from 23 to 50 to 55. Both teams made significant leaps from the primordial muck and then gradually developed four-chambered hearts and tufty mammalian pelts. The Thunder are now bipedal, Urkel-spectacles-wearing, fully formed contenders. Philly is sort of like a giant prehistoric meerkat, awaiting opposable thumbs.
The deflating reality is that the Sixers are nothing like the Thunder. Win or lose, Oklahoma City squints into a future brightened by a core of young stars. Philly has no such promise. And for a young team ostensibly on the upswing, the Sixers are surprisingly entering an offseason where everything is in flux.
Jrue Holiday and Evan Turner have been installed as the backcourt of the future, but neither may ever be an elite player at their respective positions. Lou Williams and Spencer Hawes are both in line for long-term contracts that will hamstring financial flexibility. The prime asset that could be swapped for frontcourt help is Andre Iguodala, who is the team's lone All-Star and its best player. Finally, there's Elton Brand. Though more valuable than his reputation as a cap-gobbling sloth would suggest, the earthbound veteran is set to earn $18 million next year. Amnestyville Horror, opening this summer in Philly.
Philly's glaring problem is that they possess a flock of pretty good players and no transcendent ones. During the Thunder's stretch of ineptitude — a period that included the franchise's malingering seasons as the Seattle SuperSonics — they stuffed their faces with the cream of three consecutive drafts. Kevin Durant was taken second (2007), Russell Westbrook fourth (2008), and James Harden third (2009). Replicating the brilliance of the Thunder's draft decisions is trickier than deciphering the circuitry of Indiana Ron's noggin, but Philly never even had the chance to pluck players of that caliber.
Despite failing to achieve a winning record from 2004-05 until this past season, the Sixers organization always refused to pinch its nose, clinch an anvil, and sink into the mud at the bottom of the Schuylkill River. As since-deposed GMs Billy King and Ed Stefanski strove to keep their jobs, the Sixers wound up with Thad Young (taken 12th), Marreese Speights (16th), and Holiday (17th). All were fine picks for their position, but none will fold the entire basketball universe into an origami crane. When Philly finally lucked into the second slot in 2010, they snatched Turner. He hasn't matched the contributions of classmates like DeMarcus Cousins, Greg Monroe, or Paul George, and he probably never will.
So what can the Sixers do now to shake a destiny of 48-win seasons and second-round oustings? Not much. But after years of watching the team slink around like a small-market franchise, disinterested fans are begging for bold moves. The quick fix — assuming new ownership doesn't mind paying someone not to suit up — would be amnestying Elton Brand and using the liberated funds to sign a young big man like Ersan Ilyasova, JaVale McGee, or Kris Humphries to a long-term contract. All would immediately make the Sixers better, but would require a serious financial commitment to a non-star. Devoting $20 million annually to the pedestrian SF/PF combo-pack of Humphries and Young (inked in 2011 a five-year, $42 million deal) for the next four years sounds disastrous — even before you realize LeBron James only makes $16 million.
Similarly, the Sixers should let Williams and Hawes hit the highway. Lou has been a scoring dervish off the pine, but will command starter's money. And Spencer will ask to be compensated for 12 good games, a long lingering injury, and a couple nice playoff performances. No thanks.
For a team without superstars, transforming cheap contributors into immovable liabilities is ass-backward alchemy. Iguodala is better than both of them, and was resented as a salary cap albatross until three weeks ago. If Philly hopes to avoid a fate resembling that of the Hawks or other perennial also-rans, keeping financial flexibility is crucial. It's an era when stars constellate together, and no marquee player is interested in joining a team without the ability to add another.
The best potential option for the Sixers is the rumored deal involving Iguodala and Pau Gasol. The Lakers and their star/coach/GM/tyrannical overlord Kobe Bryant have been enamored of Andre's athleticism, perimeter defense, and finishing abilities for years, and are increasingly dismayed with Gasol's postseason fragility. For Philly, the deal is the only visible opportunity to add a legitimate superstar without tacking on massive financial obligations (he and Iguodala have two years left on their contracts).
With Gasol, the Sixers would have a first option on offense and a post presence, a bunch of youthful pieces, the 15th pick in the coming draft, and financial maneuverability allowed by Brand's expiring contract. Suddenly, there's a chance of adding Josh Smith or even Dwight Howard in 2013. A starting lineup of Holiday, Turner, Young, Smith, and Gasol might have a shot at the Finals in a season in which LeBron breaks an ankle. But the Lakers will get better offers than Iguodala, the 15th pick, and Nikola Vucevic.
Enough daydreaming: Philly will probably re-sign Williams for $8 million, Hawes for $7 million, and preserve the precious core of the mighty 2012 squad that earned an 8-seed, beat the Bulls without Derrick Rose, and failed to put down a creaky Celtics team. The sweet late-season ride shouldn't fool the Sixers into spending the summer buying expensive rims and piney air-fresheners for a car that doesn't even have a real engine.
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Radiometric Dating Techniques
Radiometric dating became a possibility with Becquerel's discovery in 1896 of natural radioactivity. Rutherford postulated that radioactivity could be used to determine the age of the Earth. His and Soddy's discovery (1902) of the transmutation of the atom became the basis for understanding exponential decay and the evolution of decay products ("daughter" elements). Age estimates for the Earth that had been determined by rate of heat loss (Lord Kelvin) now had to make allowances for the heat energy associated with radioactive decay. Thus, scholars were able to argue for great antiquity of the rocks on Earth. It was really with the advent of data collection technologies after World War II that the radiometric dating field began to develop with rapidity.
Radiometric dating must be viewed as having two forms: (1) techniques that rely on the decay of an isotope of an element, the production and decay of daughter decay products (radiocarbon dating, potassium-argon, argon-argon, and uranium-lead, uranium series) and (2) the techniques that rely on the crystal damage that is generated by the ionizing radiation generated by the decay of radioactive elements (thermo luminescence, electron spin resonance, and fission track).
All radiometric-dating determinations are a function of a statistical distribution of one or more sets of decay data that must be viewed as a probability result, approximating a particular age with an error attached to it. These errors in age determinations are usually expressed as standard deviations from a mean age value. These standard deviations are probability statements that a determined age actually will fall somewhere within the age distribution defined by the standard deviation. One standard deviation, often termed one sigma, means that 68% of the time, the determined age will fall between the range defined by that standard deviation. In the same manner, two- and three-sigma standard deviations mean the determined age will fall somewhere between the defined age range 95% and 99.6%, respectively. Therefore, it is immediately apparent that it would be a misnomer to suggest that these radiometric dating techniques were methods of absolute dating.
Radiocarbon-14 is the best known of the radio-metric techniques and is in fact an established method that relies only on the decay of an isotope (14C) formed from the outer-atmosphere comic-ray-generated neutron bombardment of Nitrogen-14 (14N) without reference to daughter production. In this respect, it is the most straightforward of the radiometric dating techniques. Living organisms incorporate 14CO2 and maintain an equilibrium until death, at which time the radiocarbon clock begins to tick as the 14C decays exponentially with a rate known as the Libby half-life (5,568 years). A simple ratio measurement of the amount of 14C remaining versus the amount present when the organism left the living biomass yields a radiocarbon age, which can be converted to calendrical years with a dendrochronological curve that corrects for the cosmic ray fluctuations that have taken place in the past. This ratio of original-to-remaining 14C is obtained in one of two ways: (1) The direct decay of the 14C back to 14 yields a beta ray that can be detected in a shielded Geiger counter; and (2) the actual counting of the individual 14C atoms present in a sample compared with the stable 12C in that sample and an accompanying standard. The atom-counting method affords an advantage in some dating situations (for example, shorter counting times, smaller sample sizes, no cosmic ray backgrounds, and the extension of the age range from less than 40,000 years to 70,000 years). Potassium-argon (40K/40Ar) and argon-argon dating (40Ar/39Ar), uranium-lead dating (U/Pb), and uranium series dating are all dependant upon both the exponential decay of a "parent" radioactive isotope and the buildup of one or more "daughter" isotopes, which may or may not themselves be radioactive. The ratio of the "daughter" to the "parent" permits an age estimate to be made. These techniques tend to have an age range orders of magnitude greater than radiocarbon (for example, age of the Earth), because they use half-lives that are very long in comparison to radiocarbon (tU for-40K: 1.28 x 109 yrs; 238U: 4.47 x 109 yrs; 235U: 7.038 x 108 yrs;232Th: 1.41 x 1,010 yrs), though uranium series disequilibrium dating has a dating range of a few days to about 20 million years.
Thermoluminescence (TL), electron spin resonance (ESR), and fission track are dating techniques that rely on the accumulation of radiation damage in materials from the decay of radioactive isotopes. TL and ESR depend on the #945, #946, and #947, decay of 40K, 238U, 235U, and 232Th in the natural environment and the consequent buildup of age information in the form of trapped electrons removed from their valence bands by the ionizing radiation. TL recovers this information by heating the sample or by optically measuring the trapped energy, or optically stimulated luminescence (OSL). ESR identifies radicals that have been formed by ionizing radiation in liquids and solids and electron traps in minerals. ESR measurement is accomplished by applying a microwave frequency to the sample that permits the amount of radiation damage to be quantified. The radiation environment within which a sample was exposed must be known well for both TL and ESR to be effective techniques. Both OSL and ESR techniques do not destroy the signal, as does the TL heating, permitting remeasurement of a sample multiple times. These techniques assume that there is a direct linear relationship between the ionizing radiation flux and the quantity of trapped electrons or radicals and that there are no secondary losses.
Fission track relies on the spontaneous fission of 238U into two heavy elements that travel through the mineral, creating track damage. The number of tracks present is a function of the original 238U concentration and the time that has elapsed since the mineral was formed or last heated. Once the tracks are counted, the mineral is heated to anneal the tracks and irradiated with neutrons to induce spontaneous fission in the 235U. By counting these induced tracks to determine the 235U content, the 238U concentration can be deduced and compared with the original track count to determine the age of the mineral. The method's success assumes the fission tracks have not been subject to partial annealing.
Goksu, H. Y. (1991). Scientific dating methods. New York: Kluwer Academic.
Herz, N., & Garrison, E. (1998). Geological methods for archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rutter, N. W., & Catto, N. R. (Eds.). (1995). Dating methods for quaternary deposits. St. John's, Canada: Geological Association of Canada.


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Kosta Kratom Vendor Review
Kosta Kratom is a California-based kratom vendor with an open, honest approach that's bound to keep them growing. This vendor is celebrated not only for its quality collection but its transparent business model.
This lab-tested brand has received five-star ratings from a number of satisfied customers. Its product has even been mentioned in Business Insider.
If you're excited about ordering Kosta Kratom there are some things you'll need to know. Read on for the full skinny in our comprehensive Kosta Kratom Vendor Review.
Kosta Kratom Review
Kosta Kratom is the future of kratom in America. Period.
Founded in 2017 in Orange, CA, Kosta Kratom is only a few years old, but it has already demonstrated its prosperity. This vendor has survived the financial uncertainties of the pandemic and come out on top, with a renewed interest in keeping its customers safe.
Unfortunately for those who are dying to try this brand, Kosta Kratom does not offer direct-to-consumer sales. Rather, it is a wholesale kratom supplier whose clients include KRTMCBD.com and Kratom Spot.
That is about the only negative you can expect to find when looking into these guys. The rest of the operation is professional, courteous, and impressive.
Unlike its competitors, Kosta Kratom is forthcoming with proof of its cleanliness and quality control standards. It may be the first site to offer video evidence of its pre-manufacturing process.
In the video, a Kosta Kratom staff member dons a protective cap, a pair of surgical gloves, and three layers of protective coveralls. We can also see that employees with facial hairs are made to wear beard covers to prevent against hair fibers landing in its kratom powder.
Furthermore, we get to see how kratom capsules are manufactured and packaged, all the way down to their tamper-free child-proof lids.
Although it lacks a complete FAQ page or a satisfaction guarantee, Kosta Kratom demonstrates its purity and superiority by producing fresh, clean kratom products that never disappoint.
When you're in the mood to buy Kratom, you have a lot of choices available to you. Kosta Kratom's website stands out from the rest, and they have a lot of great policies. For instance, it boasts the industry's best prices on wholesale products. Additionally, it possesses GMP Certification from the AKA.
Potent kratom strains
Unique kratom extracts
Provides third-party labs
Offers proof of quality control
No direct consumer sales
No kratom kilos
Limited variety
Kosta Kratom Product Line & Pricing Guide
This vendor only offers four kratom strains—Green Malay, Maeng Da Kratom, Red Bali, and White Borneo. While this may be disappointing to some it should come as something of an unwritten guarantee to those with discerning palates.
Like a restaurant with a six-page menu, a kratom vendor with a thirty (or more) "strains" is asking for trouble. On the other hand, a vendor with a one-page collection is more than capable of maintaining quality standards.
That is exactly what Kosta Kratom does with its formidable green, red, and white veins. Each powder is crisp, fragrant, smooth, and dynamic.
Maeng Da Kratom is this vendor's most talked-about cultivar, an OG horned leaf variant that's known for being powerful and less-than-predictable.
While Kosta Kratom Maeng Da may be the subject of several reviews, it's not the only compelling strain of the bunch. The Kosta Kratom Best Strain has gotta be White Borneo, a subtle cultivar from Brunei with a fortifying aroma.
Kosta Kratom White Borneo smells like a brisk tea that's been cut with moss and jasmine. It packs a fragrance that's at once earthy, sweet, smoky, and serene.
Based on our research, Kratom Library is the best retailer for Kosta Kratom products. You can visit its online store to pick up the item of your choice, as they've got it all.
Kratom powders start at seven dollars for an ounce, with two ounces going for $14, and four ounces selling for $26.00.
This vendor also produces kratom capsules, which are easy to swallow, easy to store, and mask the bitter flavor associated with raw Mitragyna speciosa plant matter.
Many users prefer kratom caps because they are not known to trigger a sensitive gag reflex or upset one's stomach. Athletes and entrepreneurs enjoy kratom caps because they can be used discreetly in a professional environment.
Kosta Kratom capsules start at eight bucks for twenty-five caps, with fifty selling for $16.00. You can get one hundred capsules for $30 or two hundred fifty for $55.00.
Those who enjoy kratome extracts will find plenty to like about Kosta Kratom's line of extracts. Although Kosta Kratom Shot reviews have been mixed, most agree that its flavors are distinguished and its potency undeniable.
If you're tired of extracts you may find new found interest in items like Kosta Kratom Chocolate Mint, which give the jaded user a fresh take on liquid kratom shots. Not a chocolate fan? You can try its Orange Cream Shot, which tastes like an Orange Julius combined with a Guiness Stout.
Each two-ounce bottle of liquid kratom extracts costs $9.99, which may sound steep for two liquid ounces, but it's well worth it for the surprisingly tantalizing taste alone.
If there's a drawback to buying from Kratom Library it's the relative scarcity of payment options—this supplier only accepts payments through MESH, a service that only accepts Discover, MasterCard, and VISA.
Kratom Library ships all orders via USPS, with Standard and Expedited Shipping made available. Given recent post office delays we would advise upgrading to Expedited Shipping for the best results.
Kosta Kratom may not have a refund policy, but Kratom Library does. You have thirty days to request a return.
Those seeking a return should be aware that sales items are exempt from its return policy. Furthermore, items that were ordered as a gift will be refunded in the form of a gift credit.
Kosta Kratom Consumer Reputation
Unfortunately, Kosta hasn't caught the attention of the online community. We couldn't find any chatter about them on Reddit or Double M Herbals. The only publicly available information concerns its twenty employees and its annual revenue of around $4 million.
Wholesale customers don't typically talk about their source. We did find that they have a nice Contact page. If you're an official wholesale customer, you can call them Monday through Friday at 1-888-501-7029 from 9 AM to 5 PM PT.
In light of its GMP program certification from the American Kratom Association it is easy to see why Kosta Kratom has emerged as one of our favorite new kratom vendors.
You may have to hunt down its products at a neighborhood head shop or visit a third-party site to try its stuff, but you'll be happy that you did. Once you've tried it for yourself, you'll see why it has become a top pick among industry bloggers.
Would you like to find a vendor who sells to the general public? Check out The Golden Monk's Complete List of the Best Kratom Vendors!


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Komlan Agbeko Assignon (ur. 20 stycznia 1974 w Lomé) – togijski piłkarz występujący na pozycji pomocnika.

Kariera klubowa
Komlan Assignon jest wychowankiem francuskiego klubu AS Cannes. W pierwszej drużynie zadebiutował w 1996 roku. W 2000 roku przeniósł się do zespołu Beauvais Oise. Po sezonie trafił do Créteil-Lusitanos. Tutaj także przebywał jedynie przez rok i odszedł do kuwejckiej drużyny Al Jahra FC. W tym klubie zakończył profesjonalną karierę piłkarską.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
Assignon w reprezentacji Togo rozegrał 10 meczów i strzelił 1 bramkę. Ostatni mecz zagrał w 2002 roku. Był także powołany na Puchar Narodów Afryki 1998 (3 mecze i 1 gol) Puchar Narodów Afryki 2000 (3 mecze) oraz Puchar Narodów Afryki 2002 (2 mecze). We wszystkich tych turniejach Togo odpadało z rozgrywki już po fazie grupowej.

Bibliografia
 Sylwetka na stronie World Football

Piłkarze AS Cannes
Piłkarze AS Beauvais Oise
Piłkarze US Créteil-Lusitanos
Reprezentanci Togo w piłce nożnej
Uczestnicy Pucharu Narodów Afryki 1998
Uczestnicy Pucharu Narodów Afryki 2000
Uczestnicy Pucharu Narodów Afryki 2002
Urodzeni w 1974
Ludzie urodzeni w Lomé