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Q: How do I check if the number of occurrences of two words in a String is Equal without using loops? I am trying to find out if there is the same number of occurrences "dog" and "cat" are in the given String.
It should return true if they are equal, or false otherwise. How can I find out this without while, for etc. loops?
This is my current process
class Main {

    public static boolean catsDogs(String s) {
        String cat = "cat";
        String dog = "dog";
        if (s.contains(cat) && s.contains(dog)) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        boolean r = catsDogs("catdog");
        System.out.println(r); // => true
        System.out.println(catsDogs("catcat")); // => false
        System.out.println(catsDogs("1cat1cadodog")); // => true
    }
}

A: With java9+ the regex matcher has a count method:
public static boolean catsDogs(String s) {
    Pattern pCat = Pattern.compile("cat");
    Pattern pDog = Pattern.compile("dog");
    Matcher mCat = pCat.matcher(s);
    Matcher mDog = pDog.matcher(s);
    return (mCat.results().count() == mDog.results().count());
}

A: You can use the following example by replacing the string (in case you don't want the split to be placed) :
public static boolean catsDogs(String s) {
    return count(s,"cat") == count(s,"dog");
}

public static int count(String s, String catOrDog) {
    return (s.length() - s.replace(catOrDog, "").length()) / catOrDog.length();
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    boolean r = catsDogs("catdog");
    System.out.println(r); // => true
    System.out.println(catsDogs("catcat")); // => false
    System.out.println(catsDogs("1cat1cadodog")); // => true
}

A: Here's a couple of single-line solutions based on Java 9 Matcher.result() which produces a stream of MatchResult corresponding to each matching subsequence in the given string.
We can also make this method more versatile by providing a pair of regular expressions as arguments instead of hard-coding them.
teeing() + summingInt()
We can turn the stream of MatchResesult into a stream of strings by generating matching groups. And collect the data using collector teeing() expecting as its arguments two downstream collectors and a function producing the result based on the values returned by each collector.
public static boolean hasSameFrequency(String str,
                                       String regex1,
                                       String regex2) {

    return Pattern.compile(regex1 + "|" + regex2).matcher(str).results()
        .map(MatchResult::group)
        .collect(Collectors.teeing(
            Collectors.summingInt(group -> group.matches(regex1) ? 1 : 0),
            Collectors.summingInt(group -> group.matches(regex2) ? 1 : 0),
            Objects::equals
        ));
}

collectingAndThen() + partitioningBy()
Similarly, we can use a combination of collectors collectingAndThen() and partitioningBy().
The downside of this approach in comparison to the one introduced above is that partitioningBy() materializes stream elements as the values of the map (meanwhile we're interested only their quantity), but it performs fewer comparisons.
public static boolean hasSameFrequency(String str,
                                       String regex1,
                                       String regex2) {

    return Pattern.compile(regex1 + "|" + regex2).matcher(str).results()
        .map(MatchResult::group)
        .collect(Collectors.collectingAndThen(
            Collectors.partitioningBy(group -> group.matches(regex1)),
            map -> map.get(true).size() == map.get(false).size()
        ));
}

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b>Tuftsin, a natural tetrapeptide of sequence TKPR, occuring in the blood of humans and other mammals, capable of stimulating certain white blood cells (monocytes, macrophages, and neutrophils), was isolated at Tufts University in 1970 by ..
..tripeptide macrophage/microglia inhibitory factor MIF (TKP) and the tetrapeptide macrophage/microglial stimulator tuftsin (TKPR) attenuated EAE symptoms and revealed that the timing of macrophage/microglial activation is critical for ..
..Activated microglia/macrophages are important contributors to brain injury after ICH. MIF could be a valuable neuroprotective agent for the treatment of ICH, if treatment is initiated soon after the onset of hemorrhage. ..
..We have previously shown that administration of tuftsin, a macrophage/microglial activator, dramatically improves the clinical course of experimental autoimmune ..
..These constructs are composed of methotrexate (Mtx) attached to a tuftsin-like peptide carrier through an enzyme-labile pentapeptide spacer (GFLGC) and several copies of a chemotactic ..
..Activated microglia persist around the injury site. When microglial activation is inhibited by tuftsin fragment 1-3 macrophage/microglial inhibitory factor (MIF), the stroke injury volume is significantly reduced, ..
After a short description of the results of Victor Najjar's research on tuftsin and of the discoveries done by other authors in the early stage of tuftsin investigation, the current state of work on tuftsin is presented, based mainly on ..
..The latter patients also exhibited a decreased bactericidal activity of the cells. Tuftsin and even serum from healthy donors were found to normalise the disturbed monocyte function, the effect of tuftsin ..
..vitae) combined with the protein tuftsin, which is produced by human splenocytes, was shown to exert the aforementioned positive effects on a murine model ..
..These results obtained of oligotuftsin derivatives might have implications for the proteolytic degradation of target peptides that require specific conformational preconditions. ..
..In this L. casei vaccine, repetitive peptides expressed by L. casei (specifically the MDP and tuftsin fusion protein (MT)) were repeated 20 times and the D antigenic site of the TGEV spike (S) protein was repeated 6 ..
..We aimed to decipher the tolerogenic potential of tuftsin-PC (TPC), a novel helminth-based compound in collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) a mouse model of rheumatoid ..
A series of peptides containing retro-tuftsin- and tuftsin-like motifs from IL-1 proteins inhibits IL-1-induced IL-2 production and reduces the humoral immune response, thus supporting our hypothesis that tuftsin (Thr-Lys-Pro-Arg)-IL-1 ..
..The spacer with N-terminal methotrexate was coupled to the chloroacetylated chemotactic carrier molecule by thioether bond formation. The chemotactic activity and cytotoxity of Mtx conjugates were also studied. ..
b>Tuftsin, a natural phagocytosis-stimulating tetrapeptide, had aroused much interest in tumor immunotherapy, but the poor pharmacokinetics hampered its clinical developments, for that it was extremely susceptible to degradation by ..
..This algorithm, in conjunction with the graphical user interface of the computer program MORPHY enables robust and efficient rendering of complicated interatomic surfaces, as found in larger systems. ..
..C-terminal Cys residues gave thioether conjugates with significantly diminished epitope-dimerization, while Cys at the N-terminal caused rapid disulfide-dimerization, thereby preventing efficient conjugation. ..
Adherence index, superoxide and TNF-alpha production in monocytes, with or without tuftsin treatment, were investigated in hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni bearers with splenectomy with or without autologous implantation of spleen ..
..and biological activity of new conjugates of muramyl dipeptide (MDP) and nor-muramyl dipeptide (nor-MDP) with tuftsin and retro-tuftsin derivatives containing isopeptide bond between ε-amino group of lysine and carboxyl group of ..
..Cocrystallization of N1b1b2 with Tuftsin, a peptide mimic of the VEGF C terminus, reveals the site of interaction with the basic tail of VEGF on the b1 ..
Effects of 10 peptides, tuftsin and Selank derivatives upon behavior during emotional stress induced by conflict situation, were studied in Balb/c and C57BL/6 male mice with genetically determined opposite types of emotional stress ..
..3 nM), and beta-endorphin (K(i) = 2.8 +/- 0.2 nM). Thus, the effects of pentarphin and cyclopentarphin on macrophages are mediated by naloxone-insensitive receptors common for pentarphin, cyclopentarphin, immunorphin, and beta-endorphin. ..
..Combined with our earlier observations, these findings suggest that aged primate microglia may display an exaggerated inflammatory response to fA? when compared with young microglia. ..
..The attachment site in dimers and conjugates, as well as the topology of the construct, had a significant influence on the antibody recognition, while replacement of Met in position 11 by Nle had no marked effect. ..
..of immunomodulatory properties of oligopeptides derived from two exposed loops (containing thymopentin-like and tuftsin-like sequences, respectively) of the proteins belonging to TGF beta family suggests that the particular species ..
..With this information, the rank of the expansion for each interaction can be adapted to the required accuracy and the available computing power. ..
Fluorescein- and terbium-labelled tuftsin (Thr-Lys-Pro-Arg) and pentapeptide (Thr-Lys-Pro-Pro-Arg) were synthesized and their properties were evaluated in vitro by luminescence spectrometry and confocal microscopy as fluorescence probes ..


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128 years ago today, an icon was born. Known for his innovative Modernist houses rendered in smooth concrete (and, later, in even smoother plaster over a wood frame), Austrian-born American architect Rudolph Schindler earned a reputation for his sublimely simple rectilinear dwellings, which sprouted up largely in California between 1920 and 1950. The architect even developed his own wood framing technique, aptly named the "Schindler Frame," in 1945, which helped him construct some of the hallmark houses of his brief career, cut short in 1953 by a bout with cancer. One such house, the Schindler House, had a low-slung form reminiscent of a traditional Japanese home, all sliding doors and clean-lined, open interiors. Another, the 1926 Lovell Beach House in Newport Beach, California, has a much-imitated form. If you think you've seen it before, you've probably seen any number of copycats. So, here now, a few Instagram snaps of Schindler's work.
Light study - architecture by Rudolph Schindler circa 1939. #WHPmonochromatic
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Schindler House, 1922. Exterior patio view. Stellar example of early modern architecture and considered the birthplace of Southern California modernism. 2/3
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Report from Jerusalem #66, 20th January 2015
Earliest Evidence of Olive Oil Found
At a salvage dig conducted at Tzippori in the lower Galilee last year by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and directed by Dr. Ianir Milevski and Nimrod Getzov, and reported in the Israel Journal of Plant Sciences, pottery was found with a residue of olive oil dating back some eight thousand years. The directors researched fragments of the pottery with scientist Dr. Dvory Namdar of Hebrew University and found by chemical means that the jars had absorbed organic remains containing olive oil, that could be traced back to the Early Chalcolithic period. Of the twenty shards that were examined two samples of the pottery were found to be particularly ancient and could be dated back to 5800 BCE.
Remains of an olive oil industry of this period were found some years ago at Kfar Samir near Haifa, but the find at Tzippori is the earliest evidence of its use in domestic vessels in Israel and perhaps in the Middle East as a whole. Together with evidence of field crops such as grain and legumes, it indicates that the composition of the basic Mediterranean diet existed at the earliest periods, much as it remains today.
Fragment Showing Menorah of Second Temple Period
A rescue dig in the Carmel National Park near Yokne'am, 20 km. south-east of Haifa, being dug before the construction of a water reservoir for the town, exposed an industrial area of the late Roman and early Byzantine period with a number of refuse pits. In one of the pits one of which the directors for the IAA, Limor Talmi and Dan Kirzne, found the small fragment of a glass bracelet, about 25 x 12 cm. decorated with the symbol of a seven-branched Menorah (candelabra) like the one known from the Second Temple. The bracelet was of turquoise-coloured glass and was found with many other pieces and fragments of glass vessels, jewellery, and even small window panes, which suggested that the area had included a glass manufactory that served the surrounding residential population, who were clearly living in relative affluence.
Damage to Ancient Sites in Syria
The United Nations, through UNITAR, has reported that more than 290 historic and cultural sites have been damaged by the civil war in Syria, according to evidence from satellite images. The sites included Raqqa and the oasis city of Palmyra, the ancient city of Bosra and early settlements in the north of Syria. In addition, the head of Syria's antiquities and museums agency is reported as saying that thousands of museum artifacts have been moved recently to secure warehouses to avoid the danger of looting.
Looters of Ancient Cave Arrested
Last December two Arabs were caught red-handed digging a large hole into an ancient cave near the West Bank in search of buried gold objects. They had been hired to carry out the work by two Israelis from Hefer, who were also arrested.
The illegal excavators were equipped with drills, lighting units, shovels, buckets and a generator. They were discovered by the Robbery-prevention unit of the IAA and taken to the police station at Tayiba for questioning. Unauthorised excavation is a criminal offence and punishable by up to five years in prison.
Ancient Looted Coins Found in Private Home
A man was initially arrested at an antiquities site in the Bet Shemesh area where he was discovered using a metal detector. The police found that he was carrying digging tools and later searched his home where they found 800 ancient bronze coins of the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods, as well as other ancient objects and jewellery. Dr. Klein, deputy director of the Robbery-prevention unit of the IAA said that unauthorized searching for ancient coins is a criminal offence. Ancient coins are most important to archaeologists and historians and, if found in situ, can provide dates, names of rulers and the place of production.
Temple Outer Wall Destruction Reassessed
The large stones that lie at the foot of the southern end of the western outer wall of the Temple Mount have always been considered to be the result of toppling by the Roman forces, when they destroyed the Second Temple in 70 CE. However, Prof. Shimon Gibson, who is digging nearby near the Zion Gate, has now re-examined them and claims that they fell as a result of a major earthquake that occurred in 363 BCE, one that has been well documented as damaging several monuments in the Jerusalem area and the adjoining Rift valley.
''By The Rivers Of Babylon"
A new exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem sets out to describe the life of the Jews exiled from Jerusalem in the years 597 and 586 BCE. It is based on an archive of Babylonian cuneiform documents that describe life in the town of Al-Yahuda (literally, the City of Judah) where the exiles were at first located. The exhibition includes the texts, some models and small sculptures, and remains open until mid January 2016.
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Students of Religious Studies analyse religious ideas, practices and materialities from an empirical-cultural perspective and endeavor to understand them in their respective historical, cultural and societal contexts.
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The focus of the Bachelor's degree programme in Religious Studies at Heidelberg University is the analysis of various religions in the past and the present. Religious Studies does not focus on the truth or accuracy of religious statements but on the roles religious actors, institutions, narrations and practices play in their respective historical cultures. The course focusses on rituals and ritual objects, statements made by religious actors in interviews, the presentation of religion in various media formats as well as written and archaeological sources. Students in the Religious Studies programme analyse predominantly objective religious insights of changes in religious traditions on the basis of empirical findings. Religious Studies in Heidelberg follows an empirical approach grounded in cultural studies and describes as well as studies complex religious constellations in the past and present. As a result, it conducts an analysis – in particular a contemporary analysis – of significant societal issues, e.g. related to fundamentalism, violence and religion, migration and integration.
The Bachelor's degree programme in Religious Studies at 75% consists of a theoretical-methodological component and a religious-historical component:
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Basic and advanced modules convey knowledge of theories and methods that enable students to study global religious traditions in the past and the present. Students are also introduced to methods for collecting data on religious traditions such as, e.g., historical-philological, archaeological, sociological or ethnological methods. In addition, the introductory courses provide students with an overview of tools and research techniques. Furthermore, students can access the multitude of languages courses taught at Heidelberg University to learn source languages including traditional and modern European languages, old and new Middle Eastern languages or South and East Asian languages in order to acquire specific language skills. The languages can then be linked to regional-scientific knowledge of religious traditions in the respective regions and periods that students specialise in.
Courses that focus on providing general overviews convey knowledge about major religious traditions and their current developments as well as providing introductions to specific areas of specialisation. In addition to the range of modules offered by the Institute for Religious Studies, students can also choose modules from the range of interdisciplinary Religious Studies modules that is based on the diverse lectures and courses of the neighbouring disciplines. This enables students to independently select areas of specialisation in the course of their Bachelor's programme and to therefore develop their skills profile in accordance with their respective career goals.
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LGBTQ Advocates Call Out Tech Giants for Anti-LGBTQ Donations
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Atlanta installing permanent rainbow crosswalks in Midtown
Patrick Saunders
Atlanta, Georgia, News
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed chose the first anniversary of the Pulse shooting to announce some significant news – the city is installing permanent rainbow crosswalks at the intersection of 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue.
Reed made the announcement Monday via press release:
"On June 12, 2016, amidst the celebration of Pride Month, 49 individuals lost their lives in an unspeakable tragedy in Orlando, Florida. Today, on the anniversary of this horrific event, we remember those whose lives were lost and those that were forever changed. Our thoughts and prayers were with you then, and they remain with you today.
For the past year, Atlanta has grieved alongside Orlando. Our city has rallied around our LGBT community, and we have not shied from demonstrating our unity and solidarity. And with this spirit, I cannot think of a more important time to reaffirm our unwavering and unqualified support for our LGBTQ residents.
I believe that symbols of unity matter; in recognition of the outstanding and ongoing contributions of Atlanta's LGBTQ community to our city, I am pleased to announce today that the City will install the rainbow crosswalks at the intersection of Piedmont Avenue and 10th Street year-round. This intersection in Midtown is recognized for its history as a hub for Atlanta's LGBTQ community, and it is fitting that such an important and recognizable place should feature the rainbow flag.
We must never forget that love defeats hate, and light defeats the darkness."
It's unclear at this point what the timeline of the installation will be, but we've contacted the mayor's office to find out.
Temporary rainbow crosswalks were installed just in time for Atlanta Pride in October 2015, with the city saying that safety concerns kept them from making the project permanent.
Talk of making it permanent started up again in April, after local LGBT musician Sarah Rose, lead singer of Sarah and the Safe Word, started a Care2 petition about it. Atlanta City Council President (and mayoral hopeful) Ceasar Mitchell signed the petition at a public event at the corner of 10th and Piedmont on May 23, and several other mayoral candidates chimed in that they supported the move too. As of Monday, over 22,000 people have signed the petition. Then Reed made the surprise announcement Monday afternoon.
"No words. Thank you all. We did it," Rose wrote on Facebook shortly after the announcement.
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Here we come !!!!!!!!!
I have lot of organizations getting ready to file Petitions in Altanta, Ga. and across the nation to institute: Pink Cancer Crosswalks, Crosses for Christ, Special Olympic crosswalk and my list is growing…..Get ready Atlanta !!!!!!!!
Atlanta's Democrat Mayor Kasim Reed led by stupidity? $198,000 for a gay crosswalk! – Dr. Rich Swier July 29, 2017
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Q: Tool Strip wont stretch and autofit, according to the window! (in c#, using Visual Studio 2010) I am a beginner coder and I have a major problem when I am coding my browser. The problem is basically all thanks to the tool strip.
Here is my problem:
1) When I was designing all the stuff, I arranged all the buttons and text boxes!
When I ran my program, it was all working good. Take a look at the picture.
http://i.stack.imgur.com/5GHZ8.png

And now...

2) Now, after I pressed the maximize button, things were badly unarranged...! Take a look at the picture !
http://i.stack.imgur.com/cfVUK.png
Now what should I do? Please help!

A: Hi there and welcome to C# and StackOverflow!
You need to be able to tell Visual Studio which element will get resized with the window and which elements will stay at the same width, etc. This is done using LayoutPanels, in your case best suited is TableLayoutPanel. You can then dock all elements in their appropriate table cells and tell the cells how to size (you can even use proportions!). You can of course make the second row the area, where the web page is displayed and tell the first cell to span across all columns ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171687%28v=VS.80%29.aspx ).
There's a guide here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w4yc3e8c%28v=VS.80%29.aspx


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Malaysia Airlines men with fake passports "no terror link"
By Maxime Zech on March 11, 2014 - 13:35
The two men who traveled on stolen passports on the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft were Iranians with no apparent links to terror groups, according to officials. Police in Malaysia have released the name of one as Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad, 18. It is believed that he was probably migrating to Germany, the BBC reports. Interpol's Secretary General Ronald Noble identified the other Iranian man as Delavar Seyed Mohammadreza, 29, speaking in paris on Tuesday. The two men were earlier this week discovered to have plans to head to Amsterdam after landing in Beijing, China. They were traveling under Italian and Austrian identities. But the flight from Kuala Lumpur never made it and is still missing.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 went missing on Saturday, after taking off from Kuala Lumpur with 239 passengers on board. Experts said that traveling on stolen passports is a breach of security, but common in an area that is regarded as a hub for illegal migration. The passports were reportedly stolen in Thailand. Malaysia's police chief Inspector General Khalid Abu Bakar said the young Iranian man, Mehrdad, was "not likely to be a member of a terrorist group" dismissing the variously sourced speculations that this indident was a terrorist activity. Abu Bakar added that the authorities were in contact with the man's mother in Germany, who had been expecting her son to arrive in Frankfurt. Ronald Noble from Interpol said the two Iranians swapped their Iranian passports in Kuala Lumpur for stolen ones of Italian and Austrian origin to board the aircraft. The BBC has received an account given by a young Iranian living in Kuala Lumpur. He claims to be a school friend of one of the men who stole a passport to get on the flight. He says the friend and another Iranian stayed with him before taking the flight, and communicated hopes to settle in Europe. According to Thai sources, the Iranian men booked tickets through a Thai travel agent and an Iranian middleman. These tickets would go from Beijing to Amsterdam, and then on to their respective destinations. As for the investigation into what happened to the aircraft, there is still nothing to go on. At least 40 ships and 34 aircrafts are taking part in the search, trawling the seas off the coasts of Vietnam and Malaysia for any sign of debris or oil slicks that could be related to the aircraft. Search teams from Australia, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, New Zealand and the United States of America are also assisting. The search is now being widened, and new theories are being looked into. Malaysia Airlines said it was considering the possibility that the plane tried to turn back, heading instead for an airport at Subang, near Kuala Lumpur. According to the Washington Post, families of the missing passengers were kept in a conference area of the Lido Hotel in Beijing, awaiting further information. Some of the families were reportedly calling their missing loved ones, and hearing a ringing tone on the other end. This has caused them much confusion and anger, as they await the traumatic incident to be resolved.
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Margarita Nazarova (; born March 23, 1976) is a retired female race walker from Russia. She set her personal best (1:28:24) in the women's 20 km road race walk on May 25, 2002 in Cheboksary.  While she only finished sixth in that race, the time ranked her number 7 in the world for that year.

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Sleder's Family Tavern is pleased to announce Kennedy's Kitchen will be performing On the Porch!
The On the Porch concert series is a monthly showcase featuring performers singing their original work in a club atmosphere. It is a commitment to allow artists to perform their music in a concert setting, and the series focuses on performers who write/sing/perform their own material.
This performance by Kennedy's Kitchen is set for Sunday March 11th, 2018 at 4 p.m. at Sleder's Tavern which is located at 717 Randolph Street. Traverse City, Michigan.
Kennedy's Kitchen has been making Irish music together since 1998, averaging about 80 shows per year playing everything from backyard parties and weddings to pubs, concert halls, and national festivals. From their home in South Bend, Indiana, they have traveled as far as New York and Naples, Florida, recording five CDs along the way (they are working on their sixth).
They are family and friends, gathering every Thursday evening for dinner, laughter, and music rooted in traditional Irish Music, jigs, reels, hornpipes, aires, recitations, stories, and songs, adding their own compositions along the way. It's a mix of all things Irish from traditional to pub songs, from toe-tapping to deeply moving, and it's always fun.
The band is led by joHn Kennedy, award winning singer and guitar player. It's Kitchen Music from the home, the hearth, and the heart. Joining in is joHn's nephew Liam Ladewski, then Theresa Kubiak, Chris O'Brien, Rob Weber, and Jacob Turner. Liam, Theresa, and Jacob are award winners themselves having competed in the All-Ireland Fleadh on their respective instruments. They play fiddle, flutes, whistles, mandolin, bouzouki, guitar, tenor banjo, harmonica, bodhran, and bass. They love to sing.
Over the years, They have performed at numerous festivals and music halls. Among them have been the Michigan Irish Music Festival, Great American Irish Festival, LaCrosse Irish Festival, Chicago's Irish American Heritage Center Irish Fest, Milwaukee Irish Fest,The Acorn Theater in Three Oaks Michigan.The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center – University of Notre Dame,Warren Cultural Center in Greenfield, Iowa, The Schauer Arts and Activities Center in Hartford, Wisconsin, The Riveria Theater in Three Rivers, Michigan,Muskifest in Bethlehem, PA, Norris Community Center in Naples, Florida, The Majestic Theater in Gettysburgh, PA, and the Kranert Center for the Arts at The University of Illinois.
Sleder's is delighted to be bringing this bit of Celtic magic to the Porch. It will be a great way to kick off St. Paddy's Day week. Why even the leprechauns will be dancing!
In September 2006, The Kitchen shared equal billing with Tommy Makem at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame: "Kennedy's Kitchen, was excellent. They have a lovely traditional flavor, relaxed attitude, and a fantastic sound." -A Tommy Makem fan, taken from the Makem guest site.
Performance Date: Sunday March 11, 2018 at 4 p.m.


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Canadian Worlds Team Gathers For Staging Camp
"It's pretty exciting when the trip finally comes together and you get everyone there," said Cochrane, who will be competing at his fourth world championships. "The final push is always a stressful time but once you get the team together it's a very calming experience. I think we're all excited for the meet to start." (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, theswimpictures)
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With FINA World Championships right around the corner, Canada's national team swimmers are making their final preparations together in one place.
Members of the successful Summer Universiade team arrived Wednesday at Canada's staging camp in Torremolinos, Spain, where the rest of the team gathered Tuesday. The 34 pool swimmers (17 male, 17 female) will spend a week training together in the Costa del Sol resort town before moving on to Barcelona for the FINA World Championships. The pool competition is set to run July 28 – Aug. 4, while open water action gets underway Saturday.
One of the swimmers joining the team on a high after the Summer Universiade is Katerine Savard, of Pont-Rouge, Que.
"We are pretty tired because we travelled all night (from Kazan, Russia) but it's good and it's probably going to be a fun week," Savard said.
Savard won two medals in Kazan. She set a Universiade record of 57.63 to win gold in the 100-m butterfly, after setting a Canadian record of 26.05 in the 50-m fly in a silver-medal performance.
"I'm really happy that I won two medals, especially my gold medal, and I did three good 100 flys so I was pretty consistent, which was good for me," she said. "I hope I'm going to take the experience of that to do better in the next meet."
Meanwhile, Olympic silver medallist Ryan Cochrane has been in Europe a few extra days. Cochrane and Island Swimming teammates Hilary Caldwell and Alexa Komarnycky competed in the Paris Open earlier this month and came to Torremolinos early along with coach Randy Bennett, who is serving as head coach of the national team. Cochrane said he's excited to have the whole team together.
"It's pretty exciting when the trip finally comes together and you get everyone there," said Cochrane, who will be competing at his fourth world championships. "The final push is always a stressful time but once you get the team together it's a very calming experience. I think we're all excited for the meet to start."
The Victoria native plans to compete in the men's 400-metre and 800-m freestyle, in addition to the 1,500-m free, in which he won silver at the 2012 Olympics in London and bronze at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Swimming Canada High Performance Director John Atkinson is overseeing his first world championships since coming over from British Swimming earlier in the year. He is looking forward to a week of having the whole team together, and listed Bennett's use of an extra session for relay swimmers as a highlight of the first full day of staging camp.
"It was a great way to get everybody going on the first full day together in Torremolinos," Atkinson said. "We've had the group from Canada come over yesterday and today we've added the 13 athletes from a successful world university games, so it's great to get everybody together and begin to focus everybody's minds towards the world championships in Barcelona."
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Ghana start construction of an ultramodern football complex
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Construction of an ultramodern football complex in Ghana has began after it was inaugurated by the Minister of Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, Member of Parliament for Upper Denkyira West, Samuel Nsowa-Djan, and the DCE.
It will be financed by the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, as part of its corporate social responsibility.
The project consists of a standard 11-aside football pitch, multi-purpose rooms, flood light, 1,000 spectator stands and a VIP sitting area.
Speaking in an interview, Mr Asiamah promised residents that the next artificial park in the constituency would be at the Diaso district capital.
The General Manager for Wembley Sports Construction Co. Ltd (WSCCL), the market leader in artificial turf construction and management Nana Antwi, also promised that, his outfit would continue to serve Ghanaians with quality artificial Turf produced only by Fifa preferred producers.
He reiterated that, even though it was the first project in the Central Region, the community would be given 12 years warranty grass.
The Wembley Sports Construction at the moment has constructed many of such facilities across Ghana, Accra Academy School, Kotobabi, Ridge Church School, Madina Zongo, Nungua and Ablekuma Central Constituency which was commissioned by His Excellency Nana Akufo Addo, President of Ghana.
Other areas which have benefited from WSCCL's works are Walewale, Kyebi, Mary Mother of Good Counsel School and many more.
The contractors for the project Wembley Sports Construction Co. Ltd. gave out customised One Constituency, One Artificial Football Park jerseys to the dignitaries and promised to complete the project on schedule.
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PUBLIC GUARDIAN TOOK $1-MILLION PROPERTY FOR $1
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Bryan Tickell's scheme to defraud clients of the Public Guardian and Trustee of B.C. unravelled quickly after he resigned on July 27, 2007. He had been hired 9 months earlier after lying about his academic credentials and work record, and providing a phoney reference. He had been placed in charge of 217 adult clients who were unable to look after their own financial and legal affairs.
By all appearances, he was performing well. He was offered an
employment extension, but decided to resign. It might have been a
clean getaway had one of his clients not died the same day he left.
A year earlier, Boris Derlago had been declared mentally incompetent.
In February 2007, his aorta ruptured and he was placed in palliative care.
The following month, Derlago apparently re-wrote his will, making Tickell
a 20-per-cent beneficiary of his estate, which was valued at $1.32 million.
When Derlago died, office staff reviewed the file and discovered Tickell
had forged the will. They also found he had defrauded many other clients,
and even though he had left his job, his scheme was still in progress.
One of those clients, Phyllis Lowdell, who had been deemed incapable
of managing her financial affairs, owned a home in West Vancouver.
Tickell later found she also owned property in Maple Ridge, but failed to
list the property in her file. Investigators became aware of the property &
conducted a search. To their horror, they learned it had been transferred
to Tickell for "$1.00 plus love and affection" several months before he resigned.
The transfer document had apparently been witnessed by "Capt. J. Murray,"
described as a commissioned officer on active duty with the Canadian Forces.
This had a familiar ring. When Tickell was hired, a person purporting to be
"John Murray" of the University of Helsinki provided the public guardian's
office with a highly complimentary e-mail reference. The office was never
able to confirm he existed. and yet the government hired him & placed
him in charge of 217 vulnerable persons.
In the property transfer document, Murray referred to Tickell as Lowdell's
grandson, which presumably explained the token purchase price.
This also had a familiar ring. Derlago's will (which Tickell had forged)
described Tickell as his "long-time friend's grandson," presumably to explain
why Derlago was bequeathing him 20 per cent of his estate.
After obtaining title to the Maple Ridge property, Tickell arranged to sell it
to an innocent third party for $1 million. The sale closed on July 30, 2007,
just three days after Tickell resigned from his job at the public guardian's
office. Net proceeds were $966,032.
It was discovered there were numerous other acts of treachery and deceit.
One related to Patrick Monaghan, who had come under Tickell's care after
being certified as incapable by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.
Monaghan owned a 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser. On July 27, 2007 — the day
Tickell resigned — he left a note in Monaghan's file stating the car and keys
were at Lions Gate Hospital where Monaghan was under care.
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Comedian Spotlight: Tone Bell - StandUpTalk
Published on April 16th, 2013 | by Brian Moreno
Just like every other profession, the career of being a comedian involves so much more than talent. Comedy requires persistence, timing and sacrifice but there is also another dynamic that a lot of people never understand. A great deal of your life is determined by what you say yes and no to.
Tone has the standard stare and judgment of every pro comedian but what make his opinions wildly different, and unlike most comedians, he is understated. Some call that charisma, some call it an aspect of being cool, but when you ask him you find out it is years of hard work, training, preparation, sacrifice and saying "No" to the wrong paths.
Tone has been in LA for less than twenty months and depending on who you ask they know him for different things. Some people know Tone Bell as an actor, from "Whitney" and other projects, but rest of us know him as a comedian. When you ask Tone, it is clear who he is, "I act so I can do comedy." And there is no doubt in his mind about that. Only time will tell if that changes but he is a self-proclaimed comedy "addict". He realized at an early age that he could tell stories really well but he had to make the stories "good so I wouldn't get in trouble, because I was always getting in trouble". As a young man he started training himself to "trim the fat" and "talk like I am listening".
When asked what he means by that you quickly realize that his demeanor and understated ways are more than just natural, it is developed. It was developed as child and through the years while working in marketing for Anheuser-Busch. "My entire career is about not saying stuff", Tone readily admits. He prides himself on his opinions and ability, but when pressed he seems more impressed with his own listening skills, and in a world of talkers, I would agree.
Tone talks about life being more of a chess game than checkers but that is easier said than done. What impressed me is his ability to put that into practice, to this point, it seems as if he has. Tone moved to LA after winning NBC's Stand Up for diversity program, which he entered four times and came in second place the previous year. Prior winners include W. Kamau Bell, Ian Edwards and Eric Andre. This win was a big jumping off point for Tone, it included a development deal and a host of offers he has been more than willing to turn down.
However the path to comedy was not always clear to Tone, the idea was already growing but after a good run in the corporate world the reality TV show "Survivor" came calling and one of Tone's big chess moves came, he said NO to "Survivor" and YES to comedy. Acting was always a goal, but, "no one makes it through reality TV" and he did not want to pave the way. Tone hit the comedy scene in the Dallas area and realized comedy was "it". He would rather be hawking for three minutes of stage time than at a family engagement or at a friend's birthday or chasing a girl. He wanted to be on stage and that was that.
Tone has said a few times, "I would rather die being me than someone else." He is talking about being true to yourself; which is probably why Tone has such a deep belief in the power of "No".
If Tone doesn't believe it is right for him and the people he calls family, then without wavering he seems to say "No" as if it is simply another adapting chess move. "If they really want you they will come back and show you", commercials, television, film, endorsements but "You don't f*** every chick", which is literally and figuratively true, for men and women. Tone lives by the principals that saying yes to everything that comes your way diminishes your value, so think three moves ahead and don't get stuck on one path. He credits a lot of his understanding about the power of saying No to a conversation he had with Whitney Cummings where she broke down the "Hollywood mindset".
Tone values and credits his Dallas comedy family Raj Sharma, and Mark Agee with keeping him not only grounded but keeping his comedy sharp and putting him in check from time to time. Something we all need, something Tone knows he is fortunate to have.
He talks about a video "Will's Wisdom" as one of the most influential lessons of his life and when you see it, it is easy to see that Tone probably knew all these ideologies before, it just took Will Smith to verbalize them. And of all the people I have met in my life, rich or poor, famous or nobody, his definition of success is one of the best I have heard, "My success is defined by my ability to inspire people". Something I am sure he has already begun to do, my best to Tone and in his pursuit, he is truly one of the unique varieties in Hollywood.
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Happy to report that I've finished the 'Improving Your Statistical Inferences' course on Coursera. I think I was five weeks behind on the assignments at some point, but I managed to find some free time to catch up and then power through the rest of the course (had to finish the hyperscanning set-up first). The course included a short preregistration assignment using the Open Science Framework. I've wondered for a while now how much work it would be to preregister a study, so it was nice to go through a short version of that process. It's not time-consuming at all once you get the hang of it. I highly recommend the course.
Unexpectedly, it also piqued my interest in Bayesian statistics, so I signed up right away for 'Bayesian Statistics: From Concept to Data Analysis', which was very well-rated on Coursera. It doesn't start until mid-December, so in the meantime I'll try to learn some MATLAB basics, as I'm pretty sure that's what I'll need to analyse the NIRS data. I'll be trying out the 'Introduction to Programming with MATLAB' course, and will hopefully post an update about my progress before the end of this year.


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Q: how to get the number from a variable in jinja dbt I have this code, it takes max value from the table
{%- call statement('my_statement', fetch_result=True) -%}
      select max(CAST(updated AS bigint)) as val from table_1
{%- endcall -%}
{%- set my_var = load_result('my_statement')['data'] -%}

{{ return(my_var) }}

the return variable I have
[(Decimal('1655275144000'),)]

I am trying to get only the number from this variable. When I write like this, I have an error
{%- set my_var = load_result('my_statement')['data'][0][0] -%}

although in python with importing the library it works great

How can I get this number in dbt with jinja

A: There could be a few different things going on here. Your code looks okay, and I couldn't reproduce your exact error. There are a few ways to go awry:

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*If you are using load_result inside of a model, or in a macro that gets called by a model, you need to wrap that in an {% if execute %} block; otherwise it can create parsing/compilation errors. See the docs.

*I want to be clear that you're evaluating {%- set my_var = load_result('my_statement')['data'][0][0] -%} in the same macro or model where you define my_statement?

Finally, I would recommend using the newer run_query macro, instead of the call statement... load_result pattern, since it's a little less confusing. See the docs for run_query


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You know, just a few years ago, I'm pretty sure the only 'Aquaman' fans in the world were myself and my friends Rob and Russell. Seriously.
But James Wan's live-action adaptation of the DC Comics underwater champion is doing unexpectedly well at the box office. And not only are fans checking it out, but most are leaving satisfied. Maybe a little too satisfied. A war almost as epic as the one that culminates the film has broken out online as fans of 'Aquaman' are harassing others who don't like it.
Wan keeps getting tagged in these heated debates and he's kind of sick of it. He took to Twitter to address the feud.
It's not as though 'Aquaman' is a universally beloved movie. Its Rotten Tomatoes score is 65%. That's good, but not glowing.
Either way, 'Aquaman' is a certified hit, having already crossed the half-billion mark. Some speculate that it will hit that billion dollar mark before the end of its theatrical run. Its run in China has been extended, a rarity for western movies. It has already beaten 'Justice League"s gross from its entire run and overseas, has outperformed 'Wonder Woman'.
'Justice League' was the last DC movie and it is generally viewed as a flop. 'Aquaman' has gone a long way in establishing that Warner Brothers is on the right track, and it should make things easier for 'Shazam!' when it arrives on April 5, 2019.
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Cunning thoughts on Ubuntu
...And it's goodbye to Windows 10
I have been running Windows since I built a $4,000 machine my freshman year of college. I purchased Windows NT 3.5 Workstation because it was the latest and greatest technology at the time, and from an OS standpoint it was going to be the future of computing.
I also did a dual-boot setup with Slackware soon after just to play around with Linux, the new kid on the block. The primary lesson I learned from doing this was hardware support in Linux was nowhere close to Windows. I remember trying to get an Iomega Zip Drive to work with Linux and it turned into a beat-down of searching the brand-new Internet only to find esoteric instructions of modifying primitive config files that in the end still did not get it to work properly.
Fast-forward many years later, and I decide to give Linux another try. I don't remember how I found out about Ubuntu but I ended up using it as the distro of choice for my experiments. Based upon my prior experience the number one thing I was concerned about was device support. My strategy was to do just a basic install of Ubuntu 9.x on what was new AMD hardware at the time and see if it worked OOTB. If not, then I would put Windows on it and move on.
Delightfully, Ubuntu worked right out of the gate with a basic install! From then on I was hooked on Ubuntu. The only stumbling block I ran into was getting the drivers for a HighPoint RocketRAID 2640x4 card installed properly but I didn't expect it to work from a basic install anyway. Eventually the RocketRAID card worked just fine in a RAID 1 configuration so I was pleased as a peach.
However, there were some other issues with the Linux sphere that still lingered on. These were mainly software compatibility issues with the dominant Microsoft apps such as Office. For example, trying to open an existing Word document in OpenOffice would not render properly. Or opening an Excel spreadsheet in OpenOffice would fail because not all of the built-in Excel functions were supported. So with Ubuntu 9.x, the hardware support was there but software compatibility was spotty at best. Linux still wasn't ready for prime-time as a complete desktop replacement for Windows.
Several things have changed though since those days that brings me to where I'm at today (blogging from an installation of Ubuntu 15.10 Desktop with Google Chrome). The first major issue is that Microsoft fell down hard with what was their two biggest advantages over Linux a) hardware support with solid OEM device drivers, and b) laser-like focus on usability. I built a new machine in 2014 with an AMD APU running Windows 8.1 and had nothing but trouble with it from Day 1:
No Start Menu: This was by far the dumbest thing Microsoft has ever done. Assuming that every Windows 8.1 install would be on a PC with a touch-screen is just stupid. It wouldn't have been so bad if I could have found the apps I wanted to open some other way, but the built-in search functionality was absolutely horrendous.
Could Not Lock Screen: Literally I could not lock my brand-new Windows 8.1 PC. Why? Because Windows 8.1 would turn off the USB ports where the keyboard and mouse were plugged in making it impossible to log back in. *gasp* hardware issues with Windows?!
I hated every minute of running Windows 8.1, but I knew at the time I still couldn't migrate to Ubuntu yet. I was still dependent on some Windows-only apps such as Microsoft Office, iTunes, etc. But then came along Google Drive with tight integration to Google Docs/Sheets/Slides. Put all of my Microsoft Office docs into the cloud? Hmm, intriguing. A lot of people have issues with this idea due to "privacy" but I don't see any problems with it. Especially since I am in full control of which documents I want to share with others, and by default all Google Docs are private to you the author. So I went ahead and migrated all the documents I had into Google Drive and never looked back.
Microsoft then comes along and releases Windows 10 and it is free for me to upgrade from Windows 8.1 (free, really?). I jumped all over this as I could not wait to get off Windows 8.1 and onto something, anything that was "better". I say "better" because that is naturally a relative term to the state of the baseline. I thought for sure Windows 10 would be "better".
Experience turns out to show that Windows 10 is much worse. How worse?
Start Menu Refuses to Open: The Start Menu is back (yay!). But after a day, maybe a couple days, it refuses to open when clicked on (boo!). Time to reboot...
Keyboard Shortcuts Refuse to Work: Have a special key to open the Calc app? It fails to work right around the time the Start Menu refuses to open. Try Super+S and search for Calc to open that way? Don't even bother, it doesn't work either. Time to reboot...
Apps Refuse to Open When Clicked on in Start Menu: Start Menu working? Check. Try to open Word under the Apps list? Nope. Click on it all you want, it's not going to open. Time to reboot...
The Freaking Calc App Has a Freaking Survey When Opened: All I want to do is do some maths and Windows asks me if I am enjoying the calculator app. The answer is NO! because you are asking me if I enjoy using the app when all I am trying to do is use the app. Unfortunately a reboot cannot fix this stupid issue, but migrating to Ubuntu can!
Opening an App for a File Times Out: Got a screenshot on your desktop you want to look at? Click on it, wait a while, and get a message that the attempt to open the file timed out. Splendid!
Attempt to Delete File Ignored: Don't need that screenshot on your desktop anymore? Just try to delete it, I dare you. It won't go anywhere when you try it.
Severely Unstable Graphics Drivers: I put this on AMD as much as Microsoft.
Desktop randomly crashes and takes some open apps with it
Menus from background apps bleed onto the foreground app
Random restarts without any user prompts whatsoever
Horrendous Memory Management: I was running Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop in a VMWare virtual machine with 2.5GB RAM allocated. I had 16GB available so I should have never run into any memory issues whatsoever. Windows 10 would tell me that I was running low on memory when Task Manager showed I still had 3GB free. Oh, and then Windows would just go ahead and kill my Ubuntu VM without asking. Jealous much?
I was not going back to Windows 8.1, and since Windows 10 is supposedly the "last" Windows version I had to get out of this quagmire. I was going to wait until Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was release on April 21st to "upgrade" from Windows 10 but I had to move to Ubuntu 15.10 because I bought components to upgrade my desktop to the Intel Core i5 Skylake platform and didn't want to wait several weeks to play with my new hardware.
So how did the transition to Ubuntu 15.10 Desktop go? Stay tuned to find out...
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Why Does Your Tooth Ache?
Many people tend to ignore a toothache until it becomes almost unbearable. Generally, this is considered a mistake because it's important to address a toothache as soon as possible. You see, toothaches generally don't go away without professional help. But did you know why a toothache could become worse?
You have several different nerves that run through your mouth and cause irritation if damaged. Because of this, you could experience discomfort that fades almost immediately if you bite into something hot or cold, or intense lingering pain, depending on the nature of the damage. Please note that more severe issues won't heal naturally. This is because your teeth are closed retainers with restricted blood supply.How do you address a toothache before you can get to your dentist? You could consider using aspirin—but please avoid putting the aspirin directly on your tooth. Doing so could actually damage your gums. Placing a cotton swab that's been dipped in oil of clove on the sore tooth can also be helpful. Rinsing your mouth with a combination of warm water and salt can also help your toothache. Furthermore, a few foods have antibiotic properties. These foods include garlic and onions.If you're interested in learning more about how we can help you deal with a toothache, please contact Agape Dentist at 781.995.4445. Dr. Ghada S. Massabni and our team will examine the health of your mouth and offer you any personalized advice you may need. We're eager to hear from you soon.